This is a letter that I wrote to the Christianity subjects Adviser in
Denmark (in Danish )-
I advance I will excuse my choices of sometimes wrong english words -
My Danish is considerably better. I hope you get the point - anyway.
For subjects Adviser Niels Lysholm
Hi Niels
Inspiration:
I have had the pleasure to attend a lecture on the final tests of
Christianity in schools, in Aalborg by seminar lecturer Inger Røgild.
After the presentation I asked some questions regarding a possible
alternative testform and explained why I am particularly interested in
a synopsis test regarding Christianity."
"...bla, bla, bla, .." (something about myself and experinces in
teaching and censorship.. )
The "news":
This year I tried something new.
Inspired and based on the Ethics of five world religions in
religion.dk I have thrown myself into using the web-based sources, and
Social Learning Networks (although to a lesser degree than the Web 2.0
tools that follows) in Christianity education. My training has been
much more project-oriented than before and pupils have produced many
of the materials themselves - including so-called "Voicethreads".
Claroline & TiddlyWiki:
I started using Claroline as joint educational portal - but gradually
I became more grateful for a small and fast javascript based html
document: TiddlyWiki, both because it is a very simple writing tool
(wiki), which the students also have benefits from individually (own
notes) alongside teaching and because it appears to be a "web 2.0
website, with all the cool things a website can provide.
In the end I gave up using Claroline and this is due solely to the
fact that it is hard to be the only teacher at a school who uses a
portal. Pupils are not getting accustomed to use the tool in their
daily work.
My version of Claroline as it looked when I stopped using it around
February 2009: "An educational portal for HU"(Link). (All my subjects
are created in the system).
The reason for this mail:
Inger suggested that I contacted you - to show you the
TiddlyWikivariant (Ethics), I have used this semester - in order to
show some other didactic possibilities than the usual.
When our lecture ended I gave the other delegates a link to the
website, which has served as note and presentation tool in my
Christianity lessons since October 2008.
It contains links and quotes from, inter alia, religion.dk - but is
also a separate "browserprogram" that my students have downloaded for
personal use - especially for their own notes.
It's simple to use for pupils and teachers alike-
Links:
* The program I have used in my teaching : Ethics(link:
http://etik.tiddlyspot.com). There are some "leftovers" from teaching,
including some of the students' VoiceThreads ". You can download the
page, clean it up and use it as a "mobile notedevice."
* TiddlyWiki (link: http://tiddlywiki.com), which is the original
program, is open source, licensed under a so called BSD
(wikipedialink) license, and may therefore be modified and distributed
freely.
* NobrainerNotes is Dave Giffords variant of TiddlyWiki,
specifically aimed at personal notetaking and originally made for his
seminar pupils. (More from Dave G. Link: Christian resources in
TiddlyWiki format, etc.)
* I have translated NobrainerNotes: SimpleNoter. Which, I've used
as a template for "Ethics".
* I have translated and prepared other variants of TiddlyWiki for
educational purposes as you can see here: TwSpot/(link). Some of them
are not quite ready for use, but they still show some potential to go
in new directions.
The point of mentioning TiddlyWiki is that it can be both teachers and
pupils personal "scrapbooks" - You just click "edit" and write
directly into the page.
The syntax is very simple wiki syntax - and everyone can use it, both
off- and online.
It can be mailed and put on an usb.
If you (like me) want to make the page accessible and editable on the
Internet. You can put it on http://tiddlyspot.com - for free - without
any adds or being required to set up an account or the like.
The page can easily be used as a website (but no editing ability)
using any webserver via ftp.
Adding a single phpdokument can add online editing capabilities and if
put on the school's Internet server you end up with an editable wiki
within the school's domain!.
A new type of document type that could be of good use to many people:
I am thinking that if you eg. presented educational material via a
TiddlyWiki, like the one I used in my lessons, then educators can
download the material (as a single file), use it offline and make
their own changes directly in the material.
If the TiddlyWiki file is prepared in the right way for education-
like NobrainerNotes (my translation: SimpleNoter), it could also work
as a new type of document, with many more opportunities and prospects
than a normal Word or pdfdocument.
YS Måns Mårtensson, Christianity Teacher at Himmerland Ungdomsskole.
Contact (Link to: http://etik.tiddlyspot.com/index.html#[[Kontakt%20M%C3%A5ns]])
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