Hi Lewcid I've made a wikispaces wiki and set up a sn-tw to fetch material from it. I totally agree with you. Wikispaces has very very userfriendly UI. But I can't even use danish characters for the title :-(
I'm planning to use the concept for danish students and/or teacher collegues - and I would like to have total control over the "masterwiki" - beeing able to tweak it in any direction we would like. That's the power of TW - beeing able to customize it. (Change the language, stylesheet, pagetemplate asf.) A collegue from a neighbour "efterskole" (a Danish boardingschool) is setting up Moodle as a LMS - and maybe I will attempt to do the same. (I've been using Claroline for a year now - and I have discovered many of the benefits from using a LMS-system - generating spaces for classes - and having a individual homepages for each subject and groups ). I've even made a TW designed for each subject made available for students on relevant pages in Claroline. Moodle has a cleaner interface with more modules and I've discovered that linking to different pages in Claroline isn't working the way I need.. - so I'm ready to try Moodle. Moodle I expect - also has a better danish translation. I'm fiddling around with the thought that I might make two TW- adaptions which accomodate teachers and pupils respectively - beeing preconfigured with links and iframes to navigate in Moodle. I've already made some attempts with Claroline - but as I mentioned before - Claroline isn't quite up to it. If I fx. link to documents on the danish-page - then I'll have to be on the Danish-page in a browser already. The links in Claroline are relative. Also beeing able to fetch/send material from/to Moodles built-in wiki - would certainly make it even more usable. I've found this: Tiddlywiki integration with New Moodle Wiki: http://morfeo.upc.es/crom/mod/wiki/view.php?id=22&page=Tiddlywiki+integration+with+New+Moodle+Wiki&gid=0&uid=0 and this: Tiddlywiki integration: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Tiddlywiki_integration Fetching material from "masterTWs" would also be very usefull on my work. I've been making a sick-leave ITW (BidiX's tw for Iphone) that I've integrated as an iframe in serveral prototypes - that I would eventually share between my teacher collegues. Recently I've discovered the IncludePlugin, which has very good use in this context - especially when you use the TiddlerNotesPlugin - with "Enable to pre-fill notes with the original tiddler's contents" Then each teacher is able to get his own copies of each studentcard - for his own notes - same procedure as you use in sn-tw. I will send you 3 files - 1 is my ITw-adaption, another (hu0809) is the first one iframed in a TW - which sole purpose is to present and display. The third one (Sang 0809) is a tw specialized for a group of teachers collaborating on making sing-along-lessons (don't know if thats the right word for it..). It fetches the first one via includeplugin and when you click on notes ("Kommentarer") on each student card you'll make a tiddler-copy to this tw... The two last tws are adaptions of Daves No brainer notes... I've tried to find good use for the tiddlychatterpackage - but as I understand it - it requires each user to have his own tw hosted online. That's to complicated if I want my collegues to get anyway near using tws... Your sn as an download-option on a "parenttw" preconfigured to fetch information from the parent tw (maybe several others too?) would be very usefull I think... If you have some other suggestions - I should investigate - please give me a hint. YS Måns Mårtensson (Denmark) On 14 Feb., 10:37, lewcid <[email protected]> wrote: > Hiya Måns, > > Whilst working on the StudentNotebook an effort was made to ensure > that as much of the code written as possible was not Wikispaces > specific and I think that we were quite successful in this respect. > However, at this early stage in the development it was necessary to > add some "glue" if you will to hold the different pieces together and > this is what makes it a little difficult at this time to easily adapt > the SN to work with a server component other than Wikispaces. My > intention is that the next release of the SN will be server agnostic > and you will be able to choose which serverside wiki to work with. > > I am however curious as to your reasoning behind wanting to use an > entirely TiddlyWiki based solution only. Are there some compelling > circumstances or reasons? We started off working with TiddlyWiki on > the server but ended up settling on Wikispaces because a) It has a > much more user friendly UI (from the students perspective at least!), > (b) it is accessible to screen readers (which is a legal obligation in > a lot of educational institutions) and (c) because it allows for > discussion features as well eliminating the need for a separate > bulletin board for the class such as WebCT. I realize that your > situation is rather different from that of Andrew's class but I'd love > to understand your needs better. > > Also, if you are able to share a copy of the TiddlyWiki you wish to > adapt for this purpose, that will allow me to offer better advice as > well. > Cheers, > Saq > > On Feb 13, 1:29 am, Måns <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Saq > > I would like to be able to make this setup solely based on TW. > > I'm sure it's possible with Bidix's php -saving features (prefilling > > it with users and passwords) and tiddlersaveplugin. > > I've tried to make acopy of your sn to an empty TW - but leaving out > > the things related to wikispaces - but I cannot.. > > The pagetemplate and/or stylesheet seems to break... > > I've also tried to find a way to toggle showing the backstage - but no > > here luck either... > > > I've made a "mobile sick-leave notebook" for my school, based on > > BidX's ItW. > > I would love to be able to use the includeplugin in an adaption of > > your SN to search and create local copies of tiddlers with content > > from the main TW - using the tiddlernotesplugin. > > > YS Måns Mårtensson - danish teacher. (like Dave I would like to be > > able to translate it too,, ) > > > On Feb 11, 9:25 am, Saq Imtiaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've just posted a screen cast and a live demo of the Student Notebook in > > > case anyone here finds it of interest. The Student Notebook is a > > > customized > > > TiddlyWiki used by students in conjunction with a class wiki (Wikispaces.) > > > > Cheers, > > > Saq --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
