ally) in a summer school.
The students are middle school aged, but they get to use college computer
lab equipment (we discourage scientific calculators as unsuitable for any
serious 21st century curriculum).
Kirby Urner
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 7:55 PM Wayne Mackintosh
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
&
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 3:07 PM, kirby urner wrote:
>
> This course looked like an interesting way of dividing through a huge
> volume of material, providing a unifying heuristic, a set of categories,
> from using it, to finding it, to sharing it (with more steps in between).
>
&g
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 3:07 PM, kirby urner wrote:
<< SNIP >>
> To incentivize around the integrity of the individual makes for a
> strong beginning, with protecting a company's perimeter, a team's,
> a family's, a part of the follow-on logic. The code sch
fulfilling dreams.
For more on Code Schools, I'll cite this blog post from today:
http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2016/04/code-school-gift-shop.html
Kirby
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/4dsolutions
[2] http://insights.cermacademy.com/tag/kirby-urner/
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 4:26 AM
I was at an EduSummit with Bender in Santa Clara not long ago.
We're still gaga for turtles although at O'Reilly I've phased in the
Tractor as the new turtle, just for some variety in what we call
the avatar. Sounds more grown-up and lets me take advantage
of social realism as a marketing tool.
Always good to hear from you Ed. Sugar Labs was high profile with Bender
keynote at edusummit at Pycon.
Keep on keepin on.
Kirby
On May 7, 2013 8:41 PM, "Edward Cherlin" wrote:
>
> The Sugar Labs developers who support One Laptop Per Child are also
> developing HTML5 applications, including ve
Thanks for the link. I agree that HTML5 is helping a lot. The new
Mozilla smartphone, of which I've so far seen only one, is based on
it. JavaScript has to pick up a lot of the slack, as the HTML
controller, versus ActionScript inside of Flash.
I work in eLearning as an instructor. Sometimes o
"The classroom" is like "the stage" in theater, a space that may be filled
(temporarily) by any number of dramas.
Some classrooms are specialized to a specific subject and/or age group.
Some "belong" to a specific teacher.
Sometimes teachers, trainers, workshop leaders "reserve a classroom" (migh
I think from a student's point of view, one should think in terms of a
mix of on-line and in-person classes.
The pitfall is to think it's either / or.
The notion that we need to decide "which is better?" depends on the
student's specific circumstances. It's just wheel spinning to try to
decide "
I teach one-on-one by means of comments, cues, other feedback, but it's all
in writing. This was the old idea of a "correspondence school" but with
the Internet it all happens much faster.
Such distance education schools are in addition to traditional classrooms
where people meet a teacher face t
This snippet of HTML (below), mailed to me as an "infographic" is a
way of pulling the jpg, tall and narrow, into a web page, where your
browser gives scrolling access.
However, if you're already in your browser, just opening the jpg file
would be an option.
I'm ambivalent about what seems to be
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Ravi Limaye wrote:
> As a researcher, I am in process of developing Problem Based Learning
> approch for Engineering subjects. Please visit my wiki
> http://wikieducator.org/Problem_based_learning. Your valuable
> suggestions and advice would be of great help.
>
T
I gather the red swish "no picture" pictures are like NULL in
the database in that not all columns have data.
Or maybe there were no missing pictures and it was my
Shockwave that crashed (in Chrome, happens often).
I don't know enough about Wikis to know if there's back
ending through queries.
T
My sister is a grad of a philosophy for children program in Montclair,
New Jersey, got her degree quite awhile back. Seemed a very
innovative program.
I fall back on Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics a lot, when
introducing the possibility of a tetrahedral model of 3rd powering,
actually m
fice culture). Leading
by example becomes important, not just by one person
but a core group or team...
Kirby Urner
Portland, Oregon
http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner
[1] lore vs. skills as two axes of andragogy:
http://www.4dsolutions.net/presentations/p4t_notes.pdf (Fig. page 3)
On Tue
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:01 AM, rash Kath wrote:
> Dear Patricia,
> Thanks for making the work simpler.
