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OK folks, there are some changes that can be made to improve this. These include finishing the two missing sections and these tips that follow:
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Formatting links
There are a few ways to create links to external web sites in the wiki.
Descriptive option for use in text
The best type of link for most situations includes a description of the linked site. This description appears as the title of the link e.g. Useful Web Site. To create a link like this just type a link and the description, separated by a space and enclosed in single square brackets: [http://www.exelearning.org Useful Web Site]. This will create a link to the Useful Web Site that appears like this: Useful Web Site and should be used in conjunction with the full citation in literature cited.
Footnote format
Enclosing the link in single square brackets without providing a description: [http://www.exelearning.org] ...will display the link as a number in brackets, like this: [1]. This format looks like a footnote and it should be used in conjunction with numbered full citations in literature cited.
For your citations section
Type in the full URL for the link: http://www.exelearning.org The wiki treats this text as a link like this: http://www.exe.learning.org and will display full web address. Use this format in your citations section so that users can work from a printout if needs be; avoid using this format in the main text of your lesson. This material adapted from here
Formatting citations
To insure that a reader can reliably track down the specific book or article you intended, it is useful to provide the following information:
- Author(s) (last name followed by first initials; secondary authors: initials followed by last name); year; Book title or article title; publisher (for books) or Periodical title (for articles); volume and page numbers (both for articles)
Formatted examples:
- Brown, M.W. and C. Hurd. 1947. Goodnight Moon. Harper.
- Bentley, W.A. 1905. Studies of raindrops and raindrop phenomena. Monthly weather review. 32. 450
Using Galleries
I notice that you have several images on your page. It may be useful to organize them in a gallery. The format is quite simple:
The following captioned gallery was added to this page using this syntax:
<gallery caption="Data set 1;Valentine's Day snow storm 2007, South Burlington Vermont">
Image:315Small Snow.jpg|Figure 1. Snow accumulation at 3:15 during a snowstorm on Feb 14 2007 in South Burlington Vermont USA; click to view closer
Image:345 smallSnow.jpg|Figure 2. Snow accumulation at 3:45; click to view closer.
Image:415 smallSnow.jpg|Figure 3. Snow accumulation at 4:15; click to view closer.
</gallery>
 Figure 1. Snow accumulation at 3:15 during a snowstorm on Feb 14 2007 in South Burlington Vermont USA; click to view closer |
 Figure 2. Snow accumulation at 3:45; click to view closer. |
 Figure 3. Snow accumulation at 4:15; click to view closer. |
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student worthiness
Can you call it tested yet? Are you happy with the results?
Area covered
Let's tuck in seedling morphology, germination, experimental science. Remember that although you are testing temperature etc, this system could be used to test a wide range of parameters you may not have considered. So drop in a suggestion that other factors could be tested.
Materials
fertilizer: add a note encouraging folks to follow the directions on the package.
Handout looks good
description of activity
- add a mention of measurement.
- Give all of your photographs a numbered caption:Figure 1. Examples of beans germinating in a bag You can then refer to them by number in the text (Fig 1)
lesson plan
- Paragraph 2. grammar check
- first bullet point Miracle grow for example.....add importance of labeling
- third bullet: grammar
- bullets 4 & 6 spelling
Literature
list full citations of books you have in mind
Formatting citations
To insure that a reader can reliably track down the specific book or article you intended, it is useful to provide the following information:
- Author(s) (last name followed by first initials; secondary authors: initials followed by last name); year; Book title or article title; publisher (for books) or Periodical title (for articles); volume and page numbers (both for articles)
Formatted examples:
- Brown, M.W. and C. Hurd. 1947. Goodnight Moon. Harper.
- Bentley, W.A. 1905. Studies of raindrops and raindrop phenomena. Monthly weather review. 32. 450
standards
looking very good
Fantastic! (1)
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This is great! Keep up the good work. We'll photograph your setup in lab and upload the photos here. Congrats on your efforts!Dmccabe 00:19, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
