Structure for FACA Report

- Products--training, tutorials
- Summary--how easy we think it'll be for people, directory of choices and what programs--should this be the printable part? Should we put the text from major pages into Word docs attached to the page?
- TechTraining wiki as appendix
- Excerpts from Blog to describe process? Or just leave blog as is?
- parktech.pbwiki.com is frontpage for products--describe how it will continue to evolve
- Link to diigo group links
- Frontpage--inspiration/introduction to FACA--take from proposal

To-Do
Fix tags from things
Clean up Survey Monkey summary
Clean up blog a little
Put Wiki links into Diigo
Port over ParkTech to ParkTechFACA2008

Google Sites

I spent a little time this morning looking at Google Sites. It's not better than pbwiki, but it does allow you to set up a course page alternative fairly easily. You have some control over layout of page elements, colors and themes. You can define several different kinds of pages, including one called "File Cabinet," which works very well for uploading Word documents. You can change the hierarchy of pages relative to one another and a site map is automatically generated. You can make the site private or public, and further make it read-only or editable by all members.

Updates to Training Wiki

Whew...I mostly finished the sections on setting up a Ning network and using Google Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds.

PBwiki tutorial done

Comments and tips would be much appreciated.
Wiki Help

Thoughts for my classes (Samira)

• I definitely want to use a wiki for my course page.
• I have always wanted to do more with the idea of "emerging technologies" and current events in technology with my students but time has been a problem. I could set up an article or video each week on the wiki and they would be asked to read/view and respond as a HW assignment.
• A Ning network or a wiki would be a great way to have the kids record their group work when they do their iMovie projects.

Wiki Review Part 2

Continuing my wiki reviews...

eTouch Samepage (http://www.etouch.net): this is free up to 5 users, $100 a month for 1-20, and upward from there. As with some of the other business-oriented wikis, Samepage sets things up as "projects." The administrative and user interfaces are fairly straightforward and uncluttered. You can save the projects as PDFs or in rich-text format (RTF), which could be helpful for archiving work. This would not be good for a comprehensive homework or course page, however.

ScribbleWiki (http://scribblewiki.com) is free for 0ne user, $9.99/month for 2-10 users, and upward from there. It's a very traditional wiki interface. Does not seem to offer much in the way of layouts, extras such as photos, etc.

Seedwiki (http://www.seedwiki.com/) is ad-free but you have to pay a monthly fee to password protect, set restrictions, or use as a web-page builder. ($2.50/month for the password controls, $5.00/month for that as well as the ability to build web pages with the wiki). Probably not worth looking at any further.

Wetpaint (http://www.wetpaint.com) is free (but Google ad-ridden), allows you to make it private and allows control over who can edit the page. It has pre-made layout templates. It allows you to import addresses of people you want to invite from a variety of online sources such as Gmail or from your Outlook or Palm address book--very cool! It has a discussion forum and a photo gallery. It allows attachments (Word, Excel, PDFs, etc.) but there is a limit of 40 and the size for each is limited to 2 MB, not practical for videos or other multimedia besides photos. Very easy to use but probably not as comprehensive as one would like for a webpage or a course page.

Day 2, Carolyn

I'm building course pages on both pbwiki and moodle to compare their interactivity. Also looking at tumblr and flickr vs Adobe Bridge for ePortfolio use. I'm also feeling a little out of my league, especially when I see how quickly Elliott and Samira master this stuff. Guess I represent those people in our survey who said "tech...what's tech?"

Wiki Review

I focused on the following criteria:
-ease of use (WYSIWYG, text entry, layout, adding plugins, images, etc.)
-pricing (free or cheap)
-flexibility (additional pages, uploading files)
-flexibility in adding users (invite keys, etc.)


POOR CANDIDATES:
PMWiki (www.pmwiki.org): Needs to be hosted on a separate server; looking at the sandbox area, it seemed to me that the text editing was not very intuitive.

Luminnotes (https://luminotes.com) "Luminotes is a WYSIWYG personal wiki notebook for organizing your notes and ideas. You don't have to use any special markup codes or install any software. You simply start typing." I found the interface a little confusing, actually and I don't really see why this is more useful than a blog or a different sort of wiki. Maybe TOO simple.

Netcipia (http://www.netcipia.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ ) No templates or skins that I could see; you can create separate spaces and pages within spaces, and set privileges separately for these; you can attach files of various types; but I couldn't see how to make all the pages in one space show up.

Wiki & formatting

I'm working on reformatting the wiki so that it's internally consistent (font, spacing, etc.) and can be used as our FACA report. If that's going to work, it's going to have to be well-organized into categories similar to those for the standard report, as well as printable, in case that's what they need to do. So, let's stick with Arial font, and I'm using the "headings" label to set categories off from each other. If we have a page with a number of different headings on it, let's use the "table of contents" plug-in (which you can add under "add plug-ins" at the top right of the Edit screen).