/Introduction to Media/script/
Date of preparation of script: 28th October, 2010
Authors: P.N.Swetha, T.Rakesh Reddy
Keywords: Mediawiki, CMS, Collaboration
Contents
Introduction to MediaWiki
Resources for recording
Script
Visual Cue | Narration |
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On behalf of IIIT-Hyderabad, this is Lavanya welcoming you to the spoken tutorial on Introduction to Mediawiki. |
Show slide 2 titled About MediaWiki |
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Show slide 4 titled Agenda | In this tutorial, we will look into
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Now we will look into each of these aspects in detail. |
Show slide 9 titled Content Management system(CMS) |
Content Management system(CMS)
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Content management system or CMS is a set of processes and technologies that support the collection, management and publishing of content in different forms like text, images, graphics, video, audio and documents. |
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CMS is a tool that enables multiple users to create, edit, manage and publish the content. |
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MediaWiki is an example of CMS. let us have a look at a sample page created by MediaWiki. |
Show a screenshot of an empty Mediawiki content page at this point | A wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. |
Continue with the Mediawiki screenshot Roll cursor over web address |
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Type out or alternately paste the text in the content space
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Let us type some text in the space given here. I am typing the text Welcome to MediaWiki. When I save the page it shows the same text in resultant wiki page. This functionality is called as What You See Is What You Get.
Now let us look in to more details about MediaWiki. |
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MediaWiki is a software which helps building wiki pages. |
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MediaWiki can be used by a single user as a stand-alone application |
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or by a group of people when it is hosted on LAN or Internet. |
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Wiki can be used to capture the data and ideas. |
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A wiki page can be created by the user to share one’s ideas. |
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It can be used for working collaboratively on an idea/project. |
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Users can view or edit already existing data on wiki and can contribute by adding their points. |
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The users of wiki can work simultaneously from different locations. |
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Users can add text, images, documents, audio/video files in a wiki page. The documents can be pdfs, ppts, excel sheets etc. |
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The study material for a course can be made available in a wiki. The users can also contribute in adding resources. Wikis can be used for training both in educational institutions and corporate companies. |
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In wiki, students can store notes and summaries of any lecture or presentation attended by them. |
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Ideas from discussions or brainstorming sessions and minutes of meetings can be documented and can be made available for the users. |
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Software processes, documentation and user manuals can be created by multiple users at the same time. |
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It can be used as a repository of files. |
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Wikis can be used as public websites for all users to view and contribute information. |
Show slide 27 and then show a screenshot of the url given from this point |
wikibooks is an example of such website. |
Click on the link http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page and show the page. |
As we can see on this page, there are collection of books related to various fields like computers, engineering, science and many more are hosted here. There are many links inside which can help user to traverse through different books. This is a sample page created by MediaWiki. Now let us look at the uses and advantages of mediaWiki. |
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MediaWiki is free and open source software. So Users can download it for free from the internet and they can customize it as per their requirements. |
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Simple design of the tool allows users to access MediaWiki easily. |
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To edit contents in MediaWiki, users need not know HTML or other scripting languages. This extends the power of web publishing to non-technical users. |
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Navigation to different features and pages in MediaWiki is simple. |
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Wikis are instantaneous so there is no need to wait for a publisher to create a new edition or update information. |
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MediaWiki also provides accessibility permissions feature to help users secure their wiki pages / content. Using this feature administrator can make wiki accessible only for a certain group of people. Different accessibility permissions can be given for viewing or editing data in wiki. |
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MediaWiki has inbuilt version control system and users can access all the previous versions using the “history” feature. Users can always revert back to any of the previous versions, if required. |
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Availability of many extensions in the MediaWiki community will help users to enhance features in MediaWiki according to their requirements.
In this way MediaWiki software is useful to create and host different types of information. Non-Technical users can also use MediaWiki due to its simple design and easy understandability. MediaWiki is Free and Open Source, so users can modify the customize as per their requirements. On this note we conclude this presentation on Introduction to MediaWiki. |
Show slide 36 | The references used are from wikipedia and wiki educator. |
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The Mediawiki tutorials are created as part of the SPOKEN TUTORIAL PROJECT, an initiative of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ project, developed at IIT Bombay. The project is coordinated by http://spoken-tutorial.org. Funding for this work has come from the National Mission on Education through ICT, launched by MHRD, Government of India. For more details pls watch http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro
This brings us to the end of the tutorial on Introduction to Mediawiki. The script for this tutorial was written by Rakesh and Swetha and this is Lavanya from IIIT-Hyderabad. Thank You. |
Checklist for Script
Self Verified
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1.S | The written part of the script when read aloud does not exceed 7 minutes | ||
2.S | Simple words are used and jargon is avoided | 1 | |
3.S | Check for grammar and spelling mistakes | 1 | |
4.S | The whole tutorial is easy to understand | 1 | |
5.S | The learning objectives are clearly mentioned at the beginning of the script | 1 | |
6.S | The prerequisites are clearly mentioned at the beginning of the script | 1 | |
7.S | The system requirements are clearly mentioned at the beginning of the script | ||
8.S | Verified that all the links given are active | 1 | |
9.S | Successfully tried out all the steps in one sitting | ||
10.S | Able to successfully achieve the same output results as mentioned in the script |
Verified with a novice learner
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11.S | Check for grammar and spelling mistakes | ||
12.S | Check the narration time | ||
13.S | Easy to understand and follow all the steps | ||
14.S | Successfully tried out all the steps in one sitting | ||
15.S | Able to start the trial run of the software from scratch and able to follow all the instructions
in the given sequence |