Offering a course in General Relativity using tiddlywiki (5.1.23)

[Rahul Kashyap]

Hello Everyone,

I am happy to than you guys for making an amazing tool. I wanted to share a sample of teaching material I prepared with it.
https://github.com/rahulkashyap411/GR_IAR
Please let me know copyright related issues regarding putting it for people's use. So far it is only for teaching and research.

Other thoughts, suggestions and questions -
I have been using TW for about 3 years and gradually became a fan of its structure for personal research management.
Very soon I realized that I could use it for production quality as well, at least for production of short notes and results to share with colleagues which look nice. Inspired from this I explored and found amazing plugins made by amazing group of people for various purpose. I developed some of my own system for browsing different types of file on my local machine, especially managing references, codes and other files. The above links contain some of those.

I also wanted to know people's thought on exports methods to Latex format. We don't have to worry about converting it to latex if we could get couple of things -- 

(1) auto-numbering equations, image-pretty, table, <<refs,
suppress numbering of certain sections, subsections.
(2) better page break in exporting pdf. We need more for professional quality exports. What kind of solutions we have.
(3) Collaborative remote work with colleagues and students.

Mohammad's tool has already made work a lot simpler. I have provided some tweaking to it. But, we need an integrated approach for academic output and collaboration.
If we could make a TW about knowledge organization. that would be great. 

Cheers,

-Rahul Kashyap

[TiddlyTweeter]

It sounds interesting. But it is hard to comment if the wiki is not publicly available online.

[rahul kashyap]

It is available as an html file in the same repository. Here is the link -- https://github.com/rahulkashyap411/GR_IAR/blob/master/GeneralRelativity_Course_TW_5.1.23.html 

-Rahul

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[TiddlyTweeter]

That is not an online html file. It is a file that requires download then finding it and loading it in a browser. It all makes it complicated. That was my point. Just put the thing online so one click and we can read it? 

[springer]

Rahul,

TW5 is my teaching engine as well. Our fields are different, but we use similar functions (apart from your interest in Latex and such, about which I know nothing!). 

I appreciate the visual clarity of your <<question "…">> and <<problem "…">> macros! 

I see you've linked to videos. One very small tip is that you can embed a youtube control within the TW, so there's no need for students to manage a separate tab. You can see this kind of embedded vide at work in my site, here: https://springerspandrel.github.io/tw/ethicsatwes.html#trolley%20problem%20video

Another suggestion is that you can use some kind of details widget to help students do "self-quiz" exercises. Here's one possible implementation: https://springerspandrel.github.io/tw/ethicsatwes.html#%E2%97%8E%20Kant%20on%20the%20categorical%20imperative%E2%80%A6

In case other teachers are browsing for suggestions, here's a different way that a TOC for a semester's worth of materials might be designed, so as to allow a very compact overview: https://springerspandrel.github.io/tw/ethicsatwes.html#units

Best of luck with getting your course ready and launched for the semester!

[Rahul Kashyap]

Dear Springer, 

Thanks. I also liked your style of preparing material very well. 

Thanks for suggestions as well. 

@TiddlyTwitter: Sorry for delay, I got busy with classes. I hope the link below helps. 

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/rahulkashyap411/GR_IAR/blob/master/GeneralRelativity_Course_TW_5.1.23.html 

Best,

-Rahul

[passingby]

Downloading, I understand, I don't like it because it adds to the clutter. 

But if that is done, finding and loading it in a browser is difficult? Double-clicking is difficult? :-) cmon, now.