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EduTechWiki is about Educational Technology (instructional technology) and related fields. It is hosted by TECFA - an educational technology research and teaching unit at University of Geneva. This wiki is a resource kit for educational technology teaching and research, e.g. a note taking tool for researchers; a literature review tool or a writing-to-learn environment for students. Finally, we started working on tutorials that may be used in classes around the world or for self-learning.

Many articles can also be useful to teachers, instructional designers and e-learning consultants. Read more about our objectives.

EduTechWiki currently contains 949 articles. The french version has less and different contents. Send questions to Daniel K. Schneider (he "owns" this wiki and is to blame for most contents). Other major contributors are/were Kalli Benetos, Marielle Lange, Stéphane Lattion. We also get help from people out of cyberspace, thanx to you all !

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Status and authoring guidelines

For DKS, this Wiki started out as note taking and "mapping out" tool but it became a long term project: Most articles still lack content, depth, style, authority or all four together and will be improved over the years. We also started using this wiki as an e-learning platform, including some content development. Other university teachers may bring classes to EduTechWiki for writing activities (please read this if you plan so).

Anybody is welcome to participate, but please read the editing rules and the copyright notice. You may sign your contributions and express opinions. This is not Wikipedia. We also very much appreciate people fixing little mistakes (spelling, grammar, references,...) !
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Emotion Markup Language
— by Daniel K. Schneider (talk) - 22:35, 3 November 2009 - updated:22:37, 3 November 2009

“Abstract As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology needs to deal increasingly with human factors, including emotions. The present draft specification of Emotion Markup Language 1.0 aims to strike a balance between practical applicability and scientific well-foundedness. The language is conceived as a "plug-in" language suitable for use in three different areas: (1) manual annotation of data; (2) automatic recognition of emotion-related states from user behavior; and (3) generation of emotion-related system behavior.” (xml:today, retrieved nov 3 2009.)

Further reading:

the Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0, W3C Working Draft 29 October 2009.
Emotion (short "stub" piece that includes some references and links to other articles)

My first e-book reader
— by Daniel K. Schneider (talk) - 14:40, 2 November 2009 - updated:14:53, 2 November 2009

I now got an e-book reader since early october, i.e. a Sony PRS-600. I am fairly happy with it. I found that reading novels is more pleasant than I thought. Quality of the display is not great, but no more strain on the eyes than a badly printed pocket book. I set the display size to "M". Page flipping is fast enough for linear reading.

20 years of TECFA
— by Daniel K. Schneider (talk) - 10:26, 21 October 2009 - updated:10:26, 21 October 2009

TECFA is the place where this wiki is (mostly) made and hosted. Next Friday we are organizing a big anniversary party to celebrate our 20 years of existence. I was there from its start (getting older but still young in spirit I hope ...)

If you speak french, visit TecfaEvents.ning.com. It's got a nice timeline, pictures from the past, etc. plus the Program. Participation is free and open, but you should register.

HTML5
— by Daniel K. Schneider (talk) - 21:43, 3 October 2009 - updated:22:30, 3 November 2009

HTML5 is still a moving target. E.g. last week the dialog element was killed, too bad for the CSCL undercover agents who smuggled this one in ;)

However, most browser makers (except IE) now do include some HTML5 elements, in particular the canvas, video and audio elements. The leader of the pack seems to be Opera (implements most of the new input form types), followed by Mozilla (Firefox and friends) and Apple (Safari).

Read the new HTML5 article. (I'll have to go over this, but probably won't have time in the next 2-3 weeks).

Update: Found two interesting posts by O'Reilly's Kurt Cagle: The Coming HTML 5 Train Wreck and its followup Dancing Naked in the Streets: A Madman Takes on HTML 5. Raises some questions I also worry about...

Land art
— by Daniel K. Schneider (talk) - 15:14, 21 September 2009 - updated:15:14, 21 September 2009

EdutechWiki - Materials: fern on moss

Every 10 years so I engage in some artistic activity for a day or two. This weekend it was land art. Thinking about this experience I figure that there may be some educational potential to it (read the article for some ideas and examples I found after a little search).

I won't get any praise for this one, but some land art like Andy Goldsworthy's really rocks (in particular some of the ephemeral art that is not shown in the Wikipedia article). Also, just have a look at these pictures on Flickr that shows art work from young children and the motivating effects such an activity might generate.