[WikiEducator] Re: [OERU] Re: Great #OER logo -- Request to UNESCO to remove the No-derivatives restriction

2012-02-28 Thread Maria Droujkova
and that they can be revoked at any time: http://creativecommons.org/policies Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org

[WikiEducator] Re: [OERU] UNESCO-COL Chair for OER says OERu is the first practical implementation for cost-effective learning

2011-11-19 Thread Maria Droujkova
probably start after their big Berlin meeting early December. What do you think? Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: In a recent interviewhttp://www.scoop.it/t

[WikiEducator] Re: [OERU] New York's open university joins forces with the OERu

2011-08-25 Thread Maria Droujkova
Congratulations to OERu and to all educators and students of the world! Joyce, Wayne, well done - I know it took a lot of work administratively, even though the alignment of values is clear. YAY!!! Cheers, Maria Droujkova 919-388-1721 Make math your own, to make your own math On Thu, Aug

Re: [OERU] Re: [WikiEducator] UNESCO social networking platform for the OER community -- Worth joining

2011-03-05 Thread Maria Droujkova
definitely support it. Cheers, Dr. Maria Droujkova http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Muvaffak Gozaydin mgozay...@hotmail.comwrote: Why people make fad of everthing. Now OER is the new fashion . OER, ONLINE, OCW

Re: [OERU] Re: [WikiEducator] UNESCO social networking platform for the OER community -- Worth joining

2011-03-05 Thread Maria Droujkova
Remove one zero in the last line of computation. On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: Muvaffak and others, I like your call to think big. For the purpose, please consider the notion of combinatorics for course design. It comes from the principle

[WikiEducator] Come help the Math 2.0 community tonight, Wednesday March 3rd, at 9:30 ET

2010-03-03 Thread Maria Droujkova
. Questions: What are good existing conferences to go to in 2010-2011, and which of us are already going? How can we help one another make our presentations better? - Plan Math 2.0 conferences. Questions: What are good venues for online conferences? What about face-to-face? Cheers, Maria

[WikiEducator] Re: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer

2009-09-07 Thread Maria Droujkova
of the proposed new role of teachers as educational consultant to communities: making each community more supportive, a safe place to experiment, etc. Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site

[WikiEducator] Re: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer

2009-09-06 Thread Maria Droujkova
training. For my part, I would like more potential group project leaders to focus on the growth of WE, and that's why I am working on organizing a WE presentation for the Math 2.0 interest group. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Sun

[WikiEducator] Math 2.0 event

2009-09-06 Thread Maria Droujkova
it. Let's try and schedule it on a Saturday in October, some time when it's morning in the Americas and evening in Europe. I suggest 1pm Eastern US time. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math

[WikiEducator] Re: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer

2009-09-06 Thread Maria Droujkova
what it even is... Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit

[WikiEducator] Re: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer

2009-09-06 Thread Maria Droujkova
! Or people feel like neighbors if they interact (meet) in several different communities. Science and practices of networks will probably depend on spatial metaphors for a long time. The distance learning phrase isn't meaningful as a metaphor for what people aim to accomplish, though. Cheers, Maria

[WikiEducator] Re: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer

2009-09-06 Thread Maria Droujkova
creation weekly - 85% saying they learned new web 2.0 tools without meaning to, or realizing it Maybe I just want users who have been through your wiki training? :-) Cheers, Maria Droujkova Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site

[WikiEducator] Re: rant

2009-09-03 Thread Maria Droujkova
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[WikiEducator] Re: rant

2009-08-28 Thread Maria Droujkova
://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/edupunk Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: Phil's latest rant is about education and the agricultural revolution See: http://wikieducator.org

[WikiEducator] Re: Virtual Field Trip: WikiEducator + seminar

2009-08-12 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Patricia Schlichtpschli...@col.org wrote: Hi Maria, Sylvia and Gladys, If you allow me to suggest, why don’t you host the event on WIZIQ.com but work from a WikiEducator page. You can set up a project page and transparently hold all discussions for others

[WikiEducator] Re: Virtual Field Trip: WikiEducator + seminar

2009-08-10 Thread Maria Droujkova
organize such as field trip, among SCoPE, WE and Math 2.0 people? We can use any webinar venue, as long as it keeps session recordings forever (or makes them available for downloading to your server). Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math

[WikiEducator] Re: Learning by Doing

2009-08-06 Thread Maria Droujkova
that works with them and many other computers. They mesh into local networks without internet access, and then you can carry some of the materials produced, on the USB stick, to where connectivity exists. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own

[WikiEducator] Re: Success! - Hewlett Funding Proposal Approved

2009-07-27 Thread Maria Droujkova
Congratulations Great job! Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath subscribe now to discuss future math culture with parents, researchers and techies http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/

[WikiEducator] Re: Well done WE! - NZ Ministry of Education project

2009-06-29 Thread Maria Droujkova
Congratulations Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath subscribe now to discuss future math culture with parents, researchers and techies http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our

[WikiEducator] Re: An Experiment

2009-06-22 Thread Maria Droujkova
How is it different from the functionality Skype provides? Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath subscribe now to discuss future math culture with parents, researchers and techies

