) 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
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/4dsolutions
[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
I was at an EduSummit with Bender in Santa Clara not long ago.
We're still gaga for turtles although at O'Reilly I've phased in the
Tractor as the new turtle, just for some variety in what we call
the avatar. Sounds more grown-up and lets me take advantage
of social realism as a marketing tool.
The classroom is like the stage in theater, a space that may be filled
(temporarily) by any number of dramas.
Some classrooms are specialized to a specific subject and/or age group.
Some belong to a specific teacher.
Sometimes teachers, trainers, workshop leaders reserve a classroom (might
be in
I think from a student's point of view, one should think in terms of a
mix of on-line and in-person classes.
The pitfall is to think it's either / or.
The notion that we need to decide which is better? depends on the
student's specific circumstances. It's just wheel spinning to try to
decide
I teach one-on-one by means of comments, cues, other feedback, but it's all
in writing. This was the old idea of a correspondence school but with
the Internet it all happens much faster.
Such distance education schools are in addition to traditional classrooms
where people meet a teacher face to
This snippet of HTML (below), mailed to me as an infographic is a
way of pulling the jpg, tall and narrow, into a web page, where your
browser gives scrolling access.
However, if you're already in your browser, just opening the jpg file
would be an option.
I'm ambivalent about what seems to be a
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Ravi Limaye ravi.lim...@gmail.com wrote:
As a researcher, I am in process of developing Problem Based Learning
approch for Engineering subjects. Please visit my wiki
http://wikieducator.org/Problem_based_learning. Your valuable
suggestions and advice would be
I gather the red swish no picture pictures are like NULL in
the database in that not all columns have data.
Or maybe there were no missing pictures and it was my
Shockwave that crashed (in Chrome, happens often).
I don't know enough about Wikis to know if there's back
ending through queries.
My sister is a grad of a philosophy for children program in Montclair,
New Jersey, got her degree quite awhile back. Seemed a very
innovative program.
I fall back on Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics a lot, when
introducing the possibility of a tetrahedral model of 3rd powering,
actually
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 on
Greetings Rashmi --
I was checking your blog. Impressive awards and write-ups. You are
obviously a talented teacher.
I'm another mathematics type using Wikieducator to vector content to teachers.
However, our program is deliberately out of compliance with a great
many standards (on principle)
Sounds like fun.
I've contributed some materials on numeric sequences, with link to the
On-Line Encyclopedia of Same (Integer Sequences).
1, 12, 42, 92... is one I write about most, and my name appears in the
OEIS links section under that entry.
The work I've posted is cast in a contemporary
. However, perhaps one of
our American contributing partners would be able to assist with mapping to
this domain.
Appreciate your work in growing the Wikieducator family.
Cheers
Wayne
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:15 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
any plans to map
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
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.
broken (sinful, unethical) curriculum.
This spanking new Global U Library is a puzzler for economics teachers. I
don't think they get it yet.
Kirby
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:26 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.comwrote:
My rhetoric for a number of years has featured our Global U (global
My rhetoric for a number of years has featured our Global U (global
university). That's a metaphor though, on the level of Spaceship Earth --
which is only a metaphor in the sense that humans did not architect /
implement this particular spaceship (or spherical campus if you will).
It's good to
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Everyone,
abbrev
We extend an open invitation to international agencies like COL and UNESCO
to join us. We extend an open invitation to all formerly registered
tertiary
education providers of the world
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
As a part of a much longer reverie, which won't make a whole lot
of sense because I'm brainstorming about local talent and assets,
I conclude with the paragraph below. I'm looking at Wikieducator
was a window through which new content flows and enters the
meme pool as OERs.
Making a school a
Chris Fearnley, president of Synergetics Collaborative (abbreviated
SNEC for historical
reasons) recently posted this entry on OER.
Chris is a long time member of the OSS community as well, providing
Linux-related
services in the Philadelphia area and elsewhere:
I was just having lunch with my uncle, who self-published a book on
pre-WW1 submarine construction in the North Pacific region of the USA
(Seattle etc.). He shared about his dealings with Amazon, but more
generally with publishers witnessing the digital revolution. I did
his website:
Here's a blog post with information about assistive technology for the
elderly.
