[WikiEducator] Re: Ideas and thoughts WE's working in the school sector

2009-06-26 Thread john stampe
/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com From: Gurmit gurmit.si...@gmail.com To: WikiEducator wikieducator@googlegroups.com Cc: mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:30:13 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Ideas and thoughts WE's working

[WikiEducator] Re: Ideas and thoughts WE's working in the school sector

2009-06-24 Thread Gurmit
Hi Wayne and everyone I am tasked with creating an open access toolkit on scientific writing to help developing country researchers write better science so they can succeed at publishing in international journals. I'm not sure how to go about it - should we create a basic toolkit first, using

[WikiEducator] Re: Ideas and thoughts WE's working in the school sector

2009-06-24 Thread Declan
Hi Gurmit, I think WE is an ideal platform for what you have described. In particular, if teachers working with a scientific writing class use our resource, there are great ways to use simple templates to offer rapid advice for the most common writing mistakes. For example, open a wiki page

[WikiEducator] Re: Ideas and thoughts WE's working in the school sector

2009-06-23 Thread valerie
Hi Wayne Tomorrow, I will be participating in a meeting of the Community College Open Textbook Project (CCOTP) Steering Committee. This is a consortium of community colleges. Many projects are publicly funded or funded by foundations. There are some similarities and differences that might be of

[WikiEducator] Re: Ideas and thoughts WE's working in the school sector

2009-06-22 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Maria, It would be great if you could leave comments on the relevant talk page: http://wikieducator.org/Talk:Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools Thanks Maria -- look forward to reading your thoughts. Cheers Wayne 2009/6/22 Maria Droujkova