Archive for the ‘Wikis’ Category
Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
I was driving home from work today listening to an IT Conversations podcast of Jimmy Wales's brief talk at O'Reilly's Emerging Tech Conference. Wales, who is the founder of Wikipedia and now head of the Wikimedia Foundation, was describing the growth of Wikipedia and highlighting the many versions that exist ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2005
The first group at the Summer Institute is talking about ways to do online collaboration. Has anyone really tried this in the wild? Our tech department at work has used a wiki with great success for online collaboration. (We're using MediaWiki, the engine behind Wikipedia.) It's not real-time, but we've ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
I'll be at the TIES Technology Leadership Camp tomorrow presenting a full-day session called "Introducing the Read-Write Web: Blogging, Wikis and RSS." We're going to explore Bloglines, Furl, del.icio.us, Flickr, Technorati, PubSub, Blogger.com, Wikipedia, Instiki, podcasting, and who knows what else. (Do you think we'll get to half of it?)
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
We're starting to get some traction with wikis in our district. One of our social studies teachers is using Moodle's wiki module in her 7th grade geography class for a unit on Asia. She created a skeleton outline in the wiki, providing a bulleted list of topics like landforms, climate, ...
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
We don't run Exchange in my district, and nothing we've seen makes our email admin eager to give it a try. We're also a cross-platform district which makes finding an email and calendaring solution that works equally well for everyone quite a challenge. As of today, and thanks to the ...
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Sunday, February 13th, 2005
Jeremy Zawodny asks Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck?
Jeremy's comment notwithstanding, providing an RSS feed to track changes in a wiki is a great idea, and judging from the comments to Jeremy's post there are a lot of wiki engines that provide that feature. Some wikis include the full ...
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Sunday, February 13th, 2005
I posted last July about the canonical list of wiki engines that is available. The choices are so vast that choosing one can make your head spin. Here's a little more help for you if you're shopping for a wiki. The Wiki Choicetree, found at the original wiki site, goes ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
Just saw this on Slashot. Google is interested in hosting some of the Wikimedia projects. This will be a great boon for Wikipedia, the largest wiki in the world and a frequent victim of its own success. I talk to educators often about wikis and have been frustrated many times ...
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Monday, January 24th, 2005
I just finished listening to Joe Kraus's presentation at the Web 2.0 conference via the IT Conversations podcast. Joe's new company, JotSpot, is taking wiki technology corporate by adding the ability to create web applications within the wiki environment. Listen to this clip from his talk where he describes what ...
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Sunday, December 5th, 2004
My blog and wiki workshop at the TIES conference went well. None of the atttendees had a real clear idea what blogs were about when they started. I'd like to think that they left at the end of the day with some good ideas about how blogs and wikis can ...
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Saturday, December 4th, 2004
From the creators of Wikipedia comes Wikinews, the latest attempt to rethink traditional media and publishing. Like Wikipedia, anyone can contribute to the news articles that are written on the Wikinews site. Is this journalism? I'm not sure that matters to the Wikinews contributors. From their mission statement:
We seek to ...
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
Robert McHenry was once Editor in Chief of Encyclopædia Britannica and his experience brings credibility to his recent critique of Wikipedia. He certainly doesn't pull any punches:
The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor ...
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