[WikiEducator] Re: Final Call for Proposals

2009-09-07 Thread Jane Hornibrrook
Hi all, I've recently started to revive relevant education event listings (including calls for proposals) on the New Zealand Humanities Research Network website. At present, the site doesn't yet allow users to upload their own events, but in the meantime feel free to send any calls for proposals

[WikiEducator] Re: A new logo for WikiEducator -- Your ideas and thoughts

2009-09-07 Thread Amihai Bannett
I like the current logo better. Amihai On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jesse -- Yeah -- the vector skin really rocks! Kudos to WMF and the usability team. You've got to love the open source development model: - WikiEducator will

[WikiEducator] What is technology really providing the teacher?

2009-09-07 Thread Phil Bartle
As Ben said: Although technology can be a place where information is stored, I think it goes beyond that. At one level, a power law distribution is at play in that a small number of people control the majority of information (e.g., wikipedia). But more importantly, those of us along the right

[WikiEducator] Style guide draft policy update

2009-09-07 Thread Jesse Groppi
Hi all, Since I haven't had an comments in a while, I'm just going to go ahead and announce the draft policy proposal http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines/Guideline_policy_proposal as being a complete final draft. This is for the purpose of the community council meeting

[WikiEducator] New Learning4Content Workshop coming up

2009-09-07 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Dear All, Please help and spread the word to your interested friends and colleagues for a new Learning4Content workshop, which is scheduled to take place from September 21, to October 2, 2009. Please register here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration Apologies for

[WikiEducator] Re: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer

2009-09-07 Thread Alison Snieckus
Wonderful discussion. As to the use of the term teacher and teaching, I've been wondering lately if we educators who are interested in how we learn and how we help other people learn, including through teaching, when it can’t be avoided, but preferably through a wider variety of means and

[WikiEducator] Re: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer

2009-09-07 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Alison Snieckus alison.sniec...@gmail.comwrote: Wonderful discussion. As to the use of the term teacher and teaching, I've been wondering lately if we educators who are interested in how we learn and how we help other people learn, including through teaching,