Posts Tagged ‘wiki’

Wikis as a Learning Environment (at least as part of it)

Wikis offer a great opportunity for collaboration. Both as self-hosted or as a subscription service, there are many wiki engines to choose from and Wikimatrix makes it easier to compare them side-by-side. As says this entry from Wikipedia itself: “A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or [...]

Peanut Butter Wiki

There are many wiki engines out there, see Wikimatrix’s comparison tool. Some have corporate-geared features and storage space, others are more appealing to school educators and students. Some are engines for people willing to run them on their own servers, others are on a domain/subdomain basis.  Out of all those, one seems to appeal to [...]

Alternate Second Life Viewers

Many people complain about Second Life’s drain on processor performance.  Linden Labs created this wiki page with alternative Second Life viewers that might be of interest to those trying to experiment with Second Life. Some of them claim offer a cleaner, easier to navigate user interface.  I am experimenting with some right now and will [...]

User-generated Encyclopedias Supervised by Experts

An interesting concept employed by Citizendium for instance, is that the crowds generate the content, but the “experts” inspect it for accuracy. Which brings more credibility and a more vast array of information. Since the “experts” will mostly “correct” minor errors, there is ore time to be dedicated to more content generation.  The “crowdsourcing” element combined with [...]

Social Media Assessment and Learner Progress Tracking

Something that has bothered me is that, while the adoption of social media (Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, social networks and so on) depends on a paradigm shift and require a new way of thinking “learning”, how can we assess learner progress in a modality of tools in which user-generated content can be so [...]