[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-28 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Leigh, Well, I was hoping something may happen, earlier than Christmas. I would like to communicate with my high school students via WE. Do you have any suggestions on how it may be done? Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http:

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-28 Thread Leigh Blackall
Offense most certainly taken, and thank you Patricia, things are much clearer now. I'm sorry you see my concerns as destructive and personally motivated. For the record, I have made no such accusations of Wayne but acknowledge that it is very difficult not to. As long as Wayne is the central figure

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-28 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 20:00, NELLIE DEUTSCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I was hoping something may happen, earlier than Christmas. I would > like to communicate with my high school students via WE. Do you have any > suggestions on how it may be done? You could always create a subpage for

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-28 Thread Anil
Hi friends, There is nothing wrong in mentioning the founder in the very beginning of the topic, you can see thousands of such articles that are well read on www. Nothing that is man-made happens in the world without a sparkling thought in somebody's mind who has the initiative to trigger action

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses

2008-10-28 Thread Wayne
Hi Nellie -- >From the airport I'm afraid we don't have the facility of email allerts yet -- this is in the planning phases. I've also used Moodle successfully in running one of the these workshops. Its you're choice - use the technologies which you feel most comfortable using. Keeping newb

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-28 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Hi Jim, Thank you for your suggestions. That's exactly what I have been considering. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.nelliemuller.com http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd http://www.building-relationship.com/education h

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-28 Thread Peter
Nellie, I see this discussion ability as a very important issue. I too will have middle school students needing this feature, and the idea of creating a sub-page as Jim suggests is workable but flawed and not being true to having discussions behind pages (an important pedagogical aspect in my min

[WikiEducator] Re: Storytelling cluster / project node

2008-10-28 Thread Peter
This article should be a must read for the people in this forming cluster; Web 2.0 Storytelling; http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0865.pdf Cheers On Oct 26, 7:46 pm, "Randy Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Tanyss ~ I'll look forward to hearing more about this > > - Randy >

[WikiEducator] Re: Storytelling cluster / project node

2008-10-28 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Peter, I just found this resource from my interests in community economic development, tied to storytelling in Canadian northern communities. http://www.ccednet-rcdec.ca/files/ccednet/Storytellers_Final.pdf Storytellers' Foundation is based in the upper Skeena River region in northwest BC. Th

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-28 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Peter, I am so grateful for your response. You have provided more information than you realize. I would like to find ways of getting members to feel comfortable enough to want to communicate regularly on WE and share their work. Having the option of adding comments and having discussions on the pag

[WikiEducator] Re: Storytelling cluster / project node

2008-10-28 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Randy, Yes, I agree. These are the kind of articles that would be useful on teh storytelling page. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.nelliemuller.com http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd http://www.building-relationship.com

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-28 Thread Leigh Blackall
Thank you for your perspective Anil, I hope more will share theirs on this, however briefly if it is seen as a time wasting thread. It is helping me to think things through on a bigger picture level, even though I have gone ahead and edited the Wikipedia entry so it is consistent with other entries

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-28 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:17, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > have middle school students needing this feature, and the idea of > creating a sub-page as Jim suggests is workable but flawed and not > being true to having discussions behind pages (an important > pedagogical aspect in my mind). Y

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-28 Thread Barbara Dieu
Thank you, Leigh for voicing your worries about the single curriculum and dotting the i's . I believe it is healthy to raise and discuss issues one is not comfortable with. If there are any doubts , everyone can only benefit and grow stronger with transparency and openness. Warm regards, Bee --

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-28 Thread Peter
Jim, I'm beginning to think I have underestimated your sense of humor... Thanks for the indirection. I'm thinking the discussion sub-pages' talk page should point toward a google group ;) Peter On Oct 28, 12:34 pm, "Jim Tittsler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 06:17, Pet

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-28 Thread Peter
Leigh, Do not give up being so candid. And please do not consider your time spent with WE as too exhasting. You add great value, as I would like to think WE has also brought you great value and further insight into international efforts toward truely open education. Your knowledge on the matter

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-28 Thread Anil
Hi Leigh, My view is that TQF need not necessarily mean replacing of NQFs, where as we can further strengthen the NQFs by identifying learning outcomes etc which would be internationally accepted and that could naturally establish healthy bonds between TQF and NQFs. Here TQF will function as a m

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-28 Thread Leigh Blackall
Anil, I see the TQF project as quite separate from the idea of a single curriculum. TQF (to me) is primarily about assessment and qualifications that have currency accross borders. Curriculum is about what and how we teach and learn. Admittedly, assessment and qualification frameworks have very hea