Leigh, You're too kind! I'll bounce your praise onto the student teachers who developed the ideas. The use of templates was driven by necessity; I was going page-by-page making these changes and Kirk in Wikia (where we started out) generously and patiently explained templates to me. We are not part of the handouts4teachers program in any formal way, but I think I did pop a link in to that page at some point. I am certainly willing to participate in that initiative. You have quite the collection of resources over in your patch of wikieducator and I already adapted your template generator for my own uses (thank you very much). I'm a newbie with the media stuff, but I can get from live insect to online video. I'd like to learn how better to do that. I see a lot of educational potential for time- lapse clips. Right now I'm heavily committed to courses with little time remaining for learning new techniques, but I carve out a little here and there.
Anyway, it's great to plug into wikieducator; its a great community with enormous potential. Cheers; Declan On Jan 19, 6:06 pm, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What a gold mine of resources you have there Declan.. I like the way you > have used Templates to tie the design together, and you have all the text > content in there with consistency, with some media starting to show up. I'm > sure many teachers will find your resources interesting, useful and or > inspiring... > > A while back I proposed a campaign to get casual teachers involved on > Wikieducator. Casual teachers, or relief teachers have a hard life taking > full time teachers classes in short, usually one off affairs. Behavioral > issues can be at their worst, and support almost non existent! Relief > teachers have to be very resourceful to get through their day. The ones I > have met usually have a book of tried and true lesson plans and techniques > for getting through, and they carry that book of stuff, everywhere they go. > > Imagine if we could establish an intuitive, consistent and easy to follow > structure on WIkied for such lesson plans and their supporting resources? > Much like what you have established on the St Michaels pages.. and that a > campaign targeting casual teachers managed to see their private and > sometimes guarded book of tricks coming onto the wikieducator.. and > Wikieducator becoming the support that so many (especially younger) relief > teachers need. > > I think Wayne picked up on this idea and started the > Handouts4Teachers<http://wikieducator.org/Handouts4Teachers>project... > Is St Michaels work part of that initiative? I haven't been able > to put my money where my mouth is there as we don't have much of a need for > such resources in tertiary training... at least not that I have yet > recognised.. there might be some way to bridge though.. sorry, just thinking > out loud. > > On Jan 19, 2008 11:07 PM, Declan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Well I suppose it is a tad strange. This page gives it some context: > >http://www.wikieducator.org/Termite_trails;I need to work on some > > text directly on the clip page. > > > On Jan 18, 4:01pm, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > what a curious little video! Is there some text to explain what is > > happening > > > with that termite? With text on the same page we could go about doing > > voice > > > overs for it... > > > > On Jan 19, 2008 8:28 AM, Declan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I see many posibilities for this video tool. I just uploaded a short > > > > clip on termite behavior: > > > >http://www.wikieducator.org/Kaltura:Video_253029 > > > > > There are so many things that one can't do in the classroom for so > > > > many reasons. Often a video is an acceptable substitute. I need to > > > > spend more time learning the editing process, but it's an exciting > > > > addition to the tool box. SO thanks. Declan McCabe > > > > -- > > > -- > > > Leigh Blackall > > > +64(0)21736539 > > > skype - leigh_blackall > > > SL - Leroy Goalposthttp://learnonline.wordpress.com > > -- > -- > Leigh Blackall > +64(0)21736539 > skype - leigh_blackall > SL - Leroy Goalposthttp://learnonline.wordpress.com- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
