Warlick's CoLearners
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This is an experiment. I've used wikis as an aid in many of my workshops in the past, but the engine that I used was very barebones. Looking for something more feature rich, I dove into MediaWiki, the engine that runs Wikipedia and its companions. Needless to say, it took me to new levels of appreciation for the potential of this technology, especially as a teaching and learning environment.
However, I wanted to push farther by hacking some of my own functionality. I quickly learned that MediaWiki, as a programming environment was far too complex for my meager coding skills. So I switched to PMWiki, developed by Patrick Michaud, an open source software developer and consultant in the Dallas - Fort Worth area. The features are nearly equal to Media Wiki, but the archetectures is much simpler, and sublime, if I might use that word to describe a programming environment.
Here, I am able to explore, a little more, the use of wikis for teaching and for learning.
A very special thank you for everyone who nominated CoLearners as Best wiki in the 2006 EduBlog Awards.
5 Most Recent Events
- Telling the New Story in New Zealand
Patrick Duignan Keynote YesterdayIt is a privileged and an honor to be back in New Zealand, and this time communicating with school leaders. My keynote will be about Telling the New Story, the notion that part of leadership is ones ability to tell a compelling new story. We will look at three components of that [...]
- Big Picture for Texas School Board Members
Sunset beyond Fort WorthI is a pleasure and an honor to have the opportunity to speak to you. It is also very difficult for me to say something in less than an hour, and a half-hour is all I have. So rather than trying the squeeze up one of my standard presentations, Im just going [...]
- Telling the New Story in Fort Worth
I took a walk yesterday with my camera.There has probably not been a time, so ripe for change and innovation in education since Sputnik. Factoring in Russias launch of humankinds first space satellite pointed pretty clearly in one direction a dedicated emphasis on science instruction, and the way for us is not nearly so [...]
- Rebooting Literacy in the 21st Century
I usually get a wide angle from a distance, but rain prevented this morning.It is a pleasure and an honor to be working in Caldwell County just up the road from where I grew up and even closer to my fathers upbringing, in Hickory.Today, well be examining literacy, a very old and well-established [...]
- Sally Ride Academy
From the Lobby of the Messmer High SchoolThere is a context for teaching and learning. It is seated not in the political whims of elected officials. Its roots are the goals for socializing a generation for their (and our) future, understanding the nature and experience of that generation, and tuning instructional to the information landscape [...]