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This wiki can be used by University faculty, staff and students for academic or professional purposes. If you are interested in using Wikis in your course please contact ltc@umanitoba.ca
The LTC wiki requires logins for editing. The login button is found in the upper right hand corner of the page. If you have a UMnetID, login with your username and password, selecting 'umanitoba.ca' as 'Your domain'. If you don't have a UMnetID, you can create an account and then login, selecting 'local' as 'Your domain'. To save an edited page you will also have to answer a simple arithmetic question.
The LTC workshop series:
"New Technologies for Teaching and Learning" - a series on blogs, wikis, podcasts, flickr, audio, video, and other new technologies. The notes for these workshops are available as pages in this wiki at Workshops_and_Resources
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What is a wiki?
A wiki is a web page/site that anyone can edit. The most popular is Wikipedia.
How can I add/edit pages on this wiki?
To edit pages, just click on the edit tab at the top of the page. If a page doesn't have an Edit tab, it's been locked by the administrator. The easiest way to add a page is to alter the URL. In the URL, after wiki/ type in your newpage name. For example, if you want to create a page about widgets, the URL would read http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Widgets. Please make sure that an article doesn't already exist for your subject before creating a new page. If you have an existing html page that you'd like to copy content from, you can use the html2wiki converter. Just copy in the html and click Convert. Note: if you copy and paste html, you will most likely need to specify a "Base URL for relative links". take the URL of the page you're copying from and remove the last slash ('/') and everything after it. For example, if you were copying html from http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page, you would use a Base URL of 'http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki'.
What is a category, and how can I make a new one?
Most pages in the wiki have categories, that is a descriptor (or series of descriptors) that tells you what's on the page, and allows you to find related pages. Categories are added to pages by adding a category tag Category:Category name surrounded by double braces. For example, if you write an article about WAV files, you might add the tags 'file formats' and 'audio' to the page, so that others looking for articles about file formats can easily find it (these tags have been added to this page). Feel free to create your own categories, but please check the categories page first to see if any there are appropriate.
Documentation and User's Guide
Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.
Managing edit permissions
Although this wiki is fairly open for editing, many of the wikis the LTC hosts require account approval before editing. For those of you the are administering edit permissions we have created the Restricted_Wiki_Guide with instructions, and a tutorial, on how to manage accounts.
RSS feeds into wikis
Did you know that wikis support RSS feeds? Below is an example of a feed of the tag 'elearning' from del.icio.us:
A Model for Teaching College Writing (9 February 2010)
[HTML-20100209 La formation se tourne résolument vers le téléphone portable] (9 February 2010)
eLearning Blog Dont Waste Your Time (9 February 2010)
neopodia le savoir à emporter (9 February 2010)
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 (9 February 2010)
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