Well deserved...Congratulations Alison..It was long due..
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Patricia Schlicht <pschli...@col.org> wrote: > Congratulations, Alison. > > Warm wishes > > Patricia > > > > *From:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: > wikieducator@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Ramesh Sharma > *Sent:* Sunday, August 10, 2014 6:48 AM > *To:* WikiEducator; WikiEducator Learning4Content Workshops; > wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com > *Cc:* alison.sniec...@gmail.com > *Subject:* [GRAYMAIL] [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) > Winner for July 2014: Alison Snieckus > > > > 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > --- > 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 wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > --- > 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 wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sarita Kumar Associate Professor Acharya Narendra Dev College University of Delhi India -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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