<<<Possibly a pop-up window with radio buttons and pull-down menu options which are easy to use and understand>>> The above idea just says exactly what i have in mind. Such a pop-up window showing up when a new page is about to be created might even help in reducing duplications. Ibrahim K. Oyekanmi
On 7/4/10, kirby urner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Wayne Mackintosh > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On 4 July 2010 06:46, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I, for one, would love to work with a partner or partners on the project >>> I >>> promised...an adult education textbook. Otherwise it probably will not >>> get >>> done given time constraints and my tendency to volunteer for too much. >>> Joyce McKnight, SUNY/Empire State College >> >> Hi Joyce -- great idea - -why don't you just start work on an adult >> education textbook -- just do it and we will help make this happen. Why >> not >> list this as one of the CollabOERate strategic projects >> (http://wikieducator.org/OERF:CollabOERate). I'm pretty sure that around >> the >> world we can identify a few institutions who would like to work on an OER >> course / textbook for Adult education. > > << snip >> > > I was exposed to a new-to-me word not so long ago: andragogy. This > in contrast to pedagogy, where peda means child or children..Andragogy > was to be used for adults. Yes, here it is on Wikipedia so it must be > legit (smile): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andragogy > >>> I like this idea. I do think that new members enjoy and benefit greatly >>> from early collaboration with others in the WE community. I think we've >>> talked about identifying some straightforward projects...for example >>> glossaries...that could be suggested as good places for new members to >>> join >>> in. I don't have much experience with L4C workshops. Thoughts from >>> someone(s) with more experience in L4C on adding this element to the L4C >>> workshop structure? >>> >>> Warm regards, >>> Alison >>> User page: ASnieckus > > To some extent I think WE pages are iceberg tips in ecosystems that > only tenuously overlap with one another. I came to WE around the same > time I started contributing to Wikipedia extensively, to one entry in > particular. I was drawn to the Wiki technology, even adopted the look > for the Grunch.net web site (thanks to my associate Trevor Blake > of synchronofile.com ). > > As a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF), I was also > interested in the state of the Python materials on WE. This was > my first exercise in collaboration, as I found a page that was > already well along and started elaborating on it, with communications > to the original author (in India as it turned out). > > Mostly I've been working on an approach to spatial geometry > pioneered by R. Buckminster Fuller. Many people know about > the geodesic dome, but fewer know about the octet-truss, which > was also important to Alexander Graham Bell. Connecting these > dots is essential to the future of K-16 mathematics education > in my estimation. I work with what I call "radical math" teachers > on this topic, with 'radical' a pun on 'root' and the 'radical sign' > used in algebra (Al Jabber, radical = surd). Our logo is a > backwards R under a radical sign. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/17157...@n00/4585728237/in/photostream/ > > Having some baseline heuristics for teachers on WE then > allows me to point back from places like mathfuture (a > Google group) and math-teach (forum 206 in the Math > Forum). My global reach has improved thanks to this > WE technology and its ease of use. When I do workshops, > I can project the content, spark discussion, invite more > participation. > > The Bucky Fuller stuff is packaged as "Martian Math" in > this curriculum, and is part of a larger Digital Mathematics > curriculum (synonymous with "discrete math" in some > lexicons -- math-thinking-l is another list where we've > hashed through some naming conventions). I've got > other ways of categorizing math topics, and these > partially overlap. I point back from Python community > discussion lists such as edu-sig, showing where a > specific approach to digital math fits in to this broader > schema (for example, we like to teach about SQL as > a topic in Supermarket Math, not just in "computer > science" (the division between these two is harmful > and artificial -- in the lower grades especially)). > > Anyway, that's a lot of detail about my very specific > projects involving WE. I just wanted to illustrate my point > that WE pages can be integral within a network (or > "graph") of interlinked resources, without this being > readily apparent to "outsiders" (including to other > members of the WE community). > > I would encourage other educators to come forward > with use cases i.e. descriptions of how they're using > this technology. That would help others get some ideas > about how they might more effectively network perhaps. > > Kirby Urner > http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner > > PS: speaking of glossaries, here's some of the > nomenclature Bucky Fuller came up with, still alien > enough to be considered Martian. For more > background I'd recommend my essay 'Aristotle > was Right!' on geometry-precollege /Math Forum: > > http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2084375&tstart=0 > > Quoting from a dialog on another math-related > e-group: > > """ >> Enuff neologisms/names flying around in here already. > > Just about the right number if you ask me. > >> (Too many, for my taste.) > > Mite = AAB > > Mite + Mite = Sytes > > Sytes: > Lite (skewed trigonal dipyramid) > Bite (monorectangular tetrahedron) > Rite (disphenoid tetrahedron) > > Kites: > Kit = 2 Lites > Kate = 2 Bites > Kat = 2 Rites or 2 Bites > > Coupler = 2 Kits, 2 Kates or 2 Kats. > > Volumes > A 1/24 > B 1/24 > Mite 1/8 > Sytes 1/4 > Kites 1/2 > Coupler 1 > > Cube 3 > ... > > and so on. > > So memorable, so lucky tomorrow's students, to have something this > well-crafted opening doors into spatial geometry! They'll leave us > in the dust with this simpler more economical beginning. 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