Hi Kriss Happy New Year :-)
> > > To fully understand the power of the toy - and to learn to understand the > > > inner workings, I think it is important to start from the basics and > > > build your way up. > > > Yes, - *if* you intend to teach the students how to write/understand > > css, html, javascript,wikitext and coding in general. > > I suspect you are a coder, Måns? :-P By all means no!... I'm a copycat and a tinkerer :-) > What I meant was the basics from the end-user point-of-view. So the > people understand how the linking en code-execution works, what it > does and how it does it; without the need for them to really *know* > the code/css/script. > > Get a feel of what is going on behind the curtains, without the need > to really go backstage. > > ... That is backstage like in a theatre; not that wiki-thing where you > can manipulate the settings ;-)) Ok, I think I get your point. My point is that most students are used to be consumers of webservices. Most of them might not understand why they should know how to create wikilinks, new "tiddlers" and why they should bother to learn a new terminology, just to setup a new html page... They are used to a simple "save as html" command, which exists in almost every dtp-program out there. I believe most students are used to create powerpoint presentations and documents with images and lists of source details (often webURLs).... Many students know Ms' One-note and many programs from the Ms Office package... They make presentions on class - and sometimes they publish work on the internet. School blog, Teachers blog, intranet etc... Why should they bother to learn the TiddlyWiki language?? My answer to this question is "because they need to use it as a tool to get things done" - not as an object for study... Story to explain what I mean: Last year my collegues (Danish teachers) and I , had two days to run a project with all students at our school. All students have their own private laptop and our school delivers internetconnection. For this particular project they should work in teams of three or four. They should create a visual story (video) from selfmade footage to accompany an old Danish folksong. We needed them to install a program (PhotoStory3) and I gave them a very condensed introduction/presentation of the program. How to insert footage, arrange panning/zooming and how to render a movie, not more than 10 minutes long. I made a short (one page with images) manual as a handout to each team and nothing more... The project was very successfull. Teams worked very focussed for two days. A few times I was called to help out with technical things which were not covered by the manual... All were focussed on the creative process of creating video: collecting footage and creating an audiovisual aestetically coherent story. In most teams I observed that one student was in charge of the computer, another had the camera and a third student worked as a kind of producer/instructor.... Some teams let the computer shift hands, however all students were heavily engaged in the process of arranging footage in the program and all had opinions regarding aestetics, and often I saw one student showing another student how to accomplish sth he/she wanted to do - in the program... The result of the project were a lot of good and inspiring (very different) videos. A sideeffect of the project was that a lot of computerilleterate students now feel comfortable using a program like Photostory. Some of them even tried exporting moviestrips - and images to MovieMaker, to do things which could not be accomplished with PhotoStory3... My point is that I believe synergy collective work produces more than every individual can accomplish by themselves. TiddlyWiki is a tool and tools are means to an end - not something by themselves. Everytime you accomplish somthing which is important using a tool - you add new value to the tool. I think TiddlyWiki can turn out to be very valuable to students (and teachers) - if the projectgoals are set right, and TiddlyWiki can solve "the problem", better than any other tool. ;-) 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.
