Hi Valerie and Leigh, Valerie -- good suggestions. I've posted this to the list of questions here:
http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:WikiEducator_3.0#Questions (Please take a look to see if I've captured the essence of your contribution). We've been making some progress on this front -- albeit at a slow pace :-(. 1) We've started development on a Content Info Box template -- the idea being to capture some of the metadata to which you refer. This template has a couple of smart features that will help us with categories and creating multiple paths for finding and browsing WE content. I think the Content Info Box should also include a tag for the quality assurance framework currently under development. See: http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Developing_a_teaching_resource/Inserting_an_Infobox 2) I've started work on drafting a tutorial in preparation for the implementation of better tagging of content but to some how try to tie this in with the learning design process for developing content. Still needs lots of work: http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Developing_a_teaching_resource#Design 3) WE have also started work to establish portal pages for the different sectors -- eg School, Tertiary, Professional Development etc. See for example what Brent Simpson has been doing over here: http://wikieducator.org/Portal:Primary 3) Leigh -- I really like the social tagging approach to compliment internal structuring and categorisation of content in WE. This is clearly an area for improvement in WE. The MOSEP project has included the ability for users to tag WE pages at their favourite site -- see: http://wikieducator.org/MOSEP -- Its pretty neat because it "parses" the WE url for tagging purposes thus saving a little time and effort. For some time now I've been thinking that WE should develop a template which makes it easy to insert the option to tag content pages -- but haven't found the time to get round to this :-). So while we haven't optimised our capabilities to browse content easily -- we have a few of the building blocks in place to take this forward. Cheers Wayne On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 08:34 +1300, Leigh Blackall wrote: > Regarding Valerie's suggestion for a way to browse, and Maria's > example of Flickr and tagging: > > Valarie - I agree, it would be nice, especially for when introducing > the wiki to people. > Maria - Welcome (nice to have another experienced social media user > with us) good suggestions - I think the category feature in the wiki > can be used as a kind of tagging system. > > When you come across a page that you think should be added to the > browse list, simply click edit and type [[category:browselist]] or > some other tag word. > If it is useful to you for something else, add perhaps add > [[category:valerieslist]]. > These category tags will be added as links to the bottom of the page. > When you click those links, you'll be taken to an index page where all > the tagged pages are listed in alphabetical order. Now, at the > techtonic shift way back, I asked the tech madician behind Wikied if > we could apply a tag cloud look to the category feature which would > give us a clearer idea of what category tags where popular. > > An alternative way to achieve this is to use Del.icio.us. Use it to > bookmark and tag a wikieducator page. Go to Del.icio.us to view your > list. When viewing your list, look for the RSS feed for that list. > Take the URL for that RSS feed, and create a page on Wikieducator > called "Browse List". Add that RSS feed to that page. After that RSS > feed URL has had a few bits of wiki syntax added to it by me or anyone > who knows how, then the page will display the Del.icio.us list right > there on the page. This method is a type of third party media embed > and can be done for video and audio as well. > > Personally, I think both methods are good - but I have a preference > for Del.icio.us because it decentralises content a little. I am quite > nervous about putting everything into the wiki and prefer to > distribute across services as a type of backup plan - as well as > broader range of digital literacy development. > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Patricia Schlicht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Dear Valerie, > > Those are great thoughts, Valerie. Why don't you add them to > the Community Portal for WikiEducator under the appropriate > to-do list. > > http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Community_Portal > > Thank you. > Warm regards, > Patricia > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of valerie > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 8:14 AM > To: WikiEducator > Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: WIkiEducator 3.0 -- Asking the > right questions > > > I don't know if this is something new that is needed or > something that > already exists. > > What I would really like to do is "browse" or "graze" through > WikiEducator - like flipping through a magazine or a journal. > I'm sure > there is lots of great stuff, but I have yet to find a good > way to see > the broad spectrum and stumble upon stuff. > > Search isn't the answer, because I don't know what I'm looking > for but > I'll know it when I see it. > > What would be even better would be some over layer / meta data > layer - > sort of like social bookmarking but just for WE content (at > least for > now). I would like to hop "sequentially" through all the WE > content - > start anywhere - see the high level pages or a map that showed > number > of links, child pages, last update, creation date, tags, > categories. > > I want to just scroll or click through the list in some > orderly but > quick way - browse! Like scanning the Sunday New York Times. > If I see > something of interest, I'd like to note and tag it against my > criteria > - my subject/ classification, remember to revisit, and some > general > site wide criteria - completeness, readability. > > There are a couple of frustrations with WE now, as I see it. > I'm not > aware of any good, quick way to see everything that is out > there. > Finding the "good stuff" that is complete enough for > consideration as > an OER or Learning object is way too hard. > > There are also some general WE housekeeping issues - I know, > I'm part > of the problem. Personal notes, brain dumps, kernels of future > projects or topics of interest, or worse - tried it and > abandoned > pages. This is all interspersed with fine materials that > really should > be seen and promoted, both within WE and the WE community and > to a > global audience. > > It would be nice if this were easy. I hope there are tools > available > or forthcoming to address some of these needs. Some of us see > ourselves as noders and linkers - reviewing and classifying > entries in > this great WE resource but lack the tools to be effective. > > Are there tools available now? I did review the WE 3.0 page, > but I > didn't come away with too much on questions like this - too > process > oriented? Too far down the hierarchy of issues? Are they part > of the > plan? > > ..Valerie > > On Oct 11, 4:01 pm, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > In a socially connected world it is more beneficial to have > the right > > questions than the right answers to the wrong questions. > > > > I've been working on a WikiEducator 3.0 draft node. Please > read through > > the summary provided on this page to familiarise yourself > with our > > current context: > > > > http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:WikiEducator_3.0 > > > > WE are inviting the community to help us in brainstorming a > list of the > > "right" questions for the third phase of our strategic plan. > Once we've > > generated a reasonable list of questions we will engage in > discussion > > and reflection on whether we have listed the right questions > -- before > > we attempt to answer them :-). These discussions will form > the > > foundation of our operational plan for Phase 3 of our > strategic plan. > > > > Cheers > > Wayne > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Leigh Blackall > +64(0)21736539 > skype - leigh_blackall > SL - Leroy Goalpost > http://learnonline.wordpress.com > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
