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Student notebook workflow, demo and screencast.

February 11th, 2009 — Distance-learning, Education, TiddlyWiki

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.

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Recommended reading for Nov 20th

November 21st, 2007 — Distance-learning, Education, Shared Bookmarks

Mobile Learning versus E-Learning - Is There a Difference?
A thought provoking article by a former teacher about the difference between E-learning and mobile learning. Puts the MORE project in a different light.
Mobile Learning - The Impact for Educators
The very opportunities provided by mobile learning create complexities and additional challenges for educators who are used to the traditional notion of instructing students.

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TiddlyWiki and distance-learning.

November 13th, 2007 — Distance-learning, Education, MORE project, TiddlyWiki

As mentioned earlier, I am involved in various projects to develop TiddlyWiki for educational usage. Amongst them, is the MORE project which uses TiddlyWiki to allow students to receive and respond to educational and healthcare information. During the course of my work on the MORE project I’ve had a realisation: TiddlyWiki has great potential as a distance-learning tool.

We are working on an early TiddlyWiki prototype for the MORE project, which is a promising start in this direction. However it has also shown us that the possibilities with TiddlyWiki in distance-learning seem endless and there is a lot more we can do.

The possibilities

The possibilities for TiddlyWiki as a distance-learning tool include:

  • Electronic course books - distribution of lectures and other course materials as TiddlyWikis, shared via email or CD.
  • Electronic notebooks for note-taking and homework.
  • Automatic downloading of new lessons to the student’s TiddlyWiki.
  • Synchronization of homework and tests between students and teachers.
  • Collaboration between students via TiddlyWikis that synchronize with each other.
  • Authoring of new course materials and tests by teachers.
  • Tools for teachers to store, view and analyse student results and performance notes.

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