CitiWiki Summer Workshop Day 1: Introduction

1. CitiWiki Summer Workshop Day 1: Introduction Li Xu CS, UMass Lowell

2. CitiWiki Summer Workshop • Sponsored by CITI K-12 education grant • Learn and use Wiki and web technologies to enhance K-12 education • 2 weeks in late June, July at UMass Lowell • Week 1: 6/25-6/28 • Week 2: 7/30-8/2 CitiWiki Workshop 2007

3. CitiWiki Summer Workshop • 8-day workshop sessions • Topics: Web page and web site, Wiki, GoogleGroup, Blog, Multimedia and Podcasting, RSS feed • Wiki-based teaching teching framework • Format • PPT slide presentation • Hands-on computer learning and exercises • After-session assignments CitiWiki Workshop 2007

4. CitiWiki Summer Workshop • Participants will • Learn to use Wiki, Web page, Google group, Blog, Multimedia Podcasting • Build a Wiki teaching framework for school implementation • Implement the project in Fall ’07 • Follow-up participant project presentation in Fall ’07 CitiWiki Workshop 2007

5. CitiWiki Summer Workshop Organizers Judy Boccia Li Xu Marjorie Dennis Heather Byrne (workshop assistant) Participants STEM teachers and educators from local school district 5 CitiWiki Workshop 2007

6. CitiWiki Summer Workshop • Online presence • Web page: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~citiwiki/ • Wiki: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~citiwiki/wiki • Mailing list and Google Group:http://groups.google.com/group/citiwikicitiwiki@googlegroups.com

7. CitiWiki Summer Workshop • Workshop session • 9:15am-12:15pm • Olsen 314 (CS computer lab) • 15 minutes break 10:45-11:00

8. Day 1 Agenda • Introduction of Internet, Web, Wiki and Web 2.0 • Explore Web and Wiki • Run your own web server and Wiki software • Reflect what you do and how technology can help • Review and Day 1 assignment CitiWiki Workshop 2007

9. Day 1 Goals 9 • Gain background of Internet, Web, Wiki, Web 2.0 • Getting started with Wiki • Use Wiki • Get the software and run on your own computer • Brainstorm how technology can help your education activities CitiWiki Workshop 2007

10. Internet • Collection of computers connected to each other globally

11. Web • Web server • Web browser • Firefox

12. Web Page

13. HTML

14. Hello, world in HTML

15. XHTML and CSS • XHTML stands for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language • Next generation HTML for web page design • Clean up HTML syntax, based on XML • CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets • Separate web page content and styling • Rethinking of web design • Web design for now and future

16. Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

17. Web 2.0 • Wiki • Blog, blogger.com • Wikipedia • Podcast • MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, friendster • YouTube • Flickr

18. Wiki • Hawaiian “wikiwiki” = fast • Ward Cunningham developed first Wiki WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995.

19. Wiki

20. “Hello, world” in Wiki • Edit your Blog page at CitiWikihttp://www.cs.uml.edu/~citiwiki/wiki/index.php?n=Blog.Blog • Need your login name and password • Wiki set up to require authentication for editing • Can also set password for read, or per-page, or group protection. Will discuss later.

21. Wiki • Using your web browser for web page creation and editing • Simple interface and simple editing commands • Easy to Update • Easy to Navigate • Easy Linking • Simple Design

22. Wiki • Technology to write and maintain web pages in collaboration • No single owner of the Wiki content (unless explicitly set) • Topical organization of content • Question mark prompts creation of new knowledge • Knowledge repository with history (version management) • Hyperlinks connect context

23. Wiki • Implications: • Provides a highly generic and flexible knowledge sharing and collaboration mechanism • Can replace Intranet / Portal as well as discussion forum and weblog

24. Best Known Wiki: Wikipedia • Online Encyclopedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page • Great resources to research topics:try search Wiki • Ask students to use for projects

25. PmWiki • We will use PmWiki in this workshop • How it works • Apache server • PHP • PmWiki package • Open source, download from CitiWiki page

26. Using Web Technologies • Web 2.0 • Break the barrier for content creation, distribution, sharing, collaboration and management online: web and beyond • Exciting tools for education use

27. Wikispaces • Usefulchem.wikispaces.com • Combine blog, student project, reference, resources through Wiki

28. Blog • http://www.dvorak.org/blog/ • Blogger

29. Social Networking Sites • MySpace • Facebook

30. YouTube • Video

31. Flickr • Photos

32. PodCasting • iTunes and iTunes U • MIT Open Course Ware

33. RSS Feed • Thunderbird

34. Education Relevance • Drexel U Example: Jean-Claude Bradley • Use blogs for creating podcasts or for storing static sequential content (transcripts) • Use wikis to organize content and to interact with students on assignments • Use multiple channels to deliver content and assess learning • All of these technologies are simple, free and hosted

35. Roll Your Own – CitiWiki • Web page and Wiki based • Google group

36. Technology Terms • Web server • HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS • Wiki

37. Using Browers • Firefox, Thunderbird

38. Google Groups • Online discussion groups

39. BrainStorm What You Can Do

40. Day 1 Assignment • Create your Wiki blog on CitiWiki • Preliminary plan on using Web and Wiki in your teaching project, put it in your Wiki page • Sign on GoogleGroup to introduce you • (optional) Get your own web server and Wiki running on Windows machine • Contact us if you use other configurations