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Explaining Federation Through Family Movie Night, Part I
I’ve been struggling to explain to people why federation is necessary. In practice, federation doesn’t get you much until there are people around to federate with. Worse, it doesn’t get you anywhere until there is valuable material in your federation. Valuable material takes time to produce, and people aren’t going to spend that time making Continue reading
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Two Minute Federated Wiki: Sharing Across Unrelated Wikis
With Federated Wiki you can benefit from the work people are doing on completely unrelated sites, and use their work to pull together a site of your own very quickly. Continue reading
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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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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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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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