to announce the winner for July 2014. She is Alison Snieckus.
Lets meet her :-)
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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
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
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:
StreamWatchhttp://www.thewatershed.org/science/stream-watch/,
including chemical and biological monitoring. I'll be in touch
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
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:17 AM, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com 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.
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Balqis Thaahaveettil balk...@gmail.com
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
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Balqis Thaahaveettil balk...@gmail.comwrote:
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 months old
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Mark Roest marklro...@gmail.com 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
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
A few years ago, a few wikieducators started the Categories
Workgrouphttp://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Categories.
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.
Hi Savithri,
I'm not particularly adept technically, but thought I chime in with some
thoughts in any case.
1. When we use the ref /ref syntax 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
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
alison.sniec...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Savithri,
I'm not particularly adept technically, but thought I chime in with some
thoughts in any case
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 a
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
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
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
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Alison Snieckus
alison.sniec...@gmail.com 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 for each to substitute in the correct
character. Clever
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
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 http://wikieducator.org/Variance_and_standard_deviation. It
seems like this would be possible, but the single curly brackets may be an
issue.
Any
/Issue_Tracker).
Cheers
Wayne
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Alison Snieckus alison.sniec...@gmail.com
wrote:
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
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
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 pschli...@col.orgwrote:
Dear Friends,
Pease help us congratulate the winners of the WikiEducator User page Expo
I checked out the Wikipedia article on
WikiEducatorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
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
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
problems with my watchlist.
Will keep you posted.
W
On 23 July 2010 11:26, Patricia Schlicht patri...@oerfoundation.orgwrote:
There seems to be technical problem. Wayne has been alerted. Others do
experience it too.
Warm wishes,
Patricia
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Alison Snieckus
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
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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.
Congratulations Rob and Sanjay. Very inspiring!
Alison
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org 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
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 develop
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
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 prawstho...@gmail.com wrote:
With Ludmilla Smirnova, Ph.D being the April UPE we have swung back to
recognizing an exemplary user page. Dr. Smirnova
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 smile.
Alison
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Randy Fisher
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
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 3.5.8
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
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
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,
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 j...@oerfoundation.org wrote:
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 16:04, Alison Snieckus
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
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
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 prawstho...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello WikiEducators,
It is an honour to announce this months UPE, Jim Tittsler.
, 2010 at 17:19, Alison Snieckus
alison.sniec...@gmail.com 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 includes the message button,
but
when
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
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:
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
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
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 prawstho...@gmail.com wrote:
With great pleasure WE announce Dr. Nadia El Borai as the January UPE.
Dr.
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
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]]
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
://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 10:04 PM, Alison Snieckus
alison.sniec...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm looking for some technical help.
The page http://wikie http
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
,
a revert is more appropriate than a delete.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 19:27, Alison Snieckus alison.sniec...@gmail.com
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
template
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
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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 prawstho...@gmail.com wrote:
With great honour I announce Nellie Deutsch as the
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
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
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
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,
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:ASnieckushttp://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote:
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
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 droujk...@gmail.comwrote:
Let's pick a Wednesday then. Some possibilities:
anywhere in WE and locate ones that need help now that
match my interest and expertise.
I'm assuming 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
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
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
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
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 --
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
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
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
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
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:
Anil,
Thanks for the kind words. I am happy to help.
Wayne,
Thanks for posting your
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
On Feb 3, 10:49 pm, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com 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
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 with
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
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 talk
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 jkelly...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
While one can appreciate the time and effort that goes
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 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH
nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote
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