...Nurse Educator Nurse Educator Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 209-213 Copyright ! 2009 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Wikis and Blogs Tools for Online Interaction Jane S. Grassley, PhD, RN Robin Bartoletti, MS Online education requires nursing faculty to learn teaching strategies that encourage students’ interaction with the course content, their peers, the faculty, and the technology. The Web 2.0 technologies of wikis and blogs can help faculty direct online learning activities that encourage peer support, collaboration, and dialogue. The authors discuss these tools and how they were used to engage students in a nursing research course. ince the mid-1990s, increasing numbers of people have come to rely on the Internet as a convenient source of information and education. In nursing, the growing need for convenient and nontraditional learning strategies fostered a proliferation of Web-based nursing education programs. Since teaching online requires faculty to use strategies that differ from those used in face-to-face classrooms, nurse researchers have investigated characteristics of online education environments that facilitate students’ engagement with learning.1-3 Thurmond concluded,3(p237) ‘‘Good teaching practices are deeply rooted in the concept of interaction.’’ MancusoMurphy4(p257) identified interaction among faculty and students as ‘‘the core element of an effective online environment.’’ Researchers determined that peer support, collaboration, and...
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...When looking for software that helps bring a company together you need something that allows each part of the company to talk share idea and gather data in a timely matter. You also want to make sure that the medium you try to use is also secure and stable so that you don’t have to worry about the system crashing around you and when company need this they look to groupware to get the job done. Groupware refers to programs that help people work together collectively while located remotely from each other. Programs that enable real time collaboration are called synchronous groupware. Groupware services can include the sharing of calendars, collective writing, e-mail handling, shared database access, electronic meetings with each person able to see and display information to others, and other activities. (Senior, 2009) Sometimes called collaborative software, groupware is an integral component of a field of study known as Computer-Supported Cooperative Work or CSCW. When know many of the good points of groupware we can get emails from all over the company and we can even access our email at home or different computer around the work site. We can bring are team together and they have vital information and you can view the work in progress. No need to worry about carrying your customer, employee or partner's information with you. All your personal and corporate contacts are all in one place and can be accessed with a few keystrokes. Contacts in Outlook or other databases can...
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...Within the Wiki: Best Practices for Educators Introduction With the increasing emphasis in higher education to provide opportunities for students to work and collaborate in groups, enhancing problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, instructors are looking beyond traditional course management tools to emerging technologies. One technology that supports group collaboration is a wiki. However, many instructors either don’t know about wikis or how to apply best practices to increase their potential for learning. Therefore, in this paper the author discusses how three faculty members at Boise State University used wikis, the challenges and opportunities they experienced, and specific best practices they developed to enhance learning with wikis. What is a Wiki? If you don’t know what a wiki is, you’re not alone. According to a 2007 Harris Online Poll, only 16% of the U.S. online population knows about wikis (Elowitz, 2007). However, it is highly likely that you have visited a wiki and did not know it. For instance, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org), an online encyclopedia developed and continually updated by multiple contributors, is a very popular resource and yes, a wiki. Wikis are becoming increasingly popular, as evidenced by a new search engine developed by Wikipedia just for wikis: Wikia (http://search.wiki.com). But what exactly is a wiki? A wiki can be described as a set of linked web pages that can be edited by multiple users (Wagner, 2004). However, the word wiki can also...
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...Collaboration Systems at Isuzu Australia Limited By: Christopher Folz Jr. Instructor: Nancy Romero Management Information Systems 3/3/2012 Some companies try to implement new ideas and ways to increase efficiency and productivity in the workplace. This is a great idea for companies to increase the output of the product or service they are performing for the consumers. However, not everything goes so well when implementing new ideas. There are hardships that need to be overcome, the costs of implementing a new system can be overwhelming at first, and many others. I will describe to you some of the hardships of adding new groupware to a system that is already in place. Also have you ever wondered what a wiki does or what it could do for you? Well I in this paper you may find your answer. Let us start with some of the hardships of implementing new groupware into a system. First the costs can be frightening when you see it. By this I mean that the new groupware will require training for the personnel using it. So you will have to pay to have someone come in and train the new personnel. You also will lose efficiency at first while everyone is trying to learn the system and that causes a loss in productivity. Also you would have to purchase the groupware in most cases and that is not so bad if it is for only a few systems, but when you are buying I for an entire network of systems than it can start adding up pretty quickly. Second problem to overcome is resistance. By this...
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...service, a new digital device, network services). You are free to use any rich text editor that you choose (it can be as simple as Microsoft Word). You cannot use a template and just fill in your content. Do not use an online service that allows you to just use a template and fill in your information. If you have a question if you can use specific software, ASK. Your web pages must satisfy several technical specifications that may require the use of other applications to create graphs and software to create aesthetic visuals. Remember that you have an audience to appeal to and should showcase your pages as such. Details • Research a topic using at least three resources (your text book, other books, and web references permitted—not a wiki [like Wikipedia]). • Build at least five web pages. One of these pages could be a list of references. Your content should be distributed among the four (or more) pages in a thoughtful way. • Document your references on the web pages using MLA Style. Graphics must also be cited completely—just going to Google and grabbing a picture is not acceptable. • Construct navigation that is used on all your web pages. The navigation permits the viewer to move from any one of your pages to the others. The navigation may be a row or column of buttons (or words arranged in a table) that appears in a common location on each page. • Display an image of a graph/chart you created—it can be a simple graph/chart that you create in Excel or Word...
