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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
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Latest Photos Taken with my Phone Uploads from David Warlick, tagged travel
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Learning 2.0
- NECC 2008 - San Antonio
Its indicative of the power and focus of the National Educational Computing conference that in the last five hours, 21 Twitter tweets have been posed and its 5:50 AM in the morning Central Time. In fact, one of the most popular activities, at least in preconference, is watching Summize (a Twitter search tool) for [...]
- New Stories for Learning in Spotsylvania County
It is wonderful to be back in Virginia, surrounded by the history that I use to teach almost every day. I hope to take in one of the museums while Im here.It is my job here to contributed to a professional development event for the school district where I will be presenting two of my [...]
- Learning 2.0 in Frederick, Maryland
I love the experience of working with people in Maryland. Ive presented at independent schools conference and the states ed tech conference in Baltimore, and work with a number of individual public and private schools across the state. I just wish I could make myself like soft-shelled crab ;-)Today, brings us to a [...]
- Literacy & Learning in Savannah
It is a pleasure and privilege to be able to share ideas about literacy and learning with members of the boards of education of Georgia. The Georgia School Boards Association has chosen one of the most beautiful cities in North America to bring together education leaders from across the state to learn, share, and grow [...]
- Learning 2.0 at Home
Home is Gaston County North Carolina, just west of Charlotte and just east of the Smoky Mountains. The audience is school and district leaders of this rapidly growing part of a rapidly growing state. They provide education for the children of recent immigrants who have come in from all over the U.S. and beyond for [...]
- Digital Learning in Colorado Springs
It is a pleasure to be back in Colorado Springs and working with educators who have come back at the beginning of the summer vacation. Im impressed, only on 4 hours of sleep.This is an all day, covering lots of topics, starting with a big pictures presentation.Well also be covering digital content, harnessing the [...]
- New Worlds of Learning in Ontario
The Horse Shoe Falls, Niagara Falls, Ontario It is an honor and a privilege to come back to Ontario and speak to education leaders from across this vast province. I learned last night that the person who recommended me for providing the closing keynote for this 20th anniversary conference, saw me present about the emergence [...]
- New Learning in Honolulu
Scanning through the schedule and the conference web site reveals a new type of learning experience. Many of the sessions are aimed toward harnessing a new information landscape for both classroom and professional learning. The site announced a wireless environment, urges attendees to bring their own laptops (BYOL), and even includes a conference [...]
- Teaching & Technology in Bismarck
It is a pleasure to be in North Dakota, my first time in this state, and a special honor to be sharing the stage with Chris ONeal from Virgina, who will be doing the closing keynote. Im talking about the future, the kids, and a new information landscape, and Chris will be reconciling all [...]
- Digital Learning in Queensbury, NY
The end of another school year is near. In fact, its here. Some testing left, but business as usual has faded, and thoughts of next year have begun not yet dominating your thoughts, and perhaps not even surfacing yet to your consciousness. But planning has begun at some level.My job is [...]