[WikiEducator] Editing Course TOC
Many thanks to all of you and especially to Wayne and Gladys and those who helped me with the templates. It is a great working atmosphere. Phil --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Editing Course TOC
My pleasure Phil, Gladys G. On 10 feb, 06:00, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks to all of you and especially to Wayne and Gladys and those who helped me with the templates. It is a great working atmosphere. Phil --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] school wikipedia
http://schools-wikipedia.org/ -- Leo Wong -- http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/ HELP --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Up for Grabs
I'll step up. Sounds like fun... Unless I read a lot of nay sayers, consider me; Peter Rawsthorne one of the UPE volunteers. Cheers, Peter On Feb 9, 3:01 pm, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: For newcomers to Wikieducator, UPE stands for the User Page of the Month award:http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Minhaaj ur Rehman minh...@gmail.comwrote: Well sorry for missing a month at UPE and probably too late for this one. I would like to announce that UPE is up for grabs. If someone want to volunteer in awarding UPEs, you are most welcome. Steve and I have been too busy in real life stuff that probably won't be as active as before. Step up :) -- -- Leigh Blackall+64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalposthttp://learnonline.wordpress.comhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Up for Grabs
Hi Peter, I will be happy to join you as a volunteer. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller skype:nelliedeutschmuller On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Peter prawstho...@gmail.com wrote: I'll step up. Sounds like fun... Unless I read a lot of nay sayers, consider me; Peter Rawsthorne one of the UPE volunteers. Cheers, Peter On Feb 9, 3:01 pm, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: For newcomers to Wikieducator, UPE stands for the User Page of the Month award:http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Minhaaj ur Rehman minh...@gmail.com wrote: Well sorry for missing a month at UPE and probably too late for this one. I would like to announce that UPE is up for grabs. If someone want to volunteer in awarding UPEs, you are most welcome. Steve and I have been too busy in real life stuff that probably won't be as active as before. Step up :) -- -- Leigh Blackall+64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalposthttp://learnonline.wordpress.comhttp:// www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Up for Grabs
Minhaaj wrote: Well sorry for missing a month at UPE and probably too late for this one. I would like to announce that UPE is up for grabs. If someone want to volunteer in awarding UPEs, you are most welcome. Steve and I have been too busy in real life stuff that probably won't be as active as before. Step up :) It's true -- I've discovered that my doctoral program requires lot of, you know, actual work. But I'm very pleased that others enjoy the User Page Expo enough to keep it going. In fact, now I can nominate people and let others do the write ups! The conspiracy continues! -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://wikieducator.org/steve http://community.elearners.com/blogs/atsu/default.aspx --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: school wikipedia
I think it's a really bad idea. It kills many key ideals of Wikipedia in general and wikis in particular. For example, it makes students consumers rather than creators of content, and removes any possibility of current relevance and constant updating of the information. It also re-institutes the division into experts and everybody else. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Wong Leo leolao...@gmail.com wrote: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ -- Leo Wong -- http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/ HELP -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Up for Grabs
Peter, this would be great, if you could do it. I was going to volunteer as well, unless somebody had an objection? Warmest, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:48 AM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Up for Grabs I'll step up. Sounds like fun... Unless I read a lot of nay sayers, consider me; Peter Rawsthorne one of the UPE volunteers. Cheers, Peter On Feb 9, 3:01 pm, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: For newcomers to Wikieducator, UPE stands for the User Page of the Month award:http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Minhaaj ur Rehman minh...@gmail.comwrote: Well sorry for missing a month at UPE and probably too late for this one. I would like to announce that UPE is up for grabs. If someone want to volunteer in awarding UPEs, you are most welcome. Steve and I have been too busy in real life stuff that probably won't be as active as before. Step up :) -- -- Leigh Blackall+64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalposthttp://learnonline.wordpress.comhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Up for Grabs
