User:Leila Boyle

My Learning4Content course home page

= My profile =

My name is Leila Boyle. I am currently a Part-time Senior Tutor in Statistics at The University of Auckland's Student Learning Centre.

Professional background

 * 2005- University of Auckland, Part-time Senior Tutor, Student Learning Centre
 * 2000-2004 University of Auckland, Full-time Tutor, Department of Statistics and/or Student Learning Centre
 * 1999 University of Auckland, Part-time Tutor, Department of Statistics

SIGNIFICANT DISTINCTIONS / AWARDS:


 * 2003 New Zealand Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award - member of the Stage I Statistics Team from The University of Auckland
 * 2002 The University of Auckland 2002 Excellence in Teaching Awards (Sustained Excellence) - member of the Stage I Statistics Team
 * 2002 The University of Auckland 2002 Excellence in Teaching Awards (Collaboration) - member of the Stage I Statistics Team

Education

 * 1999 University of Auckland, BSc, Statistics
 * 2000 University of Auckland, PGDipSci, Statistics

Professional
I am interested in generating and presenting on-line resources for statistics students.

Personal
As well as being a Statistics teacher, I am also a local government politician:


 * 2007- Elected Member, Mt Wellington Licensing Trust; Member, Mt Wellington Foundation Ltd; Chair, Mt Wellington Trust Hotels Ltd
 * 2004- Elected Member, Tamaki-Maungakiekie Ward, Auckland City Council

2010 being an election year, I am seeking re-election to the Mt Wellington Licensing Trust as well as election to the new Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board.

My wiki projects

 * I registered for eL4C41, a Learning4Content workshop to learn wiki skills.

My optional community service (learning contract) project
Where I've got to so far:

STATS 10x Assignment 1, Question 6: Useful Microsoft Excel skills for good tabular presentation
The purpose of this project is to provide an appropriate and helpful environment for STATS 10x students to learn relevant Microsoft Excel skills to do the required table for Question 6 of their first assignment.

Presentation of Data in Tables
cf Lecture Workbook: Chapter 2, page 1 (right-hand side)

There are two roles for tables:
 * 1) To convey information quickly and easily.  Guidelines:
 * 2) * Round drastically
 * 3) * Arrange the numbers you want compared in columns, not rows
 * 4) * Sort by appropriately chosen column(s)
 * 5) * Use row and column averages if appropriate
 * 6) To make data available for detailed checking and/or analysis.

You can find my wikiproject here.

Feedback and notes from my WikiNeighbours

 * Dear Leila, Welcome to WikiEducator. Hey, I'm a statistics teacher also and my goal, like yours, is to create online statistics content that can be used by students to learn statistics. I have some thoughts on this work at a subpage under my userpage, StatisticsContent. I was just thinking the other day that I should move these pages to the main namespace, so others will feel welcome to collaborate. I look forward to future collaborations with you.


 * Back to my role as workshop co-facilitator: You've done some good work on your userpage--there's no better way to learn than "Be bold and try it." The starting structure on your userpage is only a suggestion. You are encouraged to revise/adapt as you like. If you need any help, feel free to contact me (click on my name at the end of this message to access my userpage where you can leave a note). Your WikiNeighbor, --Alison Snieckus 19:10, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Leila, Great work on your user page. You have achieved the first certification level--Wiki Apprentice Level 1. I added the box to indicate this in the infobox at the top right. Congrats.


 * And wonderful project proposal. I have a number of these statistics-related short activity type pages. So far I've just been putting them in the main namespace (not as a subpage) and collecting them using Category:Activities (you can see my little group of them under 'H' and 'P'). Thought you might want to take a look--sometimes my students access these directly from WikiEducator, but mostly I use them as instructions for a collaborative activity at an in-person session (with printout or displayed on a large class monitor). As more of these get created, we will need to come up with a structure to help us find them. Thanks for the contribution. --Alison Snieckus 13:37, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Leila, I got to your page only just now... and am I impressed!!  Great work here as well as on your 'My Sandbox'.  Keep it up.  Congrats on the certification by Alison!! Savithri Singh 19:27, 27 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Leila, Congratulations on earning the Wiki Apprentice Level 2 certification. Well done. Your sandbox notes about what you are learning in this workshop will be useful in future efforts to improve the tutorials. I can see exactly how you interacted with each activity and your thoughts as you worked through the material. Some great screenshots as well. I will think on where I can make a note/link to your sandbox so we can refer back at some later point. --Alison Snieckus 03:11, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

My Sandbox
My sandbox

My wiki project