User talk:Daniel K. Schneider

Hope you don't mind but I updated one of your sections to include a newly released variant of TikiWiki called LauLima. I kept the entry short, but we have developed it over the last 3 years. Our project is ongoing, but we use it ourselves in student collaborative projects, and while there are still many ways it can be improved and developed, it has many modifications that have allowed us to use it successfully for student collaborative work, both locally and internationally.

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Hi Daniel, I am curious about the process you used for transforming FrameMaker docs into this Wiki. What tools did you use and did you convert one page at a time or were you able to batch process your FrameMaker document into several wiki pages? I am planning a huge migration of content and I can't find many people who are trying to go from FrameMaker to Wiki. Thanks --Myles Pflum

R: Hmm it's quite manual. there are 2 versions:

• Frame to HTML (edit the reference page as to produce only 1 page per document)

Then I use a HTML2Wiki tool, then I fix problems with emacs :(

• Frame to Word

Then I use a Word2Wiki filter that can be installed in word.

• http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/ManageMediaWiki#HTML_import
• http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/ManageMediaWiki#Word_2_Wiki
• http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/ManageMediaWiki#Importation_into_Wiki

Both methods are about equally bad ;)

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Thanks for the leads, etc.

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the leads about wiki-related activities that you know about. I will have a look at them soon (but maybe after a couple of my courses end on November 8th). This fall, for the first time, I've been creating a student-written "textbook" about educational psychology. (If you're curious, go to [Educational psychology]. The results are variable--there are traditional writing-skill problems, as well as logistical problems about keeping students out of each other's way when writing and editing, yet still responding somehow to each other's work. (e.g. One of the logistical problems: too many students put off writing/editing until the deadline, causing the wiki to balk at receiving many simultaneous changes.)

As you say, it will take a few more run-throughs for me become fully fluent with the wiki medium. And I'm not sure if my students (especially the undergrads) will ever do so, but I want to keep trying with them until I'm sure that we have gone as far as we, and the medium, can go.

KelvinLeeSeifert 00:05, 20 October 2007 (MEST)

Move your content to another wiki?

Hi, I've enjoyed your edtech wiki for a long time, it's probably the best resource on the web about educational technology, the learning sciences, and many other related topics.

I was wondering would you ever moving any of the content to a place like Citizendium or Wikipedia? I'm thinking about moving some of my material from my blog and my wikis to Citizendium, for example this page on test-wiseness. Citizendium hasn't decided on a license yet, but Wikipedia is about to switch to a CC license, so maybe either one will be compatible with your cc-by-nc-sa license.

-Doug Holton