[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for July 2014: Alison Snieckus

. > > We are happy to announce the winner for July 2014. She is Alison Snieckus. > Lets meet her :-) > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussi

Re: [WikiEducator] Biologists: Coyote skull resource up and running

Hi Declan, Fabulous. And thank you for the resource. I will be using it again this coming spring with some high school biology students. One of the students is also studying statistics; I'm looking forward to discussing his ideas on what we might want to test, statistically. Alison On Thu, Jan 2

Re: [WikiEducator] Can you test drive an idea for me?

Hi Declan, I am currently working with a small group of secondary school students who are studying biology. We are interested to try out your photographic data collection method presented in the Digital Coyote resource. I've studied the instructions, and will work with the students to perform the

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Stream insect site is up and runing

Hi Declan, I have contacted both of my local nature centers. One you may have heard about: Stony Brook Millstone Watershed as they have an active stream monitoring program: StreamWatch, including chemical and biological monitoring. I'll be in touc

Re: [WikiEducator] Stream insect site is up and runing

Hi Declan, Great resource. I've done macroinvertebrate collection projects with groups of secondary school students here in central New Jersey (USA); the kids love it. I will definitely incorporate this resource into my next venture. I will also share it with my local nature center. Thanks for y

Re: [WikiEducator] Assigning a category to be the top level of the WE category system

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Balqis Thaahaveettil wrote: > Hi Alison, > I'm so much thankful to you for clearing my doubts and > encouraging me .I'll join the group asap and do as directed by you . > Thanks again > Balqis Thaahaveetil Hi Balqis, Great. See you in the wiki. Alison --

Re: [WikiEducator] Category:Alternative / Renewable Energy

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:17 AM, john stampe wrote: > I will move around the page when I have the time in the next week (I teach > environmental scientist and just taught renewable energy this week!). > Hi John, I've seen some of your work related to envi sci on WE. Good stuff. Thanks for taking

[WikiEducator] Category:Alternative / Renewable Energy

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Mark Roest wrote: > I just followed the link to the old discussion and the categories and > content that were done around 2009. > > Under Category:Alternative / Renewable Energy, I found the following: > > In Solomon Islands you can find coconut everywhere ..." > >

Re: [WikiEducator] Assigning a category to be the top level of the WE category system

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Balqis Thaahaveettil wrote: > Hello Alison Snieckus and others in the group , > > Could l join the categories > workgroup .I went through the page (link) provided by Gita Matur .I am > new to WE ( just 4 m

Re: [WikiEducator] Assigning a category to be the top level of the WE category system

Thanks for posting your thoughts on the proposal. I will go ahead with creating Category:Contents as the top level. I have some thoughts on categories which would work well directly under the top category. I will create a draft second level and then repost to encourage feedback. Randy--yes, Jim ad

[WikiEducator] Assigning a category to be the top level of the WE category system

A few years ago, a few wikieducators started the Categories Workgroup. The purpose of the group is "... to achieve a category structure which facilitates browsing related content, as well as finding specific content, inasmuch as categories are capable."

Re: [WikiEducator] Problem with references

Oops, nevermind my reply in number 1 below, Wayne is right--it is the quiz causing the problem. Alison On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Alison Snieckus wrote: > Hi Savithri, > > I'm not particularly adept technically, but thought I chime in with some > thoughts in any case. &g

Re: [WikiEducator] Problem with references

Hi Savithri, I'm not particularly adept technically, but thought I chime in with some thoughts in any case. 1. When we use thesyntax it works on a normal page i.e. > on clicking the ref it connects to the references at the end of page BUT > when we use templates on the page, it doesn't.

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Is my bug project a match for W.E.?

