Wiki resources

I had a collection of links on wikis, thought I would collect them here:

Tom Critchlow – Building a Digital Garden: How I built myself a simple wiki using folders and files and published using Jekyll (his personal wiki)

I liked this article because it makes it possible to have a wiki without a database

Tom Critchlow – Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens – Building personal learning environments across the different time horizons of information consumption

Tom gives Twitter, blogging, and wikis as his examples for his title, also references the article below.

Mike Caufield – The Garden and the Stream: A TechnoPastoral

This 2015 article compares and contrasts wikis and blogs, with a focus on Federated Wiki (created by Ward Cunningham)

Frank McPherson – Site index page for his instance of Federated Wiki (also, his page on setting up Federated Wiki on your laptop)

Andy Sylvester – My instance of Federated Wiki (my New User Setup page)

Rudimentary Lathe – Jack Baty’s hosted instance of TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki – Main site to download your own copy

Chris Aldrich – Summary of Indieweb pop-up session on The Garden and The Stream (includes notes and video)

Bookmarked Nobody Asked Me: A Teacher’s Opinion on School Reopening by mrsteacherlife (mrsteacherlife.wordpress.com)

Everyone has an opinion about how and if schools should reopen for this coming school year. We’ve heard from the governors, the pediatricians, the parents, the education secretary, and the president. Everyone has a “study” and “research” to back up their claims, but unfortunately (as alway…

Excellent summary of the issues on the ground in the public schools with coronovirus.

Bookmarked Zoomit – Zooming tool for Windows (docs.microsoft.com)

ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablet PCs.

Bookmarked Pipes Digital (pipes.digital)

GET AND MANIPULATE DATA FROM THE OPEN WEB BY CONNECTING BLOCKS

GET STARTED

Or you can set up your own Pipes server!

Bookmarked Huginn – Open source agents (github.com)

Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn’s Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do.