Mike Caulfield
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Smallest Federated Wiki as a Universal JSON Canvas
Watching Alan Kay talk today about early Xerox PARC days was enjoyable, but also reminded me how much good ideas need advocating. As Kay pointed out repeatedly, explaining truly new ways of doing things is hard. People looked at the PARC stuff, and many saw a solution to this problem or that problem. But that… Continue reading
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One Minute Smallest Federated Wiki: Understanding Recent Changes
A whirlwind tour of how to read the Recent Changes, and how to include the sites you want in it. We don’t touch on the icons much here, or how to get to specific version of pages, or what “people who touched that page” means (hint: it means they have a copy of the page).… Continue reading
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One Minute Federated Wiki: Link Resolution From Journal History
Link resolution in Smallest Federated Wiki can be confusing — depending on the page you are linked from links can go different places. This video shows simple link resolution from journal history. A second video showing slightly more complex scenarios where pages not in the journal are suggested as alternatives is forthcoming. Continue reading
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Name-Based Approaches to Networks, and Why They are Crucial to the Personal Web
Alan Levine made a great comment on a previous post — the frustration in Smallest Federated Wiki is that “you never know where you are.” This got me thinking about some foundational issues that need to be explained — issues bigger than any directed how-to. One of the reasons people feel lost on SFW is… Continue reading
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Minimally Invasive Assessment and the New Canvas Suite
Instructure has a new announcement about Canvas, and it’s in an area close to my heart. They are rolling out a suite of tools that allow instructors to capture learning data from in-class activities. But Mike, you say, the LMS is evil, and more LMS is eviler. Why you gotta be Satan’s Cheerleader? Well, here’s… Continue reading
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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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