[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative
I have recently been to a short presentation of The Connexions project (funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) from Rice University. http://cnx.org I saw some of the mashed-up books and collage material that was produced by the teachers and was quite impressed. The platform looks quite user-friendly as well. Are you familiar with their work in the OER field? Warm regards from Brazil and have a wonderful holiday time :-) Bee -- Barbara Dieu http://barbaradieu.com http://beespace.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative
Valerie, We can move forward relatively quickly because we have a dedicated software team on the project - my husband and I have a software company, so we can draw on the expertise and experience. Still, I always want to move faster!!! You know how it is... At least we will have a beautiful front page and site design in a couple of days. This took forever because I kept tweaking things around in sketches. You pose an excellent question - a research problem, even. I guess if I were to situate it, it would turn into, How do we build the semantic web (web 3.0) out of our stuff? Or maybe it's too broad? Little RLOs from Natural Math, every one of them, are about users creating something. For the Family Multiplication Study in particular, we are building a structure where there is a creation hub (multiplication planet site, named by an activity, such as snowflakes, patterns in the multiplication table, your own number systems, your own board or computer games and so on) and then individual creations around each hub, kinda like settlers building houses and barns and such to form a village. I think the information of how each settler family moved among hubs is useful too, so we are going to capture those journeys. People, naturally, describe what information and tools they used - manipulatives, sites, books and so on. I posed the condition that when people cite a non-open (or non-Creative Commons) source, they describe the relevant part enough for others to be able to do the activity without buying the source. But a family story can't all be about the information the family found somewhere: it has to be about what they built using the information. Valerie, I would like to know more about your project! Are your students authoring? I guess it's a philosophical question, because assembling information in novel ways (citing, mashing, linking) is considered a form of authoring by many. Yet I am going for a pretty direct definition of authoring here: users creating their own definitions, making up their own math operations, posing their own problems, coming up with their own patterns, building their own systems and so on. If we go by Bloom's Digital Taxonomy http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670 - I am chasing the top two levels (creating and evaluating). Looking forward to learning more about your work, MariaD On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:15 PM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote: Maria That is wonderful to hear that you are moving forward so quickly. Please let us know when you are ready to let us see your beta version. Is there a format for the information that can facilitate capturing the past human action ? Rather than just going back and gathering information automatically, it might be interesting and useful to also have a format to guide mentors and learners recording the information. I have my students research a topic and provide the information to the class. Is there some place or format where they can record their work that could help your capturing process? ..Valerie On Dec 27, 7:54 am, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: We should have about half of the features I described in beta early in January. The magic is in capturing past human action and serving up the aggregated knowledge contained therein, automatically. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative
Barbara, I think I am missing something there... The content I can get is all pdfs, which is kind of limiting for representations (text and pictures). Also, some pages have no content at all, other than an ad for a web site, like this algebra page: http://cnx.org/content/m16260/latest/ What am I doing wrong? Can you please point me to one or two of these good mashed-up things you mentioned? Cheers, MariaD On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Barbara Dieu beeonl...@gmail.com wrote: I have recently been to a short presentation of The Connexions project (funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) from Rice University. http://cnx.org I saw some of the mashed-up books and collage material that was produced by the teachers and was quite impressed. The platform looks quite user-friendly as well. Are you familiar with their work in the OER field? Warm regards from Brazil and have a wonderful holiday time :-) Bee -- Barbara Dieu http://barbaradieu.com http://beespace.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative
Hi Maria, I just participated in a presentation where the general lines of the project were introduced and we were shown some examples of what they are doing and mashed-up books using a collection of material and modules from different authors inside the platform. The content I can get is all pdfs Here is an example of a book http://cnx.org/content/m16026/latest/ You can find the content online in html (the pages can be printed), downloadable for free as a pdf or zip file or you can order a printed version for a fee. Also, some pages have no content at all, other than an ad for a web site. I suppose they must be in construction You'd have to log into their platform to see how it works in practice to build, find and combine these resources. Here are some short tutorials. http://cnx.org/help/authorguide http://cnx.org/help/ModuleInMinutes The FAQ are clear http://cnx.org/help/faq The navigation on the Plone platform looks visually clean. OERs were also discussed at the Berlin Online Educa, where different models were presented. I find it interesting to be able to compare them to Wikieducator - after all, we can all learn with what others are doing in the field. http://www.icwe.net/oeb_special/news109.php Warm regards from Brazil, Bee [presently working on Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and spending way too much time on trying to get the tables right. http://wikieducator.org/Bloom%27s_revised_taxonomy] -- Barbara Dieu http://barbaradieu.com http://beespace.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
