1. 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 1 MediaWiki Pavan Kishore V EnhanceEdu

2. Session Objectives 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 2 Learning Content Management What is MediaWiki? Advantages What we can do with wiki? Examples Installation requirements Formatting tips

3. Learning 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 3 What is Learning? Process of acquiring, exploring, inquiring and applying new content. What is Teaching in information age? The process of constant learning of how to create conditions for students’ learning & surviving in contemporary world of free flowing information.

4. Contd.. 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 4 Five things about learning: We are all potential teachers as well as learners. We learn a lot by watching others. We learn well by creating and expressing for others. Understanding transforms us. We learn well when the learning environment is flexible and adaptable to suit our needs.

5. Content Management 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 5 Set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of content in any form or medium. Text, images, graphics, video, sound, documents A CMS is a tool that enables a variety of people to create, edit, manage and finally publish content

6. What is MediaWiki? 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 6 Software that runs Wikipedia Support for images and video, discussion features, and full version history of each article Mission  Empower and Engage people  Collect and Develop educational content  Free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.

7. Advantages 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 7 Decentralized maintenance Easy to use for non-technical people User can edit the content Configurable access restrictions Consistency in design Automatic navigation Go back to the previous version of content Extensions allows dynamic content

8. What we can do with MediaWiki 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 8 Documents Course website Brainstorm ideas for a project or assignment Plan and divide duties for a class activity Multimedia support Formula rendering Extendibility through lots of extensions

9. Contd.. 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 9 High collaboration support Go back to the previous version of content Restrict the permissions on user

10. Examples 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 10 Alumni List http://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Mentors

11. Contd.. 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 11 Projects List http://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/BTP_project_propo sals

12. Contd.. 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 12 Any tool installation & usage documents http://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Installation_and _Configuration_of_Services

13. Contd.. 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 13 Website http://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

14. Formatting Tips 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 14

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16. Installation Requirements 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 16 Apache2 MySql server / Postgre Sql server PHP MediaWiki

17. Installation of Mediawiki 1. Download mediawiki from the foolowing link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download 2. Unzip the file and place it in htdocs folder of xampp if your using windows or www folder if you are using Linux 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 17

18. Wiki Administration Site Name Database Configuration Image Upload File Extensions Default Skin Logo Subpages 12/5/2015 Open Source Technology Toolkit Workshop 18

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