Digest Updated 1-19-07

Dear ETUDES-NG users:

This is to inform you that a Wiki tool is now available to pilot - or to

simply check out!

For those of you experienced with wikis and eager to try it for

collaboration this winter or spring, and would like it added to your live

term site(s), please complete the following form:

http://etudesproject.org/add-tools.htm

The user interface of the tool will change in the June 2.4 release, so only

eager individuals who know what they are doing and are experienced with

wikis should pilot it. The rest of you, please wait.

• Starting mid-summer, the Wiki tool will be available under Edit Tools in

everyone's sites.

• If you are NOT ready to pilot Wiki at the moment, but would like to

learn more about it, I HAVE ADDED a Wiki tool in the Users Group site (see

last link on the left). It's a *sandbox* -- a place for all of you to play

with the wiki tool, update pages, add new ones, etc. Give it a try. You

can't hurt it.

• We have added a tutorial in the Users Group (Wiki Tool - An Overview);

it is also attached in this message in Word. I've also set up a forum for

Wiki in the UG for early adopters to help each other.

Please keep in mind that our trainers and I have not learned the tool yet

either, but I did not want this to delay our putting the tool out to the

user community to check it out and use it, if they want.

Finally, many thanks go to the Centre for Applied Research into Educational

Technology (CARET) at Cambridge University in United Kingdom who are

developing the Wiki tool and have made it available to the higher education

community as an open source tool.

Best,

Vivie

--

Vivie Sinou

Dean, Learning Technology

ETUDES Consortium Project

Foothill College

[see attachment: "Wiki2.3_Overview.doc", size: 222208 bytes]

Attachments:

Wiki2.3_Overview.doc

http://etudes-ng.fhda.edu/access/content/attachment/d64aa889-f19d-443b-80c9-2f2790f26b09/Wiki2.3_Overview.doc

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