It was projected for a province in Canada however the project leader
giving the talk did not end up managing what he was sketching.
I'm guessing this design is still on the drawing boards, still a
little ahead of its
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
VOTING MACHINES IN SCHOOLS
Those following the many conflict-of-interest stories
that have always plagued the voting vista, might
appreciate the advisability of having schools serve
as testbeds for democracy in those systems
favoring this form of self-government (not all of
them do).
The idea is
Thank you Kim, glad to see that link.
Python and VPython are free and open source, yes. Looking
chip-to-cloud, you may encounter proprietary layers e.g. both the
aforementioned run atop Apple and Microsoft as well as Linux. Not
sure about VPython on FreeBSD -- not looking good.
The Digital
and open platform for the placement of unrestricted
materials, suitable for adaptation to local circumstances.
Kirby Urner
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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
http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner
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.
*Kirby Urner
Linus Pauling House Campus
Portland, Oregon*
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wiki, there
should be a forum or group where it's OK to share it, and without
automatically being stigmatized as anti progress or a poor teacher or
some such label.
I expect readers here agree, so again please don't take this as a lecture.
Kirby
On Jan 18, 6:49 pm, kirby urner kirby.ur
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
...
It is true that Wikipedia should never be cited as a primary source
for research. The same is generally true of other Wikis. The correct
attitude is not to ban use of Wikis, but to require that students find
the
such as are used in Google Street
Viewshttp://worldgame.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-street-view.html.
I did some searches but so far have not found any examples.
*Kirby Urner http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner*
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Jan Visser jvis...@learndev.org wrote:
Also, the color
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:50 PM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Sigh... Yes, some of our faculty are convinced that Wikipedia and by
association, all wikis, especially those that look like Wikipedia
because they use Mediawiki are evil and populated by gangs of internet
hooligans
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:25 AM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
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
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
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(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 Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Chris Harvey gnuch...@gmail.com wrote:
The way I've approached this is using planetplanet software.
You can see how I use it here.
http://superuser.com.au/planettalo
I believe many free culture communities also use planetplanet, Wikimedia
have a planet too.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Another even trickier topic for would-be epistemologists. What do you
do when the pseudoscientist, in this case Milton Friedman, has won a
Nobel Prize? Kary Mullis is another Nobel laureate turned denier, in
his case over
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Let's hear it then from the rest of you. What are your issues with
Global Warming science vs. the carbon fuel industry and their
scientific and political shills and common or garden variety dupes?
Hey there
More soon maybe, over on edu-sig perhaps? I'm been trying to find out
how we do extended precision decimal stuff in Scheme. Pretty easy no?
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2009-November/009675.html
Kirby Urner
isepp.org (board)
python.org (voting member)
wikieducator.org (wikibuddy
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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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
trim
I'm glad we live in a parallel processing system such that if Lower48
USA gets bogged down in fighting the Scopes Trial, turns itself into a
Monkey Island,
To expand what I wrote earlier: We have encouraging
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, kirby urner kirby.ur...@gmail.com wrote:
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So we're in agreement on that score. Good news about the Old South
though, sounds like Forest Gump has lots to celebrate.
Just
Interesting thread...
Speaking for myself, I think Wikieducator provides a fantastic shared
infrastructure, however not every teacher needs to master Web 2.0
skills to be effective.
It's OK to serve a niche, a minority, and to remain friendly to those
expressing an interest, providing a
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Jan Visser jvis...@learndev.org wrote:
GEOSET (Global Educational Outreach for Science Engineering and Technology)
is a repository of freely downloadable educational resources in the area of
science, engineering and technology available at
E-mail: jvis...@learndev.org
Check out: http://www.learndev.org and http://www.facebook.com/learndev
Blog: http://jvisser-ldi.blogspot.com/
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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 the
Example of an organization using a blog to connect to blogosphere
would be PSF on the right hand margin of this recent post re
Wikieducator content:
http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-curriculum-writing.html
PSF has a board, voting membership, charged with protecting trademark,
language
.
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
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