I'm having a dickens of a time loading Wikieducator pages this afternoon, not a serious problem as I'm not projecting in class today.
There could be a million explanations that have nothing to do with New Zealand, right? Gratifying to see over a 1000 views of our Python Tutorials<goog_1265841905334> <goog_1265841905334>page <http://wikieducator.org/PYTHON_TUTORIALS>. The view count feature is quite useful. Since that long thread on Wikipedia, how some teachers like to dump on it, I've ventured to contribute to it myself, including an entire entry on some mathematical work completed and published back in the 1990s. Mostly I've collaborated on getting the Bucky Fuller pages up to snuff, so that theater-goers in Washington DC aren't too frustrated by lack of content (play about Bucky starting in June at Arena Theater). Not that this is our only motive, but people do tend to hit Wikipedia when seeking reality checks, and it was just a stub page for the longest time. This has been a somewhat grueling exercise, as we had to go through a lot of peer review internally. The result is stable enough however. I'm glad to have had a Wikieducator thread on the topic beforehand, gave me perspective. Here's from today's blog post<http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/02/update-from-pauling-campus.html>, where I again take up the issue of teachers being down on Wikipedia, or sometimes all things Internet, putting it in context: Buzz and I are yakking about Beaverton high schools and Google's reputation, > also Wikipedia's. At some schools, teachers like to dump on all things > Internet, consider these technologies a threat. Buzz had some anecdotes. > > So is this a union thing? No, we don't think so. Probably more > generational, with some individuals disliking change. Many go into math > teaching seeking to escape impermanence, become psychologically distraught > at the prospect of using Youtube, even when literally begged by students to > share content by this means. > > Beaverton's Sunset High, in contrast, is very pro Internet and encourages > students to develop their communications skills with new media. This is one > of the top schools in the nation. Do they teach about Mites, Sytes and > Kites? Soon if not yet I'll betcha. > *Kirby Urner Linus Pauling House Campus Portland, Oregon* -- 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]