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...Collaboration Systems at Isuzu Australia Limited By: Christopher Folz Jr. Instructor: Nancy Romero Management Information Systems 3/3/2012 Some companies try to implement new ideas and ways to increase efficiency and productivity in the workplace. This is a great idea for companies to increase the output of the product or service they are performing for the consumers. However, not everything goes so well when implementing new ideas. There are hardships that need to be overcome, the costs of implementing a new system can be overwhelming at first, and many others. I will describe to you some of the hardships of adding new groupware to a system that is already in place. Also have you ever wondered what a wiki does or what it could do for you? Well I in this paper you may find your answer. Let us start with some of the hardships of implementing new groupware into a system. First the costs can be frightening when you see it. By this I mean that the new groupware will require training for the personnel using it. So you will have to pay to have someone come in and train the new personnel. You also will lose efficiency at first while everyone is trying to learn the system and that causes a loss in productivity. Also you would have to purchase the groupware in most cases and that is not so bad if it is for only a few systems, but when you are buying I for an entire network of systems than it can start adding up pretty quickly. Second problem to overcome is resistance. By this...
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.............................8 The weekly outline ......................................................................9 TMA grading ............................................................................12 Grade reports ...........................................................................14 Quiz management .....................................................................15 Teacher Forum.........................................................................17 Forum Moderation ...................................................................17 Changing password ..................................................................18 Updating your profile ...............................................................18 Using Wikis...............................................................................19 Managing dialogues .................................................................21 The Search block ......................................................................22 Additional blocks ......................................................................22 AOU Learning Management System – User ’s Manual 2004 © – Arab Open University Page 1 of 23 Preface This manual is written to help the Arab Open University tutors and students use the AOU learning managements to access course related services. AOU learning managements system is a customized...
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...THE FOLLOWING VIDEO WILL SOW YOU HOW TO EMBED A SCRIBD DOCUMENTE In your wiki page. First go to the wiki page where you want to embed the documente. Click on the edit button. Then with the cursor mark exactly where you want the documente to display on the wiki page. Go up to the gray edit tool bar at the top of the page and select “WIDGET”. On the left side colum select the “document” and then choose scribd for the option. You will see a brief set of instruction numbered 1 throug 4. now you have to complete those steps 1. Go to any scribd.com document Then go the the right hand side of the page and clik the option for embe document. If you click on “embed option it wil dispay a set of different characteristics for the display of the document in the page. Lets select the autosize and for the view style select slideshow. Leave the bos for including a link unchecked. You can play around with the different fuctions and once you have decided wich oone you want to use. Copy the Standard HTMLby Click on the button that says “copy. Then go back the the wiki edit page and paste Standard HTMl. Next hit the preview button , and save your work. Check that he widget is in the right place and then you can hit preview and save 2. Click on the "Embed" button. 3. Copy the Standard HTML and paste it in the box below. 4. Click Preview to preview the document or click...
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...the volume of constant e-mailing is literally overwhelming no matter if it is business or personal. We don’t have a lot of time to read or to respond back to coworkers, communication between people who are in our groups to discuss or review projects by e-mail tend to get lost in e-mail shuffle, notification of interoffice schedule meetings sometimes will be missed due to too much e-mailing, and at home we just may not have the time to even look at our e-mail because of our family obligations once we are home. In this article, Tom Biro shares his thoughts about a possible new way of saving time and keeping track of how we communicate by using the “wiki” software to create webpages that can be used on the Internet or in the company’s Intranet. After reading this article, I agree that e-mail as we now use it will be replaced by this Wiki software and it will hopefully help in communicating in a timely, effective, and efficient manner whether on the job or at home. Tom Biro, director of new media strategies for the MWW Group, a public relations and marketing firm of East Rutherford, NJ. The company employees 200 people across eight states which in my opinion may help shed...
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...Dirt Bike’s Internet Tools Ann Isaacs IT205 – Management of Information Systems November 10, 2013 Karen Cann Communication is a key element in the success of any business and an intranet is just the way to help your business accomplish this task. The use of intranets within an organization such as Dirt Bikes will prove to be beneficial in increasing sales, communication between employees, vendors, suppliers and provide up-to-date information to all types of customers. Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, Manufacturing and Production are all teams that can benefit from this service. The Intranet enables the company to incorporate information from customers and vendors in an effort to find their own business process, resulting in finding the best solution for each. Employees can access company information from anywhere, not just at the office. The ease of use is very promising and unlike older systems everyone can be on the same system. Sales and Marketing departments can benefit from intranets, providing accurate and quick access of reports, marketing initiatives, product information, and competitor’s offers or sales. Very different from the internet, an intranet is an internal system within a company that all employees can access. The intranet will serve the purpose of provoking organization, communication and process simplification. The intranet will provide a company and its employees first hand access to advertising and marketing, company...
