User:JimTittsler/WhyWiki





= Why Wiki? =

Jim Tittsler 

Tech Lead, OER Foundation

Twitter: @jtittsler

Purpose

 * open resources
 * openly developed

Mediawiki

 * CMS
 * scalable
 * robust
 * collaboration
 * large community

Mediawiki

 * ease of use
 * plain text, open file format
 * editing tools
 * API facilitates automation
 * history
 * all revisions available
 * attribution
 * standard web technologies
 * API for treating wiki as repository of resources
 * extensions
 * Widgets allow interactive features in component model

Why?

 * transparent (open)
 * layered
 * incrementally refined

Deployment

 * in wiki
 * iFrame
 * API access
 * PDF and ePub
 * snapshot exports

Reuse

 * reuse pages (or subpages)
 * one page app built from course outline

Widgets

 * WEnotes aggregate feed
 * allows student to use preferred venue
 * available in web stream and RSS forms
 * central place for monitoring participation
 * resource banks
 * course registration
 * slideshows with narration
 * polling
 * questionstorm
 * "favoriting" resources or notes

Tools

 * course email tool
 * collecting forum posts from parallel LMS
 * TogetherJS

Import

 * Pandoc
 * Send2Wiki bookmarklet

Why Wiki?

 * http://WikiEducator.org/User_talk:JimTittsler/WhyWiki
 * https://google.com/+JimTittsler
 * @jtittsler