[WikiEducator] Re: Options for Activity Template

2009-05-20 Thread Maria Droujkova
I have some learning design experience, and I would be interested in learning more from others. I just added my name there. I have an embarrassingly basic question to ask. How will I know what happens in that group? I added the page to my watchlist. Is there a way to get email notifications when

[WikiEducator] Fwd: On Classroom 2.0: Our New Beginner Webinar Series Starts with Wikis

2009-05-13 Thread Maria Droujkova
These seminars typically draw pretty large (over a hundred) crowds. Somebody from WE may want to contact Steve and Sue for some sort of collaboration or mentioning WE, unless you have already done so. It's neat the series starts with wikis. -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your

[WikiEducator] Re: On Classroom 2.0: Our New Beginner Webinar Series Starts with Wikis

2009-05-13 Thread Maria Droujkova
Update: Randy's on it. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: These seminars typically draw pretty large (over a hundred) crowds. Somebody from WE may want to contact Steve and Sue for some sort of collaboration or mentioning WE, unless you have already

[WikiEducator] Re: Community update - WikiEducator, OER Foundation etc.

2009-05-12 Thread Maria Droujkova
2009/5/11 Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com Wayne, These are all great news. I am so happy for you and WE! It's a great community. I would like to thank you for opening your proposal building process. I am working on an SBIR grant for Natural Math for the Family Studies

[WikiEducator] Re: Community update - WikiEducator, OER Foundation etc.

2009-05-11 Thread Maria Droujkova
Wayne, These are all great news. I am so happy for you and WE! It's a great community. I would like to thank you for opening your proposal building process. I am working on an SBIR grant for Natural Math for the Family Studies supporting software I discussed on the list earlier, and your

[WikiEducator] Re: Offline Wikieducator mirrors and slices

2009-05-09 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: What I am wondering about is having an offline mirror or a slice of the wikieducator (a read only snapshot on DVD that could maybe be updated every few months and received by mail). This will great aid the

[WikiEducator] Re: Keep the architecture open for bells and whistles

2009-04-09 Thread Maria Droujkova
Thank you very much for the reply. This content checker is a fascinating idea that seems doable, and your site is a great resource. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:14 PM, jkelly952 jkelly...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Content in most subject areas in primary and secondary school is fixed. How it is

[WikiEducator] Re: the power of less

2009-04-08 Thread Maria Droujkova
John, This is an excellent tutorial! It will really help those who are committed to a large projects using wikis, or any other mark-up language for that matter. I think it's useful mostly to people who already remember a large chunk of the syntax by heart, though. For those who do not remember

[WikiEducator] Re: Keep the architecture open for bells and whistles

2009-04-08 Thread Maria Droujkova
Jim, Can you make a few examples of the manual content checkers being developed? Isn't age appropriateness very subjective and contested? On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM, jkelly952 jkelly...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Manual “content checkers” exist and are being developed, it is only a matter of

[WikiEducator] Re: the power of less

2009-04-07 Thread Maria Droujkova
There is a fun presentation about game mechanics in serious applications, called Building a princess saving app: http://lostgarden.com/Mixing_Games_and_Applications.pdf It has learning curves for typical games and apps. According to the author, the learning curve for a typical application is

[WikiEducator] Re: L4C is making history! - We need your help

2009-04-01 Thread Maria Droujkova
Grats to WE and all of us individually! I sent information on in Twitter, my mailing list, and emailed some friends who may be interested. -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education discussion

2009-03-23 Thread Maria Droujkova
Phil, I think I missed some part of this discussion - maybe you can direct me to where it's captured... Who's organizing the conference, when, where? On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: I am grateful to all those who made positive comments on this listserv

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education *NFE discussion

2009-03-19 Thread Maria Droujkova
Phil, when people are done with the technical discussion, and if you are still interested, I am a radical unschooler in real life and I can probably play this ball with you. I have connections in unschoolers' circles. My pedagogical interest is in mathematics. -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your

[WikiEducator] Re: Twitter

2009-03-07 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Alison Ruth alisonr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Randy An overview of twitter is available here - http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter And of course you can follow them - http://twitter.com/CommonCraft As for who else to follow, well, the sky's the limit (not

[WikiEducator] Re: Flexible Learning course starts soon

2009-02-26 Thread Maria Droujkova
Do you need to register, or just show up? On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.comwrote: http://flexible-learning-course.blogspot.com/ A free and open course on flexible learning starts March 16, using the wikieducator resource:

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education (NFE) Discussion

2009-02-18 Thread Maria Droujkova
Some models and communities you probably don't want to miss: Communities of practice, apprenticeships Massively Multiplayer Games and the huge amount of learning happening within them Homeschoolers, especially unschoolers On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote:

[WikiEducator] Re: school wikipedia

2009-02-10 Thread Maria Droujkova
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

[WikiEducator] Re: Active Membership on WE

2009-02-04 Thread Maria Droujkova
Connect to Twitter and have faster connections and events. Have projects that people can join. I am still committed to the math dictionary project, but had some issues with math clubs (snow, etc.) that prevented us from uploading definitions - we started, though. Some quests and goals, in other

