[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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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 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: 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: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-27 Thread Randy Fisher
Ditto - I think this is a serious community building issue. - Randy On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:56 PM, NELLIE DEUTSCH < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Leigh, > Thank you for the information. > Warm wishes, > Nellie Deutsch > Doctoral Student > Educational Leadership > Curriculum and Instruction > h

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-27 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Hi Leigh, Thank you for the information. 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 http://blendedlear.ning.com http://connecting-o

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-27 Thread Leigh Blackall
Hi Nellie, - The suggestion to have LQT pages toggle between normal wiki text and threaded posts was made but dismissed on grounds of implementation difficulty (I think) - Then another suggestion was made to have 2 discussion tabs above each page in the wiki. One for discussion usi

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-27 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Nellie, Now, you're getting technical . Please ask Leigh - Randy On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:07 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But doesn't the page it's on behave like a wiki page and if it doesn't, > can't it be made to act like one so that the changes would be followe

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-27 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Everyone, Nellie raises a very important point - and also is elevating the age-old LQT debate from technology-tweaking to community-building. By engaging with learners from the get-go with WikiEducator, we have the opportunity to get them really hooked on the WE platform ~ it really does make

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-27 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
But doesn't the page it's on behave like a wiki page and if it doesn't, can't it be made to act like one so that the changes would be followed by email notifications? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.nelliemuller.com http://ww

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-27 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Nellie, No silly questions on WikiEducator, or to Randythe "talk pages" are the tab link "discussion", which goes to a page on WE for discussion / talk purposes. - Randy On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:46 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy, > Perhaps this is a silly questio

[WikiEducator] Re: Online L4C Courses and Community Building

2008-10-27 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Randy, Perhaps this is a silly question, but aren't the "talk pages" the same as the wikipages? Thanks. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.nelliemuller.com http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd http://www.building-relationshi