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Welcome Statement

 

PAGES:

 

Discussion on Concept (use this page to discuss the actual concept and guidelines)

 

Calendar of Events (information about upcoming discussions.  Nothing on the calendar.  This was just a test to see how this would work).

 

Educational Resources (websites with educational resources).

 

Reviews (website reviews, book reviews, article reviews)

 

CONCEPT:

 

My basic thought with this (and I think with others) is to provide a place to discuss various topics in education in order to assist other educators in any given situation or problem.  However, I believe we should take that to the next level and anticipate how something like this may impact the educational world as a whole.  In our drive to assist other members of this wiki, the discussions we have should be prepared as actual "research" papers and these could be published in professional journals or simply published via the internet.

 

GUIDELINES:

 

1) Used for discussion on various topics of educational importance

 

2) Basic decorum will be observed at all times

    a) no ad hominem attacks

    b) no political discussions arguments [Do we have to avoid the probable underlying goals of NCLB? -- Repairman]

                            -- My main issue with this is that I don't want to get into the political blame game of who did what to whom and why (i.e., Bushwacking or Clinton-bashing, "dem-controlled                                                     congress would do this or republican controlled congress didn't do that." I am so very, very tired of people calling others neocons and moonbats and talking about

                                    "kool-aid drinking."  This isn't the place for that.  However, discussing policy or justifications for legislation is different.  Obviously, statements should be supported

                                    by evidence.  But that should not mean that we use factual statements to incite argument or create a hostile environment where two parties are antagonistic

                                    toward each other and would not work together.  We have to remember that teamwork is paramount in this endeavor and anything that hinders that

                                    should be cast aside!- Eric

 

 

3) Sources will be cited in an abbreviated format (simply put: members will be able to easily find the source) [Let's check what Warlick uses. -- Repairman]

                            -- I'm okay with that.  I've not read his book yet.  Apparently, I should.  If he has an easy format then I'm all for it. - Eric.

 

 

4) Discussions will take place on a regular basis to be determined by a majority of the members

 

5) Discussion topics will be determined on a quarterly basis and announced prior to the quarter in order to permit members time to research if they so desire.

 

    a) Quarters will begin in August

          - Aug - Sep - Oct    (grading (SBG), syllabi, etc)

          - Nov - Dec - Jan    (???)

          - Feb - Mar - Apr    (Standards-Based Testing, NCLB, etc)

          - May - Jun - Jul     (professional development, in-service, etc)

 

    [What about a rolling style for topics? Keep them always open, always developing. We could have cut-offs for final revisions of successive editions of particular "white papers," e.g., on standards-based grading. -- Repairman]

                            -- I should explain my rationale behind this quarterly system.  Perhaps it doesn't need to be explained as I think it's fairly obvious, but I wanted to set up a quarterly system

                                    so folks could be ready far enough out to discuss chosen topics (e.g. researching, etc), and I was wanting to make it somewhat focus on the topics du jour during those

                                    quarters.  I'm open to any change in this though. I like your idea, that's fine.  Thanks for the use of the term "white paper."  That's exactly the term I was looking for but I

                                    couldn't remember it!  Having final cut-offs for final revisions would work well indeed. -- Eric

 

6) Transcripts of discussions will be saved in .pdf format and saved for any future use

 

7) Each discussion topic should consist of the following:

    a) General topic or hypothesis

    b) Specific questions or problems to be answered

    c) End-state goals for a White Paper - Eric

 

8) In other words: Each discussion should not just be an internal discussion but should be useful to educators as a whole.

 

9) Content of the discussion is available for use by all members and is covered under common-use license (in other words:  Nothing is trademarked, copyrighted, etc) [I'm thinking that we might want to apply an all rights reserved copyright to the contributing members as far as wiki text goes, but invite readers to make use of the ideas. Eric and I are looking into this. -- Repairman]

                        -- Definitely.  I went ahead and took a few minutes and set up a draft license.  You can click on it and it should take you to a link that will explain the license.  If it's not what we want,

                                we can change it. - Eric

 

10) After each discussion, a report will be prepared which will show if 7b was or was not answered and if 7c was met.  At the next meeting, the report will be voted on and if passed it will be finalized.  At that time, discussion can be shelved for later or further discussion can be scheduled for another time.

 

11) Scheduled Discussions will last no longer than one hour.  I'm wondering if there might be some better forum for scheduled discussions than a wiki.  I was once involved in a online chat for a political discussion that used some online collaboration suite.  It wasn't Yahoo Chat or something like that.  But it did use a IRC type format. - Eric

 

12) After initial discussions, topics may still be posted to and papers may be updated as needed.

 

13) This is cool! Come on in folks, the water's fine!   -- Repairman

 

 

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