[WikiEducator] Re: new OER online-only university

2009-01-29 Thread Maria Droujkova
I am thinking of an economic model where resources that don't require human support - lecture tapes, class notes, problems and solutions, software - are free, but there may be associated human services that are neither mandatory, nor free. Isn't it like MIT, though? You can get all their stuff

[WikiEducator] Nibipedia

2009-01-18 Thread Maria Droujkova
A seemingly happy marriage between Youtube and Wikipedia: http://www.nibipedia.com Can it easily talk to other wikis? Hmmm, interesting possibilities, don't you think? -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2009-01-07 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Maria Yes, my students are authoring learning materials - mostly as collaborative research projects http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Fall_2008 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Vtaylor/CIS2_Summer_2008 I

[WikiEducator] Re: Math gurus: Help needed :-)

2009-01-06 Thread Maria Droujkova
ene, 18:00, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: Can we mass-populate this from an existing math dictionary? If we are creating it from scratch, what are we doing that distinguishes it from all other math dictionaries created until now? If it's just the format, we can get a robot

[WikiEducator] Re: Math gurus: Help needed :-)

2009-01-05 Thread Maria Droujkova
://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 On 31 dic 2008, 08:39, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to ask about the goals of this endeavor, just to clarify style and content needs. I use Wolfram's MathWorld for my math dictionary. It's imperfect because it's not pedagogically sound

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-29 Thread Maria Droujkova
that could help your capturing process? ..Valerie On Dec 27, 7:54 am, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: We should have about half of the features I described in beta early in January. The magic is in capturing past human action and serving up the aggregated knowledge contained

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-29 Thread Maria Droujkova
Barbara, I think I am missing something there... The content I can get is all pdfs, which is kind of limiting for representations (text and pictures). Also, some pages have no content at all, other than an ad for a web site, like this algebra page: http://cnx.org/content/m16260/latest/ What am I

[WikiEducator] An interesting /. discussion on open source

2008-12-10 Thread Maria Droujkova
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/10/001236 The original article (teacher confiscating some Linux discs and writing an angry letter about it) may or may not be a fake, but the discussion of issues in the comments was really curious to me. For example, many people believe that

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator goes non-violent?

2008-12-08 Thread Maria Droujkova
If we include coercive in the definition of violent then forcing kids learn is an example of violent content. As a math educator, I see a lot of kiddie torture related to my subject. This is also a good example of how varied our definitions of violent behavior can be. I meet very few people who

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-06 Thread Maria Droujkova
I'd like to describe a system we have started to develop in the family multiplication study. The reusable objects there are small according to The reusability paradox: http://web.archive.org/web/20041019162710/http://rclt.usu.edu/whitepapers/paradox.htmlEach object (or, to using the discover the

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-06 Thread Maria Droujkova
I think we could package parts of it as small learning objects for people to develop further. I see several so far: 1 - roles of textbooks and comparison to other entities 2 - content and instructional design as two dimensions of learning 3 - emergent pedagogies structurally different from each

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Maria Droujkova
one post to this thread, and the quote Wayne includes in his reply is not in that post... On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Maria, On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 07:29 -0500, Maria Droujkova wrote: Wayne, What are more names to look up on the subject, especially

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Wayne says: If the knowledge society is structurally different from industrialised society -- the open question we could ask is whether we will see a new pedagogy emerging which is structurally different from both

[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: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-31 Thread Maria Droujkova
. On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:27 AM, Maria Droujkova [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Leigh, and others, What are the main differences in goals (and, as a result, software-as-law) of Wikispaces and Wikieducator? On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Nellie, I'm reflecting

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-31 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Minhaaj, I'd be very interested in your detailed definition of profiteering. I think I may be getting a sense of what you mean, but I think I may be missing even what should be considered profit... or why taken in a different

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-30 Thread Maria Droujkova
I haven't yet come across any materials that really get into teaching people to collaboratively create materials... Maybe this is an OER that is well overdue... upon a review of the recently published OER handbook (http:// www.wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator) there isn't a lot of

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

2008-10-29 Thread Maria Droujkova
Gunther, I am interested in using the materials with local homeschool coops. Is there a web site for them? On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Günther Osswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear WikiEducators, Celebration! SUPRA is free! The University of Munich/Germany (LMU) has released about

[WikiEducator] Re: Storytelling cluster / project node

2008-10-19 Thread Maria Droujkova
I am interested in using storytelling for mathematics. There are some classic stories such as Hotel Infinity - but the goal would be for each person to create his or her own story about a topic. Here is a (very loose) summary of my plans, so far: - Either another human, or some software has to

[WikiEducator] Re: WIkiEducator 3.0 -- Asking the right questions

2008-10-13 Thread Maria Droujkova
Hello, I am new here! /wave Jumping into the middle of it right away... On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:13 AM, valerie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if this is something new that is needed or something that already exists. What I would really like to do is browse or graze through