[WikiEducator] WikiEducator maintenance outage
The WikiEducator hosting provider is conducting maintenance that will make WikiEducator unavailable Friday starting at approximately 07:00 NZDT (That is Thursday in much of the world. 18:00UTC Thursday, 8 Dec). The outage is expected to be on the order of 5 to 15 minutes. (World time calculator: http://goo.gl/UCITK ) Sorry for any inconvenience, Jim P.S. Don't forget the informal WikiEducator problem solving sessions we are having on Google+ hangouts. The next one is Friday (tomorrow) morning at 09:00 NZDT. http://wikieducator.org/User:JimTittsler/OfficeHours -- Jim Tittsler Te Anau, NZ OER Foundation http://OERfoundation.org/ -- 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: students service learning and student to be a small teacher
Hi Leo, I ran a similar program for 3 years. I taught a course for college students training to be primary school teachers. Local teachers would send us learning objectives and my students developed lesson plans. Then they taught the lessons to the students from our local schools. My students got experience, the local schools enjoyed the collaboration and their students had a unique science experience. A full description is here: http://wikieducator.org/Wikis_as_collaborative_writing_tools_in_science_education Shorter summary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9-CNlIqsY And all of the lesson plans that the students developed are here: http://wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools My students were as you say small teachers. I learned a few important lessons: 1. Teams of 3 students work well to develop and teach the younger students - if one student is ineffective or ill, the school students still have a good lesson and the teachers at the school will ask you to come back. 2. Brief lessons work well - 20 minutes on a topic is good for kids ages 6 through 9. 3. I used 6 stations and the young students rotated through the program - so 2 hours total and no time for boredom. 4. My students put everything they needed in a box; they did a trial run of the entire activity in the classroom before trying it with kids. Everything needed went back in the box. 5. 20 of my students could very easily handle 60 or more young students. We had a lot of fun, but because of staffing changes I no longer offer the program. Feel free to use any of the lessons; that's why they are on Wikieducator. It is a wonderful thing you have planned. Enjoy. Declan -- 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: students service learning and student to be a small teacher
Dear Kim and Declan , Thank you very much for your help on this we are doing something a little bit different here , we not only ask the adult college teacher to be the small teachers we are also thinking about to involve the actual promary school students ( age 11 around )for them to teach the younger students (like age 9 or the same age with them ) as an old saying goes , the best way to learn is to teach , Declan , do you think , if suppose to let you to do that , any future challenges you might think of ? leo 2011/12/8 Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com Hi Leo, I ran a similar program for 3 years. I taught a course for college students training to be primary school teachers. Local teachers would send us learning objectives and my students developed lesson plans. Then they taught the lessons to the students from our local schools. My students got experience, the local schools enjoyed the collaboration and their students had a unique science experience. A full description is here: http://wikieducator.org/Wikis_as_collaborative_writing_tools_in_science_education Shorter summary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9-CNlIqsY And all of the lesson plans that the students developed are here: http://wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools My students were as you say small teachers. I learned a few important lessons: 1. Teams of 3 students work well to develop and teach the younger students - if one student is ineffective or ill, the school students still have a good lesson and the teachers at the school will ask you to come back. 2. Brief lessons work well - 20 minutes on a topic is good for kids ages 6 through 9. 3. I used 6 stations and the young students rotated through the program - so 2 hours total and no time for boredom. 4. My students put everything they needed in a box; they did a trial run of the entire activity in the classroom before trying it with kids. Everything needed went back in the box. 5. 20 of my students could very easily handle 60 or more young students. We had a lot of fun, but because of staffing changes I no longer offer the program. Feel free to use any of the lessons; that's why they are on Wikieducator. It is a wonderful thing you have planned. Enjoy. Declan -- 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 -- Leo Wong Teacher and teacher trainer -- http://wikieducator.org/User:Leolaoshi http://www.gem-intl.edu.cn 机构博客：http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com 个人博客 http://blog.sina.com.cn/leolaoshi1 （在努力中） Skype:leolaoshi Malaysia number +006 010 2718251 - *There is something very special and powerful about engaging directly with the real teacher and real Kids.* -- 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: students service learning and student to be a small teacher
