[WikiEducator] Re: Join online workshops in May and June
Dear Prof. Gita Thanks. I checked for name in the workshop. My name is registered for workshop in June. Actually I wanted to do it in batch starting April 27. In that participant list I do not find my name regards Ravindra Dastikop Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering SDM College of Engineering Technology Dharwad 580 002, India email:dastikop.teach...@gmail.com email%3adastikop.teach...@gmail.com Management Entrepreneurship Resources Blogs: http://wiiningwithweb.blogspot.com http://wtlt.blogspot.com/ http://awebtoolfortoday.blogspot.com On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ravindra I have already registered you for both the workshops. Visit this link to see your name on clicking on Paritipants for each of the workshops. http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration You may see the Main page and my page for some Pre-workshop activities. Best wishes Gita http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur On Apr 22, 12:13 pm, Ravindra Dastikop dastikop.teach...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Patricia I tried many a times to register using wiki but not yet successful. So kindly treat this email as my request to register regards Ravindra Dastikop Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering SDM College of Engineering Technology Dharwad 580 002, India email:dastikop.teach...@gmail.com email%3adastikop.teach...@gmail.com email%3adastikop.teach...@gmail.comemail%253adastikop.teach...@gmail.com Management Entrepreneurship Resources Blogs:http://wiiningwithweb.blogspot.com http://wtlt.blogspot.com/ http://awebtoolfortoday.blogspot.com On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: In addition to Gita's comments, there is an easy button for direct registration on the wiki registration page that allows you to input your information, and save it but it provides that you do have an account on WikiEducator, which you will need to access the instructions online. Set up instructions are given. If you follow the steps indicated, it should not be a problem. http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registrationjust scroll down Warm regards, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gita Mathur Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 9:39 AM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Join online workshops in May and June Hi Elizabeth Welcome to the workshops. I have registered you. Patricia is right, all those who are on the community, please register on this link yourself. http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration Only those who are new to the WikiEducator community should be asked to register by sending emails. Ask your friends to join. Best wishes Gita Mathur On Apr 20, 9:24 pm, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: Elisabeth, Hi You can register here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration Warm wishes, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of elizabeth mbasu Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 11:54 PM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Join online workshops in May and June Hi, Register me for both online workshops. Elizabeth Mbasu --- On Sun, 4/19/09, Ahmed Panhwar ahmedpanh...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Ahmed Panhwar ahmedpanh...@yahoo.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Join online workshops in May and June To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 8:30 PM Thank U very much and regards --- On Sun, 4/19/09, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Join online workshops in May and June To: WikiEducator wikieducator@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 7:38 AM Hi Friends Come, Join online workshops in May and June. These are being organised by Nellie and me. You will be sent an email with a tutorial everyday, it requires 30 minutes per day to do this. Can be done at your convenience any time of the day. Online help will solve any problem you face, we will be looking at your pages. Dates: May 4-15 and June 1-12, 2009. 10-day lessons with weekends off. To see more details click on my web-page link below. To register, click on the Register Now link on my web-page or any WikiEducator page, or send me an email and I will register you for either or both the workshops as convenient to you. I am enjoying this experience and want to share with all of you. Those of you who have already learnt it are welcome to help me in this learning experience.
[WikiEducator] Re: Image Licensing
Hi Alison, I mantain my PC opened because of the climate here in Cancun, so it was really easy to me take some pics for you. Please let me know if I can email them to you =) Cheers 2009/4/22 Alison Snieckus alison.sniec...@gmail.com I found an image on WE that doesn't have any source or licensing documentation: http://www.wikieducator.org/Image:OpenComputer.jpg .I am interested in using this image, but it may not be licensed for use on WE. It's currently used on 3.2 Hardware Components, http://www.wikieducator.org/3.2_Hardware_components . The text on the Hardware Components page indicates that the image came from Flickr, but I wasn't able to find it there. I'm wondering how we handle these situations. Thanks, Alison -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary Tertiary grades. http://chela5808.wordpress.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/117140-Storytelling-and-Culture Skype:chela5808 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Portuguese WikiEd
A short while ago I put out a request for putting an infobox in Portuguese on my Portuguese user page. I am happy to say that Gladys came with her cavalry. She has been developing the Spanish WikiEd. She thought it would be fun to do a bit of the Portuguese, too. Many thanks, Gladys; you have been a lot of help to our little band of CE (Community Empowerment) folk on WikiEd. If anybody else wants to set up a Portuguese user page, or Spanish for that matter, please go to my user page (there are links between the languages) copy, paste, and adapt my info box to yours. Remember each language is a different WikiEd URL so you will have to load your profile photo up again. See: http://pt.wikieducator.org/Usuário:Philbartle If the coach does the pushups, The athlete will not get stronger Community Empowerment: www.scn.org/cmp/ WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle Join our discusssion forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Keep the architecture open for bells and whistles
I am fascinated by the whole concept of content checking!!! It could be very useful - I can see. Savithri 2009/4/12 Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.org Hi Scott, Jim, Maria et al. I promised to ping David Wiley about the status on the Mediawiki readability project. David (now at BYU) refered me to Joel Duffin @ Utah state who has provided us with an update on their work (copied below with Joel's permission). Take look -- I'm pretty impressed with what the team have got right so far --- its still very beta, but you'll get a good idea of its potential. In my view this kind of technology will take OER reuse to a new level of productivity --- It would be great to have a solid funding proposal to work with so that we can turn this vision into reality. Cheers Wayne *Update from Joel* You can see where we made it to at http://www.send2wiki.com just click on the Analyze readability link in the toolbox on the left when looking at an article. That will take you to a page that shows the reading level of the page. If you click on one of the boxes next to Target grade, it will highlight terms that are below that grade level. For example, see: http://www.send2wiki.com/readability.php?page_id=370 There are various strategies to reducing the reading level of an article including word replacement, reducing sentence length, and summarizing. In the work I did we were only able to get a start on the