Hi Declan, Great project. Here are some off-the-top-of-my-head thoughts on your questions: I'd like to predetermine the file > path so that they all start with wikieducator.org/rivers/VTUSA/RiverX > for example. The RiverX piece would be the river name for each new > stream added and would be in

Re: [WikiEducator] Good news - A new free WikiEducator Learning4Content online training workshop has been scheduled

Hi Patricia, I am also available to help as a facilitator. In eL4C51, the use of facilitator teams with each team assigned to work with a specific group of participants worked well for me. I think I got to know some of the participants in my group better than I might have if I were working with th

Re: [WikiEducator] How can WE promote collaboration

t; > Peter > > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Alison Snieckus > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM, virtualMV < > mverha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> It is interesting to note that you are comfortable with sending me an >

[WikiEducator] How can WE promote collaboration

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM, virtualMV 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

Re: [WikiEducator] Question about fitting a table inside a pedagogical template

> Cheers > > Rob > > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Alison Snieckus > wrote: > > Thanks Wayne, Jim and Rob for your ideas. > > > > I see what you mean, it's the pipe and equals sign that cause the > problem. > > And we can use embedded templates

Re: [WikiEducator] Question about fitting a table inside a pedagogical template

Thanks Wayne, Jim and Rob for your ideas. I see what you mean, it's the pipe and equals sign that cause the problem. And we can use embedded templates for each to substitute in the correct character. Clever workaround. I messed around with Rob's idea to provide an argument/parameter for the Conte

[WikiEducator] Question about fitting a table inside a pedagogical template

I would like to have a 3 column table display inside of an activity template. You can see my attempt on the page: Variance and standard deviation . It seems like this would be possible, but the single curly brackets may be an issue. Any thou

[WikiEducator] Main page and WikiEducator Values statement

es copy posted on the wiki talk page: > http://wikieducator.org/Talk:Workgroup:Code_of_Conduct/Issue_Tracker). > > Cheers > > Wayne > > > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Alison Snieckus > wrote: > >> In our work on the WikiEducator Code of Conduct, we noticed a

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator Code of Conduct - request for comment

In our work on the WikiEducator Code of Conduct, we noticed an inconsistency and would like your feedback on how to proceed. The current draft of the code begins with an introduction which includes the statement: "This code of conduct is rooted in a value system. Wikieducators value: *diversity,

Re: [WikiEducator] Live interview on the "OER university" by Future of Education

I have joined in to a number of "Future of Education" interviews in the past. Steve Hargadon is an accomplished interviewer, who is well prepared with interesting and though-provoking questions. I saw this upcoming interview with Wayne about WikiEducator and the OER university on the schedule. I p

Re: [WikiEducator] abandoned pages with little or no content

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Kubke wrote: > In my random page visit through WE I often come across pages that have > little or no content and in which the last edit has happened a long time > ago. I could not find an 'orphan' category. > One option would be to delete those pages. > A second

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Improving the look and feel of WikiEducator --- Changing to the "Vector Skin"

I have switched to the Vector skin and will use it over the next few weeks, for final testing purposes. > So far so good - but I agree with Valerie - I'd like to see the return, if > possible, of 'more options in the formatting menu'. > > Count me in as another vote for an expanded basic editing

Re: [WikiEducator] My user page has changed

Hi Shijna, I think the problem resulted from an inadvertent edit to Template:Infobox personal: http://wikieducator.org/Template:Infobox_personal. I reset the template back to its previous state, so it should be back to displaying appropriately on your page. Thanks for informing everyone of the pro

Re: [WikiEducator] User Page Expo Award Winners

Congratulations Jenni and Cynthia. Your pages are beautiful. Yes, very inspiring...and informativeand FUN! Alison On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Patricia Schlicht wrote: > Dear Friends, > > > > Pease help us congratulate the winners of the WikiEducator User page Expo > Awards (http://ww

[WikiEducator] Improving Wikipedia article on WikiEducator

I checked out the Wikipedia article on WikiEducator, a few weeks ago and noticed a few of the references were labeled as broken links. Anil had noted awhile back that the article was labeled as advertising, but happily that's been fixed. Anyway I fixed one

Re: [WikiEducator] Special:Newmessages updated

Oh, happy day. Thank you Jim. I am so happy to see my new messages page working again. I missed it so! Also, my Watchlist is back working. It has worked at times over the past two weeks and then become blank again. It's working now. I'll let you know (including specifics) if it stops working agai

