TT, we are not the same! The letter-in-box is just the default.
For your forum-browsing pleasure, I have uploaded an actual photo.
-Springer
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If I may ask a silly question.
How does this site work? aka I drag stuff on main page. (its almost like desktop), so the only goal is for students to go there everyday, and I keep it new and refreshed on what we are working on today or?
Iāve seen kids apps like seesaw app where they have nice timeline where kids/students upload consent, etc. (that is very inline with TW way of adding new tiddlers)
Thanks
Lucas
It needs password to access
Shaheen, the link from my Dec 2022 post above is quite old, and I canāt even go back and edit it. The site has since migrated from tiddlyspot (though thereās an archive version there) to tiddlyhost.
However, hereās my current version of the ethics teaching site ā with some notes on TiddlyWiki as engine of classroom resources.
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First of all thanks for replying.
Can we download it?
Warm regards
In theory, you can download any TiddlyWiki site. This one does hide most controls (using a readOnly plugin), but the keyboard shortcuts still work. So, ctrl-shift-A (or whatever the equivalent is on Windows) gets you to the advanced search interface. From there you can choose the āfilterā tab, and put in an expression like [all[tiddlers]] to get a list of everything on the site, and then export all that as a json file. Then if you drag that json into a blank tiddlywiki, and save, you basically have a clone of my site. (In this case, though, I would need to figure out how to avoid problems with the fact that this is an external-core site, but with some shadows overwritten. 
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At any rate, I donāt recommend trying to clone my site. Itās a demo of one way TiddlyWiki might be used for education, but the details are very much custom-built for the kind of class I teach ā the structure of assignments, the rubric for feedback, the particular kind of activities we do in class, etc.
Iāve played with the idea of making a more āgenericā education / teaching wiki. But I donāt really think thereās such a thing as a āgenericā educational set of templates, tools, etc.
For all of my courses, the basic kinds of tiddlers include:
- session-dates (we meet 13 times in a semester, plus a final exam session)
- units (with which sessions are tagged)
- books (textbooks and related books, with biblio info, fully harnessing refnotes in my other wikis, though not yet in this one)
- authors/people (our readingsā authors, plus other relevant figures, with biographical info, an image or two, automatic links to connected tiddlers)
- excerpts and other text snippets for in-class discussion / examples
- vocabulary terms, concepts, keywords (which get freelinked whenever they appear in other tiddlers)
- explanatory themes and discussion resources for in-class use (usually session-specific, occasionally reusable)
- āquizā-type questions (which students tackle in groups, but they can browse and practice with my available library of alternate questions for each session)
- assignments (reading assignments, writing assignments)
- evaluative rubrics for assignment submissions
- actual student submissions for short assignment, where my feedback (without student names, and without overt grades) is visible to all
** (Note students donāt actually edit the wiki to submit; the university LMS interface gathers their submissions, and I export batches of them as JSON to work easily with them in TiddlyWiki.) - student teams/groups
** (Note I have no tiddlers for individual students, for complex reasons ā basically an obstacle to easy snooping into other studentsā grades. Individual student data is tucked into not-easily-human-readable fields that get parsed by permalinksā¦ long story!) - advice, reminders, scheduling notes, misc communications
Reviewing this list, I see that someone teaching math, or computer science, or history, might have a very different set of needs. Someone teaching high school or middle school would have different concerns compared to university professors, too.
Even someone teaching in the very same field and level as I do is unlikely to find most of my wiki helpful in the actual details.
But they may see, for example, how the vocabulary tiddlers are gathered into a compact glossary (which transcludes only the first line/paragraph), and how the tiddler for any specific term often includes examples as well as template details such as which sessions focus on this concept, and reverse engineer my structure to work for their needs.
Eh. I am always curious, so guess what? I did download your site. The downloaded file do show buttons and tabs. I am guilty, sorry!
I am very impressed with your great work.
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