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[Moving at the Speed of Creativity] Free Content + Open Tools + Massive Collaboration = Learning for All: Steve: Anyone can edit WikiPedia, but articles are pretty closely scrutinized by the editors, so vandalism (in my experience) has been dealt with very quickly. The discussion tabs on each article are where contributors hash out issues and disagreements.
[Delirious Development Dialysis] The power of your own personal wiki: A lesser known fact is that WikiPedia runs on open source software, created by the WikiMedia Foundation for the WikiPedia project. It is freely available under an open source license for anyone to download and use.
[en.Wikizine.org] Year: 2008 Week: 7 Number: 91: - Stichting Open Progress as received a grant from the Dutch NGO Hivos to improve the localisation of MediaWiki. This has resulted in a project which places bounties on MediaWiki localisation milestones for a list 70 to 80 languages spoken in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that have a sizeable number of speakers, but insufficient support in MediaWiki.
[Jade Ribbon Arizona Blog] Getting Organized. Getting Smarter. Getting Help.: I would like to schedule three conference calls and convene one meeting/conference call for the collaborative. The conference calls will be conducted the next three Wednesdays, 7, 14, 21 November 2007 from 11:00 a.m.
[Ruby B. Vas's Story] My Reflection for the Week of 02/04/08 · 02/10/08: In regard to the benefits of using blogs in education, Glogoff (2005) states that “instructional blogging offers additional opportunities to engage students and extend the virtual classroom.” Blogs can promote the community building process in online learning environments and they can be used as knowledge-centered tools that help to engage students in research activities and discussions. Moreover, instructional blogging tends to focus on the learner both individually and as a member of a group.
[if:book] incunabula of the week: The killin ur d00dz piece hard links within its writing community to foreground the dynamic and collaborative emergence of Web-specific jargons, even as it captures the intense experience of one individual. Batan City is a tentative (though, perhaps luckily for its creators, less populated than the Penguin effort) attempt to reconcile open editing with individual authorship of story elements, that uses the twin structures of a fictional place and an alphabetised list to structure the entries it invites.
[The Unreasonable Man] Diigo->Unreasonable 04/17/2007: Physics, Wikipedia. How to Write Lab Reports. LED Throwies. LED + Battery + Magnet = Fun - post by ianyorston. Alan Turing. WikiCalc. Web, Wiki Spreadsheet from the author of VisiCalc! - post by ianyorston. 3 Bubbles. Blog Chat - post ...
[freshmeat.net announcements (Global)] MediaWiki 1.11.1 (Default branch): MediaWiki is a Web-based collaborative editing environment. Originally built for the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia, it's geared to support a large number of users and pages.
[Taste of Tech] Open Source Servers: All right, maybe we don’t quite use MediaWiki as much as we could. But we do have it installed. MediaWiki is the software that runs Wikipedia. Want to create your own collaborative documents? This software will do it. ...
[::Technomac.Net - eBooks Web Porch] Wrox Professional Wikis Dec 2007 eBook-BBL: collaborative editing on a large scale-larger than anyone originally thought possible. This book shows you how to install, use, manage, and extend a wiki using MediaWiki-the wiki engine used to power Wikipedia.
[dbeBooks.in - An Ebook Library] Professional Wikis: Special focus is placed on how wikis are used in software and web development projects and how their capabilities ideally suit a specific environment and audience. You'll quickly come to discover why wikis are a valuable addition for any organization that wants to increase productivity using web-based collaboration tools.
[ASU, (alt^I) - Learning] Summary of Workshops offered by alt^I: During this hands-on workshop participants will use SafeAssignment, ASU’s plagiarism detection tool, to create assignments in Blackboard and view originality reports that identify material in the submitted paper that appears to come from other sources. In addition, we will discuss academic integrity and plagiarism issues in higher education, present strategies for developing student understanding of academic integrity principles, and provide recommendations for designing plagiarism-resistant assignments.
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