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Nomenclature for WikiMaster

Hi all, I'm OK with the nomenclature as is. As Jan and others have indicated, by using the term "master" as we do, even recognizing that our intent refers to the idea of mastery, we continue the process of changing its meaning to include women. I like the idea of "reclaiming" language to suit our

Re: [WikiEducator] My watchlist page is coming up blank

#x27;t seem to have problems with my watchlist. > Will keep you posted. > > W > > On 23 July 2010 11:26, Patricia Schlicht wrote: > >> There seems to be technical problem. Wayne has been alerted. Others do >> experience it too. >> Warm wishes, >> Pat

[WikiEducator] My watchlist page is coming up blank

Hi, I just wanted to report that "My Watchlist" page is coming up blank. I noticed it yesterday. I'm on a different computer today and it's still blank. Is anyone else missing their my watchlist page? Alison http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus -- You received this message because you are sub

[WikiEducator] Re:OER Metadata template

Oh, right, I forgot about the OER metadata template. It's this kind of data, collected from the authors of each learning resource, that will provide the foundation for better access to materials in the future (i.e., discussion on resource repository). i've tried it out -- lots of potential here. (

Re: [WikiEducator] UPE Winners for June and July 2010 - Congratulations!

Congratulations Rob and Sanjay. Very inspiring! Alison On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Patricia Schlicht wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > > > As you all know, WikiEducator honors its stellar members and innovative > community in different ways. We are proud of our fabulous members from all > over

Re: [WikiEducator] Resource Repository

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... I think that investing in people through community development will > achieve sustainable results for the future. > > WE have two immediate challenges: > > >1. *The complexity and inertia required to d

Re: [WikiEducator] Resource Repository

Hi Cynthia and Joyce, I also agree that it's difficult to find quality resources on WikiEducator. But they are there! And as WE grow and expand in membership, these high quality resources are sure to as well. An effort was started awhile back, before I joined, to create a way to identify, organiz

Re: [WikiEducator] removing entomology content

Definitely something we should address. My inclination would be to have us make a good faith effort to revise the material so that it is not a direct copy of the original and in the process make it more of a learning resource (e.g., including activities and reflections) targeted to a particular au

Re: [WikiEducator] April UPE

Congratulations, Ludmilla. Your page is wonderful to read--very pleasing color-scheme and layout. Alison On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Peter wrote: > With Ludmilla Smirnova, Ph.D being the April UPE we have swung back to > recognizing an exemplary user page. Dr. Smirnova first created her >

[WikiEducator] Re: More on interwiki links WAS Form-based "Upload file" page

Declan, You're welcome. Glad it's what you needed. I've been learning a lot by reviewing the new rich text editor tutorials. I discovered we can use short cuts when making interwiki links (e.g., an internal link to a wikipedia article). See the interwiki tutorial

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Form-based "Upload file" page

Thanks, Randy. Just seemed like if the new form wasn't working for me, maybe it wasn't working for others as well. And it'd be a real shame not to be gathering the more detailed information about images. I'm a big fan of more data . Alison On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Randy Fisher wrote: >

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Form-based "Upload file" page

Hi Declan, We can use Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org) images directly in WE, using the same code that we use to embed WE images except using the name of the image from Wikimedia Commons. The rich text editor tutorials include a section on how to do it (using the Rich Editor)

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Form-based "Upload file" page

Thanks for the info, Jim. Hmmm, so it's something on my end. > It sounds like one or both of the pieces of Javascript are not working > consistently for you. > What browser(s) and operating system(s) are you using? > Operating system: Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala Browser: Firefox, version 3.5.

