Over the course of the last semester, Andrew Lister’s class of over 250 students at Queens University have been using a combination of a Student Notebook and an online Wikispaces wiki. I have previously introduced the concept of the Student Notebook and today I’ll be explaining in a little more detail how this set up works. There are three main components: an Instructor Notebook (IN), a Wikispaces class wiki and a Student Notebook (SN). My focus today will be largely upon the latter, the Student Notebook.
Entries from February 2009 ↓
Student notebook workflow, demo and screencast.
February 11th, 2009 — Distance-learning, Education, TiddlyWiki
A busy year and a Student Notebook.
February 3rd, 2009 — Education, TiddlyWiki
The year 2008 was exceptionally busy for me which unfortunately kept me from sharing with you my work with TiddlyWiki in the annals of education. With any luck this year will be a little different.
Over the last year I’ve spent a considerable amount of time on the Student Notebook project. This is an UnaMesa project developed with the assistance of Professor Andrew Lister (Queens University, Canada) which provides students with a tool that allows them to have a local copy of their class Wikispaces wiki (lecture slides and class materials) which is searchable and to which they can add their own private notes. Students also gain the ability to work with class wikis even when not connected to the internet and are able to synchronize with the online class wiki when they are connected
The local copy of the wiki is implemented using - you guessed it - TiddlyWiki. The choice of Wikispaces as the server-side wiki to use as the class wiki was based on its extremely intuitive user interface and excellent support infrastructure, which has made it one of the most popular wikis in educational circles. However the core technology developed can easily be adapted to work with most wikis.