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...Wiki as a Delivery Tool in Organizations Student’s name Instructor’s name Course Date Wiki: Definition According to Grace, P. L. (2009), a wiki is a web application that allows for a collaborative modification, deletion and extension of stricture and content. In a typical type of wiki, a text is written by using a simplified markup language or a rich text editor. With a wiki being a type of a content management system, it tends to differ from blogs or other systems of the same type. The difference comes in where the content of a blog is created without a specific leader or owner. For a wiki, it has a little implicit structure. Its implicit structure allows it allows the structure to come out in a way in which the user needs it to be. Even though wikis have existed for so long, they have started to take off in organizations and businesses recently. Just like the Web did after creating its place in the corporate world, wikis have gone through a period of fierce competition, wild growth, and inappropriate usage. Despite all that, wikis have been used widely in organizations. Wikis have been used by organizations as the simplest online databases. The wiki software is basically created with a purpose of managing the site contents of an organization. Product that allows for creation of a wiki The recent innovations in sensor and mobile technologies have allowed for the creation of a digital representation of any physical entity as well as its parameters...
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...Macromedia Dreamweaver Tutorial Instructions: Work through this tutorial Ask when you need help Complete all tasks set in the tutorial Refer back to this tutorial when you design your own website Enjoy 1 Dreamweaver Tutorial ©S Pretorius/2007 Macromedia Dreamweaver Tutorial SET UP A NEW SITE Open Dreamweaver Click on Manage Sites on the right hand side of the screen (underline and in blue) In Manage Sites dialogue Box click on New Then click on Site A new site can now be set up Change ‘Unnamed Site1’ to your name Click on Next No, I do not want to use a server technology Next Edit local copies on my machine, then upload to server when ready Next ‘How do you connect to your remote server?’ Local/Network What folder on your server do you want to save your files in? 2 Dreamweaver Tutorial ©S Pretorius/2007 Next No, do not enable check in and check out Next Summary: Your site has the following settings Done Done On right hand side of screen, under ‘Files’, you’ll see your name and Remote View Click on the next to ‘Remote View’ Click on the folder icon Create a folder called ‘web1’ in My Documents Open Select And select ‘Local View’ It will now give you the site you have set up Site – ………… CREATE THE FIRST WEBPAGE Right-click on that and select New File 3 Dreamweaver Tutorial ©S Pretorius/2007 This new file is going to be your home page In place of untitled.htm type: Index.html Make sure to type the filename and .html, otherwise...
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...the article about Wikipedia, see Wikipedia. For other uses, see Wiki (disambiguation). "WikiNode" redirects here. For the WikiNode of Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:WikiNode. [pic] A wiki ([pic]i/ˈwɪki/ WIK-ee) is a web application which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.[1][2] While a wiki is a type of content management system, it differs from a blog or most other such systems in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.[2] The encyclopedia project Wikipedia is the most popular wiki on the public web in terms of page views,[3] but there are many sites running many different kinds of wiki software. Wikis can serve many different purposes both public and private, including knowledge management, notetaking, community websites and intranets. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access). For example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may also be imposed to organize content. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work".[4] "Wiki" (pronounced [ˈwiti] or [ˈviti]) is a Hawaiian word meaning "fast"...
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...Corporate Collaboration: The Growing Use of Wikis Establishing and maintaining a collaborative culture is a key to success for any business. Within larger organizations, there can be difficulty sharing information throughout different work groups and departments. Once this information is discussed, it is often stored away into a folder on a shared network drive. For larger companies with numerous amounts of data stored away, this information can be time consuming to find. However, a growing number of companies have found a tool to centralize information into a single website. A wiki is a website where users can add, delete or modify its content. This process is achieved by using the syntax of a simple mark-up language through a Web browser (Dagka, Papadaki, Lepouras, & Costas, 2012). The first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, was developed by Ward Cunningham. However, the most popular wiki software is Wikipedia, one of the most visited websites in the world. I have used Wikipedia mainly as a reader, but I have also input content on the website before. While studying journalism at Ohio University, I worked at Southeast Ohio Magazine. Along with the help of two fellow students, I helped create the Southeast Ohio Magazine Wikipedia page. I did not find creating the page difficult despite not having any knowledge of Web page development. Therefore, if wiki software was implemented into a business, extensive training would not be needed. ...
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...The criminal practice of luring Internet users to provide their personal information via |5. Software that supports the running of applications developed to utilize its features and controls | |e-mail or the Web. Phishing almost always results in fraud or identity theft. PHISHING |peripheral equipment. OPERATION SYSTEM | |4. A code usually expressed as a number and series of variable width bars that uniquely |7. A website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web | |identify the product by scanning. |browser using a simplified markup language. WIKI | |Universal Product Code (UPC) | | |6. Unwanted disturbance in a radio receiver or...
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