SAIKORE was founded by James Matheson in mid 2006. After many years of experience with building, using and championing wikis in a technical environment, James saw that there was an opportunity to build a business that specialised in wiki technology.
Prior to founding Saikore, James worked for global IT companies in software development and project management. In this role he worked on various projects and in particular he specialised in large and complex industrial control systems. He also worked in Japan for several years developing software for Mitsubishi Atomic Power Industries.
James holds a Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering from Sydney University, Australia.
Kara Whittingham
Education Officer
Kara has been teaching for the past 18 years. For the past 10 years Kara has been working as a teacher at TAFE, and in recent years she has been using wikis to enhance collaboration between students, teachers, and college departments. Kara has been setting up wikis:
for classroom use, as a teaching and learning tool;
as a space where teachers who share a class can collaborate on the development of class resources and assessments;
as a space for teachers' administration of their department/section.
Kara has become an evangelist for the use of wikis in education, presenting last year at TAFE's ICVET Conference, the Department of Education and Training's Connected Learning Conference, TAFE's ACCESS Conference, and at Sydney Institute of Technology's lunchtime on-line Hot Topic Conversations, talking to teachers about how they can use wikis in their teaching and administration. Kara was also selected to be a part of a Learnscope Project team to mentor teachers in the use of wikis at Randwick College of TAFE in 2007.
In 2008 Kara is continuing her work with TAFE teachers and students, and she has started to work with primary schools to develop the use of wikis in primary education.
You can read some of Kara's thoughts on wikis and education in her Saikore blog.
