User talk:Polizano

Please provide a link to your course page. --JWSurf 17:02, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

offering my support
I've just done the exam for Massey's course on The Great War, so I've certainly got an interest in the subject! I shan't have the time to take part in your class because of my real-world classes, but I can still help out in other ways.

I've got a crapload of notes and handout summaries and recommended readings and that sort of thing, so if you need any help or ideas with additional material and virtual "handouts" I can pass them on to you, rewritten by me to be GFDL-compliant of course.

As for the recommended readings, my professor listed some excellent books on the subject and I'm sure they would be useful to your virtual students too. Many of them are available for searching at Google Print, which could help for faster researching (assuming your students going to write essays).

I'm still not sure how the heck Wikiversity actually works, but regardless I'll be able to help you with the information side of this class, at least until the second semester begins at which point my for-money classes will have to take priority :)

Anyway, if I can be of assistance with getting this Wikiversity test-bed off the ground that's great! Master Thief Garrett 02:08, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

re: WWI
Sorry for the late reply. I have been on vacation. I'm still not sure how I am going to be running the course, so if you'd like to, you are more than welcome to help out, or even be assitant/co - professor. I know a bit about the Great War but I am not an expert, so having two people might make a big improvement on the course. Since the course is somewhat provisional in nature, I don't know that I am going to have people write essays. I think it might be more appropriate to do it seminar style and have guided discussions where people learn not just from the professor but from other students. Let me know what you think. --Polizano 14:23, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)


 * As I said I'm going to be busy with my own university courses. I'm not sure how you're going to do the "classes". If they're just an editable Wiki page I can certainly be in the class each day or week or whatnot and both teach and learn to varying extents, but if it has to be something live like an IRC channel then there's no way I can devote a fixed time to it. Not to mention the timezone issues.
 * Seminar style sounds fun, we had those for the Massey paper. They called them "tutorials" but I think "stump the professor" might have been a better name! People kept asking or pointing out the most difficult things... then again that's what you get with a 300-level paper... :) ...but in fact that could be a fun side activity for the class (much like Wikipedia's Reference Desk), with students trying to find the answers to each others' questions. Or something like that.
 * Actually I can't seem to find most of the info I had, must be in my drawers or something... but for now I've got some notes on my temporary Great War page--behold my crappy notetaking skills! This is the entirety of the first lecture (war enthusiasm), so you'll probably find some good ideas in there... if you can make sense of all my abbreviations that is. I'll update this page with more goodies as I find them.
 * Anyway, that's all I can think of for now... Master Thief Garrett 4 July 2005 03:03 (UTC)

Class notification links
This will make notifying everyone easier! Simply click "notify" and then click save to add this message:


 * Alex beta (notify)
 * Abc123 (notify)
 * BarnacleKB (notify)
 * Muhgcee (notify)
 * Master Thief Garrett (notify)
 * Sarken (notify)

And that's it. Simple. Enjoy! GarrettTalk 05:33, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

so... no more course?
I was really looking forward to being part of your WWI history course. Has it now been cancelled? I see the difficulty in doing a project like this until wikiversity gets more attention, but the potential is incredible and i can really see that in what your course can be like.