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Hello,

I'm Irene Martinez, biochemist, and since 1997 a secondary school teacher on Biology and Geology. Soon I became interested in ICT and in 2003 and 2004 I followed two postgraduate courses, on LMS and multimedia didactic resources. I live in Catalonia (Spain) and I use Catalan (and sometimes Spanish) in my classes, so I'm going to write the lesson plans in this language. At this point I'mworking as ICT educational advisor at the Department of Education of Catalonia.

About the syllabus:
I would prefer to have especified the dates of each week instead of the generic information "Week 1, 2,..."

If I understand properly all the lesson plans are made by ourselves, I mean, we are not going to write a collaborative lesson plan. Are we?

About the license:
I will choose a CC by-nc-sa license for my lesson plans because I want to permit any educational use and derivative works, as soon as they are shared with the same license. I would prefer an specific educational CC license but I think that there is not any available yet.

About the instructor speech:
There is one idea that I would like to highlight: "Teachers have the right to sell their teaching resources, but doing so only helps one teacher. If the goal is finding the best way to teach English, I believe in working together to benefit everyone for free."
Usually we look only at short-term and we measure little the extent of our actions. Our goal must be to improve education from our knowledge and it is clear that collaboration could do much better.

One question:
I'm going to publish my lesson plans in my wikispace, as that one: http://aulatres.wikispaces.com/Les+etiquetes+dels+aliments
The reason is that the catalan version of Wikiversity doesn't exist and I haven't found the way to publish them at http://es.wikiversity.org.

Irene

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Charles Danoff
Wed, 2010-09-22 03:53

Great work Irene.

Thanks for your syllabus suggestions, reactions and choice of license. I agree with you that our goal is to improve education from our knowledge.

To answer your questions,

I mean, we are not going to write a collaborative lesson plan. Are we?
* No, but what I do want us to write collaboratively by the end of the course is a how-to document for other teachers who want to share their lesson plans.

Also, publishing your lesson plans on wikispace is fine. It seems like you should be able to use Spanish Wikiversity too, but I understand that you haven't found the way to publish them, yet. I posted a question on the Spanish Wikiversity

http://es.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversidad:Claustro_Wikiversitario#Cata...

we'll see if they answer. If they do have a way, keep in mind their license is Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike, different from the license you chose.

Charles