Congratulations, Alison, you are doing an interesting work!!! with regads ramesh
R. C. Sharma. PhD Regional Director Indira Gandhi National Open University, India On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:17 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Today's topic summary > > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/topics > > - WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for July 2014: Alison > Snieckus <#147c2bfccee081cd_group_thread_0> [1 Update] > > WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for July 2014: Alison Snieckus > <http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/t/fd9c4fa093ffd5bc> > > Ramesh Sharma <[email protected]> Aug 10 07:18PM +0530 > > Dear Friends, > > The WikiEducator User Page Expo <http://wikieducator.org/UPE> ("UPE" > to its > friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages > that > are particularly informative, innovative, visually appealing, or > otherwise > just plain clever. > > We are happy to announce the winner for July 2014. She is Alison > Snieckus. > Lets meet her :-) > July 2014 > <http://wikieducator.org/File:ASnieckus.jpg> > > Alison Snieckus <http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus> is a trained > educational measurement specialist. From 1986 to 2000 she worked at > Educational Testing Service (ETS, the makers of the famed SAT, TOEFL, > GRE....). Later on due to personal reasons she gave up her job at ETS. > She, alongwith a fellow homeschooling parent started homeschooling,and > founded a local group for teens to have the opportunity to study and > collaborate together: E-cubed: Experience, Explore, Educate > <https://sites.google.com/site/ecubednj/>. Here once per week sessions > are > designed around teen-led activities. Since the group was founded, it > has > grown over the years. In 2009-2010, she taught a hybrid course in > Introductory Statistics to 5 secondary students who homeschool. The > online > portion of the course was provided by Carnegie Mellon University's Open > Learning Initiative. The goal of the course is to encourage students to > think statistically, to communicate accurately and comprehensively > about > data, and to use a critical framework to evaluate studies. In Fall > 2010 and > Fall 2011, She taught Statistical Methods II for the Graduate School of > Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She > advocates for > an educational system which better recognizes and values the rich > potential > of individual variation among human beings. She argues on why do we > think > that all children should be force-fed a curriculum based on a narrow > set of > common standards, devised, largely, at the beginning of the last > century? > She has truly identified that every child (and certainly every > teenager) > deserves the option to self-direct his/her own education with the help > of > caring adults! > > Please join us in congratulating Alison > <http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus> for being the UPE winner for > July > 2014! > with best wishes, > > Dr. Nellie Deutsch <http://wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller> and > Ramesh > Sharma <http://wikieducator.org/User:Rcsharma> > > > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
