[WikiEducator] L4C at Dhaka
A wikieducator workshop is being organised at Dhaka with support from CEMCA. I would be happy if some of you come and encourage the new users. Thanks. Savithri -- डॉक्टर सावित्री सिंह प्रधानाचार्य आचार्य नरेन्द्र देव कॉलेज ( दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय ) गोविन्दपुरी, कालकाजी नयी दिल्ली 110019 Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 97862584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] L4C at Dhaka
Dear Dr. Savithri I already encourage them on their page. If they need my help I am ready for that. Rukmini didi told me to join with you but here in Khulna I am busy with my regular office work just now. I want their success. Regards, -- A. Halim Program Officer RUPANTAR and Convener, Bangladesh Chapter Working Group, WikiEducator. 14/1 Farazipara Lane, Khulna-9100 BANGLADESH Phone: +88-041-731876, Fax: +88-041-810747 Cell : +88-01718-019286 Email: ha...@rupantar.org, r...@khulna.bangla.net, i...@rupantar.org Web : www.rupantar.org On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.comwrote: A wikieducator workshop is being organised at Dhaka with support from CEMCA. I would be happy if some of you come and encourage the new users. Thanks. Savithri -- डॉक्टर सावित्री सिंह प्रधानाचार्य आचार्य नरेन्द्र देव कॉलेज ( दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय ) गोविन्दपुरी, कालकाजी नयी दिल्ली 110019 Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 97862584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri -- 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 -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] L4C at Dhaka
Hi Halim, You might be interested in this thread. http://wikieducator.org/User:M._A._Halim - Randy Folks - Halim is a masterful WE user, from Bangladesh from Rupantar.org On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Sma Halim smaha...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dr. Savithri I already encourage them on their page. If they need my help I am ready for that. Rukmini didi told me to join with you but here in Khulna I am busy with my regular office work just now. I want their success. Regards, -- A. Halim Program Officer RUPANTAR and Convener, Bangladesh Chapter Working Group, WikiEducator. 14/1 Farazipara Lane, Khulna-9100 BANGLADESH Phone: +88-041-731876, Fax: +88-041-810747 Cell : +88-01718-019286 Email: ha...@rupantar.org, r...@khulna.bangla.net, i...@rupantar.org Web : www.rupantar.org On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.comwrote: A wikieducator workshop is being organised at Dhaka with support from CEMCA. I would be happy if some of you come and encourage the new users. Thanks. Savithri -- डॉक्टर सावित्री सिंह प्रधानाचार्य आचार्य नरेन्द्र देव कॉलेज ( दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय ) गोविन्दपुरी, कालकाजी नयी दिल्ली 110019 Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 97862584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri -- 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 -- 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 -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant, Organization Development, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com -- 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: WE blog or newsletter?
I took the liberty of starting the WE Blog as a regular wiki page a couple of weeks ago. http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Blog I got stuck when I began thinking about RSS feeds... ..Valerie On Dec 11, 2:45 pm, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, Valery and Kirby An open question -- with regards to the WikiEducator blog itself, we've been throwing around a few ideas. What do you think about the WikiEducator blog being more wiki-like -- in other words where the WE blogging team collaborate openly on the post in the wiki way -- a blog post which everyone can edit. We'll need to take a look at available extensions and think about RSS feeds, comments etc. Personally, I think this would be rather COOL. Thoughts? -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, Valery and Kirby The planetplanet software is great and well aligned with our open community values :-) I don't see any issues with installing this as a WikiEducator subdomain. This will be great way for aggregating blog-feeds about WikiEducator from our community members. The only issue is going to be one of timing - -we're currently migrating WikiEducator over to the Athabasca servers --- however, our test installation is not yet performing at the levels we would like :-(. We're in the process of putting more metal into the cluster so that our site will perform at the levels we expect from WikiEducator. If possible, We'd prefer to avoid double work with two installations of the planet software. We would appreciate a couple of weeks breathing space to get this operational -- Is that OK? An open question -- with regards to the WikiEducator blog itself, we've been throwing around a few ideas. What do you think about the WikiEducator blog being more wiki-like -- in other words where the WE blogging team collaborate openly on the post in the wiki way -- a blog post which everyone can edit. We'll need to take a look at available extensions and think about RSS feeds, comments etc. Personally, I think this would be rather COOL. Thoughts? Cheers Wayne Hi Wayne -- The Planet approach looks promising, as does a community blog. We come to Wikieducator from different walks of life, so I'll tell some of my story as a use case example, including how I find myself promoting Wikieducator to peers, in hopes of attracting more content, such as lesson plans. As someone involved with the Buckminster Fuller corpus, one of its long haul champions (since 1980s), I found Wikieducator gave me a fresh context, complete with well thought out tools, to package curriculum materials I've been collecting and refining for many years, sometimes in collaboration, sometimes alone. Now that I have a small suite of pages, I'm looking for more internal links to pages others are working on. I'm also out recruiting a breed of math teacher not afraid to innovate, to tackle new challeges. One of those challenges is how to bring more experiences with