That's great, Patricia. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller skype:nelliedeutschmuller On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Peter, this would be great, if you could do it. I was going to volunteer as well, unless somebody had an objection? Warmest, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:48 AM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Up for Grabs I'll step up. Sounds like fun... Unless I read a lot of nay sayers, consider me; Peter Rawsthorne one of the UPE volunteers. Cheers, Peter On Feb 9, 3:01 pm, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: For newcomers to Wikieducator, UPE stands for the User Page of the Month award:http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Minhaaj ur Rehman minh...@gmail.com wrote: Well sorry for missing a month at UPE and probably too late for this one. I would like to announce that UPE is up for grabs. If someone want to volunteer in awarding UPEs, you are most welcome. Steve and I have been too busy in real life stuff that probably won't be as active as before. Step up :) -- -- Leigh Blackall+64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalposthttp://learnonline.wordpress.comhttp:// www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] WE (mathematics) efforts need to go b eyond another “Wikipedia repeat”
While one can appreciate the time and effort that goes into collecting information from Wikipedia to develop the mathematics pages which are in SCHOOL-WIKIPEDIA.ORG , I hope that WikiEducator will not follow the same path. Only machines learn from definitions; human beings need examples (sometimes a lot!) to learn. For example “I am the cat” and the opposite is “I am not the cat”. Does more to create the foundation for understanding the term “negation”; than “Negation is the process that turns an affirmative statement into its opposite”. Beginning and developing conceptualization of terms and ideas is what primary and to some extent secondary school learning is all about. Everyday situations generalized to become definitions is what learning is about at these levels. To help nations develop their own mathematics programs WikiEducator would be wise to go beyond the usual definitions provide by other Wiki’s, and concentrate on providing examples and illustrations. This way educational leaders can select terms and ideas that meet their nation’s needs for mathematics. And strangely even in the so called “mathematically rich nations” with their multiple mathematical programs need to have a mechanism so that they can rethink about what mathematics concepts should continue and what new terms and concepts should be brought into elementary and secondary schools. The world’s need for mathematics is changing Jim Kelly --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: WE (mathematics) efforts need to go beyond another “Wikipedia repeat”
Jim, I completely agree. I'll go one step farther - examples need to be realistic in some areas of math, particularly statistics and probability. Which begs the question realistic for who? suggesting the need for multiple examples with different contexts. We had a recent discussion on the MathGloss (designed for learners aged 5-18) talk page about this need. It's the examples and, I would add, the tips for creation or interpretation that will be essential elements going into the next phase of design for math learning resources. I also agree that what needs to be learned in math is changing. IMO, aspects of algebra II are becoming outdated (e.g., all of the rules and methods for factoring complex polynomials). Over the last 10 years, there's been much talk (and some action) on including statistics and probability as courses in secondary school in the US. For example, I recently went looking for a pie chart to include as an example. Of all of the freely-available images of pie charts that I looked at I think only one was constructed to my satisfaction. I ended up making my own. OK, so can you tell that my background is in data analysis and statistics? If you are nterested in making this vision of math learning resources a reality, join us on the WikiEducator MathGloss project. Hope to see you there, Alison Snieckus, WE user: ASnieckus On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM, jkelly952 jkelly...@sbcglobal.net wrote: While one can appreciate the time and effort that goes into collecting information from Wikipedia to develop the mathematics pages which are in SCHOOL-WIKIPEDIA.ORG , I hope that WikiEducator will not follow the same path. Only machines learn from definitions; human beings need examples (sometimes a lot!) to learn. For example I am the cat and the opposite is I am not the cat. Does more to create the foundation for understanding the term negation; than Negation is the process that turns an affirmative statement into its opposite. Beginning and developing conceptualization of terms and ideas is what primary and to some extent secondary school learning is all about. Everyday situations generalized to become definitions is what learning is about at these levels. To help nations develop their own mathematics programs WikiEducator would be wise to go beyond the usual definitions provide by other Wiki's, and concentrate on providing examples and illustrations. This way educational leaders can select terms and ideas that meet their nation's needs for mathematics. And strangely even in the so called mathematically rich nations with their multiple mathematical programs need to have a mechanism so that they can rethink about what mathematics concepts should continue and what new terms and concepts should be brought into elementary and secondary schools. The world's need for mathematics is changing Jim Kelly --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: UPE team
