[WikiEducator] Re: TRINIDAD and TOBAGO's PHYSICS Teachers join WIKI

2009-03-06 Thread Günther Osswald
Dear colleagues from Trinidad and Tobago, a warm welcome to our WE community! I'm a physics and math teacher from Germany working collaboratively with Ugandan teachers on an innovation of Ugandan physics teaching. Please have a kind look at our site:

[WikiEducator] Europeana: New digital library

2008-11-21 Thread Günther Osswald
Hi all, for some of you it will be interesting to hear that the European Community launches the prototype of a a new digital library, containing 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers. And: The

[WikiEducator] Re: Free materials for primary education in physics available

2008-10-30 Thread Günther Osswald
Hi Maria, just follow my link to get more info on SUPRA. I just repeat: http://www.edu.uni-muenchen.de/supra/ BTW, welcome to WikiEd from my side! I've taken a look at your naturalmath.com website. Attractive layout and a creative idea. Appealing! As you may have seen, I'm math teacher and know

[WikiEducator] Free materials for primary education in physics available

2008-10-29 Thread Günther Osswald
Dear WikiEducators, Celebration! SUPRA is free! The University of Munich/Germany (LMU) has released about 1000 pages of high quality materials for elementary education in physics (and local history) under the CC-BY license. See my post of July 2, 2008:

[WikiEducator] Re: The first K12 L4C kicked off today

2008-10-15 Thread Günther Osswald
Hi Peter, your group is pretty closed, I can't even see the posts. Right now, I have 36 high school wiki newbies on WE, and maybe some of them would like to join in, but they'd like to see what's going on there first. Regards, Günther --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[WikiEducator] Re: WikEd code updated

2008-10-08 Thread Günther Osswald
Hi Eric, thanks for your restless work! Would you please tell me the steps to be done to upload a picture from Wikimedia Commons directly to WE? This seems to me a good shortcut to make pages interesting! Thanks, Günther --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[WikiEducator] Re: First Draft of Featured Works

2008-10-01 Thread Günther Osswald
Hi Peter, being new to this topic I'd like to ask you for some guidance. If I want to get the needed background to understand what you are writing about, what should I read? My pre-knowledge is unfortunately zero :-( Regards Günther --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[WikiEducator] Re: Should we turn off LQT

2008-08-20 Thread Günther Osswald
The same like Brent with me. Günther --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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:

[WikiEducator] Re: Privacy Policy

2008-07-22 Thread Günther Osswald
Hi Peter, don't you want to run for candidate in the WE council elections? Would be a pity if not .. Greetings from Bavaria, Günther --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit

[WikiEducator] Re: How to get teaching materials translated and converted?

2008-07-03 Thread Günther Osswald
Hi all, hi Leo, Seth Thanks for your feedbacks! The problem with volunteers is, that they don't have them. My proposal to engage their own students for wikifying was rejected, because working in a wiki is not what they teach at this department. It is even new to the teachers themselves. I think

[WikiEducator] How to get teaching materials translated and converted?

2008-07-02 Thread Günther Osswald
Hi friends, the University of Munich (LMU), department for the didactics of physics, plans to get their materials for primary education on-line on WE. According to their own estimations, the size is about 1000 pages. The project is called SUPRA, and contains lesson plans and handouts

[WikiEducator] Re: 4,000+ users; congratulationsonanothermilestone

2008-06-23 Thread Günther Osswald
Hi all, may I add some critical thoughts to the upcoming WE edit count sports? 1) The number of edits an author reaches depends much on his editing habits. Some of my students f. ex. always press the save-button for every even minor change, while I prefer to first get the edit finished using the