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Spotlight: MediaWiki enhances group-created knowledge creation and management

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

Wikis are a kind of software that promotes knowledge-sharing among distributed contributors with Net access. This software allows virtually anyone to post textual information, photos, sound files, video files, and other multimedia contents to a site, which is available globally. The contents of a wiki are searchable and accessible. The contents in a wiki, if named properly and linked intelligently, are highly navigable. An automatic “Contents” is created at the level of an entry page and then at the wiki level, to make the contents more easy to peruse and access.

The interface for editing contents may seem awkward to some, and it may take some getting used to. Some directions are available at www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages.HelpEditingPages

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Nov. 10 demos of Mediasite, a classroom capture-and-streaming tool

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

On Tuesday, Nov. 10, a vendor will be on the K-State-Manhattan campus to demo Mediasite, a webcasting platform by Sonic Foundry that provides “automated classroom capture and streaming”.

  • Overview session — 10:30-11:30 a.m., 114 Hale Library
  • Technical session — 1-3 p.m., Union 207
  • Overview session — 3-4 p.m., Union 207

According to Mike Wilson, a Sonic Foundry representative, more than 500 educational institutions use Mediasite to quickly build their e-learning programs, increase enrollment without new classrooms, generate new revenue, and bolster recruitment and outreach.

“Mediasite is the leading lecture capture and knowledge management platform to measurably improve student learning,” Wilson said. Continue reading “Nov. 10 demos of Mediasite, a classroom capture-and-streaming tool” →