Hi Peter On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Peter Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm slightly conflicted. I agree that an exploration has a nice personal > vibe and is a good fit for the river and possibly TiddlyMap too. On the > other hand it doesn't seem to have a high profile though it is presently > being used by a company promoting their approach to blended learning by > means of a book and online "taster" http://morethanblended.com/taster/ . > More of Oppia and its (slightly tenuous) association with Google > http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/26/meet-oppia-googles-new-open-source-project-that-lets-anyone-create-an-interactive-learning-experience/ > Yes, Google's support for things like this seems quite half-hearted. Perhaps it's the last vestiges of their historic product strategy of throwing lots of things against the wall and investing in the things that stick. The contrasts between Oppia and TW are quite interesting. There's the online aspect I alluded to above, but also the way that Oppia is a full stack web app that does the single thing that it does, contrasting with TiddlyWiki, where the same functionality is something that Jed Carty (for example) could whip up over a few hours. I think that difference is profound: the educator can reach inside TiddlyWiki and bend it to their needs, while Oppia is a black box requiring quite a high level of developer expertise to customise or extend. Shifting the locus of control from the developer to the educator then allows educators to experience all the good stuff that makes being a developer so rewarding: the ability to copy, modify and share the work of others to evolve a genuinely diverse ecosystem of artefacts and tools. To be fair to Oppia, there are benefits from being a centralised system, such as the ability to track statistics and receive comments. Best wishes Jeremy. > > > On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 9:08:55 PM UTC+1, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > >> I belatedly just found this rather interesting open source education tool >> from Google: >> >> https://www.oppia.org/ >> >> Lessons (or "explorations") consist of a sequence of tiddlers that you >> traverse by answering questions or clicking buttons. Each tiddler is >> appended to the end, so that you gradually build up a complete document of >> your learning experience. It's pretty cool, and pretty easy to use. >> >> I suspect that it could be duplicated in TiddlyWiki without trouble. It's >> pretty much TiddlyWiki minus displayed tiddler titles and minus inline >> tiddler links. And minus working offline of course. It actually feels a bit >> sluggish as it goes back to the server for each interaction. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> mailto:[email protected] >> > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAPKKYJa0-mEyW1r50%3DOZg3Jez-hbr9S%3D8WmCAWhBVrwJgKGszQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
