Continued:
I use TiddlyWiki for & in education in several ways:
1) As simple homepages where students can read material I upload eg. pdfs
instructions and comments..
2) I give them documents to let them write hypertext stories learning the
simple wikitext syntax along the way. Linking and tagging is easily
explained and very practical for this kind of simple assignments.
3) For collegues I make student lists with checkboxes - They get fully
formated tables which they print out to paper.(TWc)
4) For the administrative staff I produce todo lists where they can assign
jobs to everyone from job categories. (TW5)
5) When I collaborate with external teachers I always setup a TW online and
use it for info. I always give them oppertunity to write in the document -
or download it.
6) All kinds of documentation and info for collegues and students eg. How
to scan pdfs to the server etc...
7) If I need students to answer an online poll or collegues to add data to
an online spreadsheet I will typically put it in an iframe in a TW and add
information which I could not give to them otherwise..
8) I often take up the challenge of trying to make a better
presentation/version (imo) of educational material online. (more to the
point - if you know what I mean.. less disturbing elements than was on the
original site)
9) Every year I get a csv file from our secretary - arrange it so it will
import students as tiddlers to a customized version of TWc, I upload
student photos and collegues use my TW as a way of learning student names -
and have access to personal information.
There are more use cases - those where the ones I could remember from the
top of my head...
Cheers Måns Mårtensson
Den mandag den 12. maj 2014 17.13.38 UTC+2 skrev Måns:
>
> Hi Devin
>
> I often find myself struggling to explain the concepts behind TiddlyWiki
>> and why they are a good thing. I sometime try to equate TW to interactive
>> word documents. This analogy doesn't hold up.
>>
>
> To me TiddlyWiki is like Lego (& a 3D printer) for grownups.
> Most people have played with Lego - so maybe the analogy is usefull to
> some degree.
> Playing with Lego triggers imagination and visualization processes > what
> do want to build? > what are your options/building blocks?. Trial and error
> is part of the process.
>
>
>> How do others explain TiddlyWiki? What are some of the underlying
>> concepts used that make TW stand out. What ways has TiddlyWiki enhanced
>> your workflow, documentation, etc.?
>>
>
> I don't really try to explain TiddlyWiki - I simply present it as:
> 1) A homepage
> 2) A blog
> 3) A HTML document
> 4) An app (especially when loaded on mobile devices)
> 5) A program for managing todo lists & getting things done
> 6) A personal wiki
> 7) An alternative to standard documents (eg. word) with an exceptional
> ability to be used for hypertext writing.
> 8) A protyping device
> 9) A presentation tool
> 10) A scrapbook
> 11) Etc .....
>
> I use TiddlyWiki for all these types of tasks (and more ...).
> I share them with collegues, students and anybody who might be interested
> in/ or need the content/material.
>
> Every year I'm asked to create "an app" for collegues which holds
> information/data about and images of our students. This "app" (which is of
> course a TiddlyWiki) is used for making lists of different kinds/sorts -
> all in sortable tables and printable. I use TWC for this, because I can
> import data from a csv file and create all tiddlers in one go. All
> templates are set up beforehand..
>
> I haven't really used TIddlyWiki as a ("hands on") tool for students
> untill just recently.
> I gave them a small/simple assignment: Write a hypertext story - with
> wikitext and images.. Every tiddler should have at least one link to
> another tiddler.
>
> Our principal asked me to design an advanced job assignment app in
> TiddlyWIki - to help him distribute tasks among collegues... I've prepared
> the document, however he hasen't used it yet - so I can't tell how usefull
> it is...
>
> I use TiddlyWIki in almost every situation where online communication of
> info is preferable - even when presenting polls for students or online
> spreadsheets for collegues. Then I iframe it and add comments in tiddlers.
>
> The list is actually too long to be made in this post :-)
>
> Cheers Måns Mårtensson
>
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