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Tag Archives: wikis

Tending Your Digital Gardens: In-Semester Maintenance

January 21, 2010 in Pedagogy, Productivity by Jason B. Jones

If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. You'll need to do a little gardening to keep things in order.

Wiki-style finals

December 7, 2009 in Pedagogy by Jason B. Jones

If it's the last week of classes, that can only mean final exams are nigh. Here's an example of using a wiki to collaboratively produce a final exam, plus a link for more general advice on exam design.

E-mail Is Not a Tool for Revision

November 19, 2009 in Productivity by Jason B. Jones

For 2010, let's break the habit of using e-mail to collaboratively edit documents.

Introducing Google SideWiki

September 28, 2009 in Productivity by Jason B. Jones

Last week Google launched a new tool for commenting on the web: SideWiki. ProfHacker takes a quick look, and rounds up some early reactions.

Wikis (part 2): In the classroom

September 8, 2009 in ProfHacker 101 by Jason B. Jones

Last week, I explained that wikis are, despite their unusual name, friendly and easy-to-use. This week: Some pedagogical reasons for giving wikis a try.

Wikis (part 1): getting started

September 2, 2009 in ProfHacker 101 by Jason B. Jones

Wikis are now among the easiest online technologies to use: many have "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG)-style editing, so users don’t need any special technical knowledge. Pretty much all wikis include automagical versioning and restoration, so it’s hard for users to permanently break things. In this post, I provide a roundup of resources and tips to get you started. Next week I’ll delve into the pedagogy and use a bit more.

Students showing their work

August 10, 2009 in Pedagogy by George H. Williams
What happens when you have students show their work…to each other? I’d like to follow up on Brian’s recent post praising Mark Sample for explaining how and why one might share a Zotero library with anyone and everyone. Brian argues, “The more academics show their work—while they’re still working on it—the more we can learn, borrow, and remix [...]