first strategy. Here is a good article summarizing the issues and research in this area: Producing and Transforming Text in the Readability Principles article (pp. 37-41 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/019b/80/1b/bf/46.pdf) On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 09:29 +1200, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: Hi Scott, Jim, Maria et al. The notion of a content checker to assist with recontextualisation of OER for reuse or as a support guide for authoring new materials is a great concept! About a year ago David Wiley shared with me some ideas and use cases that would analyse the readability of a wiki-based OER against the reading age of the intended audience. (I include copies of the use cases below.) I'll ping David and find out whether any of the code development got off the ground. Jim -- I think you're right - At the concept level --- content at the primary and secondary schools levels are reasonably portable -- particularly in the natural and physical sciences. At the same time, educational materials which incorporate / embed examples, learning activities and formative assessments are less portable in different contexts (The Reusability paradox -- the more pedagogy included in the OER, the more effective it is likely to be in supporting learning, but less reusable in different educational contexts.) On approach to overcome this challenge is to identify educational elements as discrete objects within the content which provides greater flexibility for reuse, for example exporting content without the activities. As we speak, I'm working on a funding proposal to improve WikiEducator's capabilities in addressing the reusability paradox. We practice open philanthropy -- and encourage the development of funding proposals as free content :-) You can take a peek at the current proposal as its been drafted over here which includes a short summary of the reusability paradox : http://tinyurl.com/c3kwff Open question --- would any of you be interested in starting a draft funding proposal building on the content checker concepts? I think that its both a smart and doable project. With the right level of funding we can make it happen. At least -- I think we should capture these ideas -- albeit in the form of draft use cases. If you're interested, you can link your page from the Funding proposal node: http://www.wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals Cheers Wayne *David's use cases* *Example 1* Mr. Squire, a 6th grade elementary teacher has heard about Wikipedia and would like to use an article on Motzart for his students. However, after looking at the length of the article, and noticing that many of the words are beyond the understanding of a 6th grader, he decides the article is of no use to his class. Before he exits the page he notices a button that says 'simpler versions'. Curious, he clicks on the button and sees the message a simpler version for this page does not yet exist, would you like to create one? There are three radial buttons; a 12th grade version, a 6th grade version, and a 3rd grade version. Mr. Squire chooses the 6th grade version and clicks submit. Behind the scenes an exact duplicate of the Wikipedia article is created and posted to a new page. Using a dictionary developed by the National Science Digital Library, words that an average 6th grader does not understand are highlighted. In addition, sentences that are very long are highlighted since longer sentences can be overly complex to a
[WikiEducator] Site down?
Hi folks, Is this just me? Wikieducator seems to be down so, any thoughts on how long we might be out of action? Minor panic for me; I'm in the process of grading several wiki projects. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Site down?
OK; panic over; seems to be back, phew!! On Apr 22, 2:24 pm, Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Is this just me? Wikieducator seems to be down so, any thoughts on how long we might be out of action? Minor panic for me; I'm in the process of grading several wiki projects. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Site down?
I know. Time to be with the family :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Free Use of Moodle: http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Free hosting and great support: http://secure.afmu.com/clientarea/aff.php?aff=108 Read carefully: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfhbndjd_43gxfd7hct You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Is this just me? Wikieducator seems to be down so, any thoughts on how long we might be out of action? Minor panic for me; I'm in the process of grading several wiki projects. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Site down?
Mmmmh... I don't want to see what happens if WE is off for a whole day ... This is becoming seriously addictive =) Cheers 2009/4/22 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com I know. Time to be with the family :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Free Use of Moodle: http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Free hosting and great support: http://secure.afmu.com/clientarea/aff.php?aff=108 Read carefully: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfhbndjd_43gxfd7hct You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Is this just me? Wikieducator seems to be down so, any thoughts on how long we might be out of action? Minor panic for me; I'm in the process of grading several wiki projects. -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary Tertiary grades. http://chela5808.wordpress.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/117140-Storytelling-and-Culture Skype:chela5808 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Deleting pages
Hi folks,
I started a deletion system a while back. Users are invited to add the
tag {{Delete}} to unneeded pages or files. The tag lists the page
here:http://www.wikieducator.org/Category:Deletion_requested and an
administrator can then decide to delete or not. Thus far it seems to
be working reasonably well. One user edited the category page to add
his request for deletion; that worked and I removed his request after
deleting the page he had in mind; several other users used the tag as
intended; there is one Disney character file that I tagged for
deletion and am reluctant to also be the person to delete the same
file (perhaps a reasonable approach?).
Anyway, some questions:
* Do we need a system for deletion?
* Is this system working?
* Are people happy with it?
* What changes if any are needed to make more functional?
and finally:
* Is this of broad enough interest that we should link it from a
tutorial?
Your thoughts would be welcome.
Cheers,
Declan
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[WikiEducator] Re: Site down?
Hi U! Plz Now U should stand up, hurry up. --- On Thu, 4/23/09, Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Site down? To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 12:15 AM Mmmmh... I don't want to see what happens if WE is off for a whole day ... This is becoming seriously addictive =) Cheers 2009/4/22 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com I know. Time to be with the family :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Free Use of Moodle: http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Free hosting and great support: http://secure.afmu.com/clientarea/aff.php?aff=108 Read carefully: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfhbndjd_43gxfd7hct You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Is this just me? Wikieducator seems to be down so, any thoughts on how long we might be out of action? Minor panic for me; I'm in the process of grading several wiki projects. -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary Tertiary grades. http://chela5808.wordpress.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/117140-Storytelling-and-Culture Skype:chela5808 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
