User talk:John van v~enwikiversity

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middle school learning resources
"middle school science" <-- Many contributors at Wikiversity have been college students, so there is an existing bias towards making Wikiversity look like a college course catalog. However, the mission of Wikiversity calls for this project to be for learners of all ages. I think we should change the entry points for people who are browsing Wikiversity so as to include explicit entry points for educators working at all age levels. Some ideas towards such change are here.

"experimenting with various wikis attempting to create a collaborative project" <-- Wikiversity can build on the success and traffic of Wikipedia. As soon as we have some learning resources at Wikiversity for a particular topic, we can link to those Wikiversity pages from related pages at Wikipedia. This is a good source of traffic for Wikiversity and provides a reasonable basis for the future growth of Wikiversity.

"create what is thought of as 'required learning' for teaching" <-- Such content would certainly be welcome at Wikiversity.

"my text, it is not yet ready for Wiki" <-- The great thing about wiki is that it provides tools for starting with a rough draft that can then be improved upon. You can even explicitly label wiki pages as "under construction". Most current Wikiversity pages are very rough, so you should not think that you need to have polished content before you put it on a Wikiversity page. Much of Wikiversity is currently just content development projects, pages where participants make plans for learning resources. You could certainly start a Wikiversity content development project for future collaboration aimed at making educational resources oriented towards teaching middle school science.

"I am very interested in project-based learning" <-- We want Wikiversity to emphasize active, "learn by doing" approaches. A basic type of "learning resource" that is welcome here at Wikiversity is the "learning project", which should provide a framework for activities that learners can become engaged in. Since wiki is all about making collaboration possible, Wikiversity learning projects can naturally build upon the idea of groups of learns working together to learn something.

"the Wikipedia 'Project-Based Learning' article" <-- Wikiversity can go into such topics in more detail than Wikipedia. Wikibooks could also have a whole book on the topic.--JWSchmidt 17:13, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Gizmo
"Gizmo and its underlying SIP protocol" <-- this is the first I've ever heard of "Gizmo". Is it this? Some folks at Wikiversity have been experimenting with VOIP as described at Wiki Campus Radio.

"Middle school science.....I should just go ahead and create this page?" <-- Yes, I see no reason not to just jump in and start a page at Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 17:20, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

collaborators
I think Wikiversity is about 5 years behind Wikipedia. At first, almost nobody knew that Wikipedia existed and few people knew about the idea of using wiki technology to create an encyclopedia. It took about 5 years for the world to "catch on" and "discover" Wikipedia. Wikiversity is still "pre-discovery", people do not know that it exists and people do not understand how to use wiki technology to support online learning. At this point, making Wikiversity grow and making Wikiversity a center for online education-oriented collaborations requires some "evangelism" and social networking. I'll take a look at Middle School Science. What do you think about starting a portal page that could link to Middle School Science? I was previously thinking about portals for primary and secondary education. I'm not sure how middle school would fit into that kind of plan. --JWSchmidt 18:14, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi John van v and welcome. Your Middle School Science project looks both interesting and useful.  If I understand it properly it is intended to help teachers self educate in their professional qualifications.   I wonder if you (and/or other collaborators) would be interested in evaluating and providing feedback regarding a couple of learning projects and how they could improved and made more attractive to middle schoolers and/or their teachers.   and .   Both projects were intended to encourage participation but both have failed to attract much interest.   Much of this is due to low site traffic but any suggestions on how to make the projects more attractive for immediate participation would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!  Mirwin 08:14, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Contacting you?
How do people contact you? Robert Elliott 06:51, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called John van v. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name John van v~enwikiversity that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:40, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:12, 19 April 2015 (UTC)