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Please submit your portfolio assessment sheet to me before the end of period 2 today.
CBC Radio had a caller the other day trying to figure out if he had found a giant moth or butterfly. I sent them a photo from my acreage to show what I had found (click on the thumbnail image to [...]
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I have been seeing good progress made on tackling the Spreadsheet tasks put before those done the Word Processing modules. Some of you have gotten very adept at problem solving, seeming very intuitive in finding out how to perform a new task for the first time. Continue noting your critical and constructive responses to the [...]
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I missed you, but that was the best conference I have ever attended. The people I met were inspiring educational leaders, the keynote speeches brought hundreds of people to tears, and the scenery was spectacular.
Here is a summary of the experience, if you are interested. Besides being a good way to reflect on what you have learned, [...]
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Hey, those of you who were in class last day (track day) saw the picture of the type of moth I found in my yard. It was about the size of my hand! It must have just emerged from its coccoon (which was about the size of my thumb), and it was drying out and flexing its [...]
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The person who is doing the track page layout will need to make arrangements for photos; get some this period as well as over the lunch hour and at the end of the day. Today is your only opportunity to get those memorable shots, so go to it. The rest of us (except for a couple [...]
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For today,
1) Make sure you have completed and emailed the OS Assignment
2) Check your Wikipedia article against the Craik RM article, and make sure you have everything you need. Especially check to make sure your links work (and you need to at least include links to the 2006 Census and the SARM websites).
3) Continue beta-testing [...]
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Nice progress on the Wikipedia articles.
To me, one of the most interesting aspects of this activity comes from interactions from other editors. Yesterday, one of you (Basketball5) had his article marked to be deleted by an overenthusiastic 19 year old from India fourteen minutes after the last edit, but it was then rescued by an advertising copywriter [...]
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I hope you were especially thoughtful of your mothers on the weekend. This year, my wedding anniversary fell on Mother’s Day, so that called for a nice meal out. Steak, barbequed ribs, no dishes after…
Right. The Wikipedia article writing is looking fine. Progress for RMs 134, 434, 231, 370, 290, 460 has already been posted, as well [...]
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The comments to the Wikipedia activity we started last week were, how do you say, sparse? Irrelevant in some cases? Nonexistent for some? I’m wondering if either some people were having a bad week, or the activity was not well designed or delivered, or not appropriate to the course.
To sum up the responses of those [...]
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Questions to Think about before beginning:
Why do people write and edit articles on Wikipedia?
Who writes articles for Wikipedia (what kinds of people)? Where are they from?
Why are we creating articles and learning to edit in IP30? And more importantly, what possible benefit can you get from this experience? Here are some ideas.
NOW that you know your [...]
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