The big picture: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 12:15, 25 October 2016

This page provides some information about the contents of EduTech Wiki and how to explore it.

Alternatives to explore this wiki

(1) You may search this wiki. There exist two search mechanism:

Google search (top left) gives good results, but Google is always a few days behind current changes. In addition their engine may miss a page.
The built-in slow search is rather slow and not very good. However, it will find any word.

Go will only search titles of entries

Search finds words in pages

(2) You may browse the categories, e.g. use the categories box in the left side-bar, or use the large tree below, or scroll to the bottom of each page.

(3) You may watch out for "see also" links that usually appear on top of an entry.

(4) Some pages include extra navigation menus (top left).

(5) You may subscribe to the Atom or RSS feed for Daniel K. Schneider's wikilog/bliki.

On top we put more general theory about learning and education
In the middle we put operational fields and concepts
At the bottom we put various sorts of methods and technologies
Left is more conceptual, right is mor technical

Clicking on items will give you an entry point for reading (according to what your interests are). Probably, the future main entry points for exploratory reading in this wiki are towards the middle: i.e. various instructional design models, a (rewritten) page on educational technology, or various pedagogical scenarios.

Psychology, e.g. Learning theory

Category:Learning theories

Category:Affect and motivation

Pedagogical theory, Educational theory

Category:Instructional theories, Category:Educational theories

Educational psychology

Learning type

Learning level

Pedagogic strategy

Category:Pedagogic strategies

Instructional design

Instructional design model

Category:Instructional design models

Pedagogical scenario

Category:Pedagogical scenarios

Educational technology

Category:Educational technologies

Ergonomics, Cognitive tools, HCI

Category:Ergonomics and human-computer interaction

Instructional design method

Category:Design methodologies

Educational modeling language

Educational design language

Category:Educational modeling languages

Category:Research methodologies

Category:Technologies

Statistics

Overview

Below are some overview statistics. See also Statistics.

8,865 pages
1,965 articles
4,164 files (mostly images)
81,810 edits
929 registered users
2 active users
8 administrators
Template:NUMBEROFVIEWS page views (not reliable, since we use a caching system)

Top 20 contributors

As you can see, this wiki is largely a personal pet project ...

All time (Top 20)

Rank	Score	Pages	Changes	Username
1	7,573	7,143	53,292	Daniel K. Schneider (talk \| contribs)
2	934	901	1,172	WikiSysop (talk \| contribs)
3	427	300	4,336	Dacostj7 (talk \| contribs)
4	299	236	1,243	Kalli (talk \| contribs)
5	175	142	408	Elizabeth Murphy (talk \| contribs)
6	134	103	348	Lydie Boufflers (talk \| contribs)
7	122	84	447	Stek (talk \| contribs)
8	111	65	590	Widged (talk \| contribs)
9	109	82	259	RobertoOrtelli (talk \| contribs)
10	102	65	402	BarbaraClass (talk \| contribs)
11	78	64	116	Eirini.Karani (talk \| contribs)
12	64	26	379	Tatarize (talk \| contribs)
13	49	23	193	Jade (talk \| contribs)
14	48	34	82	Kristina (talk \| contribs)
15	43	23	127	Camacab0 (talk \| contribs)
16	43	26	97	Urs (talk \| contribs)
17	37	15	134	Wamonidavis (talk \| contribs)
18	35	13	136	Sugarch0 (talk \| contribs)
19	35	13	131	F Bashour (talk \| contribs)
20	29	16	59	Rosaria Marraffino (talk \| contribs)

Most popular pages until 2011

Probably not a real critera for you, i.e. I don't feel that the most popular pages are that good. In addition, this wiki also became a resource for people not interested by educational technology (e.g. typical Flash designers). Daniel K. Schneider 21:43, 28 June 2007 (MEST) :)

Since 2012 we no longer have reliable page counters since we use file caching.