在 2011年12月8日 上午10:42，Wong Leo leolao...@gmail.com写道： Dear Kim and Declan , Thank you very much for your help on this we are doing something a little bit different here , we not only ask the adult college teacher to be the small teachers we are also thinking about to involve the actual promary school students ( age 11 around )for them to teach the younger students (like age 9 or the same age with them ) as an old saying goes , the best way to learn is to teach , Declan , do you think , if suppose to let you to do that , any future challenges you might think of ? leo 2011/12/8 Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com Hi Leo, I ran a similar program for 3 years. I taught a course for college students training to be primary school teachers. Local teachers would send us learning objectives and my students developed lesson plans. Then they taught the lessons to the students from our local schools. My students got experience, the local schools enjoyed the collaboration and their students had a unique science experience. A full description is here: http://wikieducator.org/Wikis_as_collaborative_writing_tools_in_science_education Shorter summary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9-CNlIqsY And all of the lesson plans that the students developed are here: http://wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools My students were as you say small teachers. I learned a few important lessons: 1. Teams of 3 students work well to develop and teach the younger students - if one student is ineffective or ill, the school students still have a good lesson and the teachers at the school will ask you to come back. 2. Brief lessons work well - 20 minutes on a topic is good for kids ages 6 through 9. 3. I used 6 stations and the young students rotated through the program - so 2 hours total and no time for boredom. 4. My students put everything they needed in a box; they did a trial run of the entire activity in the classroom before trying it with kids. Everything needed went back in the box. 5. 20 of my students could very easily handle 60 or more young students. We had a lot of fun, but because of staffing changes I no longer offer the program. Feel free to use any of the lessons; that's why they are on Wikieducator. It is a wonderful thing you have planned. Enjoy. Declan -- 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 -- Leo Wong Teacher and teacher trainer -- http://wikieducator.org/User:Leolaoshi http://www.gem-intl.edu.cn 机构博客：http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com 个人博客 http://blog.sina.com.cn/leolaoshi1 （在努力中） Skype:leolaoshi Malaysia number +006 010 2718251 - *There is something very special and powerful about engaging directly with the real teacher and real Kids.* -- Leo Wong Teacher and teacher trainer -- http://wikieducator.org/User:Leolaoshi http://www.gem-intl.edu.cn 机构博客：http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com 个人博客 http://blog.sina.com.cn/leolaoshi1 （在努力中） Skype:leolaoshi Malaysia number +006 010 2718251 - *There is something very special and powerful about engaging directly with the real teacher and real Kids.* -- 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] University of Wollongong to offer low cost education - OERu in the media
From the Illawarra Mercury in Australia: *The University of Wollongong has joined a revolutionary global network that aims to make inexpensive university degrees available to the millions who can’t afford them* ... Read morehttp://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/uow-to-offer-lowcost-education/2385411.aspx Rated in the top 2% http://www.uow.edu.au/about/awards/index.html of universities in the world, the University of Wollongong is a founding anchor partnerhttp://wikieducator.org/OER_university/2011.11_Founding_OERTen_anchor_partner_statements#University_of_Wollongongof the OER Tertiary Education Network planning the implementation of the OER university. -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh Wikiblog http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog -- 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] want to share
Just want to share that we got a small recognition for our work on OER : http://www.oer-quality.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Media-Release-The-OPAL-Awards-2011.pdf and http://www.oer-quality.org/news/acharya-narendra-dev-college-university-of-delhi-india/ Am grateful to the judges :) Savithri -- Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110019 Ph: 011 26294542, 011 29293224 Res: 25848151, 25843496 Fax: 011 26294540, Res: 25848151 http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article397395.ece http://eduframe.net/andc http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://andc.info http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. -- 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] want to share
HI Savi, Thanks for sharing. CONGRATULATIONS - A well deserved accolade for your College. Your OER work has been an inspiration for the WikiEducator community. Your leadership in taking concrete steps to integrate OER practices in your College at the University of Dehli proves that this can be done. We are going to do our best to follow your example. Well done Ancharya Narendra Dev College Wayne On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.comwrote: Just want to share that we got a small recognition for our work on OER : http://www.oer-quality.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Media-Release-The-OPAL-Awards-2011.pdf and http://www.oer-quality.org/news/acharya-narendra-dev-college-university-of-delhi-india/ Am grateful to the judges :) Savithri -- Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110019 Ph: 011 26294542, 011 29293224 Res: 25848151, 25843496 Fax: 011 26294540, Res: 25848151 http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article397395.ece http://eduframe.net/andc http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://andc.info http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. -- 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 -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh Wikiblog http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog -- 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
