On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the more we work together to edit things the better...It not only > helps clarify ideas, it gives us all practice on the best ways to do it > collaboratively and cordially. Joyce McKnight, SUNY Empire State College > > *kirby urner <[email protected]>* > Sent by: [email protected] > 12/12/2009 09:25 AM PSTPlease respond [email protected] > > To [email protected] > cc > bcc Joyce McKnight/SUNY > Subject Re: [WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter? > Adding to my own use case (story) along these lines:
<use_case user = "Kirby Urner"> I came to Wikieducator thanks to Maria Droujkova and her Math 2.0 group which has this mathfuture Google Group. Ed Cherlin and I have crossed paths on that list as well. We had an international webinar on WizIQ about Wikieducator in particular (on Oct 31 of this year) and at that point I joined. Since I'm an avid Python fan who has attended some conferences, rubbed shoulders with the great Guido, Tim Peters, other luminaries, I went straight to the PYTHON TUTORIALS page, found through the search box. What I found was an excellent beginning, and it seemed encouraged by the Wiki medium and culture that I should add considerably to that page, including more today. I contacted the original author with my appreciative comments and indications of my intentions to add more material, about functions, generators and classes for example. She and I and whatever other interested parties could grow this page together. This all came after establishing a user page and working through some of the tutorials, coming from prior experience with Wikis, including Wikipedia where I've made a few changes. I got my WIkibuddy certification around then too. The PYTHON TUTORIALS page has had a couple links added by people other than myself, but no substantial writing or rewrites have occurred. On the other hand, probably relatively few members of the Python Software Foundation other than myself have been aware of Wikieducator? Over on the edu-sig list (one of our many special interest groups) only Ed Cherlin and I seemed to know about it, until I started archiving all these links. Anyway, just today, I posted notification to the PSF members list that I'd added a Python logo to the top of the page in question. PSF is protective of its logo but mostly has no problem with this obviously consistent use of the brand, in a free and open teaching context aimed at spreading knowledge and appreciation for the Python computer language. As to the several other pages I've constructed, another added in the last hour **, the history will show I've been doing these solo. I'm not averse to having help. Indeed, I would welcome lots and lots of assistance in getting these ideas out there, am somewhat miserable for lack of co-teachers. However, I think the curve might be (a) a Wikieducator fleshes out a vision, creates a grand design and then (b) co-teachers come along and start making improvements, as well as adding related / connected material. The beauty of this arrangement is the symmetry: each Wikieducator may assume "grand designer" status for some set of pages *and* still work in a team-spirited fashion as an assistant on pages where others assume responsibility for overall content. It makes sense to let pages rest with people who really know about them, but then to make provisions for organic growth and evolution, with page ownership transitioning from one generation to another. Finally, I just want to register my pleasure at finally discovering the Table button in the editor, and the two tables this enabled me to create these two: http://wikieducator.org/Martian_Math#Unpacking_Polyhedra http://wikieducator.org/Sample_MM_Lesson_Plan#Materials I find these tables quite handsome and suitable for snipping as PNGs for including elsewhere, for example here: http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/12/more-pkl-talk.html (scroll down for Table). </use_case> Kirby ** in the last hour: http://wikieducator.org/Sample_CM_Lesson_Plan (my first use of [[Media:<<flash file>>]] ) -- >>> from mars import math http://www.wikieducator.org/Digital_Math -- 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]
