WIKI PROGRAMMING QUESTION: is there a way to create "wysiwyg" templates in this wiki? I am using twiki for a lot of stuff, and the thing I like about it you can program "fill in the blanks" templates for users who aren't into wiki codes. This way, if I want a bunch of people to quickly add content in a particular format, I make a template for them and they don't have to program in wiki code at all.
I thought a bit about the formats. I am going to run "weekly quests" on Natural Math mailing list, and adding your own pictures etc. to definitions, and refining definitions, can be a good "Expedition" type quest. See "Multiplication expedition: The search for elusive models<http://www.naturalmath.com/study/view-25.html>" for an example. It can be a good community outreach for my people. I am still debating with myself (please join, it's lonely here) how to implement it. Do I invite everybody to register for WE and post there? Do I make a "container" for it on Natural Math that will bridge with WE automatically, with a one-click WYSIWYG functionality? Flickr does very nice things for collections too, but its registration is a bit much, I found. What do you think? As for math clubs, the format will be different. Every club meeting, vocabulary issues crop up and we usually use plain old Google Picture Search to help us, and also Wikipedia and Wolfram's MathWorld. Club members ALWAYS groan and moan about the later two, because they can't comprehend any of the extremely abstract math found there; at the same time, they are impressed they are working with cool, advanced stuff, if peripherally, and I'd like to preserve and nurture that feeling. So we will probably continue using the said three resources as we did before, however! This time we will also collect ideas/pictures/haikus/videos we especially like for WE example collection, and play a few rounds of "Definition Wars" to create a definition if it's not there yet. If we do that, we can generate about three rich definition pages per week. That's not much. However, this can be used to attract other groups to join the fun, and they can re-use dictionary activity designs we develop at Natural Math, which will make joining the project both easier and more meaningful for them. Hopefully ^_^ Cheers, MariaD On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Gladys Gahona <gladysgah...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Maria, > > The Glossary born on Dec 30 2008, this means 8 days ago. > > The layout design, goals and contents have been developed by Wayne > Mackintosh and me. So far this is the job of two persons, and I hope > more people join us soon (I am working on it). This project needs much > more than four hands and two brains :-). > > We pointed to the list of Global WE initiatives because it is intended > to be a common glossary for all current Math developings and the new > ones they could appear, in an effort to offer a reusable set of math > definitions for every project covering the range (13-18yr, secondary > and early terciary levels). I am a private math, chemistry and physics > teacher for these levels. > > So there is no a specific project owning the glossary, that is why we > are inviting every math content developer to add their own terms. > > All the terms so far added come from the published math projects in WE > and from well known books every math teacher uses. I am identifying > the people behind each project and inviting them to add terms to the > glossary and include the corresponding links. > > Wiki, as a collaborative platform, is a perfect place to allocate the > "Examples" part of your projects. As I told you before, I can assist > you on this part. > > I will be following your projects. I really like them. > > Cheers. > > Gladys Gahona > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 > > > On 6 ene, 05:54, "Maria Droujkova" <droujk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok, here is what I will do. My various projects with people (math clubs, > the > > family multiplication study, "My young apprentice" and such) are starting > > this and next week. We did make a resolution to do more community > outreach > > with some of the people and projects. So, I will offer dictionary making > and > > illustrating as an activity to everybody, which I will coordinate. The > > "Examples" part can be the divergent part I am talking about. I will > > describe the design of dictionary activities as we engage in them, so > that > > other groups and individuals can do them, too. > > > > Leigh, I poked around the Wikibooks site you linked for a few minutes and > > could not find anything particularly useful for this project. Well, > nowhere > > near the level of usefulness of math resources I would actually use, like > > "Ask Dr. Math" from the Math Forum, Jeany Eather's Maths Dictionary, > > Wolfram's Math World and Wikipedia. I could not see anything I would copy > > and paste if people allowed me - everything would require major > re-writes. I > > also did not like the format of things I saw, at least not for a > dictionary. > > I bet I am missing something. What did you have in mind? > > > > Gladys, who are other people and entities developing the dictionary, > > deciding the layout and ultimately using it - the "we" you mention? You > gave > > a link to the project at some point, but it led to a big list of wiki > > projects, not to your particular one. > > > > Cheers, > > MariaD > > > > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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