June 2014
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One Minute Smallest Federated Wiki: Looking at Specific Versions of Pages
When you click a link to go to a page, sometimes it’s not from the site you want to see. Here’s how to look at a specific site’s version of a page. (Hint: it’s all about the favicons!) Continue reading
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One Minute Federated Wiki: Pulling Something From Twitter
I’m going to start documenting how to do various things in Smallest Federated Wiki. These little tidbits will be helpful to people who have already started using SFW but may not know some of its less obvious features. In this video, I deal with the problem of getting SFW pages you found through Twitter and Continue reading
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Making Class Wikis vs. Thinking in Wiki
In general I describe myself as a blogger, partially because my work title (Director of Blended and Networked Learning) just leads to too many questions, and partially because it ties together some experiences I’ve had over the past decade or so. Blogger is not quite accurate even there — the work I did with Blue Continue reading
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Flipped Classroom, 1972-style (and early visions of connected home computing)
Today I did two articles for the HHOL project (reminder: you should join the project!). The first article I wrote was on Ancient Roman Assessment. The second was on the late 60s/early 70s system called TICCIT, which used a combination of videotapes, servers, computers, and color terminals to deliver instruction into homes and dormitories over Continue reading
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Pressey’s Automatic Teacher
I’ve been writing a short two or three paragraph article a day on the Hidden History of Online Learning federated wiki. Usually I’ll start by dropping something I kinda-sorta know about educational technology into Google, do ten minutes research, and write it up. It’s amazing what you find in that short amount of time. The Continue reading
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Student Curation in Smallest Federated Wiki
The video below shows what the process of collaboration looks like from the student end of SFW. Note that in many ways it seems like pretty standard collaboration, with two major differences. First, the student edits their own copy of pages instead of editing communal pages. This solves an awful lot of problems that I’ll Continue reading
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Letting Lots of People Host Your Stuff In Their Collections Is a Good Survival Strategy
Just now I clicked on link to an article on Jef Raskin (designer of the Macintosh interface) and received the above result. The article was an interview with him just before he died in 2005, and I was interested on his take on modern interface. Instead it’s just more link rot. Of course, my Continue reading
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The Answer to Project-based Work in MOOCs is Federation
Matt Crosslin, who’s a pretty smart guy, has an article in the EduGeek Journal about dual-layer MOOCs. This is an idea I’ve been pursuing for quite some time, and studied for a bit but never quite was able to pull together. What even readers of this blog may not realize is that its been this Continue reading
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The Hidden History of Online Learning
I’m starting up a federated wiki on the “Hidden History of Online Learning” to attempt to demonstrate to what the experience is like. If any readers of his blog would like to participate, I’m willing to set up a federated wiki for you on my S3 instance. I’ve already set sites up for Audrey Watters Continue reading
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Smallest Federated Wiki as an Alternate Vision of the Web
The web is not going away. And you’ll probably never see anyone in your immediate family ever uttering the phrase “Smallest Federated Wiki”. But after three weeks of using Smallest Federated Wiki, a reimagining of the wiki (and really, of the web) by wiki inventor Ward Cunningham and a cadre of incredibly talented coders, I’m Continue reading
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