User:Nils peterson

My e[Portfolio] provides context and contact information.

Learning with Wikipedia CLL
I'm exploring a project with students, grade 4-6 at Palouse Prairie School to learn by contributing to Wikipedia. I'm exploring pages and projects related to our geographic region, Moscow, Idaho. This project will run Nov 3 to Dec 15, 2010. It is based on thinking we have done at Washington State University and re-kindled by the impressive Murder, Madness, Mayhem project at UBC.

Invitation to Students
Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia anybody can edit. Our CREW is going to explore Wikipedia to learn things about our local cities and history. Then, as a service to the world, we will decide how we can improve Wikipedia and edit it.

Student Identity
10/22/2010- I had planned to create one user account for the students to share, using the name of the school. This violates Wikipedia policy on two counts, sharing and organization name. I don't want to require the students to have a personal account, among other things, they need an email address for it. Doing anonymous editing can work, but the students won't have a talk page for feedback. IDEAS requested on my talk page.

Lesson Plan
Moved to another page.

Older stuff worth saving
the meaning of the message is the change that it makes

a portfolio in Wikipedia should be constructed from a compliation of my contributions, and and analysis of what happened to them following my efforts.

for example
 * my contribtion to X was reverted immediately -- the meaning of my message, in terms of the change that persisted, is zero
 * my text hangs around a long time, but nobody does much with it, the meaning of the change I added was small, it had no ripple effect
 * my contribution sparks other discussion and contributions and pages grow and change, the meaning is large

I'm thinking about this in another way, in Feb 2005, Washington State University did not have a wiki. I led the experiment to put one up (FlexWiki), and once staff were using it, we made a decision to replace it with MediaWiki and make it a general offering for teaching and learning (launched Aug 22, 2005, retired July 31,2010). The message was something about the importance of collaborative cooperative community resources. That change continues to unfold but now the activity is moving to resources not hosted by the university.