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Academy Technical Quizzes
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Williams Technical Writing Videos

Free short videos are available from TWFred (an author of Wikiversity's Technical Writing Course) explaining technical writing strategies and techniques. These videos complement the contents of this Wikiversity course. Topics include the following:


 * Using Active Voice
 * Structuring Descriptions, Steps, and Outcomes
 * Avoiding Ambiguity and Exaggeration
 * Choosing Terminology
 * Writing for User Personas

Goals

 * Inform (educate) the user.

Technical writing style== Starting off with easy stuff == You don't have to be a teacher to add educational content to Wikiversity. But if you're not a teacher (or perhaps even if you are), it is best to start off with easy resource types.

One of the main differences between Wikiversity and Wikipedia is that Wikiversity has loads of different resource types which you can write. Start with easier resource types and build up from there.
 * 1) You can start by creating a collection page to simply list the resources you are creating. You can turn the collection page into something more dramatic (e.g. project, course, workshop) when you have more content. Initially your collection page is just a list of what you are doing.


 * 1) Add simple resources to the collection page, such as some (but not all) of:

( text  ) Nonstandard_physics/Vortex_Science Stars Mathematics Calculus Calculus/Quiz
 * 1) My Ideas go here
 * 2) * activities (e.g. game ideas, small quizzes, descriptions of experiments)


 * 1) My Lectures go here
 * 2) * lecture notes


 * 1) My tests go here
 * 2) * tests and assignments - make sure they're ones which you wrote, otherwise they're probably copyright.


 * 1) My reading groups go here
 * 2) * a reading group


 * 1) My blogs go here
 * 2) * a blog - this should go in your personal user space


 * 1) My reference materials go here
 * 2) * reference material for lessons, such as vocabulary lists, class handouts, reading lists, collections of useful diagrams from Wikimedia Commons or other useful media


 * 1) Me event announcements go here
 * 2) * event announcements (don't forget to read the help page!)


 * 1) Concentrate on developing each resource at least to the point where it is seriously useful to other teachers or learners.


 * 1) Use subpages if at all possible. A Wikiversity project is best structured with a homepage for the project and a series of subpages leading off from it. This is very different from Wikipedia.