) in a summer school.
The students are middle school aged, but they get to use college computer
lab equipment (we discourage scientific calculators as unsuitable for any
serious 21st century curriculum).
Kirby Urner
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 7:55 PM Wayne Mackintosh
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> C
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 3:07 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This course looked like an interesting way of dividing through a huge
> volume of material, providing a unifying heuristic, a set of categories,
> from using it, to finding it, to sharing i
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 3:07 PM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:
<< SNIP >>
> To incentivize around the integrity of the individual makes for a
> strong beginning, with protecting a company's perimeter, a team's,
> a family's, a part of the follow-
ay:
http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2016/04/code-school-gift-shop.html
Kirby
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[2] http://insights.cermacademy.com/tag/kirby-urner/
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Valerie Taylor <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> DeAnza College f
.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/9026566473/in/album-72157625646071793/
(no tractors here, but you get the idea)
Speaking of which, positive mention of Wikieducator in the Python News
post I just published:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2015-May/011242.html
Kirby
On Tue
but one of many staging
options.
Many well educated people will not and/or have not spent much time in such
rooms. More power to 'em.
Kirby
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Sraban Bag sraban@gmail.com wrote:
Classrooms are important in-fact plays an important part in the whole
process
which is better in general? (not a useful question).
Both are useful (and each comes in many flavors within those broad categories).
Kirby
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:06 AM, gene loeb genel...@gmail.com wrote:
This is a very valuable discussion. I have been stidying various
non-traditional ways
the teacher be physically distant does not mean there's no personal
attention. One need not remain anonymous. On the other hand, if one is
shy, or has no local access to such teachers, but does have Internet
connectivity... technology here offers a sympatico (congenial) solution.
Kirby
On Sun, Jan
medical record in the middle)
Just back from us.pycon 2012 == 2500+ geeks in Santa Clara brought
together by a computer language:
http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2012/03/us-pycon-2012.html (my article
-- before the fact)
/aside
Kirby
http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner
** sources:
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deployable to
remote areas.
Training with web cams, sensors, setting up wifi, are the kinds of
skills needed to engage in different kinds of environmental
monitoring.
Kirby
Related posting:
http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/msg/ef21df758d1cc25b
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by each
student -- some paragraphs are also by the student, so
its a textbook you personalize yourself, like a baby book.
Anyway, just musing on the capabilities of Wiki front ends,
vis-a-vis our evolving back ends these days.
Kirby
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Alison Snieckus
alison.sniec
. Billy in this regard and his Church of
Stop Shopping. I just watched the documentary last night and have
rarely met a philosopher I respect more.
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:01 AM, rash Kath mathclass_k...@yahoo.co.inwrote:
Dear Patricia,
Thanks for making the work simpler.
Regards
Dear Kirby,
I visited your page. Its impressive and full of loads of information.
Thanks for sharing the link. Are you interested in working on hands
) -- not sure how useful in your context.
Thought I'd mention it anyway.
http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner
Kirby
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Rashmi Kathuria
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Dear all,
I am a Mathematics teacher working in India. I am interested in
developing
).
Kirby
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Sebastian Panakal
sebastianpana...@gmail.com wrote:
Shijna,
COUNT ME IN.
Regards
Sebastian Panakal
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:26 AM, shijna shi...@gmail.com wrote:
I wish to do a project in math as part of free content in wikieducator
as my
I think that's messed up and any edu should be able to compete for a
domain name via an onshore footprint service that creates nominal
stateside status for domain name NGOs. Dot mil is already riddled
with proxies and anyway what's the point in keeping a global service
in a parochial box?
Kirby
any plans to map wikieducator.edu ? down the road, it's make a good mirror.
i've continued to point clients to resources on wikieducator as a good
site of OER materials.
When you're trying to throw stuff together in a hurry, you need to not
get bogged down in permissions.
kirby
http
I'm noticing the date: April Fools Day.
If that's not intentional, it should be.
I'm thinking it's intentional.
Kirby
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank You Steve for the information.
OER's to “FOERSTER”
“Open Educational Resources”, or OERs
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Kirby,
Absolutely! I Agree -- I think the open web is the Global U -- it will
continue to grow, innovate and flourish as a non-institutional phenomenon
and should be preserved and protected imho.
I'm
to have a non-institutional backdrop to establish prior art lest
any confused person think they have a lock on the global university idea.
Kirby
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Richard
Yes the Tapscott Williams paper encompasses a number
available
that is as good or better than most of the for-fee stuff
out there. Wikieducator could be a good host for some of
that.
In some areas, such as STEM, this is actually happening i.e.
the free Web is doing a better job than any of the costlier
sources.
Kirby
PS: in the meantime, there's
FYI, making contact with OpenStudy.
There's been subsequent message traffic and an uptick in visits to
Martian Math / Wikieducator as a result.
Kirby
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Date: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Subject: Greetings re
for making Wikiedcuator a leading launch point
for open education resources (open data, open source etc.).
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http://wikieducator.org/Digital_Math
I'm happy to have these various communities pooling their initiatives
and developing
more mutual awareness.
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(noting in passing that many
precious metals are recycled, not mined anew).
Kirby
** bus number is the number of people that'd need to be hit by the
proverbial bus before a project would seem pretty much unintelligible
to the other geeks, i.e. there'd be no one left to pass the torch.
Low bus numbers
time, but maybe some communities are already
implementing it?
Basic idea: passive (non-intrusive) home monitoring, raising call
me flags with supervisory staff in the case of software-detected
exceptions.
