January 11, 2006
Wikis contd....
This post had stuck in my mind but I had not blogged it until today when I went looking for it again. In it, Pete roughs out how you could use TiddlyWiki on a USB drive for passing resources on to students, who could then annotate or edit them as needed/ desired.
From http://informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=167600331
"instead [of coversation], wikis excel at collaboration. They are intended to maintain a series of unique documents as their content evolves and to provide an organic means of organizing that information." and "Content in a wiki can be updated without any real lag, without any real administrative effort, and without the need for distribution - users/contributors (with wikis, they're one and the same) simply visit and update a common Web site."
Comments:
The Tiddlywiki on a USB drive model could work really well for students who have quite frequent interaction maybe face to face, and wouldn't necessarily gain heaps from a more interactive online presence such as afforded by discussion boards. It could also work really well for students who are at a distance and don't have ready access to reliable internet services - rather than sending out a CD which is a lot more static, send out a flash drive with some pre-loaded content (maybe linking to the toolbox learning objects Pete refers to), and they can still have the convenience of 'go/learn/work anywhere' and be able to write to the device at their local online access centre etc. If you are using an LMS, then as a designer you wouldn't have to worry so much about media rich materials.