Archive for the ‘Wikis’ Category
Monday, May 7th, 2007
Here's part of an email I received recently:
I'm trying to find a way to work with a wiki with my students. We're trying to do some collaborative writing type activities. I want them to work in real time in the same document so a wiki seemed perfect. However, because ...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Jimmy Wales joined Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur on net@nite recently. It was a pretty standard conversation about Wikipedia that wouldn't surprise anyone who frequents the site. There were a couple quotes worth noting, however. I'll keep these handy when I do presentations that mention Wikipedia and the inevitable question ...
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
Seen on digg: Wikipedia has added a feature called "Cite This Article" to its site. The feature appears as a link in the Toolbox section of each page and provides key bibliographic information as well as citations pre-formatted in all of the major forms. Interestingly, they add the following note ...
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
I had a great time presenting at NECC on Wednesday. I captured the audio (albeit in a low-quality version) and attached my Keynote slides as an enhanced podcast. I'm also linking to a pure audio MP3 version in case your computer can't handle AAC-encoded media.
I posted the links for my ...
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
If you're a true Wikipedian or merely a fan of the world's largest encyclopedia, you'll want to have a listen to this week's episode of FLOSS Weekly with Chris DiBona and Leo Laporte. They interview Jimmy Wales, and he provides some interesting insights into the workings of Wikipedia. Good stuff ...
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
I had the privilege of participating in a Web 2.0 panel discussion sponsored by the Digital Media Center at the U. of Minnesota recently. My fellow panelists were David Ernst from the College of Education, Shane Nackerud from the U. library, and Clancy Ratliff from the Department of Rhetoric.
Dave introduced ...
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Friday, February 24th, 2006
I'll be sitting on the panel for a seminar at the U. of Minnesota in a few weeks discussing Web 2.0. I met recently with my co-panelists and we decided to put our money where our mouths are and use a wiki to organize our presentation and invite input in ...
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
I used to be a high school teacher. I taught 9th grade physical science, physics, a bit of chemistry, and computer programming. During that time my students did countless labs, solved thousands of equations, and witnessed hundreds of demonstrations. I think I did a pretty good job, but if I ...
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Monday, December 5th, 2005
I had the pleasure of presenting a full-day workshop on Saturday at the TIES Conference. The session, Introducing the Read-Write Web: Weblogs, Wikis, and RSS, has an accompanying wiki that we used to track questions and resources that were mentioned during the workshop. Feel free to check it out for ...
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Sunday, November 13th, 2005
I've created two wiki pages to collect input from folks who might (or might not) be interested in attending my sessions at the upcoming TIES Technology Conference. I could be wrong, but I think it's pretty cool to be able to have this kind of input before a conference session. ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005
I had the pleasure of hosting a second roundtable discussion this morning. The room was full and we had some good discussion of many of the issues that come up whenver there's a discussion of blogs, wikis, and other interactive, Web-based tools.
I pointed everyone to James Farmer's edublogs site where ...
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Monday, August 8th, 2005
Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame) is doing a guest stint at lessig blog while Lawrence Lessig is away. He's making a top ten list of things that will be free someday and puts a free curriculum on the list at #2.
I'm not sure why there would be just one free ...
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