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This page can be used by workshop participants to give details of their interests and issues they would like to see addressed at the workshop.

Interests

Accessibility of online content and use in virtual learning environments. (Can this be done using the keyboard only? How does a screenreader read the content?)

Useability of wikis for different levels of user (e.g. a busy academic vs a wiki enthusiast)

Standards / options for export of content from one wiki to another (e.g. I have some material in PBwiki and I might like to move it to wetpaint)

Issues

1. Please highlight optimum paths through. Sometimes I am guessing what goes where!
2. And the significance of comments and why they would want to be used.
3. I am having no problems editing this with Firefox (hooray) but IE is stopping me!
4. What about the software wars? One week we are big fans of Mediawiki, now Confluence is all the rage - how do we keep up?

Interests:
I'm interetsed in how we can use wikis at the University in a teaching and learning context i.e. as project spaces, for collaboration, as 'knowledge bases' but don't feel I know the best way to apply them, and how the lecturers might use them as part of a wider 'e-learning portfolio' of tools. I suppose it is knowing what to do with the technology, where it works well, lessons learned from others etc.

Does anyone have experiences of using these technologies within a teaching and learning context already? Do you feel students are more involved in the creation of their own 'learning experiences' when using these technologies? Do they encourage creativity and innovation?

I'm also interested in how we might use wikis for better information management - documents are stored all over the place in shared drives, on web pages, in databases - could wikis be an option for making information more accessible rather than siting in out-of-date word docs? Also possibilities for importing info from word docs and exporting from wiki to PDF - and other useful add-ons to wiki technology.

I'm also interested in how to place wikis with blogs and other 'social networking' technologies - what to use when?

Agree with the comment about software wars and keeping up to date and useability of wikis for different 'levels of user.
Donna Wilkinson (University of Abertay, Dundee)

I'd like to hear any experiences of the creative process of wiki building being used with students and what is done the following year - ie once you've created a great wiki for one year group how do create something even better for the next year group?

Compatibility issues between wiki software systems - transferability?