[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2009-01-05 Thread valerie
Hi Derek I think one significant "feature" of Connexions is the captured in the quote you quoted > open-source, online education system. It cuts out the > textbook Implicitly, the OERs a big - full courses, textbook replacements, open textbooks. That's fine, and for many instructors and institut

[WikiEducator] Re: Math gurus: Help needed :-)

2009-01-05 Thread Gladys Gahona
Maria, I recently visited your website http://www.naturalmath.com where I found this lovely page: http://www.naturalmath.com/multpics/index.php I guess I've got your idea concerning to link math concepts to nature and culture. Please see http://www.wikieducator.org/MathGloss/A/Angle and post your

[WikiEducator] Re: Math gurus: Help needed :-)

2009-01-05 Thread Gladys Gahona
Hi Leigh, These are the kind of documentaries I adore. This one deserves the design of a special Math resource, lets see if some of the WE Math Gurus takes the initiative. Cheers Gladys Gahona http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 On 4 ene, 21:38, "Leigh Blackall" wrote: > I hope you ad

[WikiEducator] Re: Math gurus: Help needed :-)

2009-01-05 Thread Maria Droujkova
Can we mass-populate this from an existing math dictionary? If we are creating it from scratch, what are we doing that distinguishes it from all other math dictionaries created until now? If it's just the format, we can get a robot to re-format stuff for us, I bet. Failing that, kids ::evil grin::

[WikiEducator] Re: Math gurus: Help needed :-)

2009-01-05 Thread Leigh Blackall
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Maths On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Maria Droujkova wrote: > Can we mass-populate this from an existing math dictionary? If we are > creating it from scratch, what are we doing that distinguishes it from all > other math dictionaries created until now? If it's just

[WikiEducator] Re: Math gurus: Help needed :-)

2009-01-05 Thread Gladys Gahona
Maria, The current math glossary we are developing has been concibed to be a resource addressing to secondary and terciary level (13 to 18 yr) students. In this stage of developing, We have already defined the layout, consisting of : - Definition (s) - Supplementary definition (wikipedia) - Exa