User:JimTittsler/WhyWiki
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Purpose
- open resources
- openly developed
Mediawiki
- CMS
- scalable
- robust
- collaboration
- large community
Mediawiki
- ease of use
- plain text, open file format
- editing tools
- API facilitates automation
- history
- all revisions available
- attribution
- standard web technologies
- API for treating wiki as repository of resources
- extensions
- Widgets allow interactive features in component model
Why?
- transparent (open)
- layered
- incrementally refined
Deployment
- in wiki
- iFrame
- API access
- PDF and ePub
- snapshot exports
Reuse
- reuse pages (or subpages)
- one page app built from course outline
Widgets
- WEnotes aggregate feed
- allows student to use preferred venue
- available in web stream and RSS forms
- central place for monitoring participation
- resource banks
- course registration
- slideshows with narration
- polling
- questionstorm
- "favoriting" resources or notes
Tools
- course email tool
- collecting forum posts from parallel LMS
- TogetherJS
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