Dear Jeremy, This is really fantastic. I've been using TW for my content management of research but, I have always felt the need to have such a solution so that I can share the content with my collaborators and students with the philosophy of TW in mind. I support this.
Best, -Rahul Kashyap Postdoctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University On Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 12:10:47 PM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e3d4bd8b-c6d9-4a20-b694-067ad6c7ae1d%40googlegroups.com.
