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==Is there anybody out there?==
 
==Is there anybody out there?==
Hi! I have spent a fun term working on teaching ideas with 21 marvelous students. They have uploaded a bunch of ideas and worked hard on them. However, other than my students and I, one other regular user, and a very helpful administrator, this is a very quiet wiki. So, my question in two parts: 1. Is there a way to vitalize the place and draw more participants in? or 2. Is there a more active education wiki 'out there' perhaps on a different site where other educators like to hang out? [[User:Dmccabe|Declan]] 13:25, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hi! I have spent a fun term working on teaching ideas with 21 marvelous students. They have uploaded a bunch of ideas and worked hard on them. However, other than my students and I, one other regular user, and a very helpful administrator, this is a very quiet wiki. So, my question in two parts: 1. Is there a way to vitalize the place and draw more participants in? or 2. Is there a more active education wiki 'out there' perhaps on a different site where other educators like to hang out? [[User:Dmccabe|Declan]] 13:25, 30 April 2007 (UTC) Reachable: dmccabe@smcvt.edu

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Relationship with the "Towns, Villages and Cities" wikicity

Some of you may be interested in linking from various pages here to cities:category:education. But those of us working there may consider linking to this wikicity if it seems to have more potential than "our" category. Robin Patterson 23:16, 18 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Robin, thanks for the hint. I think it would be great to cross connect and I tthink Wikia is about cross-connections anyway. The correct link would be http://cities.wikicities.com/wiki/Category:Education and I see that there are local educational institutions there which might be interested in the subjects of this wikicity.

Interestingly enough, I started as really frustrated by the perspective of being "MERGED" with other educational communities in ONE single wikicity, but now when I see who is active here I consider it as a blessing. There are lots of interesting projects "DOWN" in this wikicity but there should be a working community portal anyway. And that should work bottom up, that means I expect to meet here the leaders of various projects in this wikicity and create agreement how we can build a common map. --FranzN 09:27, 20 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Lesson Plan Cafe

I volunteer to start a common resource for lesson plans, broken down into major categories: University, Adult Vocational, High School, Elementary and Pre-school. Under these would be sub categories addressing specific content topics. Any objection/guidance from the community? I plan on working on this over my winter break...

Sounds great! This will really add a community spirit to this wiki! FranzN


Thanks- Project has begun. Will put up basic framework on 12/15, start spreading word that this project is underway among student teaching cohort at Arizona State Univ. I'm a High School World History guy, so I'll start from there and work my way outword...

Starting on Monday (Jan 15 06) I'm teaching a course on biology in elementary schools and I have encouraged my students to share the teaching ideas that they develop, borrow, and/or adapt on the page I have thrown together. I'm emphasizing collaborative learning, and service learning; the college students will run their ideas with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade students and are required to go back and record observations, pitfalls etc. They are a strong bunch, so I hope we end up with a high quality product upon which to build. There was a link from the cafe to "grade school biology" that went nowhere, so I took the liberty of redirecting it to my page. Comments and suggestions welcomeDmccabe 03:54, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Online Courses

I have begun putting together an online course, originally intended for wikiversity, but since the board said no to online courses, I'm considering moving it here. Would that be appropriate? Do enough people read this wiki that I could get (around) 10 people who would enroll in the class? Thanks. --MateoP 16:49, 11 Dec 2005 (UTC)

I have also been trying to use space here for Wikiversity-related activities. There is no reason not to do such work here, but you can also continue to develop courses at Wikibooks. There is much more traffic at Wikibooks. --JWSchmidt 19:44, 11 Dec 2005 (UTC)
Well what I am afraid of is that it will be deleted due to them saying no to online courses. Since my course is definitely an online course, and can't easily be converted into a wikibook (that's not what I want to do with it anyways), I was considering moving it here. I will wait to see if interest is drawn to it first. However I'm also afraid that if I held the class here no one would know about it and enroll. Caught in a difficult place. I hate bureaucracy. --MateoP 20:02, 11 Dec 2005 (UTC)
If everybody is pessimistic about this space, why were we asked to move here? I think it would be great to have online courses here! Lets consider it a place with future. FranzN 00:15, 12 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Online course are a good candidate for content here. The stuff that should be in wikipedia should really be in wikipedia, but the rest can be here. Christopher Mahan 03:01, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikis in elementary schools

Hi folks, are any of you aware of wikis being used directly by elementary school students and can you provide a link or two to some good examplesDmccabe 15:46, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Science/student data

Hi folks. I am toying with the idea of having students share results of experiments on a wiki. The idea is simple enough. My students (in college courses) generate data to be used in lab reports. Typically they take the raw data, do the graphing and analysis, write a report, earn a grade, end of story. I am suggesting that the methods and raw data be posted here and be made available to schools without the resources I have available. For example, intertidal invertebrate data may be useful to teachers in Kansas, and they could share data from their local habitats. So, any thoughts?Dmccabe 15:23, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Here is an example of a dataset http://education.wikia.com/wiki/Snow_graphing Dmccabe 20:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Is there anybody out there?

Hi! I have spent a fun term working on teaching ideas with 21 marvelous students. They have uploaded a bunch of ideas and worked hard on them. However, other than my students and I, one other regular user, and a very helpful administrator, this is a very quiet wiki. So, my question in two parts: 1. Is there a way to vitalize the place and draw more participants in? or 2. Is there a more active education wiki 'out there' perhaps on a different site where other educators like to hang out? Declan 13:25, 30 April 2007 (UTC) Reachable: dmccabe@smcvt.edu