Wow, that's a great response from WE volunteers to continue the User Page Exbo initiative! Looks like we have a team to support the monthly UPE award: * Peter Rawsthorne * Nellie Deutsch * Patricia Schilcht With thanks to Minhaaj and Steve who established this popular WE feature. Cheers Wayne On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 09:10 -0800, Patricia Schlicht wrote: Peter, this would be great, if you could do it. I was going to volunteer as well, unless somebody had an objection? Warmest, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:48 AM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Up for Grabs I'll step up. Sounds like fun... Unless I read a lot of nay sayers, consider me; Peter Rawsthorne one of the UPE volunteers. Cheers, Peter On Feb 9, 3:01 pm, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.com wrote: For newcomers to Wikieducator, UPE stands for the User Page of the Month award:http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Minhaaj ur Rehman minh...@gmail.comwrote: Well sorry for missing a month at UPE and probably too late for this one. I would like to announce that UPE is up for grabs. If someone want to volunteer in awarding UPEs, you are most welcome. Steve and I have been too busy in real life stuff that probably won't be as active as before. Step up :) -- -- Leigh Blackall+64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalposthttp://learnonline.wordpress.comhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: WE (mathematics) efforts need to go beyo nd another “Wikipedia repeat”
Hi Jim, Great post! I too hope that WikiEducator will evolve in ways which support the unique demands and character of educational resources. Already WE is demonstrating organic growth in a variety of pedagogical approaches, for example: * Leigh Blackall's innovative course on Designing for Flexible Learning Practice, which is a unique combination of activity based learning where the course activities are guided with the help of wiki pages and learner self reflection using individual learner blogs (See: http://www.wikieducator.org/Designing_for_flexible_learning_practice ) * Open Textbook approaches as exemplified by the OER Handbook for Educators (See: http://www.wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one ) * Independent study designs building on distance education design approaches as illustrated by the WikiEducator Tutorials (See for instance: http://www.wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/What_is_a_wiki ) * The development of glossaries to support multiple OER projects within the wiki --- like the Math Glossary (See: http://www.wikieducator.org/MathGloss ) That said, I think that the potential that the wiki platform can offer us for remixing pages to support multiple audiences and pedagogical approaches remains under utilised. It is conceivable that we could build multiple learning sequences from collections of wiki pages that are combined (transcluded) in interesting ways. It would be great if we could develop a few examples of transclusion (i.e. creating pages / courses which are remixed from other pages in the wiki). - As our wiki-design experience matures we could think about developing a tutorial on remixing resources for effective learning. Thanks for your insightful post :-) Cheers Wayne On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:28 -0800, jkelly952 wrote: While one can appreciate the time and effort that goes into collecting information from Wikipedia to develop the mathematics pages which are in SCHOOL-WIKIPEDIA.ORG , I hope that WikiEducator will not follow the same path. Only machines learn from definitions; human beings need examples (sometimes a lot!) to learn. For example “I am the cat” and the opposite is “I am not the cat”. Does more to create the foundation for understanding the term “negation”; than “Negation is the process that turns an affirmative statement into its opposite”. Beginning and developing conceptualization of terms and ideas is what primary and to some extent secondary school learning is all about. Everyday situations generalized to become definitions is what learning is about at these levels. To help nations develop their own mathematics programs WikiEducator would be wise to go beyond the usual definitions provide by other Wiki’s, and concentrate on providing examples and illustrations. This way educational leaders can select terms and ideas that meet their nation’s needs for mathematics. And strangely even in the so called “mathematically rich nations” with their multiple mathematical programs need to have a mechanism so that they can rethink about what mathematics concepts should continue and what new terms and concepts should be brought into elementary and secondary schools. The world’s need for mathematics is changing Jim Kelly --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: WE (mathematics) efforts need to go beyo nd another “Wikipedia repeat”
