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Wikis in education
Creating, editing, and using a wiki

Workshop URL:hokanson.cdes.umn.edu/wikiMadison/
Brad Hokanson
University of Minnesota
Mentioned: http://mandragoratango.com/ http://lulu.com/

WIKI Workshop Schedule
Wednesday, August 6, 2008, Monona Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin

• Introductions; beginning our wiki use and understanding; paper as wiki

          [task: paper wiki idea generation]
          [task: bad idea generation]

• Conceptual understanding; background, TiddlyWiki examples, and varieties of wikis; Peanut Butter hosted

         [task: tiddlywiki notetaking for conference]
         [task: PBwiki signing up for account]

• Procedural understanding; developing ideas; [here] posting and editing in PMwiki

         [task: posting ideas in PMwiki]

• After effects: extending, using and maintaining your wiki

          [task: restaurant reviews through gabcast]

• Reviewing included resources from this workshop; included here, links, wiki types, ideas.
• Setting up your local server/machine
  
• Not used, but still worthwhile
  
  

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1. Introductions: Participants

          [task: paper wiki idea generation]
          [task: bad idea generation] badIdea

2. Conceptual understanding
Wiki examples

• What are Wikis? (Definition)
• Wikis in Plain English CommonCraft.com
• Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Wikinews http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html
• http://disabilityresources.tamu.edu/ results from a previous workshop
• Experiments

2.1 My own wikis

• eScholarship College Committee notes and results
• Interface glossary Student written terms and comments
• Wireless Cities Small working committee materials.
• My notes in Tiddlywiki from last year's conference.
  

         [task: tiddlywiki notetaking for conference]

• Flash course Second year, working well.
• Foreign Study journaling and future resource
• Design theory seminar syllabus, schedule, video links and student notes.
• Other windows

3. Procedural understanding

         [task: posting ideas in PMwiki]

Participant Ideas We've asked others, in the spirit of wikis to contribute ideas to this wiki to keep it up and running; you'll do the same as part of your introduction and they'll be linked here. bradh bradhokanson

4. After Effects
Maintaining and using your wiki

• http://www.ikiw.org/
• wikiPatterns web site: positive and negative patterns of wikis
• Restaurant Reviews

       [task: setting up a PBwiki account]

4.1 Wiki futures

• Writely
• Place o Pedia http://www.placeopedia.com/
• http://docs.google.com/ editing office documents online, collectively
• Wikibooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http://www.widgetbox.com/
• http://mashupawards.com/winners/
• YackPack

5. Resources
5.1 Wiki readings:

• http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7004.pdf
• http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl
• http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0621.asp?bhcp=1
• https://wiki.umn.edu/twiki/bin/view/TeachingWithWikis/WebHome
• http://www.profetic.org:16080/dossiers/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=110
• https://wiki.umn.edu/twiki/bin/view/TeachingWithWikis/WebHome
• http://edublogs.org/
• http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ Bransford et. al. on How People Learn.
• http://digitalwriting.pbwiki.com/

5.2 Wiki Ideas

6. Setting up your own wiki
6.1 Wiki Varieties

• http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/04/which_wiki.html
• Let a thousand flowers bloom: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines
• WIKI Comparison Charts: http://wikifeatures.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/WikiEngine
• Wiki comparisons http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:8668/space/Wiki+comparison+chart+(2002)
• This one allows you to choose the WIKI's you want to compare: http://www.wikimatrix.org/

6.2 Wikis used in this workshop:

• Tiddlywiki This one is really fast, small, and local.
• PB wiki Hosted, free, easy modest capabilities.
• PM wiki Free, flexible, portable, multimedia capable.

6.3 Add Ons included in this installation:

• Uploads/Attachments
  
• Quicktime Quicktime video on the web
  
• HTML coding used throughout site
  
• ToDo list see left bar
  
• PageCounter in Restaurant Reviews
  
• Flash/SWF files see left bar
  
• Pulling in another URL example
  

6.4 Installing pmwiki

6.4.1 On a server someplace, as you watch. //Copy the entire folder over to a Apache type server, and it will run pretty much most of the time. Go to here and watch the install. (At first it will not be there; then after simply moving the folder, it will be available; same PW's, images, and more.)

6.4.2 On the Mac, basic instructions.
Turn web sharing on through the System Preferences panel (Apple > System Preferences, Sharing).
Turn on PHP on your Mac. (This is the tough part, but pretty simple compared to a Windows machine.)
Copy pmwiki folder from CD to Library/Webserver/Documents folder. View your wiki at http://127.0.0.1/pmwiki/. Some screenshots and comments

6.4.3 Installing on a Windows, basic instructions
a. Use Apache installer to put on your local machine.
b. Copy httpd.conf file from CD to Apache:conf folder
c. Copy the entire php folder from CD to the main level of C drive.
d. Put a copy of php.ini in Windows folder.
e. Use Scheduled Tasks in the control panel to start up PHP and Apache, or make shortcuts of each and move to desk top. They are at: Program Files: Apache Group: Apache2: bin: Apache.exe and php: php.exe
f. Copy the pmwiki folder to Program Files: Apache Group: Apache2: htdocs: Make a shortcut of this folder and move to the desk top as well.

Screenshots of the Windows process. See folders on CD for further installation instructions. View your wiki at http://localhost/pmwiki/

Other wiki workshop activities:
1. Brainstorm wiki: how would you use a wiki in your classroom or organization? What's the wierdest thing you could think of; start in groups and then post an individual response to this wiki. (This way, of course, the workshop builds on itself...doing a wiki with a wiki philosophy.)(Try color, different font, adding a page in a wiki)

2. Autobiographical WIKI and page editing: write about your favorite hobby, find an image that supports it and post…respond to someone else…(click on edit, and edit concur or add to their post…

3. Collaborative editorial (View WIKITORIAL) Divide into groups, add to the page topics below:

• How is elearning better than face to face? eLearningBetter
• Where is the promise of elearning? PromiseElearning
• Is elearning for everyone? EveryoneElearning
• What are the barriers to elearning? BarrierstoElearning
• Why collaborate in education and learning? CollaborationinEducation

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'Please note: this is an active wiki developed for the conference, and your contributions of other similar programs are encouraged and expected. A password and username were distributed at the conference and can be used to add on to this page, and therefore add subsequent pages. This will be active until November 1, 2008.