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=Welcome to the 2012 EDN6102s group wiki!=

We are going to use this wiki to facilitate your group project that is going to run over the course of the week. Each of the groups is going to create their own group wiki page to pull together information for their group task.

=Group task=

The purpose of this group task is to work through the process of designing an educational technology intervention in a specific context. > [|//http://chopsticker.com/2007/06/08/download-an-example-persona-used-in-the-design-of-a-web-application///] > //__http://blockquote.be/2005/12/12/example-personas-on-the-web/ __// >
 * 1) Define the problem or opportunity which the educational technology intervention or innovation will address, in no more than a paragraph. [You will use funnel analysis from macro to micro {– as in CDA framework}. Data for this task will be drawn from @http://diigo.com/EDN6102s]
 * 2) Detail the human and technological resources and constraints in the environment in which the intervention will operate. Human factors could include skills, attitudes, interests and available time of the various actors. Technological factors could include bandwidth, access to various technologies, available hardware and software, local technical infrastructure (networks, servers, etc.) [Structuration Theory, or Actor-Network Theory, or CoP to accomplish this]
 * 3) Define the key actors in the envisaged intervention (the people who will be directly involved in using the provided technology). Describe the background, motivations and interests of 2 to 3 types of actors using personas. Each persona should be no more than 1 page (or 1 slide). Personas are a modelling technique used in User Centred Design (UCD). For more information on personas, see: [|//http://deyalexander.com/resources/uxd/personas.html//]
 * 1) Describe the processes that will be followed as people interact [i.e. conditions of production & interpretation] with the technology and/or each other mediated by the technology. For example, draw a flowchart or diagram that shows the key interactions (no more than 1 page or 1 slide).
 * 2) Show key elements of the proposed technology platform using mockups (**__Use this tool for mock-up design: http://www.balsamiq.com/__**).

= = =Some tips for using wikis=

Editing a wiki is easy...you simply click on the edit button on the top right corner of your page and start typing as you would in MS word (that is was we call a WYSIWYG editor).


 * 1) This is a private wiki - you need to register in order to edit pages!
 * 2) To edit a page, click on the EDIT button on the right top of the page.
 * 3) You will find a simple WYSISYG editor you can use for creating/editing your text.
 * 4) You can add images, links and other media files to your page (by adding a widget).
 * 5) Don't forget to save your changes!
 * 6) All the members of this wiki can change the wikipages on this wiki! So be extra careful not to overwrite anybody's elses work!
 * 7) However, you can always revert to previous versions of the wiki, in case you have overwritten something.
 * 8) You can always revert to previous versions of the wiki by clicking on the icon "revisions" next to the edit button.
 * 9) Good luck! If you need any help, please email me at mailto:gachagod@gmail.com !

You have collected a number of different media formats which you can either upload to the wiki or embed them (link from another site to the wiki).
 * **word documents/pdf files/excel files**: upload directly to wiki or upload to Google docs and add a link to your document from the wiki
 * **videos**: upload to YouTube or www.vimeo.com and embed into wiki (how to embed videos:http://artinaction.wikispaces.com/How+to+Add+Video)
 * **podcasts**: upload to www.soundcloud.com and embed into wiki
 * **powerpoint presentations**: upload directly or upload to www.slideshare.net and embed into wiki

= = =How can you access and add a resource to Diigo?= 1. Login to www.diigo.com/EDN6102s with the course login and password (EDN6102s) 2. Click on the big blue "Add+" button next to "My items" 3. Select "New Bookmark" 4. Enter URL to resource, title of the resource and add a description summarising the content of the resource and your rationale for choosing this resource. 5. Please also add tags to your resource. Tags help categorize resources. Add for instance the country the resource originates from, they type of resource (e.g. organizational, technical, pedagogical…) and whether its a resource belonging to the macro / meso / micro level.
 * Embedding a link** means adding a link to your wiki that wont be displayed as the usual blue and underlined link, but as the actual media file. This means you can listen for example to a video without having to download it or without having to go to the YouTube site. You embed a media file by copying and pasting the "embed code" into the wiki. Look out for words such "share..." or "embed" on the websites the media file actually resides on.

Interesting blogpost on diigo vs. pinterest: []