A common complaint about wikis is the inability to handle multiple single page edits at one time.Where a single page needs to be constructed by multiple people in the same timeframe an option has always been to split the content into separate pages and then gather it together again. I had overlooked the new Wikispaces [...]
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Wikispaces tip: page includes
October 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · Tools & applications
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FASS Wikispaces pilot
September 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · Resources
As discussed in the Connections seminar: “Exploring the affordances of the online learning tool, UNSW Wikispaces, in enhancing the group assessment experience for both students and tutors” Helen Caple and Mike Bogle, FASS, you can read about Ben Miller’s (FASS) wikispaces pilot here: http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/telt/blog/2009/12/07/ben-miller-wikispaces-pilot/
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Wikispaces seminar
August 25th, 2010 · Comments Off · events, Learning & teaching, TELT news, Tools & applications
Just in case you are not subscribing to the Connections blog… The following upcoming seminar might be of interest. Exploring the affordances of the online learning tool, UNSW Wikispaces, in enhancing the group assessment experience for both students and tutors with Helen Caple, School of English, Media and Performing Arts and Mike Bogle, FASS Wednesday [...]
Lecture videos and notes
July 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · lectures
The videos of lectures are now available on UNSW TV. They should also in time become available on UNSW’s eLearning YouTube channel and on iTunes U but that doesn’t seem to have happened yet. In related news, it doesn’t look like I will have time to write lecture notes on the wiki on top of [...]
Getting the good DiRT
January 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, Resources, Tools & applications
I’ve joined the Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki in order to contribute to a wonderful collaborative resource that is managed by Lisa Spiro from RICE University. The wiki “collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.” Pages of resources include: [...]
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Edublogs award
January 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · UNSW spotlight
Congratulations to Ben Miller and his student co-authors from the S2 2009 HUMS3001 course who have won the second runners up award for the Best Educational Wiki category in the 2009 Edublogs Awards. 2009 was the 6th year of Edublogs awards. It is an annual international recognition for work and contributions made across educational blogs, [...]
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Engaging students in wiki collaboration
December 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · Issues, Learning & teaching, Opinion, Research, Tools & applications
I’ve had some interesting conversations in the last couple of weeks about student engagement in course wikis – feedback ranged from students who didn’t stop contributing even after exams were complete, through to cases where students just ‘didn’t see the point’. So how do you maximise student engagement in a collaborative wiki? Should contributions be [...]
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FULT Presentation: Carl Reidsema
November 10th, 2009 · Comments Off · FULT, Learning & teaching, Tools & applications, UNSW spotlight
A second presentation at the recent FULT program was contributed by Carl Reidsema, Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering. In this podcast Carl speaks of his innovative approach to a current 4th year course which utilised a range of collaborative and interactive strategies, and wiki platforms (Wikispaces and MoinMoin) to connect [...]
21 days of wiki adoption
November 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Resources, Tools & applications
The following series of videos from Stewart Mader is nearly two years old now but a valuable overview for people starting out with wikis nevertheless. Stewart introduces the series in the video embedded below. Links to the subsequent videos can be found below… 21 Days of Wiki Adoption from Stewart Mader on Vimeo. Videos: Introducing [...]
A week of wikis
October 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, events, Resources, TELT news, Tools & applications
It’s been a big week for our wiki pilot here at UNSW with a visit from Adam Frey from Wikispaces and also the release of a number of new useful upgrade features. Here at UNSW we met with Adam to discuss options and requirements for the implementation of wSSO. A small but select number of [...]
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