Hi Kirby, You might also want to have a look at the Teacher Collaboration Portal on WikiEducator with a large crowd of global educators subscribed to it. It comes upon invitation, so let me know and I'll add you with pleasure. Feel free to add to it
See here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Teacher_Collaboration Warm ishes, Patricia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of kirby urner Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Can Educators Learn? Interesting thread... Speaking for myself, I think Wikieducator provides a fantastic shared infrastructure, however not every teacher needs to master Web 2.0 skills to be effective. It's OK to serve a niche, a minority, and to remain friendly to those expressing an interest, providing a guidance and advice in some cases. This is what we encourage in the Python community as well: a lifelong willingness to assist people overcome difficulties, especially ones you remember overcoming, and how. As a newcomer to the WE community, introduced through a webinar announced on mathfuture (a Google Group), I am impressed with its clean implementation and clear commitment to providing free, high quality curriculum materials. I look at Wikieducator as in part a showcase for teachers interested in what other teachers have to offer, with the idea that we're all here to learn from one another. Here are people with enough skills and sense of ownership over some content to bring their contribution to a world readership with practically no strings attached. That's an interesting demographic in and of itself. Of course I meet other effective and committed teachers through other venues as well, we all do. One has many ways to express commitment. Television provides its own set of challenges and many operating in that industry have little to no time for contributing directly to wikis. This is not a problem that needs fixing necessarily, just a fact to be acknowledged. Kirby 4D User: KirbyUrner --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
