On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, David Leeming <leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb> wrote: > > What I am wondering about is having an offline "mirror" or a "slice" of the > wikieducator (a read only snapshot on DVD that could maybe be updated every > few months and received by mail). This will great aid the searching of > teachers, and open it up to the students - it's simply impracticable for 40 > students in a class to access the Internet through a slow (64-128kbps) link, > especially as others may also be online. > > So we need an offline snapshop. The teachers can find quiet times to work > online on collaborative development of content etc. > > I do think the Wikipedia has been released on DVD at times. So why not the > WE? I think WE on a flash drive might also be a great idea. It would > obviously be a cut down version. In fact the OLPC has collections including > a small slice of the Wikipedia on Chemistry that can be installed > permanently on the XO, despite the meagre memory. > > > David Leeming > Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands > Wikieducator User page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming > Alt. Email: da...@leeming-consulting.com
David, This is a great idea. So far, I am thinking of two areas of design that may make it stronger: There are probably other necessary items, but this is a start. 1 - Navigation help. Tags, tables of contents, workshops on wiki-thinking (searching over top-down hierarchies) that will help teachers find relevant stuff. 2 - Two-way updates. Again and again, research on communities of practice shows that feeling welcome to contribute is crucial. Most people never use the opportunity, but "the reply button" or, in the case of wiki, "the edit button" has to be there. So, there is a need to find ways of sending back a slice of WE created by your locals. Both areas have a technical side, such as figuring out integration issues, and a community side, such as ways to energize, support, and educate people using local "sandboxes" only. -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath our email group http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
