I'll be using wikis in my classes in fall with two objectives in mind: 1. Support, encourage, and demonstrate collaborative learning 2. Integrate means of assessment in wiki-based writing and contributions.
The TOS textbook project will be very useful in teaching me how collaboration and attribution are supported by MediaWiki. The three bullets below, for example, are lessons I'll be very interested in. Same with change tracking, the [[User:]] namespace, and "EtherPad tutorial in an email" Karsten put quickly together. Mihaela -----Original Message----- From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Karsten Wade Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:37 PM To: tos@teachingopensource.org Subject: Re: [TOS] textbook 0.8.1 * There are ways with wiki tools to get more of what you are looking for. * By reviewed before submission, I presume you mean "reviewed by others" not by yourself. You can use the practice of putting change ideas in your user namespace, e.g. [[user:Jadudm/Foo_change]]. If you want a diff, you paste in the original content, save it, then make the change, save that, and the history shows a diff of the two. Think of it like an SCM clone. * If we can get some progress on the tool that Ian and I dreamed on, we can get every change on a watched page captured and sent to email. MediaWiki, by default, sends one change for a watched page, and does not send any other until you visit that page. That's from MediaWiki culture that doesn't work as well in environments used to diff and patch review via mailing list. Ian's tool would resolve that to make it easier to watch and review on the live page. - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41 _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