Hi Alison, I agree -- nothing supports learning better than a good example! I hope that you released the pie-chart you created under a free content license ;-). I'm observing the development of the Math Glossary with great interest -- I wish I had more time to engage with this development. I was a learning designer in one of my past lives and am fascinated by the approaches emerging in WE. What's interesting about examples is that they are strongly influenced by the learning context (eg. culture, preknowledge, teaching approach etc.) -- perhaps more in the humanities than the hard sciences. This raises a challenge for us in WikiEducator regarding how we structure resources, examples and activities for different educational contexts and purposes. I'm really looking forward to seeing what emerges over time. Another dimension for potential development in WikiEducator would be in the area of teacher guidelines, tips and experiences to supplement the OERs we're developing. After all -- we're a community of educators and sharing best practice and experience would be a great way to add value to our work. While this dimension has not received much attention yet, I should cite the Declan McCabe's work on the Biology for Elementary Schools project (See: http://www.wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools ). These teaching materials include guidelines for teachers and reflections on implementing the lessons. Cheers Wayne On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 14:14 -0500, Alison Snieckus wrote: Jim, I completely agree. I'll go one step farther - examples need to be realistic in some areas of math, particularly statistics and probability. Which begs the question realistic for who? suggesting the need for multiple examples with different contexts. We had a recent discussion on the MathGloss (designed for learners aged 5-18) talk page about this need. It's the examples and, I would add, the tips for creation or interpretation that will be essential elements going into the next phase of design for math learning resources. I also agree that what needs to be learned in math is changing. IMO, aspects of algebra II are becoming outdated (e.g., all of the rules and methods for factoring complex polynomials). Over the last 10 years, there's been much talk (and some action) on including statistics and probability as courses in secondary school in the US. For example, I recently went looking for a pie chart to include as an example. Of all of the freely-available images of pie charts that I looked at I think only one was constructed to my satisfaction. I ended up making my own. OK, so can you tell that my background is in data analysis and statistics? If you are nterested in making this vision of math learning resources a reality, join us on the WikiEducator MathGloss project. Hope to see you there, Alison Snieckus, WE user: ASnieckus On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM, jkelly952 jkelly...@sbcglobal.net wrote: While one can appreciate the time and effort that goes into collecting information from Wikipedia to develop the mathematics pages which are in SCHOOL-WIKIPEDIA.ORG , I hope that WikiEducator will not follow the same path. Only machines learn from definitions; human beings need examples (sometimes a lot!) to learn. For example I am the cat and the opposite is I am not the cat. Does more to create the foundation for understanding the term negation; than Negation is the process that turns an affirmative statement into its opposite. Beginning and developing conceptualization of terms and ideas is what primary and to some extent secondary school learning is all about. Everyday situations generalized to become definitions is what learning is about at these levels. To help nations develop their own mathematics programs WikiEducator would be wise to go beyond the usual definitions provide by other Wiki's, and concentrate on providing examples and illustrations. This way educational leaders can select terms and ideas that meet their nation's needs for mathematics. And strangely even in the so called mathematically rich nations with their multiple mathematical programs need to have a mechanism so that they can rethink about what mathematics concepts should continue and what new terms and concepts should be brought into elementary and secondary schools. The world's need for mathematics is changing Jim Kelly --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator:
[WikiEducator] 15 Useful Things Students Do with Mobile Phones
