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CitiWiki Summer Workshop Day 1: Introduction. Li Xu CS, UMass Lowell. CitiWiki Summer Workshop. Sponsored by CITI K-12 education grant Learn and use Wiki and web technologies to enhance K-12 education 2 weeks in late June, July at UMass Lowell Week 1: 6/25-6/28 Week 2: 7/30-8/2. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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CitiWiki Summer Workshop Day 1: Introduction
Li XuCS, UMass Lowell
CitiWiki Workshop 2007 2
CitiWiki Summer Workshop Sponsored by CITI K-12 education
grant Learn and use Wiki and web
technologies to enhance K-12 education
2 weeks in late June, July at UMass Lowell Week 1: 6/25-6/28 Week 2: 7/30-8/2
CitiWiki Workshop 2007 3
CitiWiki Summer Workshop 8-day workshop sessions Topics: Web page and web site, Wiki,
GoogleGroup, Blog, Multimedia and Podcasting, RSS feed
Wiki-based teaching teching framework Format
PPT slide presentation Hands-on computer learning and exercises After-session assignments
CitiWiki Workshop 2007 4
CitiWiki Summer Workshop
Participants will Learn to use Wiki, Web page, Google
group, Blog, Multimedia Podcasting Build a Wiki teaching framework for
school implementation Implement the project in Fall ’07 Follow-up participant project
presentation in Fall ’07
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CitiWiki Summer Workshop Organizers
Judy Boccia Li Xu Marjorie Dennis Heather Byrne (workshop assistant)
Participants STEM teachers and educators from
local school district
CitiWiki Summer Workshop
Online presence Web page:
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~citiwiki/ Wiki:
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~citiwiki/wiki Mailing list and Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/[email protected]
CitiWiki Summer Workshop
Workshop session 9:15am-12:15pm Olsen 314 (CS computer lab) 15 minutes break 10:45-11:00
Day 1 Agenda
Introduction of Internet, Web, Wiki and Web 2.0
Explore Web and Wiki Run your own web server and Wiki
software Reflect what you do and how
technology can help Review and Day 1 assignmentCitiWiki Workshop 2007 8
Day 1 Goals
Gain background of Internet, Web, Wiki, Web 2.0
Getting started with Wiki Use Wiki Get the software and run on your own
computer Brainstorm how technology can
help your education activitiesCitiWiki Workshop 2007 9
Internet
Collection of computers connected to each other globally
Web
Web server Web browser
Firefox
Web Page
HTML
Hello, world in HTML
XHTML and CSS XHTML stands for Extensible Hypertext
Markup Language Next generation HTML for web page
design Clean up HTML syntax, based on XML
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets Separate web page content and styling Rethinking of web design Web design for now and future
Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
Web 2.0
Wiki Blog, blogger.com Wikipedia Podcast MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, friendster YouTube Flickr
Wiki
Hawaiian “wikiwiki” = fast Ward Cunningham developed first
Wiki WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995.
Wiki
“Hello, world” in Wiki
Edit your Blog page at CitiWikihttp://www.cs.uml.edu/~citiwiki/wiki/index.php?n=Blog.Blog
Need your login name and password Wiki set up to require authentication for
editing Can also set password for read, or per-
page, or group protection. Will discuss later.
Wiki Using your web browser for web
page creation and editing Simple interface and simple editing
commands Easy to Update Easy to Navigate Easy Linking Simple Design
Wiki Technology to write and maintain web
pages in collaboration No single owner of the Wiki content
(unless explicitly set) Topical organization of content Question mark prompts creation of new
knowledge Knowledge repository with history
(version management) Hyperlinks connect context
Wiki
Implications: Provides a highly generic and flexible
knowledge sharing and collaboration mechanism
Can replace Intranet / Portal as well as discussion forum and weblog
Best Known Wiki: Wikipedia
Online Encyclopedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Great resources to research topics:try search Wiki
Ask students to use for projects
PmWiki
We will use PmWiki in this workshop
How it works Apache server PHP PmWiki package
Open source, download from CitiWiki page
Using Web Technologies
Web 2.0 Break the barrier for content creation,
distribution, sharing, collaboration and management online: web and beyond
Exciting tools for education use
Wikispaces
Usefulchem.wikispaces.com Combine blog, student project,
reference, resources through Wiki
Blog
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/ Blogger
Social Networking Sites
MySpace Facebook
YouTube
Video
Flickr
Photos
PodCasting
iTunes and iTunes U MIT Open Course Ware
RSS Feed
Thunderbird
Education Relevance Drexel U Example: Jean-Claude Bradley Use blogs for creating podcasts or for
storing static sequential content (transcripts)
Use wikis to organize content and to interact with students on assignments
Use multiple channels to deliver content and assess learning
All of these technologies are simple, free and hosted
Roll Your Own – CitiWiki
Web page and Wiki based Google group
Technology Terms
Web server HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS Wiki
Using Browers
Firefox, Thunderbird
Google Groups
Online discussion groups
BrainStorm What You Can Do
Day 1 Assignment Create your Wiki blog on CitiWiki Preliminary plan on using Web and Wiki
in your teaching project, put it in your Wiki page
Sign on GoogleGroup to introduce you (optional) Get your own web server and
Wiki running on Windows machine Contact us if you use other configurations
