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 mind). Your speaking up is good for it shows that experienced WikiEducators are requesting the feature. And it's not a bunch of technical zealots requesting features for LQT that will make it a tool that will encourage (not interfere with) community discussion. To provide an update (and schedule) to this request I may be able to provide some insight; 1) There is an outstanding request to turn off LQT in the WE technical forum. Activity on this request seems to be deferred until we have a new hosting situation. I don't see the hosting as an adequate argument for not turning it off, but it is what we have to work with. 2) WE is currently kicking off a hosting migration effort; http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator/Hosting/Migration If all goes well the new hosting will be live early in 2009. 3) My biggest concern regarding LQT and review of the coming fixes / features is I have requested documentation or specifications regarding these new features and have heard nothing in return. So we can't even review or provide input into LQT. Were kind of in the dark about it. Disappointing given we are probably the most active beta tester of LQT. In my mind it shows immaturity to the LQT development lifecycle, a big risk to WE. 4) Once we have a new hosting environment there is nothing holding us back from exploring options with LQT or other discussion approaches for that matter. Given the increased interest in storytelling within learning (http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0865.pdf) I believe we need to look at LQT being a tool, not THE tool for WE discussion. 5) Hopefully, very soon after the hosting migration we can explore what has become known as the multi-tab approach to discussion where a page has both a threaded discussion and a traditional wiki talk page. This sould fix the problem about having adequate email notification to encourage student lead discussion.
Let me know if this helps at all... Sincerely, Peter On Oct 28, 6:52 am, "NELLIE DEUTSCH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > Instructionhttp://www.nelliemuller.comhttp://www.integrating-technology.com/pdhttp://www.building-relationship.com/educationhttp://blendedlear.ning.comhttp://connecting-online.ning.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
