User:Vtaylor/here be dragons

terra incognita - here be dragons...

--Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
 * "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance."


 * Math is hard because the UI sucks - Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That "Kills Math" Using Data Viz - System complexity doesn't have to be "just the way it is". We are designers and it is our job to make things easier to use. That said, it takes a designer with huge balls to tackle a problem the size of math.

== been there...==

guiding framework boils down to four questions: -- Samuel J. Palmisano, CEO IBM


 * Why would someone spend their money with you — so what is unique about you?


 * Why would somebody work for you?


 * Why would society allow you to operate in their defined geography — their country?


 * And why would somebody invest their money with you?

2011.07 - open / mobile / global - learning, textbooks, aviation, engineering, discovery, imagination, teacher training - Replacing Textbooks, SoaS teacher training, LookUp!, K8science, learned innovation


 * personal learning - WE OERs by learners, Self-directed learning


 * dynamic pages - from Delicious tags


 * Innovation, Healthy habits, WE Collaborate/Science6, Overfishing, Mobile learning


 * workshops / Moodle / eCOL - M4T, Middle school, TESOL, CCK09, Scope

http://web.archive.org/web/20060427022829/http://www.mongoosetech.com/realcommunities/12prin.html All communities, on or off the web, adhere to basic principles in order to thrive. Mongoose Technology has codified these tenets into the 12 Principles of Collaboration which form the sociological basis of community. The 12 Principles function as a hierarchy. The chief principle, Purpose, is supported by the other 11 principles. This seems like a pretty good "test" for a community. How does WikiEducator stack up to these criteria?
 * The 12 Principles of Collaboration. This is an archived version - there does not appear to be a current version.

expenditures - nasa units $9 billion - good value


 * police & fire, military, government by department, foreign aid, debt interest

== WE technical stuff==

WE interesting and important


 * FILEPATH magic word to get the path to the raw image, bypassing the description page. [[File:Makorori.jpg|thumb|Makorori, Gisborne, New Zealand ([ print])]]


 * clicking on the scaled image in Firefox expand it to full size


 * self-directed learning - WE template, parse string and build display page dynamically - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions


 * Help, editing, L4C tutorials
 * Template:Flashcard/doc - in the chinese example, animated gif to show stroke order for drawing character
 * wiki words, templates, workgroups, categories
 * WE stats as charts, Council, OER Foundation

== Creative Commons==


 * images - Flickr

music

If you are interested in adding a soundtrack to your video, there’s lots of great music available through Creative Commons that won't get you in trouble for copyright infringement. If you do use background music, per CC licensing requirements available on Flickr, you'll need to attribute the music you use by mentioning and linking to the artist, or the CC page you found it on.

Here are some online resources you might like to try:

http://ccmixter.org/ http://search.creativecommons.org/ http://www.jamendo.com/ http://www.musopen.com/

== Thinking things==

October 2008


 * 4-A Framework availability, accessibility, acceptability, adaptability


 * [Wiley] reuse, rework, remix, redistribute


 * 12 Principles - Purpose, supported by the other 11 principles - Identity, Reputation, Governance, Communications, Groups, Environment, Boundaries, Trust, Exchange, Expression and History


 * JSB link, lurk, learn, lead


 * "technoprofile" ways people behave in social networking: creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, inactives.


 * Del.icio.us tags - cck08, foc08, community,


 * Open TSL guide-blog

WikiEducator articles - access and adoption

-- 13 October 2008 (UTC) http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/96a9135493d8267e?hl=en

I don't know if this is something new that is needed or something that already exists.

What I would really like to do is "browse" or "graze" through WikiEducator - like flipping through a magazine or a journal. I'm sure there is lots of great stuff, but I have yet to find a good way to see the broad spectrum and stumble upon stuff.

Search isn't the answer, because I don't know what I'm looking for but I'll know it when I see it.

What would be even better would be some over layer / meta data layer - sort of like social bookmarking but just for WE content (at least for now). I would like to hop "sequentially" through all the WE content - start anywhere - see the high level pages or a map that showed number of links, child pages, last update, creation date, tags, categories.

I want to just scroll or click through the list in some orderly but quick way - browse! Like scanning the Sunday New York Times. If I see something of interest, I'd like to note and "rate" it against my criteria - my subject/ classification, remember to revisit,  and some general site wide criteria - completeness, readability.

