Valerie, We can move forward relatively quickly because we have a dedicated software team on the project - my husband and I have a software company, so we can draw on the expertise and experience. Still, I always want to move faster!!! You know how it is... At least we will have a beautiful front page and site design in a couple of days. This took forever because I kept tweaking things around in sketches.
You pose an excellent question - a research problem, even. I guess if I were to situate it, it would turn into, "How do we build the semantic web (web 3.0) out of our stuff?" Or maybe it's too broad? Little RLOs from Natural Math, every one of them, are about users creating something. For the Family Multiplication Study in particular, we are building a structure where there is a "creation hub" (multiplication planet site, named by an activity, such as snowflakes, patterns in the multiplication table, your own number systems, your own board or computer games and so on) and then individual creations around each hub, kinda like settlers building houses and barns and such to form a village. I think the information of how each "settler family" moved among hubs is useful too, so we are going to capture those journeys. People, naturally, describe what information and tools they used - manipulatives, sites, books and so on. I posed the condition that when people cite a non-open (or non-Creative Commons) source, they describe the relevant part enough for others to be able to do the activity without buying the source. But a family story can't all be about the information the family found somewhere: it has to be about what they built using the information. Valerie, I would like to know more about your project! Are your students authoring? I guess it's a philosophical question, because assembling information in novel ways (citing, mashing, linking) is considered a form of authoring by many. Yet I am going for a pretty direct definition of "authoring" here: users creating their own definitions, making up their own math operations, posing their own problems, coming up with their own patterns, building their own systems and so on. If we go by "Bloom's Digital Taxonomy <http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670>" - I am chasing the top two levels (creating and evaluating). Looking forward to learning more about your work, MariaD On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:15 PM, valerie <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Maria > > That is wonderful to hear that you are moving forward so quickly. > Please let us know when you are ready to let us see your beta version. > > Is there a format for the information that can facilitate "capturing > the past human action" ? Rather than just going back and gathering > information automatically, it might be interesting and useful to also > have a format to guide mentors and learners recording the > information. > > I have my students research a topic and provide the information to the > class. Is there some place or format where they can record their work > that could help your capturing process? > > ..Valerie > > > On Dec 27, 7:54 am, "Maria Droujkova" <droujk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > We should have about half of the features I described in beta early in > > January. The "magic" is in capturing past human action and "serving up" > the > > aggregated knowledge contained therein, automatically. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
