User talk:Daviddoria

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Talk page usability
Thanks for your message - and welcome to Wikiversity. Keep your suggestions coming. At the start, people can often see really good ideas before they become used to Wikiversity.

We could (somehow) inject users' talk pages with "leave message" links such as I've added. But generally the approach has been to let people organise their own talk pages. And once one knows how to edit a page, then it is pretty straightforward. So, its possible, but would need much more community discussion. See what you think after a while.

You could add to your own talk page - at least to get started. Try grabbing/adapting the code from here User talk:Jtneill/Header.

Sincerely, James. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 12:03, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


 * BTW - the same type of link can be found on Colloquium - "start your discussion here". -- Jtneill - Talk - c 12:04, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Sure, but I am recommending adding this automatically to everyone's talk page. This way there is uniformity and usability automatically! In fact, I found this: http://wikieducator.org/Talk:Content and it has this "forum" functionality built right in! I would highly recommend adopting this. Daviddoria 12:07, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Technical education materials
Hi David, sorry about the belated reply. The slides uploaded onto Wikiversity were all that is documented of my Feb. talk. I'm likely to be coming to the conference in June. I agree with you about technical education over here, and research is another area of the site that could definitely use improvement. Perhaps we could meet sometime if you are in NYC? Does your project directly relate to your graduate work? --La comadreja formerly AFriedman RESEARCH (talk) 02:14, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Technical topics initiative
I looked at engineering notes, and I sympathized with your "what is the point?" I am quickly attempting to button-up neuropsychology as a foundation for my future counseling career, but much further than required. Getting buried here is an understatement. For instance, the all important pituitary gland is named for "snot." I am attempting to object-orient neuroanatomy so as to easily map systems, such as emotional limbic, into functionality, which I am calling "functional-orientation." The purpose is to then implement an object orientation for specific types of neurons where the neurons map into the whole thing, and can be defined in terms of functionality at the very high levels. That way we can have a neuron-down approach to therapy, by simply overturning the structure.--JohnBessatalk 16:54, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi John - I'm glad you agree! You may also be interested in reading some things on my blog - http://daviddoria.blogspot.com - particularly http://daviddoria.blogspot.com/2010/05/teach-why-not-how.html . Some similar concepts there. There is a new program of Wikipedia called "Campus Ambassadors". We are trying to reach out to students to approach their faculty to incorporate Wikipedia editing into their courses. The idea would be, for example, for someone in a neuropsychology who is frustrated with the way things are being taught to "summarize" or "re-explain" these things that you have mentioned in Wikipedia articles. It is all about "collecting understanding". Surely hundreds of people before you have struggled with exactly the same issues, figured them out a little bit, but then never recorded the result of their new understanding anywhere where the next guy could find it! Students are the perfect demographic for this because they are already in the position where they "have" to understand it eventually (hopefully!) so if just one of them "gets it" and then explains it, no one else should ever again struggle with exactly the same problem. This program is being piloted with public policy-ish courses (there is funding from some groups interested in improving public awareness in this area). If it works well, they will be trying to expand to other topics. Daviddoria 14:15, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi
Hi, how are you? It was nice to meet you, if only for a little while. Are you coming back to NY soon? Would you like to comment on or edit the Research portal? I just added that to the sitenotice. --La comadreja formerly AFriedman RESEARCH (talk) 01:23, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It was nice to meet you too. I get down to NYC about once a month - I'd be happy to meet for a chat any time I'm there.
 * What do you mean by the "sitenotice"?
 * I'll look at the research page closer in the next couple of days, but my initial thoughts are
 * 1) The front page is very very long. I would make it more concise with maybe a link to 'current research topics' and 'guide to research' rather than the giant lists on the front page
 * 2) I'm not sure I understand the concept - I am all about "free and open" everything, but research is my job. That is, it takes massive amounts of time and energy (50 hours/week). I could never see myself able to generate any worthwhile research that I would do "on my own time". I would try to publish in a "respected" scientific journal (ideally an open access one, but for now maybe not even so). Can you explain why I would want to use the research portal? Maybe I'll get the idea more once I take a look at the content that is already there. I'll get back to you soon...Daviddoria 02:29, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi David, Just to let you know, I tend to see emails sooner than I see these Talk page posts. --La comadreja formerly AFriedman RESEARCH (talk) 12:57, 5 September 2010 (UTC)