Most popular pages

Least popular pages

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-Here is a provisional big picture in the form of a cloud (we will wait a few weeks or month) before trying to provide something that is more precise .... (3/2006).
+This page provides some information about the contents of EduTech Wiki and how to explore it.
-Probably the future main entry points for navigating this wiki are towards the middle: i.e. various categories of [[:Category:Instructional design models | instructional design models]], a (rewritten) page on [[educational technology]], various [[:Category:Pedagogical scenarios | pedagogical scenarios]].
+== Alternatives to explore this wiki ==
+(1) You may search this wiki. There exist two search mechanism:
+# '''Google search''' (top left) gives good results, but Google is always a few days behind current changes. In addition their engine may miss a page.
+# The built-in '''slow search''' is rather slow and not very good. However, it will find any word.
+:'''Go''' will only search titles of entries
+:'''Search''' finds words in pages
+(2) You may browse the categories, e.g. use the '''categories''' box in the left side-bar, or use the large tree below, or scroll to the bottom of each page.
+(3) You may watch out for "see also" links that usually appear on top of an entry.
+(4) Some pages include extra navigation menus (top left).
+(5) You may subscribe to the [[image:feed-icon.png|link=http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/mediawiki/index.php?title=Blog:DKS&view=archives&show=published&feed=atom]]
+[http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/mediawiki/index.php?title=Blog:DKS&view=archives&show=published&feed=atom Atom] or  [[image:feed-icon.png|link=http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/mediawiki/index.php?title=Blog:DKS&view=archives&show=published&feed=rss]]
+[http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/mediawiki/index.php?title=Blog:DKS&view=archives&show=published&feed=rss RSS] feed for [[Blog:DKS|Daniel K. Schneider's wikilog/bliki]].
+== Categories ==
+EduTechWiki uses a [[tagging|folksonomic]] (i.e. "spontaneously" made) category system. Although once in a while we rename and reorganize categories. Categories can have subcategories. These subcategories may appear in several categories since we don't believe that educational technologies could be represented as a tree. In other words, categories constitute a hyperlinked network of tags, unlike the controlled vocabularies in libraries for example.
+=== The category tree ===
+Below is a forest of categories that you may explore.
+<categorytree mode="pages" depth="2" style="margin-left:1px; border:1px solid gray; padding:0.7ex; background-color:white;">Contents</categorytree>
+=== Tag cloud ===
+Here is a [[tag cloud]] of the same categories. Word size is proportional to entries. However a big tag doesn't mean that a given topic is more important. Some categories are organized into many smaller categories and therefore appear small ...
+<tagcloud>
+exclude=Stubs,Incomplete,Under_construction, Esoteric_templates,Pages_with_a_map_rendered_by_the_Maps_extension,Free_text,Screenshots
+min_count=3
+min_size=80
+increase_factor=150
+</tagcloud>
+== A provisional picture ==
+The "picture" below shows some key areas of competencies (concepts, theories, methods, etc.) that an educational technologists should master.
+* On top we put more general theory about learning and education
+* In the middle we put operational fields and concepts
+* At the bottom we put various sorts of methods and technologies
+* Left is more conceptual, right is mor technical
+Clicking on items will give you an entry point for reading (according to what your interests are). Probably, the future main entry points for exploratory reading in this wiki are towards the middle: i.e. various [[:Category:Instructional design models | instructional design models]], a (rewritten) page on [[educational technology]], or various [[:Category:Pedagogical scenarios | pedagogical scenarios]].
+-----
+:Psychology, e.g. [[Learning theory]]
+:[[:Category:Learning theories]]
+:[[:Category:Affect and motivation]]
+:
+:[[Pedagogical theory]], [[Educational theory]]
+:[[:Category:Instructional theories]], [[:Category:Educational theories]]
+:
+:::[[Educational psychology]]
+::::::[[Learning type]]
+::::::[[Learning level]]
+:
+::::::[[Pedagogic strategy]]
+::::::[[:Category:Pedagogic strategies]]
-                           [[:Category:Affect and motivation]]
+:::::::::[[Instructional design]]
+:::::::::[[Instructional design model]]
+:::::::::[[:Category:Instructional design models]]
+:
+::::::::::::::[[Pedagogical scenario]]
+::::::::::::::[[:Category:Pedagogical scenarios]]
-  [[Learning theory]]
+::::[[Educational technology]]
-  [[:Category:Learning theories]]
+::::::::::::[[:Category:Educational technologies]]
-          [[Educational psychology]]    [[Learning type]]
+::::::::::::[[Ergonomics]], [[Cognitive tool]]s, [[HCI]]
-                                                                  [[Educational theory]]
+::::::::::::[[:Category:Ergonomics and human-computer interaction]]
-                                                                  [[:Category:Educational theories]]
+:
+:::[[Instructional design method]]
-                                                      [[Pedagogical theory]]
+:::[[:Category:Design methodologies]]
-                                                      [[:Category:Instructional theories]]
+:
+::::::[[Educational modeling language]]
-                                      [[Pedagogic strategy]]
+::::::[[Educational design language]]
-                                      [[:Category:Pedagogic strategies]]
+::::::[[:Category:Educational modeling languages]]
+:
-                           [[Instructional design]]
+::::::::::[[:Category:Research methodologies]]
-                           [[:Category:Instructional design models]]
+::::::::::::::::[[:Category:Technologies]]
-                     [[Pedagogical scenario]]
+-----
-                     [[:Category:Pedagogical scenarios]]
+== Statistics ==
-                     [[:Category:Example cases]]
+=== Overview ===
-               [[Educational technology]]
-               [[:Category:Educational technologies]]
+Below are some overview statistics. See also [[Special:Statistics|Statistics]].
+* {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} pages
-                                                              [[:Category:Technologies]]
+* {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles
+* {{NUMBEROFFILES}} files (mostly images)
-     [[Instructional design method]]
+* {{NUMBEROFEDITS}} edits
-     [[:Category:Design methodologies]]
+* {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered users
+* {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} active users
-                  [[:Category:Research methodologies]]
+* {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} administrators
+* {{NUMBEROFVIEWS}} page views (not reliable, since we use a caching system)
+=== Top 20 contributors ===
+As you can see, this wiki is largely a personal pet project ...
+{{Special:ContributionScores/20/all}}
+=== Most popular pages until 2011 ===
+Probably not a real critera for you, i.e. I don't feel that the most popular pages are that good. In addition, this wiki also became a resource for people not interested by educational technology (e.g. typical Flash designers). [[User:Daniel K. Schneider|Daniel K. Schneider]] 21:43, 28 June 2007 (MEST) :)
+'''Since 2012 we no longer have reliable page counters''' since we use file caching.
+==== Most popular pages ====
+<TopTenPages>50</TopTenPages>
+==== Least popular pages ====
+<TopTenPages offset=1050>50</TopTenPages>
+[[Category:Overviews]]
+[[Category:Educational technology - the field]]

The big picture: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 12:15, 25 October 2016

Alternatives to explore this wiki

Categories

The category tree

Tag cloud

A provisional picture