Comments on: WikiTextbook http://incsub.org/blog/2005/wikitextbook Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:15:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Steve Margetts http://incsub.org/blog/2005/wikitextbook/comment-page-1#comment-1015 Steve Margetts Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:06:04 +0000 http://incsub.org/blog/?p=290#comment-1015 I would love to think that the wikitextbook would be used by all students, however I felt that curriculum specific material would be most beneficial to students. James your assumption is therefore correct. In addition to teachers and professors contributing I hope that students will be encouraged to submit their own material. Obviously teachers and professors would have an editorial role, but I believe that students will feel a greater ownership of the textbook if they are active members of the community.<!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-strike: empty field - author url, 1 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> I would love to think that the wikitextbook would be used by all students, however I felt that curriculum specific material would be most beneficial to students. James your assumption is therefore correct.

In addition to teachers and professors contributing I hope that students will be encouraged to submit their own material. Obviously teachers and professors would have an editorial role, but I believe that students will feel a greater ownership of the textbook if they are active members of the community.

]]> By: Situativity http://incsub.org/blog/2005/wikitextbook/comment-page-1#comment-1014 Situativity Wed, 09 Mar 2005 22:34:59 +0000 http://incsub.org/blog/?p=290#comment-1014 Wiki Text Book

incorporated subversion » WikiTextbook Funny that you mention this. I just described such a proposal to my online K-12 Technology Integration class in a what-if scenario this week. What if, all the math teachers and a few math professors got…

]]> By: James Farmer http://incsub.org/blog/2005/wikitextbook/comment-page-1#comment-1006 James Farmer Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:36:29 +0000 http://incsub.org/blog/?p=290#comment-1006 Thanks for that Michael, never registered on me radar before... It's got some really cool stuff -here's the complete list: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Template:Bookshelves_%28all%29 But if I know my national curriculum UK teachers & principals are probably gonna be looking for really specific UK stuff, which is what this project seems to be aiming at. Perhaps this is a good example of how we actually need a range of Wiki options rather than the foundation pushing everything???<!-- X-spaminator-strike: whitelist, -3 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> Thanks for that Michael, never registered on me radar before… It’s got some really cool stuff

-here’s the complete list: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Template:Bookshelves_%28all%29

But if I know my national curriculum UK teachers & principals are probably gonna be looking for really specific UK stuff, which is what this project seems to be aiming at.

Perhaps this is a good example of how we actually need a range of Wiki options rather than the foundation pushing everything???

]]> By: Michael Fagan http://incsub.org/blog/2005/wikitextbook/comment-page-1#comment-1005 Michael Fagan Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:39:44 +0000 http://incsub.org/blog/?p=290#comment-1005 Huh? there's already <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikibooks</a>.<!-- X-spaminator-strike: whitelist, -3 --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: IP check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: email check --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: author url --><!-- X-spaminator-passed: comment body --> Huh? there’s already Wikibooks.

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