Hi Everyone, I found this 2008 University of Nottingham study on Mobile Phones and secondary education, and thought it might be of interest. http://emergingtechnologies.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/lsri_report.pdf Several interesting things caught my eye: 1. the fact that in many schools, students 'own' their mobile phones, not necessarily the computers. (Physical ownership and use feels good); 2. the list of 15 Useful Things Students Do with Mobile Phones (below) Could we use some of the 15 or more useful things to design appropriate and culturallly-relevant learning activities? What role could WikiEducator play in learning that uses mobile phones? *Fifteen useful things students did with mobile phones* 1 Timing experiments with stopwatch 2 Photographing apparatus and results of experiments for reports 3 Photographing development of design models for eportfolios 4 Photographing texts/whiteboards for future review 5 Bluetoothing project material between group members 6 Receiving SMS email reminders from teachers 7 Synchronising calendar/timetable and setting reminders 8 Connecting remotely to school learning platform 9 Recording a teacher reading a poem for revision 10 Accessing revision sites on the Internet 11 Creating short narrative movies 12 Downloading and listening to foreign language podcasts 13 Logging into the school email system 14 Using GPS to identify locations 15 Transferring files between school and home -- Randy Randy Fisher * Change/Transition Program/Project Support * Stakeholder Engagement, Collaboration Performance * Community Building Organization Development * eLearning eCoaching * Open Source Open Education + 1 604.684.2275 wikira...@gmail.com http://www.wikieducator.org - Member, WikiEducator Community Council http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher * Can You Do the Wiki-Wiki? http://www.wikieducator.org/Wiki_Wiki Skype: wikirandy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: 15 Useful Things Students Do with Mobile Phones
This is interesting! From my students: 16. Uploading stills and video to Wikieducator. The lower rez stills upload without modification. 17. Reading weather reports and suggesting we abandon a field site (feeling a little pig headed, I decided to risk staying and the storm hit 20 miles to our east) I think the phone angle is interesting. Perhaps we also need a '15 things to do with a wiki' list. Just 15 won't cut it, but a top 15 might be useful. Perhaps we can add that polling feature that some wikis use. Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] In praise of wikieducator tutorials
In previous semesters working with students on WE, I reinvented various wheels, in particular I designed my own tutorials. This year I used the WE tutorials; this year my students have encountered fewer difficulties and life has been smoother in general. So thank you Wayne, Rob, Randy, Brent, Helena, and the many other contributors to this wonderful resource. Cheers Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: school wikipedia
hey Maria , well , you are surely right , however , is there anyone here from German in this group , I heared that German has made a school policy to require the students to use wikipedia in their assessment . I am a teacher from China , I dream one day Chinese students can get access to wikiepedia , in one of classes I am teaching ( primary school ) the kids here are copying information to my winter assignment instead of creating something , I am also againist the mere information consumption ,instead of creation , but I think German is doing something right , what others think of this ? I also dream one day wikieducator can support Chinese character for both teachers and students . Leo 2009/2/11, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com: I think it's a really bad idea. It kills many key ideals of Wikipedia in general and wikis in particular. For example, it makes students consumers rather than creators of content, and removes any possibility of current relevance and constant updating of the information. It also re-institutes the division into experts and everybody else. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Wong Leo leolao...@gmail.com wrote: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ -- Leo Wong -- http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/ HELP -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations -- Leo Wong -- http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/ HELP --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Templates and student contributions
Hi Declan,
I think this is a great idea, with implications for other activities.
For example, in the L4C wiki tutorials, I could see the development of
'mini-templates', to provide feedback for students, at appropriate points in
their development.
- Randy
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com wrote:
When grading student writing, I have sometimes wished I had some
rubber stamps explaining the most common corrections. In hard-copy
writing I would not actually use a rubber stamp, but on a wiki..
After hand typing explanations of figure captions a few times, I
finally broke down and wrote a simple template:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Figures
Now I type {{Figures}} when ever I see uncaptioned figures in my
student's work.
I would not advocate such a heavy-handed approach across the whole
wiki, but I think it's a worthwhile time saver if a single writing
form is being used on the wiki by a class of students.
