Two interesting english books, both covering wikis in education: one from the educational perspective, the other from the wiki point of view:

Biblionetz:b02621

Biblionetz:b02621

, IsInEnglish

Our Workshop @ WikiSym 2006 on Using Wikis in education is over and it was very interesting (at least for us...)!

We presented a draft of our Didactic Process Map Language and got lot of useful feedback. It was interesting that most of the recommendations about improving DPM included the use of computer interfaces: "You should be able to click on a phase and see the details." It wasn't the intention of us to create a language for designing scenarios in front of a computer screen. We want to create a tool for face-to-face discussions in workshops where a group of people stands in front of big sheet of paper and can point to specific details of the scenario:

Some links:

• Homepage of the workshop in the DPM wiki
• Fotos of the workshop @ Flickr , IsInEnglish,

Mehr Bilder...

Zwar sind erst zwei von drei Konferenztagen vorbei, aber die Inputs und Eindrücke sind bereits so zahlreich, dass ich gewisse davon niederschreiben muss, um durch die Verarbeitung auch wieder Freiraum für neue Gedanken gewinne.

It's about the people, stupid!
An dieser WikiSym sind weder die technischen Neuerungen oder Ausblicke in die Wiki-Zukunft das faszinirende, sondern die use cases und vor allem die Gesichter dahinter. Wofür wird Wiki alles eingesetzt und welche Erfahrungen machen die Leute dabei? Es ist faszinierend, mit den Leuten zu diskutieren und zu Mittag zu essen, die all die spannenden Dinge tun …

• Michele Ann Jenkins Prodromou von Wiki-Travel,
• Mark Bernstein von Tinderbox,
• Sunir Shah, vom Meatball-Wiki,
• Max Völkel der Wikipedia zu semantisieren versucht,
• Jakob Voss der die Wikipedia zu vermessen versucht,
• more to come...

Ungeordnete Ideen und Zitate:

• Google ist die grösste Backlink-Datenbank (Eugene Eric Kim)
• more to come...

more to come, es geht weiter

	Agile	Wiki	Open
Correction	Risk	Knowledge	Property
Barrier	Plan	Privilege	Licence
Team	Location	Attention	Merit
Serves	Customer	Reader	Developer

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ShortestWikiContest
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SigWik

Design Principles:

• Open principle
• Incremental principle: It must be possible and useful to cite unwritten pages.
• Organic principle: The structure of the site is expected to grow and evolve with the community that uses it.
• Mundane principle: A small numeber of concentions provide all necessary formatting.
• Universal principle: The mechanisms of editing and organizing are the same as those of writing so that any writer is automatically and editor and organizer.
• Overt principle: The foramtted and printed output will suggest the input required to reproduce it.
• Unified principle: Page names will be drwan from a flat space so that no additional context is required to interpret them.
• Precise principle: Pages will be titled with sufficient precision to avoid most name clashes, typically by forming noun phrases.
• Tolerant principle: All input will produce output that can be watched and reviewed by any other visitor.
• Observable principle:
• Convergent principle: Ambiguity and duplication can be removed by finding and citing similar or related content.

• Methodology
• Technology
• Community

Mark Bernstein about threats for wikis in the near future

https://blog.doebe.li/pub/Blog/IdiotsNotJustSpammers/justidiots.wmv