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Wiki guru Stewart Mader provides pertinent advice on success strategies for wiki adoption.

In summary, he lists five points:

• Start with what you already do


• Go viral


• Invite senior leadership


• Find the champions


• Practice what you preach

As CIT looks for a wiki engine for the university community, we hope that we do not fall into the trap of "build it and they will come".

For academics who are keen to use wikis in the classroom, here are some case studies. Also, check out The Science of Spectroscopy's Using Wiki in Education.

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Uber-blogger and Lecturer N. Sivasothi (a.k.a Otterman), over at the Department of Biological Sciences, shared his lecture preparation methods with NUS librarians last Wednesday.

With his trusty Mac, he gathers information and materials from readily accessible, reconfigurable and redistributable content via del.icio.us, Flickr and numerous video sites such as YouTube.

You can check out the slides from his presentation above and he's created a Google Document with the links mentioned during the talk.

Siva also briefly touched on his use of NUS Module Blogs for a student assignment. You can read the students' blog posts about animal behaviour. He also runs a module blog for LSM1303 Animal Behaviour, which is where a lot of the online material he gathers gets featured after lectures.

P.S. And if you really want to know why he is an uber-blogger, check out this video at theory.isthereason.com. (Just skip a little past the first bit.)

Alvin Trusty gives a presentation about PowerPoint and copyright. He starts off with some questions about copyright, dives into his PowerPoint tips and then talks about copyright in the United States.

I suggest watching this from start to end. Some of the PowerPoint tips are not new to the savvy but he has some nice ones about the use of colour and about transitions. He sprinkles his tips throughout the entire presentation, so look out for them!

While the copyright portion is about United States law, it is interesting to view, if only to get a feel for copyright issues educators face there. He also touches briefly on Creative Commons.

The presentation is 45 minutes long, but worth the watch.

Via Stephen Downes.