The quiz material is great. Peter
Sent from my iPad On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Alison Snieckus <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM, virtualMV <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is interesting to note that you are comfortable with sending me an > email to modify the page, rather than actually hacking the wiki. This > is one issue I think we all struggle with when using wikis - > encouraging others to actually make changes. I know it is true for my > students working with the wiki and I suspect for many using wiki- > educator as well. Please feel free to modify the page :) > > Sometimes I think the most successful content developed in the wiki is > set up as a complete project (e.g. Learning for Content and Open > Content Licensing for Educators - which are very well developed > courses), but interestingly they usually only require minor tweeks > after they have been set up. Those that are started with the hope that > the community will continue to develop often remain incomplete. > > Hi Michael, > > I too struggle with the collaboration aspect of work on WikiEducator. I agree > that it's easier to work collaboratively when the content is part of project > with clear goals and schedules. > > As an aside, I'm not so sure I'd agree that the two projects that you mention > (Learning4Content and Open Content Licensing for Educators) are as complete > as you suggest. As I have helped with both of these, I do think there are > aspects that need further work: > WE rich text editor tutorials -- I think there is more here that we could do > on consistency of format and language; as well as completing the later > sections > Project plan for Open Content Licensing project - In looking through the > project plan, I think there are still areas that need work, e.g., we still > need to do the language edit for the second module, there may be improvements > that could be made to the layout and design of all three modules, and the > last module is yet to be developed. > But by example, I am further agreeing with you. During the time when the > project was active and we had deadlines to meet, it was easier to collaborate. > > I believe it would be a more satisfying experience, generally, if there was > more ongoing collaboration on content, collaboration that takes into account > the on-again, off-again nature of wikieducators' participation (at least > that's the case with my WE work). > > One option might be to more often invite others to help with something we are > working on. So here goes: > > I started a new page this morning: Help:Quiz, as it seemed to me WE didn't > have any direct help for how to add a quiz to a page. I noted that > wikiversity had a pretty detailed page, but thought there were ways WE could > improve it and make it useful for wikieducators (who, in my opinion, tend to > be less technically oriented than the average wikipedia editor--I'm > unfamiliar with the content developers on wikiversity). > > I copied the text from wikiversity to the WE Help:Quiz page, added an > acknowledgement that portions of the page are an adaptation of Help:Quiz on > wikiverisity and started revising. > > Anyone interested, please jump in. If you have an idea for improvement, > please try it out on the page. If you'd like to discuss first, post a new > thread on the talk page. > > If you have a project that you'd like others to join with you on, post it to > the group. Let's start collaborating more. > > Hope to see you in the wiki, > Alison > User:ASnieckus > -- > 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] -- 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]