computer languages into everyday math learning. I just posted another update to Math Forum hosted by Drexel University, circling the new Sample MM Lesson Plan I just added yesterday. MM = Martian Math, one of four broad brush stroke topical areas designed to work either in unison, or as standalone modules. Martian Math is where we allow ourselves to get futuristic. The geometry seems alien. And yet it's correct, precise, accessible and with a strong track record of applications, especially in architecture, chemistry and biology. I'm always shocked that more teachers aren't already covering this same material. I have little competition and it's a big world so wouldn't fear it, plus my efforts seem obscure to the extent no one else joins me in doing this work (at the college level, you'll find more overlap, but even here it's a bleak landscape these days). My motivation in using Wikieducator to publish free content, is to encourage more teachers to pick up the ball and run with it, maybe tell me about it later. As you can see, I believe in my product and so my recruiting drive sometimes has that salemanish fanatical tinge, but that's expected in a true believer, any died-in-the-wool world game player of any stripe. One needs driven individuals such as myself simply to get over the various learning curves associated with learning to use Wikieducator effectively. I'm still just a newcomer Wikibuddy and feel I have a long way to go on that score, yet have made excellent progress thanks to a supportive infrastructure and the benign, philanthropic motives of WE's leadership. I'll post a link to that post in the Math Forum when it appears (this is a moderated list), so you can better see how I promote Wikieducator to my audience. In the meantime, I have this short essay on Constructivism that might interest a few here (Ed Cherlin for example): http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2019948tstart=0 My guess is a lot of teachers do something similar: get their materials on-line and then face a peer group, suggesting a come on in, the water's fine attitude. Having a large repository of interlinked courseware is what everyone thinks is necessary (me included). I appreciate your work and encourage you to keep doing it. Our global university (GU) thanks you -- I use GU interchangebly with Fuller's moniker Spaceship Earth (SE), as a way of looking at the whole planet. Kirby Urner Portland, Oregon -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?
I think the more we work together to edit things the better...It not only helps clarify ideas, it gives us all practice on the best ways to do it collaboratively and cordially. Joyce McKnight, SUNY Empire State Collegekirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.comSent by: wikieducator@googlegroups.com12/12/2009 09:25 AM PSTPlease respond towikieduca...@googlegroups.comTo wikieducator@googlegroups.comcc bcc Joyce McKnight/SUNYSubject Re: [WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter? On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote:Hi Chris, Valery and KirbyThe planetplanet software is great and well aligned with our open community values :-)I don't see any issues with installing this as a WikiEducator subdomain. This will be great way for aggregating blog-feeds about WikiEducator from our community members. The only issue is going to be one of timing - -we're currently migrating WikiEducator over to the Athabasca servers --- however, our test installation is not yet performing at the levels we would like :-(. We're in the process of putting more metal into the cluster so that our site will perform at the levels we expect from WikiEducator.If possible, We'd prefer to avoid double work with two installations of the planet software. We would appreciate a couple of weeks breathing space to get this operational -- Is that OK?An open question -- with regards to the WikiEducator blog itself, we've been throwing around a few ideas. What do you think about the WikiEducator blog being more wiki-like -- in other words where the WE blogging team collaborate openly on the post in the wiki way -- a blog post which everyone can edit. We'll need to take a look at available extensions and think about RSS feeds, comments etc. Personally, I think this would be rather COOL. Thoughts?CheersWayneHi Wayne --The Planet approach looks promising, as does a community blog.We come to Wikieducator from different walks of life, so I'll tell some of my story as a use case example, including how I find myself promoting Wikieducator to peers, in hopes of attracting more content, such as lesson plans.As someone involved with the Buckminster Fuller corpus, one of its long haul champions (since 1980s), I found Wikieducator gave me a fresh context, complete with well thought out tools, to package curriculum materials I've been collecting and refining for many years, sometimes in collaboration, sometimes alone.Now that I have a small suite of pages, I'm looking for more internal links to pages others are working on. I'm also out recruiting a breed of math teacher not afraid to innovate, to tackle new challeges. One of those challenges is how to bring more experiences with computer languages into everyday math learning.I just posted another update to Math Forum hosted by Drexel University, circling the new Sample MM Lesson Plan I just added yesterday. MM = Martian Math, one of four broad brush stroke topical areas designed to work either in unison, or as standalone modules. Martian Math is where we allow ourselves to get futuristic. The geometry seems alien. And yet it's correct, precise, accessible and with a strong track record of applications, especially in architecture, chemistry and biology. I'm always shocked that more teachers aren't already covering this same material. I have little competition and it's a big world so wouldn't fear it, plus my efforts seem obscure to the extent no one else joins me in doing this work (at the college level, you'll find more overlap, but even here it's a bleak landscape these days).My motivation in using Wikieducator to publish free content, is to encourage more teachers to pick up the ball and run with it, maybe tell me about it later.As you can see, I believe in my product and