kirby urner <[email protected]> wrote: WE pages are iceberg tips in ecosystems that > only tenuously overlap with one another. >
Hi Kirby, Thanks for highlighting this -- great post :-). In my thinking, this is a significant but characterising feature of the WikiEducator project. In this respect we are different from other wiki projects --- WE're "organised" as a community of educators working on a myriad of different OER artefacts, unlike, for instance the Wikimedia Foundation projects which are communities organised around the objects they produce. (Wikipedia for encyclopaedia articles, Wikibooks for books etc.). WE mustn't forget that we're a node within a larger free culture ecosystem. Similarly collaboration doesn't necessarily mean that more than one person should be working on a single OER resource. It's a complex network and tapestry of self-organising interrelationships. Wayne On 5 July 2010 05:27, 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. The > "right brain" is finally getting something more wholesome to chew > on (it's not just about "algebra" any more, or "flatland"). > """ > > -- > 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] > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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