Re: [WikiEducator] improving categorization

Thanks, Jim. This "gadget" is wonderful. The best part is that as we categorise, we will have easy access to the current list of existing categories. This will most certainly help us to minimize creation of functional duplicates. Thanks so much, Alison http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus On Fr

Re: [WikiEducator] Editing WikiEducator pages

Hi Nadia, Most of the time my computer/browser keeps me logged in to wikieducator, although not sure what I've done to make this be the case, and even when I'm not already logged in, I don't think I've ever had to type the two words when I re-log in. I read your note this morning and thought, hmmm

Re: [WikiEducator] Question about a country category

Jim, Thanks for the fix. I only have a basic understanding of URLs. Didn't even know there was a "long form". Good to know :) Alison http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Jim Tittsler wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 16:04, Alison Snieckus

[WikiEducator] Question about a country category

I have a tech related problem I'm hoping someone can help with. I've been working on categorising all of the country specific categories and the main country pages into Category:Countries. I've come across an interesting problem. On a search results page, the page Category:Republic of Trinidad &

Re: [WikiEducator] Improving our our search capability -- WE need your advice

I've been pondering this request for community input re: including the Google Custom Search Service on WikiEducator. I agree with Joyce, "...commitment to ease of use for on-the-ground educators" should be a driving force in this decision. Yes, absolutely. We need a search facility that 1) feels c

Re: [WikiEducator] March UPE

Congratulations, Jim. Your efforts on behalf of WikiEducator are an inspiration to us all. Best, Alison http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Peter wrote: > Hello WikiEducators, > > It is an honour to announce this months UPE, Jim Tittsler. > > Jim Tittsler is o

Re: [WikiEducator] Do WikiEducator's want to embed links to video in their OER resources?

Wayne, As Mary indicated, embedded videos are certainly an enhancement to the learning environment. Being able to directly connect to videos hosted elsewhere and to source and repurpose videos would be a wonderful addiition to WikiEducator's platform. I vote to add the necessary technology so we

Re: [WikiEducator] Not getting watchlist messages

n Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 17:19, Alison Snieckus > wrote: > > A few days ago, I noticed that my watchlist messages (the messages > available > > by clicking the "There are new messages for you" button on the watchlist > > screen) do not display. My watchlist page includ

[WikiEducator] Not getting watchlist messages

Hi Jim and others, A few days ago, I noticed that my watchlist messages (the messages available by clicking the "There are new messages for you" button on the watchlist screen) do not display. My watchlist page includes the message button, but when I click it, there are no messages listed. I do be

Re: [WikiEducator] Invitation to the Environmental Glossary

Great idea, John. I added the term Biosphere to the B page. I'm not experienced enough in this field to offer original content, so I searched for a resource that I could reuse. I found one easily on the Connexions site (cnx.org), licensed CC-BY: AP Environmental Science

Re: [WikiEducator] Digital StoryTelling Resources

Hi David, Great information, wonderful presentation. Thanks for sharing. There is a group of wikieducators who participate in a regular storytelling event, storytelling and cultures, and have organized a workshop on storytelling. Check out their storytelling pages: http://wikieducator.org/Storyte

Re: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator service restored

Congrats to Jim on the effective move. Well done. RTE is a powerful and wonderful addition. And glad to know that some formerly hard edges have a smoother finish. Randy, I agree that small groups working together is something that we should work on. I'm going to be looking for opportunities to joi

Re: [WikiEducator] Going live with WYSIWYG editing -- Testing and Scheduled outage

I did a little bit of editing/testing using the RTE. Works great. And I've come upon some wonderful functionality, in addition to the fabulous table editing, that could really simplify the editing process: - drop-down list of templates (under the manual tab in the dialog). When a template is

Re: [WikiEducator] January UPE

Congratulations, Nadia. You are very deserving of this award. Your work is an inspiration to all. All the best to you and your family in 2010. Alison On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Peter wrote: > With great pleasure WE announce Dr. Nadia El Borai as the January UPE. > > Dr. El Borai is another

Re: [WikiEducator] temporary hiatus

Hi Jesse, Thanks so much for this post. I have learned so much from working on the projects that you started and have quite enjoyed our collaboration. But I totally know how life gets in the way. And wish you all the best for a more settled new year. If I see any opportunities that might suit your

