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TeachMeet08 at BETT

I never went to the BETT education exhibition at Olympia when I worked in institutionalised education but I went yesterday. The main reason was to attend TeachMeet08 where lots of interesting people...

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How to make image links in MediaWiki

Mediawiki Images Mediawiki handles uploaded images on pages in a way which is perfectly suitable for a free encyclopaedia. If you click on an image you get taken to special page which tells you more...

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Movable Type and WordPress

Victor Acquah wrote to me asking about blogging software. I can’t answer his request to recommend a blogging tool which has a robust wiki module incorporated into it. I use a combination of WordPress...

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95% of Mac users downloaded the wrong version

Thanks to “Observer” for leaving a comment pointing to this salutary story of the worst download page ever, which caused 95% of Mac users to try out a two year old version of a piece of software called...

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New wiki pages

I’ve begun a few new wiki pages on the DAR wiki recently, and I thought I’d point them out , with some of my rationale for starting them. Email list hosting This is the newest and shortest. I want to...

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How to convert a Word doc or HTML to Wiki Markup

I came across some more tips for converting Word documents so that the content can be added to a wiki. That’s something which a corporate Knowledge Management pogramme is likely to require, and can be...

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The Homemaker Plate – for Object Wiki

I photographed a mass produced ceramic dinner plate in my possession which is from the the design classic series “The Homemaker” for the Object Wiki, a project from the Science Museum, which aims to...

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DARnet interview part two.

In part one of the DARnet interview, Cormac Lawler asked me, Andy Roberts, about distributed action research, cycles, groups and background. This second episode continues the interview, again with...

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What is the Universal Edit Button?

Today the global Wiki community launches a new tool which aims to make editable web pages as recognisable as those with RSS feeds. Called the Universal Edit Button it will appear in bowsers address...

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Questions about Wikiversity

This post continues the discussion about distributed action research and wikiversity from DARnet interview part two and DARnet-interview-part 1 with Cormac Lawler Cormac wrote: About changing of...

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WordPress as a Wiki

WordPress version 2.6 is now out on release and the video below shows some detail of the new revision control which gives authors some of the functionality of a Wiki on top of the most popular...

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Twitter lists gathered on a wiki blog or forum

As the use of twitter continues to spread despite the restricted service and downtime, a commonplace event for communities is to start compiling lists of links to each other’s twitter accounts. These...

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Cormac interview: Wikiversity and Wikipedia

After a bit of a gap, the two-way interview between Cormac Lawler and myself continues. This post continues the discussion about distributed action research and wikiversity from previous episodes:...

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Learning by Doing – interview part 5

Continuing the interview with Cormac Lawler, in which we begin to address the nature of “learning by doing” as it relates to distributed projects, and wiki in particular. Cormac Lawler: About changing...

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SearchWiki from Google is LIVE

SearchWiki is Google 2.0 Searchwiki just started rolling out around the world today, so now you can log in to Google Search and when you see search results pages you don’t like – you can edit them....

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Wiki Web Hosting at Servage

I managed to get a mediawiki installation up and running on the city escapes domain with Servage web host in the end, and once working it does seem to be fairly robust as far as non-US web hosting...

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UK Online Communities

The wiki called WorkNets has a project collating a list of UK Online Communities. UKOnlineCommunities, WorkNets. A culture for independent thinkers. The list is young and obviously has huge gaps, as...

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Theatre Blogger: 52 Venues in 52 weeks

One way of standing out from the crowd is to commit yourself to a challenge that takes place over a period of time, and then blog about it every step of the way. In the film “Julie and Julia” a...

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Freely Distributed Research Data Coming Soon?

This is the problem: Academic research findings are currently distributed mainly in expensive journals and publications. These are hard to find with restricted access and either unavailable online or...

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Action Research Cycles MediaWiki Template

We need to keep better tracking records for the various types of ongoing experiments that are constantly getting set up as part of daily online life. That’s a problem I’m trying to solve, and the aim...

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