Hi passingby > I have some free time with me and I wanted to utilize this by visiting > a local school and giving an introduction and demonstration of > Tiddlywiki to students or teachers. I wish to do this in order to > spread the use of Tiddlywiki and utilize my time creatively and > fruitfully.
Great idea :-) > But I am getting a bit confused on what to focus upon. > # Should my audience be teachers or students or both? > # Should I focus on usage of TW as a personal tool such as Note > taking, GTDs, journals, website (like the one elise springer has) or > should I focus on its possible use in educational process? If its > latter then what are the possible uses for it ? > # Should tiddlyspace be more in focus than tiddlywiki? I think that would depend on what they are used to do via webservices... If they don't have an intranetsystem on their shool, which they use for publishing homework - it would be a great oppertunity to give them a simple TiddlySpace based hierarchic system. 1. Teachers Space 2/3/4/5/6 etc - Students spaces, which are including the Teacher's Space Teacher and students can download their spaces for offline use and syncronize when back online.. The teacher can create a new space for collecting published material from students, just by including their "homespaces"... Simple and (I think) usefull from the start... If they however already have a working (and active) intranet - which delivers these kind of services, I would simply introduce TiddlyWiki as an alternative (and portable) text/data container. Maybe give the students a quick course in WikiText formating (images, text and tables) and let them write an interactive story as an assignment.... Maybe this would be a nice challenge for small groups of students - only working from [[Titles]] and [[tags]] - then you could collect and assemble the final story into one big TiddlyWiki, with many choices for the reader. (See Twine http://gimcrackd.com/etc/src/) A nice feedback would be if you published their work. > As I would be doing this for the first time I have no idea how much > would be too much or how little would be too little. > Any ideas are welcome. I'd like to hear how you choose to do it - I am very reluctant to do "seminars" myself, because I use it as my personal playground and for all kinds of administrative tasks. My personal systems are *not* very pedagogical - and I'm afraid to scare off my audience instead of "wetting their appetite" - if you understand what I mean :-) Cheers Måns Mårtensson -- 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.