Re: [WikiEducator] need help; template syntax

Hi Randy and Peter, I'm not a techie re: wiki code, but I have managed previously to get a "blank" tagline. The trick is to leave in the name of the variable, but give it a blank value, as follows: {{ProjectNav |image = |title = [[SR_and_CA|Peter McCrory's MSc in Sport and Exercise Science]

Re: [WikiEducator] Page not showing up in category

Ah, but alas, "Alliteration" has gone astray Thanks for passing this on to the tech group. I'll leave a note to the author (HamishC) as to the next steps in the investigation. Alison On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rob (Alison & S

Re: [WikiEducator] Page not showing up in category

t; You can see the listing of Alliteration page on the category page > http://wikieducator.org/Category:Language_techniques_glossary under the > subheading 'A' as LitGloss/A <http://wikieducator.org/LitGloss/A>. > > Cheers, > > Sarita > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at

[WikiEducator] Page not showing up in category

I'm looking for some technical help. The page http://wikieducator.org/LitGloss/A/Alliteration is categorised into the category "Language techniques glossary", http://wikieducator.org/Category:Language_techniques_glossary , via transclusion from the navigator template. The category listing displays

Re: [WikiEducator] Where to report spam

a revert is more appropriate than a delete. > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 19:27, Alison Snieckus > wrote: > > Is there a page on the wiki where we can report pages that appear to be > spam > > for review and deletion by administrators? I thought about using the > delete >

[WikiEducator] Where to report spam

Is there a page on the wiki where we can report pages that appear to be spam for review and deletion by administrators? I thought about using the delete template, but wasn't sure whether it's used for this purpose. Thanks, Alison -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: [WikiEducator] December UPE

Clap-clap-clap-... Congratulations, Nellie. You are a wonder of energy and purpose. Thank you so much for all that you give to our WE community. Warmest regards, Alison On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Peter wrote: > With great honour I announce Nellie Deutsch as the December UPE! > > Nellie is

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiSym: research on wikis

Thanks, Jim, wonderful resource: One that caught my eye was "Herding the Cats: The Influence of Groups > in Coordinating Peer Production?" I've been skeptical of the emphasis > on workgroups, but this paper makes a case for how joining a group can > affect behavior (and complement individual cont

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikipedia model

Valerie, I am very interested in collaboratively developing OERs, with an open invitation to all for additions and revisions. I do think we have quite a number of projects underway that fit this model. I've never worked on wikipedia, but it seems like the early editors may have intentionally culti

[WikiEducator] Re: A sneak preview of WYSIWYG editing in WikiEducator :-)

Love the table function! It has lots of features and seems to have good default settings. And what's even better, I can use rich text editing to edit (and it seems like I can use all of the features) tables that already exist. Big complex tables are so hard to navigate in the wiki format. This wi

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator Community "job jar"

Nellie, Interesting reading on how informal and formal interaction patterns are thought to effect outcomes. The informal social/work setting is much more appealing, no argument from me on that. Certainly we should be striving for open, spontaneous, loose (as opposed to tight) and fun places to be.

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator Community "job jar"

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM, valerie wrote: >I would like to see more, easy to participate projects, so that if someone has a couple of hours, they can contribute something meaningful to the WE community. This might be a dynamic "job jar" with instructions for each item, rated by WE knowled

[WikiEducator] Re: Cape Town Open Education Declaration - Have you signed it in support of OER?

I have not signed the Cape Town Open Education Declaration as yet and am looking forward with much excitement to the 17th, next Thursday, when I can contribute to the software freedom movement, and by extension, the open educational resources movement by signing the Cape Town Declaration. Right no

[WikiEducator] Re: Award for teaching

Gita, Congratulations on receiving this wonderful recognition of your life's work! We are lucky to have you as part of the WE community. Alison http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Gita Mathur wrote: > > Dear WikiFrien

[WikiEducator] Re: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer

Wonderful discussion. As to the use of the term teacher and teaching, I've been wondering lately if we educators who are interested in "how we learn and how we help other people learn, including through teaching, when it can’t be avoided, but preferably through a wider variety of means and context