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2005/07/wanderers-meeting-200575.html
Kirby
On Sun, Oct 3
you for your work,
Kirby Urner
http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner
[1] http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2007/06/our-global-u-advertisement.html
[2] http://www.google.com/images?hl=ensource=imghpq=ganesh
PS: I was in China in the early 1970s and treasure the memories. I
was a much younger man
.
http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/internet-is-broken.html
The post just before it chronicles Congressman Wu's recent
visit to our esoteric little conference (only about 250 attendees).
Kirby
** entertaining true story: our local police department in
Hillsboro, home of Intel, was feeling
Math of which Martian Math is a part is on Wikieducator
for the express purpose of encouraging teachers to freely adapt this
material to their own needs and circumstances, free of charge or
royalty payments. That's a trend in liberal arts, a way to defend
important freedoms.
Kirby
PS: since last
and open platform for the placement of unrestricted
materials, suitable for adaptation to local circumstances.
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community).
I would encourage other educators to come forward
with use cases i.e. descriptions of how they're using
this technology. That would help others get some ideas
about how they might more effectively network perhaps.
Kirby Urner
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PS: speaking
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Wayne Mackintosh
mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote:
kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
WE pages are iceberg tips in ecosystems that
only tenuously overlap with one another.
Hi Kirby,
Thanks for highlighting this -- great post :-). In my thinking
of weaving my web.
Some webs are tight enough to make specific WE pages feel a part
of entirely different scenarios, yet the WE context provides a
familiar look and feel nonetheless, which tends to be comforting
in some zip codes.
Kirby Urner
http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner
http
from searches.
Seems like an open environment like this one could experiment with sharing
some metadata publicly. I seem to recall some page ranking (based on total
hit counts?), not sure what other web stats are on tap.
Students / researchers of Wikis get hungry for data, that much I know.
Kirby
skills with new media. This is one
of the top schools in the nation. Do they teach about Mites, Sytes and
Kites? Soon if not yet I'll betcha.
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Lots of thought has gone into this, I can tell. Kudos to designer-coders.
I'd like to learn more.
Thank you again! Best wishes on the switchover in February.
Kirby
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:30 PM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Kirby
Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. I have several class assignments
looking at Wikipedia page histories and discussions so students
understand the process and the power of a collaboratively written
resource work like
: not everything is a clone of something we've had in
the past, and in some ways Wikipedia is a genuinely new phenomenon, even
though it's also correct to call it an encyclopedia. Wikieducator
likewise. Innovation proceeds apace.
Kirby
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Viewshttp://worldgame.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-street-view.html.
I did some searches but so far have not found any examples.
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Jan Visser jvis...@learndev.org wrote:
Also, the color
%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F
(sorry for the nasty URL, should work though...)
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trim
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 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
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
.
http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/
Yes indeed, Python Nation (right next to Republic of Perl) is an avid user
of Planet:
http://planet.python.org/
Kirby in Cyberia
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would categorize myself as NOT a Neo-Malthusian,
and for more context will supply this link to the Math Forum (a recent
reply to Dr. Hake, whom I often agree with and get value from
reading):
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=6916613tstart=0
Enjoy your trip to Indiana,
Kirby
Edward
literature. Lynn Margulis is a good
source of information on early Earthian biotica, the different gaseous
makeups one may take as evidence of biomass activity. These gas
disequilibria are what spectrometers look for in seeking the chemistry
of life on other planets.
Kirby
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On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
= Kirby (me)
= Edward
= Kirby
The decision tree is clear and you spell it out: is there a warming
trend (yes or no) and if yes, are humans responsible to some degree?
I think you and I would say yes and yes
Thank you Sarita. I enjoyed looking over your home page and learning
more about your work.
Kirby
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Sarita Kumar sarita.sanja...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Wish you your families Happy Thanksgiving.
Regards
Sarita
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about that (during the Duke's
event, we upgraded one of my two XOs, to a more recent version of the
system (767)).
Exactly.
Kirby
If we get a footprint for Wikieducator in some default XO distro, I'll
be sure to agitate for Martian Math and its connected modules.
There's a lot of Python
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
trim
So we're in agreement on that score. Good news about the Old South
though, sounds like Forest Gump has lots to celebrate.
Just
as well, we all do. One has many ways to express commitment.
Television provides its own set of challenges and many operating in
that industry have little to no time for contributing directly to
wikis. This is not a problem that needs fixing necessarily, just a
fact to be acknowledged.
Kirby
4D
User
include mention of said buckyballs on my Martian
Math page @ Wikieducator (nanotechnology section).
Kirby
[1] http://4dsolutions.net/synergetica/eja1.html
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Jan Visser jvis...@learndev.org wrote:
Wayne and Kirby (others?),
I agree regarding OLPC and the (limited) practice emerging from it. It’s a
different use of the technology than what’s normally being done. Papert’s
work from a long time ago is, I assume
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Wayne Mackintosh
mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kirby,
You make a good point about the potential abundance of access to digital
content. However, in reality I think we are a long way off from a world
where we have access to digital content PLUS
-based subculture, wishing to
recruit new citizens, might promote a more educated readership via
some synthesis blog that shows up in blog chatter. At PSF we think
about airport concourse signage as another way of advertising, like a
lit sign in some tunnel in O'Hare with our just use it slogan.
Kirby
.
That would give casual browsers, thinking about jumping in, a sense of
what the waters are like.
In that sense, I could see this linked post being one such random sample.
Thanks for your work in providing this valuable world service.
Kirby Urner
User:KirbyUrner
4dsolutions.net
Institute for Science
to do that.
Kirby
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On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I started a page about the upcoming Math 2.0 event here:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Math20Workshop#A_workshop_to_present_Wiki
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