I'm sure the majority of people don't know about the history tab... I've talked to educators and students within the past year who still didn't know about the *edit* tab. It's always surprising to me that wikis are still very new to most people. I tend to forget. :) Of course, at a computers in ed conference I'm sure you are more likely to run into people who have experience with wiki. (Unless they are there to get up to speed... sometimes conferences provide teachers with professional ed credit--I've had a couple of sessions like that where my audience was getting credit for attending my talk and then you get a wide range of backgrounds because many of them are there out of curiosity).
So I was really not kidding when I said that explaining what wiki is can be extremely helpful. :) My point was not so much about using wiki in the classroom, but about the diverse levels of experience different teachers have with wiki.
Andrea
On Feb 19, 2008 7:38 PM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/02/2008, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing a
class next week on educational implications of wikis/Wikipedia - and part of that is to give a look at what happens "inside Wikipedia". You can find this at: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Inside_Wikipedia - please go edit/comment/fork as you see fit.
I gave a talk at a Linux conference a couple of weeks ago that you may find useful. The aim was to demystify Wikipedia bureaucracy for those who are comfortable using it but may run into common problems when trying to edit. I talked about two common areas for trouble, article deletion and dispute resolution.
Slides: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Who%27s_Behind_Wikipedia%3F_slides_Brianna_Laugher.pdf
Afterwards I spoke to a journo who more or less turned it into an article: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1866322157;pp;1;fp;4194304;fpid;1
Possibly useful diagram (this is supposed to be on slide 4, it doesn't always show up...) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:English_Wikipedia_user_access_levels_diagram.svg
My talk was videoed but unfortunately that did not surface yet :(
Anyway I think this talk assumes too much for me to give it to an audience of teachers. At one interview I gave I found people did not know about the history tab, and the ability to view each previous revision. So I will put more emphasis on those things for a teacher audience, compared to a Linux tech audience.
cheers,
Brianna
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