A critical examination of Blackboard's e-learning environment - Coopman. Which Open Source Wiki Works For You? | O'Reilly Media. By Shlomi Fish 11/04/2004 A is a web site that can be edited directly by people browsing it. That way, they can add new content, correct errors or inaccuracies, and add their own comments, among other things. Since the debut of the original Wiki Wiki Web , many publicly available, usually open source, Wiki implementations have appeared, enabling webmasters to set up their own Wikis on their sites. These Wiki implementations vary in their features, ease of installation, syntax, and semantics. The purpose of this article is to give an overview of several popular Wiki implementations and see how they fare. Common Features Offered by Wiki Implementations For their pages, Wiki implementations offer a markup language, usually very different than HTML.
Most implementations identify Wiki pages in the markup by using an identifier, usually formed from capitalized words (for example, ThisIsAWikiPage ). There are other common rich-text paradigms. Evaluation Criteria Is the Wiki version-controlled? Wimba review. Wimba Product Description Wimba Classroom is a tool that integrates into a Course Management System (CMS) to add a remote live teaching component. The Wimba tools allow students in any type of class to integrate speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills along with incorporating visual media for use in demonstrating media from websites, PowerPoint presentations, or live virtual "blackboard" situations. Wimba Classroom is not a learning tool with content already provided. It is a classroom environment which allows for communication of classroom materials both inside and outside the classroom.
Wimba classroom should be easy to set up for CMS administrators. Product Evaluation Wimba is a multimedia tool set which is available both as a stand-alone product and as an application which can be integrated into an existing CMS. Features Voice Recorder The voice recorder (see Figure 1) is one of the most basic features of Wimba. Figure 1. Figure 2. Voice Email Figure 3. Wimba Podcaster Figure 4. Steph's iKey review. While I was podcasting the TAFE NSW Libraries Conference 2007 last week the audio technician inquired if I had heard of the iKey portable recording unit. I have subsequently found the product on the web and am in raptures over this products potential as a portable podcasting tool. The newly released iKey Plus model has every thing one would want in a portable recording tool.
Line in (rca)3.5 mm microphone input with Phantom powereven supports phono in (yes you remember those)mp3/wav redordingvu input level display + input level adjustHeadphone monitor outputBattery powered (4 AA) + DC charger inputPlus a host of other features which you can check on the product website. The best feature of the iKey plus is the usb port on the side. This means that any USB 2.0/1.1/1.0 storage device can be hooked up as the storage medium for the recordings. How cool is that, usb memory stick, portable hard drive and yes even an ipod.