> Regards
>
> Dear Kirby,
> I visited your page. Its impressive and full of loads of information.
> Thanks for sharing the link. Are you interested in working on hands on
> Mathematics?
> Regard
Greetings Rashmi --
I was checking your blog. Impressive awards and write-ups. You are
obviously a talented teacher.
I'm another mathematics type using Wikieducator to vector content to teachers.
However, our program is deliberately out of compliance with a great
many standards (on principle)
Sounds like fun.
I've contributed some materials on numeric sequences, with link to the
On-Line Encyclopedia of Same (Integer Sequences).
1, 12, 42, 92... is one I write about most, and my name appears in the
OEIS links section under that entry.
The work I've posted is cast in a contemporary com
domain. However, perhaps one of
> our American contributing partners would be able to assist with mapping to
> this domain.
>
> Appreciate your work in growing the Wikieducator family.
>
> Cheers
> Wayne
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:15 AM, kirby urner wrote:
>>
>&g
any plans to map wikieducator.edu ? down the road, it's make a good mirror.
i've continued to point clients to resources on wikieducator as a good
site of OER materials.
When you're trying to throw stuff together in a hurry, you need to not
get bogged down in "permissions".
kirby
http://wikied
I'm noticing the date: April Fools Day.
If that's not intentional, it should be.
I'm thinking it's intentional.
Kirby
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Gita Mathur wrote:
> Thank You Steve for the information.
> OER's to “FOERSTER”
> “Open Educational Resources”, or OERs.
> From 1st April on,
reate scarcity artificially because we can't figure out how
to really take advantage of our new capabilities... that's symptomatic of
our broken (sinful, unethical) curriculum.
This spanking new Global U Library is a puzzler for economics teachers. I
don't think they get i
My rhetoric for a number of years has featured our Global U (global
university). That's a metaphor though, on the level of Spaceship Earth --
which is only a metaphor in the sense that humans did not architect /
implement this particular "spaceship" (or "spherical campus" if you will).
It's good
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Wayne Mackintosh
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
<< abbrev >>
> We extend an open invitation to international agencies like COL and UNESCO
> to join us. We extend an open invitation to all formerly registered
tertiary
> education providers of the world to join us. We expec
FYI, making contact with OpenStudy.
There's been subsequent message traffic and an uptick in visits to
Martian Math / Wikieducator as a result.
Kirby
-- Forwarded message --
From: kirby urner
Date: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Subject: Greetings re Python.org Communi
As a part of a much longer reverie, which won't make a whole lot
of sense because I'm brainstorming about local talent and assets,
I conclude with the paragraph below. I'm looking at Wikieducator
was a "window" through which new content flows and enters the
"meme pool" as OERs.
Making a school a
Chris Fearnley, president of Synergetics Collaborative (abbreviated
SNEC for historical
reasons) recently posted this entry on OER.
Chris is a long time member of the OSS community as well, providing
Linux-related
services in the Philadelphia area and elsewhere:
http://blog.cjfearnley.com/2010/10
I was just having lunch with my uncle, who self-published a book on
pre-WW1 submarine construction in the North Pacific region of the USA
(Seattle etc.). He shared about his dealings with Amazon, but more
generally with publishers witnessing the digital revolution. I did
his website:
http://web.
Here's a blog post with information about assistive technology for the
elderly.
It was projected for a province in Canada however the project leader
giving the talk did not end up managing what he was sketching.
I'm guessing this design is still on the drawing boards, still a
little ahead of its
uild skills and awareness.
Thank you for your work,
Kirby Urner
http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner
[1] http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2007/06/our-global-u-advertisement.html
[2] http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=ganesh
PS: I was in China in the early 1970s and tre
use to catalyze democratic decision making does
not stop with just voting.
Kirby Urner
Portland, Oregon
> http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
> http://johnsearth.blogspot.com
>
>
> From: kirby urner
> To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com
> Sent:
VOTING MACHINES IN SCHOOLS
Those following the many conflict-of-interest stories
that have always plagued the voting vista, might
appreciate the advisability of having schools serve
as "testbeds for democracy" in those systems
favoring this form of self-government (not all of
them do).
