TiddlyWiki and Education

[TonyM]

Folks,

I am planning to offer a training course in TiddlyWiki to a local community college in Sydney, perhaps 8 x 2 hours.

• I hope to teach about the "TiddlyWiki Platform" with a view to empowering students to craft their own solutions in software for everything from day to day issues through to sophisticated work, education and interest pursuits.
  
• I want to build the local TiddlyWiki community and start local meetups.

Any information and suggestions is welcome

• I am aware of the work of SunPolly using TiddliWiki to teach various media and Internet technology and there are a number of learn TiddlyWiki sites out there.
  
• There are a lot of tips/tools/plugins that will support training and education

TiddlyWiki and Education

• I believe that TiddlyWiki is a fantastic tool and would fit very well in education from young to mature students, a well prepared edition would also work well running on Raspberry Pi and other prototyping platforms.
  
• Actually TiddlyWiki would also work well in the business and Corporate training sector where students can annotate the presentation they are given
• I would like to see if we can develop a Special interest groups within this TiddlyWiki community for TiddlyWiki and Education and would like to hear your thoughts.
  

Regards

Tony

[Mohammad]

Hello Tony!

 Tiddlywiki is a great tool in education and you can give many examples from note taking (e.g. course note), preparing rich reports, small databases, and tutorial, presentation, and much more

I think for a short course the basics and doing queries using list would be enough (list, TOC, search, ...)! 

I would add some spices using css and creating nice looking elements!

In my opinion teaching them how to use Tiddlywiki for their daily use IS MORE IMPRTANT!

Best regards

Mohammad

[TonyM]

Mohammad,

I totaly agree. I would add thay I believe I can also dazzel them with the posibilities so they see the long term possibilities.

Regards
Tony

[@TiddlyTweeter]

Ciao TonyM

What's the heart of this? What is needed most to facilitate it?

J.

[TonyM]

Josiah,

The heart of it!

I will go ahead and prepare the material, especially if they accept my submission at the local community college. I am keen to share my material and leverage others material to build a "curriculum". We should then also be able to develop self teaching material at the same time. Freely sharing such material should be fine because we are all in different geographical locations. Those interested in teaching tiddlywiki can collaborate, perhaps even build a special interest group. You will need two things to train in TiddlyWiki beyond the personal skills to do so, The Material and a fairly deep understanding of tiddlywiki.

It seems to me one of the easiest way for enthusiasts to monetise their knowledge of TiddlyWiki, and it may in turn result in commissions, especially if the training targets the appropriate people. This will also promote tiddlywiki.

What is needed most to facilitate it!

I suppose collaboration and review of materials

• Lesson Plans
• Examples 
• References
• Possible assessments

References to "finished" products worthy or presenting to the students.

• A practical demonstration of Muuri on touch (may be good for lesson plan)
  
• Mobile first
  
• WebSite Look alike
  
• GTD examples
  
• Various visualisations
  

Regards

Tony

[Stephen Keen]

Hi all, I have been using TW for a week and I'm excited by the potential use in education. I work as an educational developer, supporting curriculum design.

I am interested in seeing examples of people using TW with students or to design a course site.

I am happy to share my ideas and consider possible collaborations if anyone has similar interests.

Thanks,

[swilson...@gmail.com]

bit.ly/Steacher

is the tiddlywiki I use with my students for Engineering.

[Stephen Keen]

Hi Tony,

Your idea sounds promising. I would be happy to give feedback on the curriculum design side of things. As a TW newbie I recognise I may not be able to help in any other way (apart from being a guniea pig)...

Regards,

Stephen

[Stephen Keen]

Thanks so much for the example - just the sort of inspiration I can learn from!

I have a physics research and teaching background and I was just daydreaming about trying to create a TiddlyWiki Physics site to support high school physics students in New Zealand.

Thanks for the inspiration  - I hope to explore more thoroughly at the weekend and start learning from your example.