The Wiki Formatting Experiment

Now that I’ve started playing with wikis, I find the most frustration with formatting…a very similar frustration I had when I first started working in HTML. HTML tags are a mark-up language and really restrictive with layout. With years of experimenting, I’m feeling quite comfortable in basic HTML. So….silly me…I thought wikis would monopolize on an existing mark-up language and translate HTML flawlessly. No such luck. It seems each wiki has its own proprietary method of mark-up. Does anyone out there know of a free wiki that uses all the HTML tags?

I’ve started a PB Wiki to experment with the tranferrability of HTML code into the PB Wiki. I created a simple web page in DreamWeaver and copied the code inside the body tags into a wiki page. Then with each formatting change, I documented the change and created a running list of links on the home page.

I invite you to visit, suggest, contribute and edit my wiki formatting experiment!

camillejensen.pbwiki.com

Ciao,

Camille

 

My Project

Here in Alberta there is a strong community of distance educators and educational technology practioners that belong to a provinicial organization called ADETA (Alberta Distance Education and Training Association, www.adeta.org). I have been the acting Editor of ADETA’s newsletter for the past three years and have recently joined the web site committee. Admittedly, our website is in desperate need of attention. We would like to develop a more active online community of practice and place for sharing for our group beyond the association listserv.

This unworkshop is a great sandbox to try out some new technologies and see how they work in action. Do any of you have experience using Web 2.0 technologies to develop communities of practice for professional associations? Any favourite association web sites?

Your suggestions and comments are welcome.

Ciao…Camille

 

My Project

Here in Alberta there is a strong community of distance educators and educational technology practioners that belong to a provinicial organization called ADETA (Alberta Distance Education and Training Association, www.adeta.org). I have been the acting Editor of ADETA’s newsletter for the past three years and have recently joined the web site committee. Admittedly, our website is in desperate need of attention. We would like to develop a more active online community of practice and place for sharing for our group beyond the association listserv.

This unworkshop is a great sandbox to try out some new technologies and see how they work in action. Do any of you have experience using Web 2.0 technologies to develop communities of practice for professional associations? Any favourite association web sites?

Your suggestions and comments are welcome.

Ciao…Camille

 

My First Post

Hello Fellow Unworkshop-ers! 

Jay was kind enough to let me join your group late. I’m a little behind, but looking forward to meeting and working with all of you. After figuring out how to ‘enable sending referrers’ I’ve finally got my blog up and running.

First here are my coordinates …

email: scribesolutions@shaw.ca

msn: scribesolutions@shaw.ca

skype: alonso_M200

Next…a little about me…
(read below…or insert blah…blah…blah…and skip to the bottom)

I have worked for the past eight years as an instructional designer for primarily post-secondary institutions in Calgary, Canada, specializing in e-learning production. My post-secondary experience has provided me a solid pedagogical foundation, yet I find myself more productive and personally rewarded by the collaborative experiences afforded by informal learning in a production environment.  

 I’ve recently embarked on graduate study. My part-time online program in Communications & Technologies allows me to explore my broader interests in informal learning, social networks, and social software. I am hoping to frame my graduate research around the topic of the development of social networks to facilitate informal learning.   

As I expand my practice into the corporate sector, I have found an interesting convergence of my study in communications and my practice of instructional design which I frame as an “intersection”. I am a regular listener to a podcast called NCQ Talk (http://www.ncqtalk.com/) supported by the Learning Times (www.learningtimes.org). Dan, Kris and Susan discuss the “intersection of technology and learning”. I’ve started to think about social software (like blogs, wikis, et al) at the ”intersection” of communities of practice and informal learning.  

This collection of ‘unworkshops’ will provide me the technological knowledge in a formal setting while initiating a new network in the informal setting.   

Finally…

Thanks for reading…your comments are welcome.

Ciao…Camille