There's a lot more I hope to discuss about our response as a community to the Coronavirus, but today I wanted to start with one simple thing that I can do right now that I hope might make a small impact.
The offer is simple: to give educators who already use TiddlyWiki 5 in a classroom setting the infrastructure they need to be able to use it with remote students. It's based on Xememex, a cloud-based multi-user implementation of TiddlyWiki that I initially built to host the Anna Freud Manuals project (now at https://manuals.annafreud.org/) when it had to migrate from TiddlySpace. Xememex uses an extended form of the bag/recipe model from TiddlySpace to give flexible ways to combine content into wikis. It is now fairly mature with several hundred users and several hundred wikis, with intertwingled content between them. Elise Springer of Wesleyan University, Connecticut kindly agreed to trial the system with her Ethics class. We exported the existing course material from TiddlySpot and setup two new spaces: https://xememex.com/ethicsatwes is the space used by the 34 students to review the course material and attach their comments. They have their own login credentials and once logged in can leave comments using the TW comment plugin https://xememex.com/ethicsatwes-teacher is the teacher site that only Elise can edit. It contains the course material, which is also automatically transcluded into the student space Hopefully Elise will be able to jump in and explain more about how the space will be used during teaching, but I believe it's for a combination of synchronous presentations via Zoom and asynchronous coursework by the students working alone. If we can keep to a small number of variations of this setup then I see no reason why we can't support hundreds of educators. I may have to appeal for help with funding this initiative if it's a wild success but I don't intend to worry about that for the moment. I'm posting now to gauge interest, so please do reply here (or via email), and give an outline of your needs. The next step is that I will post a spreadsheet with the information I'll require to set things up. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions. Best wishes Jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1F2F21F3-E9AF-4E8F-9911-F88C48D7F94F%40gmail.com.