Cheers,
Declan
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[WikiEducator] Re: 15 Useful Things Students Do with Mobile Phones
interesting too, here are what my students do from China 18 sending messages to each other when teacher is really boring or very interesting 19 check the English words they don't know or translating them into Chinese ,which I swear if they do this again I will throw their cell-phone to the downstairs , sometime they tranlating words like Good Good Study Day day Up 20 Receive the daily free SMS and send it around 21 Steal the cellphone ,and upload a monkey pic to teacher's own computer in the office in the lunkch time 2009/2/11, Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com: This is interesting! From my students: 16. Uploading stills and video to Wikieducator. The lower rez stills upload without modification. 17. Reading weather reports and suggesting we abandon a field site (feeling a little pig headed, I decided to risk staying and the storm hit 20 miles to our east) I think the phone angle is interesting. Perhaps we also need a '15 things to do with a wiki' list. Just 15 won't cut it, but a top 15 might be useful. Perhaps we can add that polling feature that some wikis use. Cheers, Declan -- Leo Wong -- http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/ HELP --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: In praise of wikieducator tutorials
Hey Declan, Appreciate the feedback on the WE tutorials :-). We designed these tutorials for independent self-study and am very pleased that they have made life a little easier for your course. In hindsight this has been an excellent investment for WE -- these tutorials have helped thousands of educators judging by the number of page views. Thinking about the future -- we could also have a look at encouraging your future students to enrol in one of the online L4C workshops which are presented on a monthly basis. This will also save you time and energy :-) The Biology for Elementary Schools is an amazing project -- can you imagine the impact on OER for K12 if 20 or 30 tertiary education institutions adopt your model! You should think about authoring a paper documenting this experience to help spread the word. Cheers Wayne On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:54 -0800, Declan wrote: In previous semesters working with students on WE, I reinvented various wheels, in particular I designed my own tutorials. This year I used the WE tutorials; this year my students have encountered fewer difficulties and life has been smoother in general. So thank you Wayne, Rob, Randy, Brent, Helena, and the many other contributors to this wonderful resource. Cheers Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: school wikipedia
Hi Leo, I suspect that your dreams for WE supporting Chinese may become a reality in the near future :-). As of 1 July 2009 WE will become an independent project which will provide us with the scope to install a Chinese localisation for WE :-) Watch this space. Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 12:59 +0800, Wong Leo wrote: hey Maria , well , you are surely right , however , is there anyone here from German in this group , I heared that German has made a school policy to require the students to use wikipedia in their assessment . I am a teacher from China , I dream one day Chinese students can get access to wikiepedia , in one of classes I am teaching ( primary school ) the kids here are copying information to my winter assignment instead of creating something , I am also againist the mere information consumption ,instead of creation , but I think German is doing something right , what others think of this ? I also dream one day wikieducator can support Chinese character for both teachers and students . Leo 2009/2/11, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com: I think it's a really bad idea. It kills many key ideals of Wikipedia in general and wikis in particular. For example, it makes students consumers rather than creators of content, and removes any possibility of current relevance and constant updating of the information. It also re-institutes the division into experts and everybody else. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Wong Leo leolao...@gmail.com wrote: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ -- Leo Wong -- http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/ HELP -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Templates and student contributions
Hey Declan,
Smart thinking!
We should also think about developing a tutorial on using images in WE
which could include some guidance on attribution, licensing etc. It
would be pretty easy to include a link to this tutorial from your
template.
This is one of the features I love about Mediawiki --- templates can
save time and increase our educational productivity.
Cheers
Wayne
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 20:36 -0800, Declan wrote:
When grading student writing, I have sometimes wished I had some
rubber stamps explaining the most common corrections. In hard-copy
writing I would not actually use a rubber stamp, but on a wiki..
After hand typing explanations of figure captions a few times, I
finally broke down and wrote a simple template:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Figures
Now I type {{Figures}} when ever I see uncaptioned figures in my
student's work.
I would not advocate such a heavy-handed approach across the whole
wiki, but I think it's a worthwhile time saver if a single writing
form is being used on the wiki by a class of students.
Cheers,
Declan
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