User talk:Smithgrrl

Hi Smithgrrl - I see you changed your name! (That was quick.) Anyway, welcome to Wikiversity - if you're familiar with other wikis (you kinda seem to be), you'll know your way around - if not, please see the help pages or ask me a question on my talk page. Also feel free to ask anything about Wikiversity - what it is, what you can do etc. So, what's your field of interest here? Cormaggio 19:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Whew! That's quite a list (and will certainly keep you busy)! I've seen some of your comments around too - I also that Wikiversity can become a truly radical force in education - let's see what happens... Cormaggio 19:47, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

thanks
Thanks for being so reasonable about the username. --JWSchmidt 19:49, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * "sf writer"....I am a fan of SF. I wonder if you have ever seen this wiki. --JWSchmidt 21:52, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Welcome Aboard!
Make sure you put your name under the participants section. Wouldn't want anyone to go about uncredited! I hope we can do some great work here! ~ATrivedi

Theory
"maybe want a pedagogical theory/ies section or sub-section?" <-- Maybe the Category:Learning theory category could hold a page to discuss pedagogical theory. --JWSchmidt 06:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

"it's actually quite difficult for most of us to think outside the box of our own intellectual formation. anyway, i surely hope we can do it" <-- Could you take a look at Portal:Education and Review board? I think Wikiversity needs a way of getting the most out of participants who have expert knowledge. We need to do it the "wiki way", not the in the conventional university way. I think that means "getting the most out of participants who have expert knowledge" has to be built on a community recognition process. I think Wikipedia participants will notice helpful people and through a public process recognize them and mark them for for what they are. If Wikiversity is going to move beyond the limitations of NPOV and NOR I think we will need a new type of "functionary" that has never previously existed within a Wikimedia Foundation project. At Wikiversity we changed "administrators" to "custodians" in order to emphasize the fact that they provide a needed service to the community and do not "rule over" the community. I'm thinking we could do the same with "referee". --JWSchmidt 02:21, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

what to do
"the general plan for wikiversity is very bold and ambitious" <-- The Wikiversity community is still adjusting to the reality of wiki technology. Most people who have shown interest in Wikiversity are attracted by the idea of free education. Most of these folks have only ever known conventional bricks-and-mortar education (and its "fork" in the form of conventional online courses) and they have not thought about the power of wiki to revolutionize online learning. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees does know the vast potential of wiki technology and that is why they launched this project. The approved Wikiversity project proposal has three parts. The "learning materials" part is rather conventional. The "learning projects" part is the core of the proposal and once people understand its potential Wikiversity will hit its stride. The third part of the proposal is the need to develop policy to support original research at Wikiversity. That is a major task for the community in the next few months.

"let me know what you want me to do: <-- based on the comments you have been posting I can tell that you "instinctively" know the potential of Wikiversity as a place to create a new kind of learning environment. I think we need to turn students loose within Wikiversity and provide them with a supportive environment where they are free to explore what they find most intellectually stimulating. If you have any renegade students who could prosper in this new playground send them on over.

"i can help write content on any of these pages, if you want. i can certainly mentor students in the humanities when they come along, and i can mentor teachers too" <-- I think we need to create a few "proof of concept" learning projects that will attract as many participants as possible. What we need is a system that invites new participants to list the topics that they want to explore. As soon as we see trends we need to create innovative activities that will engage these students.--JWSchmidt 03:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

"a war learning project, in which all wikians are invited to engage in collaborative research articles, creative work, cyber round table discussions and the like about the history of war as a cultural practice and relate that research to the current wars going on throughout the world." <-- Great idea! I'll start War.

"does Wikiversity have a MySpace?" <-- Good idea; new myspace account for Wikiversity.--JWSchmidt 06:38, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

thanks
Thanks for your help at Wikiversity translations. --JWSchmidt 03:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks again! --JWSchmidt 02:57, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Re: New Directions
Go forth and conquer! ~ATrivedi

War and whatnot
Hi there, if you are still interested in war studies I'm putting together the School of Strategic Studies and would love if you'd drop by.--Dnjkirk 16:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back
Hi Smithgrrl - I just saw your edits to Introduction to Critical Pedagogy - welcome back. :-) This is a field dear to my heart - and I would like to be having more discussion about actual pedagogy on Wikiversity. Could we perhaps develop this page and use it as part of an inter-Wikiversity learning project about methods, forms and styles of education? What do you think? Cormaggio talk 09:37, 14 September 2007 (UTC)