The idea i
Thank you Kim, glad to see that link.
Python and VPython are free and open source, yes. Looking
chip-to-cloud, you may encounter proprietary layers e.g. both the
aforementioned run atop Apple and Microsoft as well as Linux. Not
sure about VPython on FreeBSD -- not looking good.
The Digital Math
n workshop. Different media go to different purposes.
I am thankful that Wikieducator has provided such a
free and open platform for the placement of unrestricted
materials, suitable for adaptation to local circumstances.
Kirby Urner
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On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Wayne Mackintosh
wrote:
> kirby urner wrote:
>
>> WE pages are iceberg tips in ecosystems that
>> only tenuously overlap with one another.
>
> Hi Kirby,
>
> Thanks for highlighting this -- great post :-). In my thinking, this is a
&g
about my very specific
projects involving WE. I just wanted to illustrate my point
that WE pages can be integral within a network (or
"graph") of interlinked resources, without this being
readily apparent to "outsiders" (including to other
members of the WE community).
I w
ots of links to specific WE pages as a way of weaving my web.
Some webs are tight enough to make specific WE pages feel a part
of entirely different scenarios, yet the WE context provides a
familiar look and feel nonetheless, which tends to be comforting
in some zip codes.
Kirby Urner
http://wikieducato
7;d get,
aggregating from searches.
Seems like an open environment like this one could experiment with sharing
some metadata publicly. I seem to recall some page ranking (based on total
hit counts?), not sure what other web stats are on tap.
Students / researchers of Wikis get hungry for data, t
, is very pro Internet and encourages
> students to develop their communications skills with new media. This is one
> of the top schools in the nation. Do they teach about Mites, Sytes and
> Kites? Soon if not yet I'll betcha.
>
*Kirby Urner
Linus Pauling House Campus
Portland
>
> Happy editing!
>
> Wayne and Jim
> OER Foundation.
>
> --
> Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
> Director,
> International Centre for Open Education,
> Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
> Board of Directors, OER Foundation.
> Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org
> Mobile
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
...
> It is true that Wikipedia should never be cited as a primary source
> for research. The same is generally true of other Wikis. The correct
> attitude is not to ban use of Wikis, but to require that students find
> the original sources
or some other wiki, there
should be a forum or group where it's OK to share it, and without
automatically being stigmatized as "anti progress" or "a poor teacher" or
some such label.
I expect readers here agree, so again please don't take this as a lecture.
Kirby
ipedia.
On a different topic, I was wondering how in WikiEducator one might embed an
iFrame such as are used in Google Street
Views<http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-street-view.html>.
I did some searches but so far have not found any examples.
*Kirby Urner <http://wikieducator.or
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:50 PM, valerie wrote:
<< snip >>
> Sigh... Yes, some of our faculty are convinced that Wikipedia and by
> association, all wikis, especially those that look like Wikipedia
> because they use Mediawiki are evil and populated by gangs of internet
> hooligans intent on pr
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:25 AM, kirby urner wrote:
<< trim >>
>
> I'll post a link to that post in the Math Forum when it appears (this is a
> moderated list), so you can better see how I promote Wikieducator to my
> audience. In the meantime, I have this short
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:40 PM, wrote:
> I think the more we work together to edit things the better...It not only
> helps clarify ideas, it gives us all practice on the best ways to do it
> collaboratively and cordially. Joyce McKnight, SUNY Empire State College
>
> *kirby ur
lot of teachers do something similar: get their materials
on-line and then face a peer group, suggesting a "come on in, the water's
fine" attitude.
Having a large repository of interlinked courseware is what everyone thinks
is necessary (me included).
I appreciate your work and enco
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Chris Harvey wrote:
> The way I've approached this is using planetplanet software.
>
> You can see how I use it here.
> http://superuser.com.au/planettalo
>
> I believe many free culture communities also use planetplanet, Wikimedia
> have a planet too.