There are a couple of frustrations with WE now, as I see it. I'm not aware of any good, quick way to see everything that is out there. Finding the "good stuff" that is complete enough for consideration as an OER or Learning object is way too hard.

There are also some general WE housekeeping issues - I know, I'm part of the problem. Personal notes, brain dumps, kernels of future projects or topics of interest, or worse - tried it and abandoned pages. This is all interspersed with fine materials that really should be seen and promoted, both within WE and the WE community and to a global audience.

It would be nice if this were easy. I hope there are tools available or forthcoming to address some of these needs. Some of us see ourselves as noders and linkers - reviewing and classifying entries in this great WE resource but lack the tools to be effective.

Are there tools available now? I did review the WE 3.0 page, but I didn't come away with too much on questions like this - too process oriented? Too far down the hierarchy of issues? Are they part of the plan?

-- 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Chris 4-A availability, accessibility, acceptability, adaptability and OER - reuse, rework, remix, redistribute - Wiley ? as community service bring education/training based on OERs ? facilitation, promoting, fundraising, cost recovery = entrepreneurship

Lindeman - adult education, group work, progressive social action - Adult education specifically aims to train individuals for a more fruitful participation in those smaller collective units which do so much to mold significant experience. (Lindeman 1926a: 38)

--Vtaylor 15:05, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

http://home.scip.ws/ This website is for the Society for Computers in Psychology. Their mission statement is to "increase and diffuse knowledge of the use of computers in psychological research."

Jenni on adult learning - frustration with the live session, managing participation, Lindeman 1926

"Adult education specifically aims to train individuals for a more fruitful participation in those smaller collective units which do so much to mold significant experience. "(Lindeman 1926a: 38) -- just a lovely way to put it - yup, that's all I want to do here...

..."This means giving more attention to small groups; it means as much decentralization, diversity and local autonomy as is consistent with order. Indeed, we may well sacrifice order, if enforced externally, for valid difference. Our hopes flow from the simple conviction that diversity is more likely to make life interesting than is conformity, and from the further conviction that active participation in interesting affairs furnishes proper stimulations for intellectual growth." (Lindeman 1926a: 89)

adult education as: A cooperative venture in non-authoritarian, informal learning, the chief purpose of which is to discover the meaning of experience; (Lindeman 1926b quoted by Stewart 1987: 12-13). http://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Adult-Education-Edward-Lindeman/dp/0962248819

-- great applicability to GLD

Chris MSU Global 4-A Framework of the Human Rights Obligations - availability, accessibility, acceptability, adaptability -- really like this

== I am...==

WikiEducator Open Educational Resources (OER) Come Fly With Me Build A Plane Look Up! educator network blog collection IAEP OLPC XO Sugar Labs activities Replacing Textbooks Planet Sugar Open Textbooks Nellie book chapter MOOC Scope SCHS AITR US FIRST robotics Burns Sci Tech Women of Wings (WOW) Marin County 99s EAA 288 Young Eagles NSB Balloon & Sky Fest Education Zone

--Valerie Taylor 10:42, 27 August 2011 (UTC) Promoting open education, personal learning networks and educator collaboration. Advocating universal access to science and engineering education. WikiEducator Community Council member.

--Valerie Taylor 19:10, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Valerie Taylor has been teaching at DeAnza since 2000, and worked on contract as the Distance Learning Faculty Coordinator for several years. Her online teaching has included Computers and the Internet in Society, and other courses for Computer Information Systems department, as well as facilitating hybrid faculty development workshops - Technology Enhanced Instruction, Technology Supported Learning and Retention and Catalyst courses.

Valerie has a MS Ed in Online Teaching and Learning from CSU East Bay and taught in the program after graduation. Before working full time in education, Valerie worked in Information Technology in training, business development, and customer support. Valerie holds a BS from the University of Toronto.

Valerie continues to work promoting open education, personal learning networks and educator collaboration, and advocating universal access to science education. Valerie is a contributor to the Replacing Textbooks project and a member of the WikiEducator Community Council.

--Valerie Taylor 16:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC) Early-adopter of technology-supported learning. Advocate for universal access to education. Open education contributor. Community college instructor. Faculty workshop facilitator. MS Ed in Online Teaching and Learning. WikiEducator Community Council member. Silicon Valley resident. Lifelong learner.