Comments on: It’s a Blog.. A Wiki… and a Floor Wax

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lauren’s library blog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-04-21 — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:34:30 +0000

[...] It’s a Blog.. A Wiki… and a Floor Wax » CogDogBlog extremely thorough discussion of wikis and education with specific vendor issues (tags: eLearning wikis) [...]

By: Wayne Mackintosh

Wayne Mackintosh — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:31:10 +0000

Greetings from WikiEducator!

Alan great post! The WikiEducator community is keen to explore these futures – particularly in pushing the envelope in realizing the potential of Mediawiki technology for the future. We have a tough challenge – because we have a responsibility in widening access to education – particularly for the developing world. Given connectivity challenges – we will need to find smart ways in turning the digital divide into digital dividends.

One step in this direction is a Tectonic-Shift Think Tank we’re planning for 11- 13 April 2007 here in Vancouver. All our thoughts will be documented in WikiEducator and I hope that you’ll be able to help us in our thought processes ;-).

See: http://www.wikieducator.org/Tectonic_shift_think_tank

By: Bryan Alexander

Bryan Alexander — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:29:14 +0000

I want a CDB secret decoder ring, too!

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:48:40 +0000

Well, given our penchant for hyphenating ethnicity when one was born in the States, i.e., African-American, Irish-American, Italian-America, etc. I was trying to find another way to suggest a more “genuine,” “off the boat,” “real McCoy,” “really from Italy Italian” notion in order to emphasize the family shame for mistaking Italian for Spanish. But hey, what do you want from me, heh?

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:33:00 +0000

Italians from Italy… the best kind?

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:31:10 +0000

The sick and twisted irony of my last two comments is that my wife is an Italian from Italy. If she ever read these comments and realized that I can not recognize her mother tongue, I would be referring to my family in the first-person singular. All this to say, I just read your most recent post :)

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:26:40 +0000

Sorry for the bad link... Cog Dog Perro en Espanol

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:25:04 +0000

This is amazing stuff, Alan. A veritable treasure chest of mediawiki conceptualizing and plugins. I tried using the Send2Wiki for this page and was fascinated to learn that it has already been stored there -in Spanish no less! I wonder how the translation reads?

http://www.send2wiki.com/index.php/It%E2%80%99s_a_Blog.._A_Wiki%E2%80%A6_and_a_Floor_Wax_%C2%BB_CogDogBloghttp://www.send2wiki.com/index.php/It%E2%80%99s_a_Blog.._A_Wiki%E2%80%A6_and_a_Floor_Wax_%C2%BB_CogDogBlog

Thanks for all this goodness!

By: Gerry

Gerry — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:52:45 +0000

You may also want to take a look at, and listen to, John Maxwell’s presentation from Northern Voice. He has some interesting perspectives:

http://wiki.northernvoice.ca/Designing%20a%20Smarter%20Wiki

http://northernvoice.podcastspot.com/episodes/1A4274

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:28:43 +0000

It *might* be the way, I’d say “a” way, and I am far from being the wiki feature expert (see http://www.wikimatrix.org/)

Knowing programming is not really critical, I wish I had your literary and audio chops!

And there are likely 3 people in the world who get the “wax” reference?