[WikiEducator] Re: Virtual Field Trip: WikiEducator + seminar

I'm willing to help/participate. Do we have a page on WE or another venue where we can continue discussing the details? Alison http://www.wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Maria Droujkova wrote: > > Let's pick a Wednesday then. Some possibilities: August 26th or >

[WikiEducator] Re: Success! - Hewlett Funding Proposal Approved

Wayne, Much congratulations to you and the WE community at large. In particular, I look forward to having the Connexions content more directly accessible in WikiEducator. Alison On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm very plea

[WikiEducator] Re: Another milestone: 10,000 registered users!

I'm honored to be part of this wonderful community. We have some work to do and I trust that we are willing, ready, and capable. I look forward to our future work together. Alison On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Peter wrote: > > Awesome > Our community is becoming an exemplar for building c

[WikiEducator] Community-wide Workgroups WAS Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ

Ben, Glad to *hear* your thinking out loud on the topic of community-wide workgroups. My thoughts following your comments: Any prescriptive guidelines or rules that > are established from the start of an idea (i.e., OER content or > community-wide content) must facilitate this process and not bog

[WikiEducator] Re: Web research community service

ing that there a lots of folks out there who want contribute, > but don't know where or how. It works for Wikipedia, so it should work > for WikiEducator too. > > ..Valerie > > > On Jun 8, 2:29 pm, Alison Snieckus wrote: > > Valerie, > > I really like this

[WikiEducator] Re: Web research community service

Valerie, I really like this idea of a help-wanted template to add to a page. I see us all using it -- both to request help and to offer help. To the template, I'd suggest adding "title of resource" and "needed expertise." I have a project that may be ready for review in late July -- an intro tuto

[WikiEducator] Re: June's UPE is Phil Bartle

Congratulations, Phil. Your user page is a real gem! I hadn't thought through the underlying meaning and full import of your quote, hehe. Thanks for connecting the dots. No doubt part of my draw to WikiEd is the chance to contribute to the innocent subversion ;-) Alison On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:

[WikiEducator] Re: Thoughts about WE Workgroups / Working groups

Good idea! Workgroups are clearly an important structure in WE, whether overtly named or not. I agree we should spend some time thinking about and collaborating on what we can do to encourage workgroups and help them thrive -- a workgroup to define workgroups. I'll leave my comments on the new work

[WikiEducator] Re: Options for Activity Template

Rob, Thanks so much for making Feedback4. It works with Activity3 exactly as I was thinking. And, I've successfully implemented it in the calc 3 tutorial. It functions to add feedback for those that need it and leave it hidden for those that don't. Thanks for answering my call for the pedagogical-

[WikiEducator] Re: Options for Activity Template

Wow, I'm gone for a few hours and the world has changed. Yes, indeedy, count me in. I've added my name to the growing list. Alison http://www.wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > hey Ben, Maria, Glady's Jim -

[WikiEducator] Re: Options for Activity Template

Rob, Thanks for continuing to offer suggestions on how to make this concept work. I see how the feedback template can be embedded in the activity template. That's the idea I was envisioning. But, you're right the Feedback icon is too intrusive. Not having the autonumbering isn't a big deal (I've no

[WikiEducator] Re: Options for Activity Template

Rob, Thanks for your help on this. Reflection2 provides the expand option that I suggested as a solution. But it's not the perfect solution (at least as far as I can tell) because it seems there's only one chance to expand. So, I could break the instructions up into a few reflections, with the corr

[WikiEducator] Re: Is there any difference between Wiki and googlesite ?

