[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-05 Thread Peter
Wow Truely enlightened words Leigh. All that stone throwing really paid off, eh. Seriously. This is an amazing list, I am in full support of every point. And in regards to point 9. I vote for differentiating ourselves radically from a MediaWiki Foundation model. We do need to become very

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Peter, The news item is very impressive. 64 of grade 12 students students are interested in collaborating with students from other countries. So far, I managed to find a school in Washington, DC for 32 of my grade 11 students. I would like to see a lot more high school kids on WE. Warm wishes,

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Thanks Nellie, I look forward to the review of this project early next summer to see how we did in relation to what we have aspired to do... So far it has been exceeding my expectations. I certianly hope we can meet our definition of success;

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Peter, This is a wiki. You are more than welcome to anything that my students and I have added. You may add to it and place it or replace it, add to it, and place it where you think it would be appropriate. I would love for someone to finally play around with the wiki pages like they would with

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Nellie, Perhaps in your comment below, there are the seeds of an idea What if, at some point, there were a cluster of WikiEducators - who decidedmaybe in a conference setting - to work as a group, and collaborate on a group of pages, on a given topic, or theme This could be

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Randy, This is how I see the wiki working. I thought we all did. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.nelliemuller.com http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd http://www.building-relationship.com/education

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Nellie, Yes, I do too But we have a GAP, from where we are right now - to where we want to be A smaller, focused effort, which then reports its findings / experience to the larger whole, might be a good way to help us to get where we want to be. - Randy On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:31

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Leigh Blackall
Hi Peter, I really like the spin on the wording that that journo has done: WikiEducator looks like Wikipedia. In fact, it uses the same software. And, like the online encyclopedia, its mission is ambitious. It seeks to put all the world's educational materials online and make them freely

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Leigh, With all due respect, Not that I disagree with what you are saying its just that I think you need a new pair of glasses. You seem to be reading a lot into things and being overly pessimistic about good works. In the big navel gazing world we live in, it is good people are putting efforts

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Leigh Blackall
Hi Peter, You said: I challenge you to point me to something better than WE in bringing an international set of educators together to create a free curriculum Now I'm worried (though I'm relieved you dance :) a free curriculum, surely a slip of the tongue Peter? The Internet is bringing

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Leigh Blackall
Oh, BTW.. I hope you're not thinking I am poo pooing the K12 project! Not at all! In fact I have already forwarded the story onto a number of people. I especially like the fact that it is more student generated. Just checking that you aren't relating my highlight of a particular way of describing

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Maria Droujkova
Education is a set of tools we grab as needed, for our current work and play. Starting from that (radical unschooling) position... What are things I can be doing with our local math clubs that go beyond personal and intra-club meanings, and toward community meanings? Kids creating purely

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Wong Leo
Hey Peter and Leigh , I really like the conversation , and want to bring some of my 2 cents , and again from Chinese perspective , I just got back from Hongkong , Let me start from the newspaper reading from Hongkong, In hongkong if you have been , you take MTR a lot and they give you free

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Wong Leo
btw I received some of personal emails /invitations from WE members during last month , I didnot have the internet access when I was at Hongkong for my internship , I will get back to all of you ASAP , really sorry for that , Leo 2008/11/5 Wong Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Peter and Leigh ,

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Not smellin' any poop Leigh... but thanks. On Nov 4, 4:41 pm, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, BTW.. I hope you're not thinking I am poo pooing the K12 project! Not at all! In fact I have already forwarded the story onto a number of people. I especially like the fact that it is

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Leigh, I guess we are in non-violent agreement then... ah so were back to the collaborative networky thing... so what does it take to build a node on the network? Is WE just going through the standard lifecycle of becoming a node? Now, I want to see you dance! Peter On Nov 4, 4:36 pm,