[TW EDU] Offering (video-)courses for deeper look inside TW

[Alexander Eckert]

Tl;dr: Is there any plan or possibility to offer some educational videos or courses not only to set up a standard TW but also to customize and understand the whole structure in a specific logical order?

Hi,

after two years of searching and testing several notebook- and knowledge-base-software from Evernote to Lexican I decided to use TW as my personal knowledge-base. The main argument is the cross-platform ability and the nice size of the database. But after I tested TW for a while, I liked the ability to customize the TW so much. I tried to learn everything about structure, code and possibilities of TW but this is hard as a JS-, HTML-, CSS-noob. I looked up several things at www.tiddlywiki.com and http://tiddlywiki.com/dev/ to create my first (maybe very simple) plugin. During my research I found Erics crowd-funding page (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inside-tiddlywiki-the-missing-manual#/) and his project at https://github.com/ericshulman/InsideTiddlyWiki. This was very helpful and I learned a lot about the general TW usage. Some functions for my plugin are copied and edited from other projects and in my opinion this is very helpful too. But it took a long time to reach this point from my noob-start, maybe longer then it should.

I watched some TW-Hangouts and if I get that correctly, some members are working at universities or schools. Even in the last hangout-session, Mr. Ruston spoke about students from his TW-course, who seems not to be volunteers. At the point I wonder if it is possible to offer some kind of (maybe youtube-based) video courses for the people with interest. ;-) I saw the Tutorials on Youtube to start using TW, and they are very helpful at the beginning, but the advanced-parts are missing. I know, that knowing JS will help a lot and I'll do my best to learn it fast, but maybe I'm not the only one who would only need JS to customize his TW. www.tiddlywiki.com is a nice encyclopedia, but in my opinion the educational path is missing. This educational path would be a sequence of topics which are build on each other.

Maybe I did not recognized such courses so far, but I did a lot of research. Maybe coursera could be a possible platform to provide those courses. I would understand if the "coursera-way" would be too much work including chat-support aso. But maybe It is possible to offer little Youtube-tutorials or -lessons, which are semantically build on each other.

Please let me know If I'm totally wrong with my thoughts, I want to learn. But maybe those courses are worth a thought.

Best Regards

Alex

[Josiah]

I think you are definitely in the right direction. Eric Shulman's attempt to get funding for the "Missing Manual" stands out as a shout-out that TW is not as well used as it could be if were easier to  get to grips with. I have no idea whether that project went ahead or not. The page indicates he did not raise enough money. I hope he, or someone who knows, will comment back on where it got to.

I am not a programmer but do see what TW can do and am basically hungry for easier ways to get to its potential. This is not a slur on all the great people here who help as much as they can.

It's just an observation that current documentation is way above me.

I need a Dummies Guide To TiddlyWiki.

Best wishes
Josiah

[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi Alex

Even in the last hangout-session, Mr. Ruston spoke about students from his TW-course, who seems not to be volunteers. At the point I wonder if it is possible to offer some kind of (maybe youtube-based) video courses for the people with interest. ;-)

I invested some time to find this course, because I researched "design right course" first, until I found it in Jeremy's notes and realised that it is "DesignWrite" – here you go: http://bit.do/designwrite. I hope to participate in the just started summer edition of the course and have asked, if there is an open online course again. (I am still waiting for the answer.)

There is a collection of videos from this course, some of them are rather long, rather low quality, but interesting none the less: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9hHpChPMWcS9WjdDn8FLuw/videos?view=0&sort=da&flow=list

Last but not least, there is a Google Group for the course as well: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/designwrite

Maybe you find something interesting too.

Kind regards,
Thomas

=> This is my first post here, so if you would like to know a little more about me, have a look at my first exercise for the course:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/735kyboykq95dda/DesignWrite-ThomasE.html?dl=0#AboutMe

[Jed Carty]

I am working on something like that at inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com but it is going slowly. I have considered looking for crowd funding or asking for tips to continue this but there doesn't seem to be much interest in that.

[Alexander Eckert]

Hi Josiah,

thanks your answer and support, maybe this post helps us to find those courses or maybe is the first step of creating an online-course.

Hi Thomas,

this sounds really interesting. Unfortunately I missed this course, but maybe I'm able to take part in the next course. The YT-videos seems to be that video-tutorial I was looking for. Thank you very much. I think this is a good base and could lead to an online-course for noobs =) I'll watch those videos in the next weeks and I'll keep an eye on that course.

Hi Jed,

your URL seems to contain interesting tutorials. Maybe if all the websites, which are mentioned here, were combined, the result could be a pretty good educational base for beginners.

Thank you all for your answers, this helped me a lot.

Best regards,

Alex

[Thomas Elmiger]

Hi Alex

In the last course there was an option for late starters – I am sure you could catch up.

Have you thought about recording your progress as screencasts yourself? Could be great for other ”noobs“ ;–)

Cheers, Thomas 

[stevesuny]

The DesignWrite course has restarted for the summer. Please join us at http://bit.do/designwrite. More details here by Friday June 3. //steve.

(Hi Thomas! I'll critique your wiki soon!)

[Alexander Eckert]

Hi Thomas,

I think your idea is nice and I'll try to write down my experience. I thought about a "Lets Learn Together" Video-Show on Youtube. Maybe after I finished my studies.

Hi steve,

thanks for your Post. I'll have a look at it.

Kind regards,

Alex