1. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Exploiting The Potential Of Wikis: Introduction Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath Email B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk UKOLN is supported by: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/wiki-workshop-2006/talks/introduction/ Acceptable Use Policy Recording/broadcasting of this talk, taking photographs, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, Blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised (see AUP ). Acceptable Use Policy Recording/broadcasting of this talk, taking photographs, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, Blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised (see AUP ). This work is licensed under a Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Resources bookmarked using ' ukoln-wiki-workshop-2006 ' tag

2. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 2 About This Workshop What Can Wikis Provide? Wikis appear to have great potential in HE: they have potential to make it much easier for students, researchers and support staff to create, maintain and annotate resources. How Should Institutions Provide A Wiki Service? Many issues need answering: How do Wikis relate to other technologies? Are they sustainability? What about support? How do we evaluate & deploy Wikis - a single Wiki or multiple Wikis for multiple purposes? What about the benefits and dangers of using externally externally-hosted Wiki services? Note see website-info-mgt JISCMail survey findings for issues felt to be of relevance by list members

3. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 3 About The Organisers UKOLN: National centre of expertise in digital information management Located at the University of Bath Workshop Co-chairs: Brian Kelly  UK Web Focus: JISC and MLA funded Web adviser to UK HE/FE & cultural heritage sectors Steven Warburton  An e-learning ICT manager  Based at King's College London

4. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 4 About The Format Plenary Talks: Four plenary talks which set the context Discussion Groups: Discussion groups in morning & afternoon:  User Requirements  Deployment Strategies Feedback from discussion groups (in Wiki) Technologies: WiFi network provided to support event Please use responsibly

5. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 5 Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) Mobile devices & WiFi network may be used to support the aims of the workshop provided: Disruption to others is minimised You respect data protection, privacy & related issues Implementation: Permission to record must be granted by speakers No downloading of apps, videos, etc. during talks Reading email should be restricted to breaks You are responsible for security of your own devices (physical & network) In case of network difficulties, we may request that you disconnect from network

6. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 6 W 3 : Wikis For Wiki Workshop Wikis provided for reporting on discussion groups: Keeps a digital record (better than flip charts; more open than PowerPoint) Allows you to look at others notes Two Wikis provided: WetPaint - see Wikipedia Wikalong (basic) (second is backup) To ease admin & enhance learning open and external Wikis used. Note have one Wiki reporters per group and keep backup of data to minimise dangers of data loss. Feel free to report back using Wiki as a prompt.

7. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 7 About You Which sector are you from: IT ServicesLibrary E-Learning Research National role Other What technologies do you use on a regular basis: Blogs (as author)Wikis (as contributor) Instant Messaging VoIP (e.g. Skype) Flickr, … del.icio.us

8. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 8 What is A Wiki? “A Wiki is a website which allows visitors to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration” Wikipedia Other views: A Web-based authoring environment Simple way of adding markup & links Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision – the read/write Web What can Wikis be used for? Development work (to be migrated to stable Web site) Intranets Anything you want:  Let’s not stifle creativity  Mistakes may be made – and that may be acceptable

9. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 9 Timetable TimeSessionComments 10.15IntroductionBrian Kelly 10.30Wikis and Collaboration: Approaches to Deploying Wikis in Educational Settings' Steven Warburton, KCL 10.55Wikis and (Meta)data Rich Environments: a Model for Scholarly Publishing Henry Rzepa, Imperial College 11.20Discussion Groups: Wikis: User Requirements 12.20Lunch 13.10Report Back 13.25Deployment Strategies: IntroductionBrian Kelly, UKOLN 13.50Evaluating Wikis: A Case StudyPhil Wilson, Bath 14.15Discussion Groups: Wikis: Deployment Strategies 15.10Coffee 15.30Report Back 16.00Conclusions 16.15Finish

10. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 10 Questions? Any questions Note resources cited during workshop may be bookmarked in del.icio.us using tag '‘ ukoln-wiki-workshop-2006 "