Today I finally figured out what was up with our sidebar. Apparently wikispaces updated their sidebar from a plain page-list widget to a proper navigation widget. You can now sort the pages - according to tags. So I went through all the pages, added another tag for which unit they belonged to and added those pages, grouped, to the sidebar. To bad wikispaces doesn't offer many batch operations. Well, when I was all finished, I noticed, wikispaces had converted all capital letters of the heading for topic 3 to lower-case letters. It took quite a bit of time and tricking of the system to convert them into upper-case letters again, because tags in wikispaces don't actually support capital letters.
Anyway, as a side note: I found out, there is a setting now, that non-members of our wiki can comment on pages in the discussion tab. I am pretty sure that option wasn't there before (given that one doesn't open the wiki completely, off course).
So, feel free to comment, ask, suggest improvements, etc :)!
Monday, April 4, 2011
ECIS-IT Conference
Greeting Programs,
Last week I was in Frankfurt at the ECIS-IT Conference presenting about using this blog and our class wiki http://dis-dpcs.wikispaces.com/ in the CompSci classroom to other Tech Integration Specialists and CompSci DP teachers. I really enjoyed the positive feedback from those that attended the presentation. Most of the attendees liked how the information in the wiki was student generated and researched. Additionally, they liked the Java section, with all the resources needed for students to learn Java. During the presentation we discussed ways to use Moodle along with the wiki and the blog. The last ten minutes or so were spent sharing experiences using all three web 2.0 tools in the CompSci classroom. Lastly, we discussed the rumors that IBO may let instructors use other programming options instead of only Java. Many of the attendees would welcome the change.
I think my skills as a presenter have improved since the AGIS conference back in February in Hanover! Best of all, all the tech stuff worked for the Frankfurt presentation!
Anthony
Last week I was in Frankfurt at the ECIS-IT Conference presenting about using this blog and our class wiki http://dis-dpcs.wikispaces.com/ in the CompSci classroom to other Tech Integration Specialists and CompSci DP teachers. I really enjoyed the positive feedback from those that attended the presentation. Most of the attendees liked how the information in the wiki was student generated and researched. Additionally, they liked the Java section, with all the resources needed for students to learn Java. During the presentation we discussed ways to use Moodle along with the wiki and the blog. The last ten minutes or so were spent sharing experiences using all three web 2.0 tools in the CompSci classroom. Lastly, we discussed the rumors that IBO may let instructors use other programming options instead of only Java. Many of the attendees would welcome the change.
I think my skills as a presenter have improved since the AGIS conference back in February in Hanover! Best of all, all the tech stuff worked for the Frankfurt presentation!
Anthony
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