Hi folks, I started a project based on the Darwinius fossil find some time back. The initial idea was fairly basic: get diverse biologists together to build teaching materials based around the biology of the publication. I lacked time to develop the project. In many ways I'm glad. The fossil find has resulted in some interesting controversy and may actually be a more valuable 'teachable moment' about the process of science. Regardless, the next couple of weeks will reveal if I have time to build this resource and add it to my current course, or take a pass this year and incorporate it in a future course.
If there is interest among other scientists, please visit and collaborate: http://www.wikieducator.org/Darwinius My other project is open to collaboration once my students remove WIP tags: http://www.wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools. Before removing the WIP tags, my students are earning grades, and would welcome any technical help they can get. Actually, I have no objections if any of their projects lead to a natural collaboration. I'm currently enrolling students in the Spring 2010 iteration of the course. That will probably be the last cohort of students for a while; my intent is that the resources we have accumulated will provide science activities that can be linked, cannibalized, improved, and shared. Finally I have a non-WE project aimed at getting high school students into streams. It is locally tailored to Vermont field sites and so I have not brought it to WE. I'd be very much open to collaborating with other stream ecologists if any see a natural fit with what you do: http://academics.smcvt.edu/Vermont_rivers/ My students and I are constantly checking the taxonomic accuracy; if you see a mistake, we'd love to hear about it. If the images are of broader use to biologists let us know; we'll 'Wikimedia' them. 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
