User talk:Rayc/Archive2

Click to expand ABCD...
Can you teach me how to use that "Click to expand" thing? It's really neat! --HappyCamper 18:20, 5 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for. I'll play with it a bit more :-) --HappyCamper 23:39, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

UIUC PHIL 270
I saw your comment about UIUC PHIL 270, here. In case you're still following the case, let me know what you think of my diplomacy on Talk:UIUC PHIL 270. Maybe we can come up with a polite but firm template and a sort of "jail" for orphaned pages that are suspect as cheatsheets or other malfeasance? Just thinking out loud. CQ 01:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Custodianship
Have you considered running for custodianship here? I think you'd find the extra buttons useful :-) --HappyCamper 01:08, 21 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, I think it would be a good thing. You seem to be one of the good guys around after all. :-) --HappyCamper 19:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Me too, Rayc... Go for it! Let me know where you need help and I'll try to pitch in! CQ 07:12, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

It would be a shame for me to fail to pass the trial, seeing as how I helped come up with the idea in the first place. Don't worry, after that I'll apply. I just hope everyone who is supporting me is still around then!--Rayc 19:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Forget that, if I get to busy, I can just drop out and reapply later. Thanks for pushing me--Rayc 19:23, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you for the edits on the Strategic Studies pages.--Dnjkirk 16:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for info on Random possibilities.
I saw your message. I will look it over and think about it in a few days. I was thinking more along the lines of a push button or link to take you to a random header in the list of hidden answers/questions. We could always setup a sockpuppet account to host the code if necessary. I need my personal talk page! Thanks! I will be back in touch soon. Mirwin 10:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * P.S. The random number generator on my talk page seems to always be seven while yours is alway eight here.  If this continues I will have to talk to Travis and see what he thinks is wrong!

This is a test of new code.
Thanks to Rayc for bringing me into contact with this capability. Mirwin 10:55, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oops! I put your code on my talk page and the above testing landed here!  Good thing I learned regression testing as a Systems Analyst I guess.  8)  Mirwin 10:58, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Your mentorship
JWSchmidt had offered himself as your mentor. Please indicate on Candidates for Custodianship/Rayc if you accept. sebmol ? 15:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Yay :-) - now Sebmol can test his "make sysop" button too! --HappyCamper 01:52, 2 November 2006 (UTC)


 * You're a temporary custodian now. Please take a moment to add yourself to the list at Support staff sebmol ? 07:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)


 * New custodians should become familiar with Category: Wikiversity policy and Category:Wikiversity administration. If you have any questions, please let me know. --JWSchmidt 16:04, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Tree Structures for multi-choice, multi-level exams
I got your message about templates for multi-level multiple choice quizes. I finally realized that with 12 levels and only two options per level, I would have 4,000 pages. Therefore, in the future, I will look at specially written computer programs which can generate all these pages. For now, I am trying simpler options. Robert Elliott 23:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Help request
Hi Rayc

When I first came to the Wikiversity site about a month ago I was confused about what was going on here. Since then I've been editing and expanding the Newcomers page as I've made discoveries.

Right now I'm trying to learn something of the range of Learning Projects (Courses) on offer and share my discoveries on a "Featured Pages" page — examples for newcomers showing the range of what's possible here.

I'd greatly appreciate links to good Learning Projects in School of Computer Science (or elsewhere). I'd especially welcome your commentaries on:
 * how they use the site to teach
 * how many students have been attracted, where they're coming from, whether they're following through
 * what's notable about each course sited
 * how well (or not) the wiki software and Wikiversity delivers an environment to conduct learning

Best wishes

morley 22:37, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

"I was just commenting to someone that I had not seen a single "learning project" working like we layed it out to the board." So far I know of only two (and I have no idea whether either of them are like what you presented to the board) — Hitler's Germany and Mad Max's Course in Film Scoring for Motion Pictures. (Note from Mad Max: The Mad Max course is still under construction. It will be a while before it is ready to use as an example.  Robert Elliott aka. Max)

To my mind, showing good examples to newcomers is an excellent way to stimulate participation (and at the same time tilt that participation in the direction of your samples). However, am I too early? There's a lot of emptiness in your survey.