so my recruiting drive sometimes has that salemanish fanatical tinge, but that's expected in a true believer, any died-in-the-wool world game player of any stripe. One needs driven individuals such as myself simply to get over the various learning curves associated with learning to use Wikieducator effectively. I'm still just a newcomer Wikibuddy and feel I have a long way to go on that score, yet have made excellent progress thanks to a supportive infrastructure and the benign, philanthropic motives of WE's leadership.I'll post a link to that post in the Math Forum when it appears (this is a moderated list), so you can better see how I promote Wikieducator to my audience. In the meantime, I have this short essay on Constructivism that might interest a few here (Ed Cherlin for example):http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2019948tstart=0My guess is a lot of teachers do something similar: get their materials on-line and then face a peer group, suggesting a come on in, the water's fine attitude. Having a large repository of interlinked courseware is what everyone thinks is necessary (me included). I appreciate your work and encourage you to keep doing it. Our global university (GU) thanks you -- I use GU
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:40 PM, joyce.mckni...@esc.edu wrote: I think the more we work together to edit things the better...It not only helps clarify ideas, it gives us all practice on the best ways to do it collaboratively and cordially. Joyce McKnight, SUNY Empire State College *kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com* Sent by: wikieducator@googlegroups.com 12/12/2009 09:25 AM PSTPlease respond towikieduca...@googlegroups.com To wikieducator@googlegroups.com cc bcc Joyce McKnight/SUNY Subject Re: [WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter? Adding to my own use case (story) along these lines: use_case user = Kirby Urner I came to Wikieducator thanks to Maria Droujkova and her Math 2.0 group which has this mathfuture Google Group. Ed Cherlin and I have crossed paths on that list as well. We had an international webinar on WizIQ about Wikieducator in particular (on Oct 31 of this year) and at that point I joined. Since I'm an avid Python fan who has attended some conferences, rubbed shoulders with the great Guido, Tim Peters, other luminaries, I went straight to the PYTHON TUTORIALS page, found through the search box. What I found was an excellent beginning, and it seemed encouraged by the Wiki medium and culture that I should add considerably to that page, including more today. I contacted the original author with my appreciative comments and indications of my intentions to add more material, about functions, generators and classes for example. She and I and whatever other interested parties could grow this page together. This all came after establishing a user page and working through some of the tutorials, coming from prior experience with Wikis, including Wikipedia where I've made a few changes. I got my WIkibuddy certification around then too. The PYTHON TUTORIALS page has had a couple links added by people other than myself, but no substantial writing or rewrites have occurred. On the other hand, probably relatively few members of the Python Software Foundation other than myself have been aware of Wikieducator? Over on the edu-sig list (one of our many special interest groups) only Ed Cherlin and I seemed to know about it, until I started archiving all these links. Anyway, just today, I posted notification to the PSF members list that I'd added a Python logo to the top of the page in question. PSF is protective of its logo but mostly has no problem with this obviously consistent use of the brand, in a free and open teaching context aimed at spreading knowledge and appreciation for the Python computer language. As to the several other pages I've constructed, another added in the last hour **, the history will show I've been doing these solo. I'm not averse to having help. Indeed, I would welcome lots and lots of assistance in getting these ideas out there, am somewhat miserable for lack of co-teachers. However, I think the curve might be (a) a Wikieducator fleshes out a vision, creates a grand design and then (b) co-teachers come along and start making improvements, as well as adding related / connected material. The beauty of this arrangement is the symmetry: each Wikieducator may assume grand designer status for some set of pages *and* still work in a team-spirited fashion as an assistant on pages where others assume responsibility for overall content. It makes sense to let pages rest with people who really know about them, but then to make provisions for organic growth and evolution, with page ownership transitioning from one generation to another. Finally, I just want to register my pleasure at finally discovering the Table button in the editor, and the two tables this enabled me to create these two: http://wikieducator.org/Martian_Math#Unpacking_Polyhedra http://wikieducator.org/Sample_MM_Lesson_Plan#Materials I find these tables quite handsome and suitable for snipping as PNGs for including elsewhere, for example here: http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/12/more-pkl-talk.html (scroll down for Table). /use_case Kirby ** in the last hour: http://wikieducator.org/Sample_CM_Lesson_Plan (my first use of [[Media:flash file]] ) -- from mars import math http://www.wikieducator.org/Digital_Math -- 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] Phil's Rants
Rant for this weekend is whether or not the WikiEducator community is really a community or not, or is the term just a means of making us feel good about ourselves? See: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle#Phil.27s_Rants 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 Twitter = Java_Bartle Join our discusssion forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening 2009/12/12 wikieducator@googlegroups.com: Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/topics WE blog or newsletter? [4 Updates] L4C at Dhaka [3 Updates] Page not showing up in category [1 Update] 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 -- 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
