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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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.
Recommended reading for Nov 20th
November 21st, 2007 — Distance-learning, Education, Shared Bookmarks
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.
New: TiddlerNotesPlugin
October 26th, 2007 — Education, Plugins, TiddlyWiki
In light of the recent discussion in the community about annotating tiddlers without modifying the original contents, I have decided to release the first public version of the TiddlerNotesPlugin.
New: AnnotationsPlugin and FootnotesPlugin
October 22nd, 2007 — Education, Plugins, TiddlyWiki
Two new plugins have been released at LewcidTW.
The AnnotationsPlugin allows you to annotate content, by creating small text bubbles that appear when you move your mouse over key words or phrases.
The FootnotesPlugin provides an automated way to create a bibliography for each tiddler, by creating footnotes which are automatically numbered and linked to the relevant part of the content.
A new direction.
October 19th, 2007 — Community, Education, TiddlyWiki
A new look, a new location, a new direction, and hopefully much more content.
That is the idea behind this re-launch of my weblog. The last few months have seen me become more active than ever in using and developing TiddlyWiki — especially for educational purposes — yet most of this has been unapparent to the TiddlyWiki community. I intend to change that, starting here and now. Continue reading →