Jeremy, thank you for the kind words. I really appreciate the encouragement.
Richard, that's a beautiful website, I'll be following your progress as a student teacher and hopefully one-day educator myself. I started out with the project because I was getting overwhelmed by all of the planning documents that were required, all the back and forth between multiple Word docs copying and pasting and formatting lists, etc. TW just solves it all, I love it. As it develops I am starting to think about more long-term and comprehensive uses for it as a data management tool for teachers. For example the way it is now I can save and track units over time, and compare them across years. Right now I'm taking a Curriculum Assessment class so I got to thinking, you could create and edit a curriculum over multiple years to make sure that you covered everything, and use TW to visualize different aspects of the curriculum much more conveniently than the ~300 page pdfs I'm currently seeing. For example, a lot of teachers are now making plans in alignment with Common Core. How awesome would it be to press a button and produce a detailed document showing your commitment to Common Core standards, and all without any of Bill Gates' software. Then the other area that I am very interested in developing (not now, maybe this summer) would be the use of TW as a long term grade book. This would provide important data on both the students and the teacher. There are ~250 learning objectives in that tiddler, for two units that are not even half completed. How well are my assessments aligned to those objectives? There is about a 0% chance that I can keep track of whether individual students are meeting those goals in a spreadsheet, but with TW, I would have a tiddler for each student and could keep track of their results on assessments. This record could persist across multiple years. Wouldn't it be great if you could hand each of your students a detailed report showing them exactly how they progressed over time? (Or email it to them, or have it available for them to peruse at will?) That would just be one button to click if you were keeping all your grades in a TW. As an aside, one of my upcoming projects is going to be combining svg graphics, wikitext, and javascript to make graph widgets. For educators that want to display their student learning data, this would be useful. I used to love the simplicity and versatility of the graphing tools in Matlab, so I will probably base it on that and Excel. I know other people are working on making TW more math-friendly, and I think these two additions would go a long way towards making TW a viable spreadsheet alternative. I would also like to add a section for assigning students to teams or groups for lesson activities, using BJ's taglist widget with the drag and drop. It would be pretty nice because you could automatically create and print custom handouts for all your groups in all your classes. You could also store parent contact information and any other type of information about the students. Anyway, I don't mean to hijack your post but I was literally thinking about this all day and I got real excited when I saw your post. I've seen some real crap educational software and I'm sure it was expensive, so I'd love to see TW put some control back in the hands of the teachers and free up some money for better things. Patrick On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 5:50:53 PM UTC-5, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > I hadn't seen http://pespot.tiddlyspot.com until now - it's a pretty > amazing piece of work. It's by Patrick Detzner who has posted about it here: > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/_giafhm86Ek/z97-Z7ujRuMJ > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:19 PM, RichardWilliamSmith < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> Thanks for your help - much appreciated >> >> The active calculus book is something I made as part of my own project - >> http://www.didaxy.net - I will include it, for sure, but I don't want to >> seem as though I'm trying to use the portal to promote myself. >> >> Your other recommendation - http://pespot.tiddlyspot.com/ >> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fpespot.tiddlyspot.com%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE7kdhps5O24MfjDLjlgdmGOaXrfg> >> looks >> like a really interesting, practical use - is it yours? or do you know >> who's it is? How do you use TW yourself? >> >> Any other recommendations or advice would be very welcome. >> >> Regards, >> Richard >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. 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