User talk:Pnstarr

Hello Peter, welcome around here. I hope we can help you succeed in your learning goals. Below more info about Wikiversity, Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 18:43, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

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Welcome. I just wanted to say hi myself. --Remi 01:54, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Portals
Just wondered if you had seen Template:Box portal skeleton 2. Might come in handy. --McCormack 06:45, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Another suggestion: Portal:First Year Medical School Program might make more sense if it was in the main namespace. Are you sure you wish to make a portal out of this? The relevant portal would be Portal:medicine. I can move things for you or advise you. Feel welcome to talk about this with me. --McCormack 09:24, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the advice. I didn't want to be too bold to start out with, but I was thinking that we should have a portal for medicine and subportals for different years of medical school.  There's way too much information for each year for just a namespace, though I understand that too many subportals could make for clutter. --Peter
 * My suggestion would be to start with one medicine portal. For specific specialisations within medicine, one would add "schools" as a subdivision (e.g. School:Cardiology, School:Pharmacotherapy), but only when needed. As an alternative path to content by year of study, one could use the Topic namespace - e.g. Topic:First Year Medicine - again, create the topics only when needed. I can set up Portal:Medicine for you, but I might be short of time for a couple of days. If you need to get going now, I'd suggest you create content in the main namespace or just continue with your current pages - we can always move them later - easily done. What do you think? --McCormack 06:08, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I definitely understand minimizing portals and topic namespaces, but I'm not sure how we can create a workable medical school program without a portal (or portal type forum) for each year of school. I think a good goal is to develop a moodle type school, not in terms of managing users and grades but in terms of organization and accessibility of readings and assignments; med school, btw, is so material dense that an online one would be worthless unless it offered at least a recommended weekly schedule.  I'll start working on the content for the first year of medical school, and we can move things around later as we wish.  Also, how do I upload pictures?  Do I need some sort of wikiversity status/position?  Again, thanks for the thoughts.  I'd like to talk with you too, if we can get on a chat program at the same time.  --Peter 20:05, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
 * To upload pictures, click the link in the box on the left marked "upload file" (toolbox, lower down on the left). You don't need any status to create Wikiversity content - you're just fine as you are. I'm very happy to talk about a medical school structure with you. We already have quite a lot of rather disparate medical materials here, and they can be drawn together at the same time as we create this structure. --McCormack 04:26, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you skype? What is a good time for you (UTC)? --McCormack 04:33, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey McCormack. Sorry for the late reply; I've been quite busy lately.  I'm going to take a few weeks to develop a curriculum locally on Moodle.  The built in structure is convenient and allows me to focus on content, rather than architecture.  I'll be back in a little while.

Curriculum
Do the active participants wish to collaborate on an overall curriculum?