By the way, how did you go about assembling it?

morley 00:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Handout tests
Your handout tests look interesting, Ray - and I hope they could be put to good use. I'm not sure about "collaborative test-taking" though - never heard about it before, nor can I envisage how it could be good pedagogy. (I've heard of - and taken - open book exams, but never this.) However, it could be interesting to see how people use it - it's just another tool in the box. Overall though, can I just say once again that I really admire your creativity here - nice work! Cormaggio 20:59, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

re: Facilitating Online
Hi Ray

Thanks for the link to Facilitating Online. Fantastic discovery. I'm still bringing myself up to speed on how pages are properly designated. At a glance the URL looks incomplete, sort of dangling.

I'm planning on devoting some energy to Examples, try and nudge it into a more lively showcase of the forms learning materials and learning projects can take on Wikiversity. Help newcomers become enthused, see what's possible. That kind of thing.

Pages such as Facilitating Online contribute greatly.

Let me know if and when you stumble on stuff that would help.

morley 22:43, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Featured
Thanks for the link to Featured.

I'm going ahead with a project I'm defining as to gather pages that might serve as a demonstration and a model for what's possible on Wikiversity. My first thought was to broadcast an appeal for recommendations. On further reflection I'm going at it by exploration, stumbling about and seeing what I come across. Lots of nearly empty pages, but every once in a while some gems. I'm then putting some questions to the primary organizers of those pages and squirreling away my findings until some real shape comes to them.

morley 01:37, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

re: @home projects
Hi

About 10 days ago on the Colloquium Mirwin made cryptic references to @home projects. Then you said, "Maybe along with free learning journals being added to each school's page, we can add all the @home projects on particular pages. Just to let everyone know, I also created the Screensaver Project a while back ago to list these projects."

What are @home projects? What's being talked about here?

Much thanks, morley 20:49, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Rayc, sorry for the belated response, I just noticed your question on my talk page. I set up teams for einstein@home and rosetta@home. We could use teams at seti, folding, and/or others. I used wikiversity.org as the team name and www.wikiversity.org as the team's home page URL. A second user joined the team at Einstein@home! I was quite excited for a bit that someone else found the idea worthy. I tried to leave him/her a message but his account turned out to be inactive at Wikipedia. Apparently they are contributing only by helping us gain PR. I wonder how they spotted our team? It is such a slow process initially building a project like Wikiversity I have to remind myself periodically of the benefits of exponential growth in the long term. Mirwin 06:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for the advice. (Muchas gracias, saludos) J.Steinbock 21:49, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Flashcards for Java keywords
Hi Ray, I don't really understand this, but I trust your judgement. Category:Rayc's brainwaves anyone? ;-) Cormaggio talk 12:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi
Hello, I'm student galaxy, from Sunderland, United Kingdom, and I noticed wikiversity from Wikipedia, and I've created an account, its very impressive, but I need some info on this.

Do people vandalise like Wikipedia?

How do I contribute to learning?

How do I get in with the community?

Student Galaxy 22:33, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

navigation bar
Hello Rayc, thx for the feedback. The navigation bar is also working now. Have a look at my comments here please. --Erkan Yilmaz 08:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

outside software
Hi Rayc, I saw your comment here. I will have a look in the evening to teh menioned links. So, the intention of yours hereby is, that we beta-test these kind of software also during the course - or this is a generalinvitation to improve quality also there? CU, Erkan --Erkan Yilmaz 07:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Re:Wikiversidad
Hello, Rayc. You can write to me in English, I can understand it far better than I can speak it ;)

I've described it already in we can make interactive tests with mediawiki. To try it, copy all the code from (it's the latest version) into your monobook.js, and put the quiz code in any page in the same wiki; for example, you can copy.

Technically, it's the same as w:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups, but instead of putting some tools in your pages, it searches for the quiz code, and converts it into an interactive quiz on the fly. If you have installed navigation popups, you will find it very straightforward: it's the same, with other code. It only works for users who have installed it; it doesn't have any effect in other people. of course, you could install it for all users, if you are an admin, editing the appropiate all-users template.

I'm semi-retired from wikiprojects, so I can be slow answering. Nevertheless, if you have any trouble or suggestion for it, please make me know. It would be cool to see somebody using this, at last! --Comae (talk) 20:03, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for showing me the notecards. Do you speak the language? - J.Steinbock 01:35, 30 November 2006 (UTC)