FYI Discussion with Leigh Blackall on collaborating in wikieducator

[sparkered]

Hello

Leigh Blackall recently presented his wiki educator model in Adobe
Connect, we had some
technical issues with bandwidth which made the audio a bit flakey.
Here is
the link , worth a listen the concepts and ideas are still clear
despite
audio drop out.

http://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/p89007853/

I'm an educational technologist from Australia looking to utilise
wiki educator within the TAFE VET sector...

Cheers

[mackiwg]

Hi Sparkered -

Thanks for the link to Leigh's webcast. Leigh is doing some amazing
work in promoting innovative ways of utilising WikiEducator for
teaching and learning. We're inspired by his energy and his promotion
of the benefits that educators derive from collaborative authoring of
resources for learning.

WikiEducator's strength lies in its potential for Educators around the
world to work collaboratively on learning materials for their
learners.

There are a few new developments which we will implement on
WikiEducator in the near future - which may be of interest to
colleagues working in the VET sector:

1. Wiki to pdf functionality - This will enable teachers to generate
print masters of learning resources developed collaboratively on
WikiEd. Perhaps this will encourage a project similar to
Handouts4Teachers for the TVET sector (see: http://www.wikieducator.org/Handouts4Teachers
)

2. The implementation of threaded discussion functionality on
WIkiEducator's talk pages. This will make it easier for educators
collaborating on the development of shared resources.

Feel free to start a page node on WikiEducator for Australia's TAFE
community to share ideas and thoughts about how WikiEducator could
support your work. Apart from content development on WIkiEd - it is
also used as a hub for planning projects collaboratively.

Chat to you soon.
Wayne

[Steven Parker]

On 9/18/07, mackiwg <WMack...@col.org> wrote:

Hi Sparkered -

Thanks for the link to Leigh's webcast. Leigh is doing some amazing
work in promoting innovative ways of utilising WikiEducator for
teaching and learning. We're inspired by his energy and his promotion
of the benefits that educators derive from collaborative authoring of
resources for learning.

 

--Yes I agree :-)

WikiEducator's strength lies in its potential for Educators around the
world to work collaboratively on learning materials for their
learners.

There are a few new developments which we will implement on
WikiEducator in the near future - which may be of interest to
colleagues working in the VET sector:

1. Wiki to pdf functionality - This will enable teachers to generate
print masters of learning resources developed collaboratively on
WikiEd. Perhaps this will encourage a project similar to
Handouts4Teachers for the TVET sector (see: http://www.wikieducator.org/Handouts4Teachers
)

 

--Thanks for the link to this section. I like Leigh am looking to incorporate learning outcomes and performence criteria (Curriulum/ Syllabus criteria) within wiki educator then link to Teacher handouts/ lesson plans/ activity sheets. 

http://networklearning.blogspot.com/2007/04/importance-of-activity-sheets-glue-that.html

 

Can also link to this TVET project handouts.

2. The implementation of threaded discussion functionality on
WIkiEducator's talk pages. This will make it easier for educators
collaborating on the development of shared resources.

 

Feel free to start a page node on WikiEducator for Australia's TAFE
community to share ideas and thoughts about how WikiEducator could
support your work. Apart from content development on WIkiEd - it is
also used as a hub for planning projects collaboratively.

 

 

--OK will do. There are a myriad of things  to discuss, , in terms of prevailing mindsets I expect issues with copyright, business models  and the potential to resolve with creative commons licencing will loom large  as I advocate wikieducator. :-/

Chat to you soon.
Wayne

 

 

--Great talk later

 

Cheers

 

Steven

[Leigh Blackall]

Hey Steven,

From memory, you guys have experience and capability in working with XML and word processors. Wayne has pointed to a Wiki to PDF feature development. Can you guys help with a Word/OpenOffice to and from Wiki?

Regards
Leigh

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Leigh Blackall
+64(0)21736539
skype - leigh_blackall
http://learnonline.wordpress.com

[Steven Parker]

DET worked on a HTML code cleaner for word documents saved as word 'HTML' (Scary). The code cleaner converted into clean i W3C HTML.

 

I tried some word 'HTML' through the wikitext convertor http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/  with no success.

 

I am not a programmer so I can't help technically, I guess you need a program which will go through a staged process:

 

Browse and upload word .doc to wikieducator server

Convert Word .doc into Word HTML

Parse Word HTML into clean W3C HTML

Convert clean W3C HTML to wikitext using http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/ 

 

 

User Copy and paste into wikieducator page

 

Similarly for Open Office...

 

Cheers

 

Steven

[mackiwg]

Steve,

Some time ago Erik mentioned this site for converting Word to
Mediawiki -

http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=Meopedia_document_upload_feature_announcement

I have not used this for any major Word ==> wiki conversions (I don't
use word myself) - but have heard good feedback from the site.

Might be worth a try.

PS - I saw that you have started a country page for Australia - great!

I'll post a separate message about country pages.

Cheers
Wayne

[mackiwg]

Leigh

I can also mention that Wiki ==> open document format is on the
roadmap for Mediawiki.

The underlying architecture that is being used for the Wiki ==> pdf
functionality (which COL is funding) will facilitate the capabilities
for further development of importing MW content directly into word
processors that support open document formats. However, this will be
dependent on raising donor funding for the code development.

Good news is that this is doable from a technical point of view - the
missing link is the funding to code the development.

Nonetheless - it will be pretty cool to be able to customise
WikiEducator content for local needs in your wordprocessor!

Lets hold thumbs.
Wayne