|
|
Hey guys,
Thanks for allowing me to visit with you about EDLF 545: Applied Teaching with Technology. If any questions come to mind, please email me.
Dennis Pipes
The content-area flamewar can be viewed elsewhere
Key pages in the wiki
- Instructor-created pages
- Community
- Planning:
- Syllabus
- Calendar of class meetings
- schedule of activities
- Class assignments
- Class rubrics
- Recording:
- weekly record of activities -- see here for running commentary, week by week
- bi-weekly podcasts: I try to record two podcasts for each class, one to set up the session and one to debrief. You can download each file individually from the record of activities
- Hey Mr. Fancy-Pants IT person, how come you don't have an RSS feed for your podcast?
- I'm glad you asked! I have two reasons, both somewhat shameful.
- I haven't found a free automated XML builder that I like. I've used jPodder, but can't figure how to get it to store the XML so that I don't have to re-build it from week to week.
- I'm too lazy. Sure, I could hand-edit my XML, but that's frankly too much work for me, given the purposes to which this podcast is being applied.
- I haven't found a free automated XML builder that I like. I've used jPodder, but can't figure how to get it to store the XML so that I don't have to re-build it from week to week.
- So just follow along from the record of activities page, please. Or buy me a real podcasting tool. Or show me a good free tool.
- I'm glad you asked! I have two reasons, both somewhat shameful.
- Hey Mr. Fancy-Pants IT person, how come you don't have an RSS feed for your podcast?
- weekly record of activities -- see here for running commentary, week by week
- Helpful hints 'n' such
- care and feeding of 209 and eto
- how to connect to home directory
- list of helpful free software and where to get it
- resources for web programming
- Student-created pages -- fire away!
Useful links
- Tapped In: http://tappedin.org/ -- login and navigate to the "Secondary Humanities" group.
- Toolkit for grades 'n' such
- del.icio.us site for 345: http://del.icio.us/edlf345_sechum
How to navigate this site
The title at the top of the page ("EDLF345_sechum") is a link; click it and you will be returned to the main page.
As you move from page to page, a "breadcrumb trail" is created that tracks the last several pages you have visited. Use it to return to earlier pages that have no explicit link from your current page.
How to add to this site
Click edit page (top item in left-hand column) to replace this text with whatever you want to put on your new home page.seedwiki's online editor works a lot like your familiar word processing software. Feel free to experiment with it.
You can find more detailed information to help you get started in the seedwiki book:
The Seedwiki BookYou do not need to be logged in to edit this site.
Attention Safari users: You can use Safari to read, but we've had some problems when using Safari to edit. We recommend using Firefox. When Safari loads the editor, it doesn't always give you the nice WYSIWYG version, but instead may give you raw source code. You can work with that, but it's a lot less fun. Tom Hammond thinks the problem stems from the fact that the WYSIWYG editor is all javascript, and Safari (and Internet Explorer, to a lesser extent) isn't fully compliant with the current javascript standards. Firefox is. Please correct Tom if he's wrong.
WARNING: If two people are editing the same page at the same time, one of them will lose his/her work! Handy hint for preventing this problem: hit the "Lock page" button (just above the editing bar, above) while doing your editing.
How to get maximum useability out of this site
A few tricks and tips learned from wrangling wikis:
- Find the latest changes fast by clicking on "Changes"
- Track back to earlier versions of a page by clicking on "Versions"
- Find lists of related pages by clicking on the tags at the bottom of a page
- See a list of ALL pages in wiki by clicking on "Page directory"
- The neatest trick of all: Seedwiki sometimes gets balled up. For example, a certain someone has learned that trying to upload video files to seedwiki crashes not only your wiki but potentially the entire seedwiki empire. Furthermore, sometimes pages aren't there, or appear with incomplete info. It always come back in the end, but in the meantime, if you have something that's mission-critical, you can DOWNLOAD the entire wiki as one, tidy local zip file. You can then unzip it, and all the pages run perfectly -- all local links work just fine. You can even re-upload them to some other webserver and they'll behave perfectly. It's like you can a two-step process for xeroxing the entire wiki. Here's how:
- Click on "Page Directory"
- Click the "download" button
- Select the "Download pages as HTML files" option.
- Select the directory you want it in, and you've got it.
- "I'm editing, hitting 'Save', and it doesn't show my edits" -- I had this happen on a certain page repeatedly, and it was driving me nuts. Other pages were just fine, so I figured there had to be something uniquely messed up in the coding of this page -- possibly a botched edit. So: I tried editing the page in different browsers, I tried using different security settings. (I didn't try restoring an earlier version -- that would have been smart.) What worked: I switched editors. Seedwiki gives you a choice of several editors to use, and the default is the most advanced editor. I reverted to an earlier, more basic editor, made and saved changes, and everything worked fine from that point on. Hooray.
- Repeated from earlier warning: Only one edit at a time gets saved. Therefore, while editing, a Best Practice would be to hit the "Lock page" button above the editing bar.