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What Is A Wiki: Wikis Explained In Simple Words

Written by on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 in wikis, Knowledge Management, Online Collaboration, Social Networking, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Learning-Educational Technologies.

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I have now been using wikis for over four years, and frankly I couldn\’t do without them anymore. Their ability to facilitate my frequent needs to create shared workspaces in which I can easily add, edit and upload information and files of all kinds makes them absolutely vital to my highly collaborative workflow. Photo credit: Lee and Sachi Lefever - CommonCraft Show Today I'd like to share with you a video that explain in simple words what are wikis and how powerful they could be…"make it possible to organize a great camping trip. Or create the world\’s biggest encyclopedia." It's another great work coming out from Lee and Sachi Lefever on the CommonCraft Show: these guys have already explained in …

Learning Paths, Collaboration Tools, Social Software: A Video Interview With Teemu Arina (Part Two)

Written by on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 in networking, blogs, informal learning, conversations, formal learning, social software, wikis, Learning-Educational Technologies, education, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, Learning - Educational Technologies.

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Teemu Arina: "Key enemies? Well, nowadays when the world is so networked and so complex I think that those people who I might think are ideologically my enemies are really also potential people to cooperate with, so there is no meaning with having a conversation with those who agree with you. Teemu Arina So those who are enemies are actually the most important resource for you to learn and reflect on your thinking, because they bring such different points of view in a conversation, so I can\’t point to any single enemy." While informal and mobile learning were the themes of the first part of the video interview with Finnish futurist and learning scholar Teemu Arina, in this second round …

The Future Of Learning Is Informal And Mobile: A Video Interview With Teemu Arina

Written by on Thursday, April 12th, 2007 in networking, blogs, informal learning, conversations, formal learning, social software, wikis, Learning-Educational Technologies, education, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, Learning - Educational Technologies.

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What does the future of learning look like? Thanks to my good friend and senior corporate learning researcher and independent writer Jay Cross, I have had the good fortune of meeting Teemu Arina, a young Finnish educational scholar, with lots of good ideas, a fully working brain and a vision for the future as only a few are able to crystallize. Photo credit: Robin Good video interviewing Teemu Arina in the park of S.Angel Castle in Rome I found Teemu to be a true thinker, and one that does like to stretch the definitions of what is possible and what\’s not. Open-minded and capable of evaluating viewpoints different than his, he is also a pragmatical individual understanding the true limits …

Introduction To Wikipedia And WikiNews: How The Web Is Transforming Itself - Part IV

Written by on Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 in wikis, Knowledge Management, Online Collaboration, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Independent Publishing, Learning-Educational Technologies.

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Wikipedia and WikiNews are two of the most prominent examples of successful and widely used collaborative web editing tools. Both, among others, highlight some of the key transformation elements of the new emerging web. With the development and advance of recent technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasting and file sharing this model is challenged and community-driven services are gaining influence rapidly. These new paradigms obliterate the clear distinction between information providers and consumers. The lines between producers and consumers are blurred even more by services such as Wikipedia, where every reader can become an author, instantly. This paper presents an overview of a broad selection of current technologies and services: blogs, wikis including Wikipedia and Wikinews, social networks such as…

Introduction To Wikis: How The Web Is Transforming Itself - Part III

Written by admin on Saturday, November 11th, 2006 in video, video publishing, advertising, smart mobs, video clip, contextual advertising, wikis, RSS, content management, Online Collaboration, Social Networking, Independent Publishing, Audio&Music Publishing, education, Information Access, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Presentation, Video Production, Video-Internet Television, Online Marketing, Learning-Educational Technologies.

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Wikis, and similar collaborative web editing tools mark a major element of transformation of the new Web emerging today. To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, including news services, companies, and other organisations have set up web-sites. With the development and advance of recent technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasting and file-sharing this model is challenged and community-driven services are gaining influence rapidly. These new paradigms obliterate the clear distinction between information providers and consumers. The lines between producers and consumers are blurred even more by services such as Wikipedia, where every reader can become an author, instantly. This…

New Media Journalism: How Professional Reporters Are Being Influenced By The Internet

Written by admin on Friday, November 10th, 2006 in contextual advertising, content management, video clip, video, video publishing, RSS, wikis, new media, media influence, personal media, independent news, citizen journalism, advertising, smart mobs, Independent Publishing, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Audio&Music Publishing, education, Information Access, Presentation, Online Marketing, Online Collaboration, Social Networking, Video Production, Video-Internet Television, Learning-Educational Technologies.

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James Cameron (1911-1985), arguably the greatest British journalist of the last 100 years, always insisted that journalism is a craft. Now "craft" implies pride in work, integrity in dealing with customers, rites of passage, and long years of training to acquire the requisite skills/knowledge. But that was then. Photo credit: Phaif Today, journalism is a "profession". Many aspiring hacks now need a university or other accredited "qualification", and, except in the Anglo-American world, a government issued licence to "qualify" as a journalist. In some countries you’re compelled by regulations to belong to a recognised association and to obey its code of standards in order to practice and earn a living as a journalist. The march towards professionalism began with the…