Hi Richard, you are right, *for already existing content*, a converter is needed to quickly build TWs (or lots of manual work).. I'm glad to hear that you have much progress with that, although I haven't checked that out yet. Though, may be a more interesting strategy to build some inspiring example is to create your own content in TW.
Now, let me describe some reasons why I think the tiddler format and TW as a representation base (or also hypertext itself) are interesting for education (and educative materials): 1. Grabbing; improving; recycling TiddlyWiki allows quick copy-paste/import. Tiddler format is universal; although there are couple of cases when mere copying of a tiddler is not enough: when plugins like MathJax or NestedSliders are used and the tiddler contains corresponding syntax; and when some tiddlers are linked to/transcluded into/aggregated (by list or another macro) into the tiddler [and may be inserted pictures (external files) are also an issue]. Still, this opens an interesting possibility to instantly grab tiddlers into one's TW, edit them as (s)he pleases, may be improve somehow and even share their own tiddlers via an online TiddlyWiki (or TiddlySpace). This can be a part of an education workflow. But we should keep in mind, this is a bare idea for now (is it?), so the workflow should be tested and probably some extensions should be written. 2. Personalization: learn what you haven't learned yet Hypertext's main advantage over the ordinary text is its own behaviour (or, in a more humble way, being dynamic). This can be used in a number of ways to improve the learning workflow. However, the cost will be likely always the same: writing the hypertext materials require more efforts. I'm not going to discuss multimedia content: this part seems to be quite obvious (video, interactive "pictures" etc; see [1], though). The first thing I'd like to highlight here is the "learn what you haven't learned yet" thing. The idea is simple: once one starts to learn, say, Ajax, they either know or don't know JavaScript already. This can be a smaller thing: one can learn formulae of abridged multiplication and use them in trigonometry (you can think of some more elaborate math theorem which proof requires knowledge of a statement from another math area). The learning person can somehow specify what (s)he already knows and then some content can be omitted. This idea seems to be applicable for math, different tech disciplines, and looks unlikely to work well with humanitarian sciences or arts (or at least should be used for much bigger chuncks of knowledge in the latter case). 3. Personalization: choosing a presentation form Also, different presentations of the same content can be created. For instance, some people would prefer to read a "lecture" with full theorems and proofs and long text, while others would prefer to "read in problems" -- see math problems solving which will make them go further (and understand deeper). Or, if one wants to read a "summary" of a course (probably his or her own copy already), (s)he would prefer to omit proofs (which, being marked correspondingly, can be omitted by applying simple CSS). I'll be glad to hear other specific ideas in this area. 4. Personalization: directions cloud (this topic is too much over-horizon and also involves some server-side/social web technologies) Say, I've learned html (or mechanics: equilibrium). What's next? If my purpose was to create beautiful web pages, then next turn would probably be CSS. Or may be SVG, if I'd like to create interfaces for different services. Some "after learning" tiddlers can be created to provide some advices. I'm not sure, but perhaps the term "course" won't be needed in the end, there will be shorter topics which one can learn (and importing tiddlers can work as a small "reward") and some "maps" of what should be learned for different goals (and also what topics compose the knowledge of the whole technology, for those who want to study technologies and disciplines fully, consistently). Some courses/topics can have a set of "required knowledge", so one will see that for advanced hydrodynamics they need to know some things about equations with partial derivatives. 5. Tiddlers for teachers TiddlyWiki/TiddlySpace/TiddlyWeb can be used on only by those who learn, but also by those who teach. Sharing materails as tiddlers can be useful for sharing problems, topics and other teaching materials. One special form that I would like to mention is "projects" (for students). It is practiced in several schools in Moscow as well as in different summer schools. The main idea is simple: the student does some research (not necessarily about something undiscovered and actual/important) or does some "engineering" task or some other by himself but tutored by someone. For instance, this summer I tutored 4 groups of students from 1-5th school forms who built bridges using da Vinci idea (2 groups, 2 bridges), modeled parachutes and explored which models drop slower, and created a "wire phone" using fishing-lines and plastic glasses (and explored which materials work better); while our biology teachers tutored small researches of ants behaviour, age-width-height correlations for trees and many others. Sharing these things (description, methodology notes) will be cool and, as I've already described several of those in my TW, I'm thinking about a platform for sharing; may be I'll make a seminar for teachers in my school about TW this autumn (there are already several interested ones, but we'll see). [1] http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~psoares/MathSVG.html#Examples%20AnimatedNephroid%20AnimatedPendulum%20ConfidenceIntervals%20DefinitionOfSine%20Derivatives%20DrawingAnEllipse%20Dynamic%20EphemeralHandDrawing%20Kepler%20Lissajous%20LostInPrediction%20ManualAnimation%20MoreDerivatives%20NegativeBinomial%20NormalDistribution%20PolarPlots Best regards, Yakov. PS once again, all these cool possibilities require additional efforts, so of'course the degree of implementation totally depends on enthusiasm; and also, I'll be glad to hear other ideas related to the described topics. (Må ns?) воскресенье, 22 июня 2014 г., 9:01:15 UTC+4 пользователь Richard Smith написал: > > > > Hi Yakov, > > Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. > > I have in mind to begin by writing math books because they have a very > logical structure. > > To begin with I was playing around with writing my own content and also > making video - which in itself could be an important component of an > intelligent textbook. > > Recently I came to the conclusion that if I wanted to actually make > something happen that other people would see the value in then I should try > to show some sort of "minimum viable product" - ie; an actual textbook that > you could, in theory, use to teach an actual class. To this end, I decided > to take a currently available textbook from the organisation c-k12 and > "tiddlywikify" it. > > The original is here: > http://www.ck12.org/book/CK-12-Middle-School-Math-Grade-7/ > > And this (should?) link to my work in progress. > > > https://6c5416d85b78243586803bdbb4771b5d2d699363.googledrive.com/host/0B8H35yJ22OmzOEo2dHJsR2dFblk/Yellow7.html > > This is at the level of first-year high-school. > > Of course, I am also interested in teaching all levels of the curriculum, > so if you would like to help, you could start literally anywhere. It would > be nice in any case to have people to bounce ideas around with and I would > appreciate any feedback you might have on what I'm doing. > > I am in the middle of researching the links that Jeremy provided (thankyou > Jeremy). > > When my prototype is finished I plan to solicit feedback from the online > teaching community (edu-bloggers etc.) as to whether this seems to them > like a valuable project and hopefully begin to attract contributors. > > My prototype is currently built with each tiddler pointing to a google doc > on my drive. I can download all of those docs as local html and I am hoping > there is a way to turn them all into tiddlers on the local machine and then > wrap them back up into an all-in-one tiddlywiki. > > As I say, any and all help gratefully appreciated. Please feel free to > email me your thoughts. > > With thanks, > Richard > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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