Test Tube

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Test Tube

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Welcome to the Test Tube

Turning online teaching experiences into reusable elearning strategies

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About this site

The Test Tube is a community-driven clearinghouse for smart, practical ideas on using web technologies for teaching in a university context.

Being a wiki, the focus is on experimentation and collaboration. You are encouraged to try out the strategies, tips and technologies you find here, and also to share your results with others by commenting, refining the text, or even creating new pages to reflect your experience.

Almost every page on this wiki can be edited by anyone, by clicking the "edit" button at the top of the page. Every page is thus a work in progress, awaiting your contribution. For more information on how to edit a wiki page, see How to Edit This Wiki below.


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What's here

This wiki contains three types of content

  1. Tool pages - provide information on elearning tools
  2. Pattern pages - describe lightweight contextual responses to everyday educational design problems.
  3. Case-Study pages - offer real-life examples of using tools and patterns

Follow one of the links above to see a list of the pages in each category.

Alternatively, you can search the wiki by using the search box on the left.

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Featured pages

Featured tool page: Blogs

Featured case-study: Blogging to develop a research focus (ARHT5908)

Featured stub: Video sharing

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Related Workshops and Seminars

Arts and the Social Web - An introduction to the tools of the social web, including blogs, social bookmarking, web documents and podcasting. (Run by the META Centre)

Philosophy Teaching Forum

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First-Time Visitor?

Here are few suggested ways to begin exploring this wiki:

  1. Browse through the Tools, Case-Studies or Patterns
  2. Have a look at Recent changes to see what's going on
  3. Create your own Userpage
  4. Read the FAQ or add a question
  5. Make a comment on a discussion page (which you can sign by adding "--~~~~" at the end)
  6. Contribute a Problem in need of a solution
  7. Got an idea for a pattern? Add it to the Pattern workshop!

Need some help? Contact Bec Plumbe or Charles Humblet at the META Centre.

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Getting involved

Because it is a work in progress, a wiki is more like a garden than a book. There are many ways to contribute other than writing a new article from scratch (although that's always great).

For example, you might play the part of a ...

  • Gardener - performing small edits on pages to improve their overall quality
  • Linker - adding links to helpful external sites or between wiki pages (particularly important for stubs)
  • Chorus member - ensuring that positive feedback on strategies or pages gets a voice on the discussion page
  • Critic - posing problems or suggestions for how to improve content
  • POCer - asking for clarification of obscure ideas or jargon (POC = Point of clarification)
  • Seeder - getting new pages started by creating a link and adding a few sentences
  • Synthesizer - summarizing a series of comments on a discussion page into a section of the article itself
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How to Edit This Wiki

You can modify any page on this wiki. Simply click the edit tab at the top of any page. (You will have to register to get started. But you'll be taken automatically to the registration page the first time you try to edit.)

Wiki pages are written in a simple formatting (or markup) language called "wikitext".

For help with editing and formatting wiki pages, see the Wikimedia primer on using wikitext, or the Wikipedia cheatsheet.

Here is some simple wikitext to get you started: 

''text''        -> italicises text

'''text'''      -> makes text bold

[[pagename]]    -> creates a link to a page called pagename in this wiki

[[pagename | linktext ]]   -> links to the same page, but with customised linktext

[http://www.example.com]    -> creates a links to an external website

[http://www.example.com linktext]      -> links to the same website, but with customised linktext

== header ==    -> creates a heading

=== header ===  -> creates lower level heading


This site needs a better name. To join in the conversation, see the discussion page.

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