Great idea. Love the video. This fits quite well into the Open Computing project. I propose the following: I suggest creating a main page describing Google, http://www.wikieducator.org/Google , and its available tools with subpages for tutorials on how (and when/why) to use each of the available t

[WikiEducator] Re: Deleting pages

Declan, I've used the deletion system with success (it's working, from my perspective), but so far only for pages that I created but then didn't need. In my post earlier today about an image with no source info, I felt unsure about whether to just request its deletion or if there is some better way

[WikiEducator] Image Licensing

I found an image on WE that doesn't have any source or licensing documentation: http://www.wikieducator.org/Image:OpenComputer.jpg .I am interested in using this image, but it may not be licensed for use on WE. It's currently used on "3.2 Hardware Components," http://www.wikieducator.org/3.2_Hardwa

[WikiEducator] Re: Plan to Move the Current CCNC Pages

als as free content. Do you think > external funding would help speed up the development process? > > I like the way you have reallocated my comments into the three areas :-) > Further responses in text below. > > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 21:08 -0400, Alison Snieckus wrote: > > Ani

[WikiEducator] Re: Plan to Move the Current CCNC Pages

Anil, Thanks for the kind words. I am happy to help. Wayne, Thanks for posting your thoughts. I've reallocated your comments into three areas for our continued consideration: *Audience* I want to start by commenting on a point Wayne makes throughout his post -- Who is the audience for instruct

[WikiEducator] Plan to Move the Current CCNC Pages

A few of us have been discussing how to proceed with updating the module content in the Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate (CCNC). The consensus is to move the current pages to a new node: http://www.wikieducator.org/CCNC/Version2 . We recognize that following the move we'll need to fix

[WikiEducator] Re: New WikiEducator CCNC Google group

Peter, I agree, we will need an easy communication system for making decisions. Thanks for getting this going. All are welcome to join us as WE work together to finish this foundation WE project! Alison On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:46 AM, aprasad wrote: > Dear Peter, > > You cannot put a bad idea

[WikiEducator] Re: CCNC

it > and for children reading the web page is boring so videos and Images the > best way to make them intrested let me know how can I help and be with the > group. > > Warm Regards > Rima > > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Alison Snieckus < > alison.sniec...@gmai

[WikiEducator] Re: CCNC

> On Feb 3, 10:49 pm, aprasad wrote: > Hi new brothers and sisters in our WE family, > > Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate (CCNC) is a very promising > project on WikiEducator. I'd like to expand on Anil's earlier posting. CCNC is designed to provide beginning instruction in the u

[WikiEducator] Re: CCNC

Anil, Thanks for the encouragement. I reviewed Module 4 and put my thoughts/suggestions in a discussion thread on the Mod 4 talk page. However, this doesn't seem like the best place to put the notes. It seems like we could use these kinds of notes to create a lists of "todo's" and "issues" along w

[WikiEducator] Can we include java applets in WE?

Is it possible to include a java applet in a wiki page? I noticed that the eXe manual includes java applets under available "iDevice Descriptions", http://www.wikieducator.org/Online_manual/Working_with_eXe, but I couldn't find any documentation for how to embed an applet in a wiki page. If not av

[WikiEducator] Re: New message notification not working

Declan, I seem to be getting responses. That is, any post that occurs on a page that I have listed on my watchlist can be accessed via "My Watchlist" page, from a box that says "There are new messages for you." If I respond from that "Newmessages" page, my response shows up on the appropriate "ta

[WikiEducator] Re: February UPE is Gladys Gahona

Gladys, Congratulations on being chosen for this month's featured user page. Being a new user and recent contributor to the Math Glossary, I can attest firsthand to how helpful your user page, in particular "My Testing Laboratory," was (and still is) to my getting involved. You are most deserving

[WikiEducator] Re: WE (mathematics) efforts need to go beyond another “Wikipedia repeat”

If you are nterested in making this vision of math learning resources a reality, join us on the WikiEducator MathGloss project. Hope to see you there, Alison Snieckus, WE user: ASnieckus On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:28 PM, jkelly952 wrote: > > While one can appreciate the time and e

[WikiEducator] Re: Active Membership on WE

ent have the most impact on behavior (in this case participation). I do have to say that I'm not sure I would have gotten this far if I hadn't gotten such a warm welcome from the wikineighbors. Thanks for making me feel welcome right from the get-go! Alison Snieckus On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:07