> http://en.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> Another even trickier topic for would-be epistemologists. What do you
> do when the pseudoscientist, in this case Milton Friedman, has won a
> Nobel Prize? Kary Mullis is another Nobel laureate turned denier, in
> his case over HIV/AIDS. I'm
antime, I mostly only discuss GCC with Dutch engineers (my
line on the ISEPP list as well, where I mostly stay with other
topics).
More my typical banter (flavor of ice cream):
http://mail.geneseo.edu/pipermail/math-thinking-l/2009-November/001329.html
More soon maybe, over on edu-sig perhaps
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
<< snip >>
>
> Let's hear it then from the rest of you. What are your issues with
> Global Warming science vs. the carbon fuel industry and their
> scientific and political shills and common or garden variety dupes?
>
Hey there Ed, nice ch
Thank you Sarita. I enjoyed looking over your home page and learning
more about your work.
Kirby
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Sarita Kumar wrote:
> Hi all,
> Wish you & your families Happy Thanksgiving.
>
> Regards
> Sarita
>
> --
> http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjay
> http://ww
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, kirby urner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>
> < trim >
>
> So we're in agreement on that score. Good news about the Old South
> though, sounds like Forest Gump has lots to celebrate.
>
Just t
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
< trim >
>> I'm glad we live in a parallel processing system such that if Lower48
>> USA gets bogged down in fighting the Scopes Trial, turns itself into a
>> Monkey Island,
>
> To expand what I wrote earlier: We have encouraging polling da
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:14, Phil Bartle wrote:
>>
>> John raised the question:
>> "But I have a question. And this is addressed not just to you, but to
>> everyone. Why is it that educators -- the people whose job it is to teach
>> s
Thanks. I sent my request, exploring your page.
Kirby
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Patricia Schlicht wrote:
>
> Hi Kirby,
>
> You might also want to have a look at the Teacher Collaboration Portal
> on WikiEducator with a large crowd of global educators subscribed to it.
> It comes upon i
Interesting thread...
Speaking for myself, I think Wikieducator provides a fantastic shared
infrastructure, however not every teacher needs to master Web 2.0
skills to be effective.
It's OK to serve a niche, a minority, and to remain friendly to those
expressing an interest, providing a guidance
ikipedia)
>
> --
> Jan Visser, Ph.D.
> President & Sr. Researcher, Learning Development Institute
> E-mail: jvis...@learndev.org
> Check out: http://www.learndev.org and http://www.facebook.com/learndev
> Blog: http://jvisser-ldi.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Origi
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Jan Visser wrote:
> GEOSET (Global Educational Outreach for Science Engineering and Technology)
> is a repository of freely downloadable educational resources in the area of
> science, engineering and technology available at http://www.geoset.info/. I
> thought it
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Jan Visser wrote:
> Wayne and Kirby (others?),
>
> I agree regarding OLPC and the (limited) practice emerging from it. It’s a
> different use of the technology than what’s normally being done. Papert’s
> work from a long time ago is, I assume, still an inspiration
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Wayne Mackintosh
wrote:
> Hi Kirby,
>
> You make a good point about the potential abundance of access to digital
> content. However, in reality I think we are a long way off from a world
> where we have access to digital content PLUS the permissions to adapt,
> mo
My impression is there's a huge amount of free content if (a) you have
access to the Internet and (b) you have enough education to know how
to read and study the materials, find your peer groups, organize a
learning experience resulting in credentials and opportunities.
Both (a) and (b) cannot be
Example of an organization using a blog to connect to blogosphere
would be PSF on the right hand margin of this recent post re
Wikieducator content:
http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-curriculum-writing.html
PSF has a board, voting membership, charged with protecting trademark,
language au
ction, formatted by
wikieducators as blog posts pointing into this content.
That would give casual browsers, thinking about jumping in, a sense of
what the waters are like.
In that sense, I could see this linked post being one such random sample.
Thanks for your work in providing this valuable wo
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