RewriteAsAnArticle

This topic is being treated in the fashion of an old style forum. When we make full use of the wikiness, we will construct a page which drops all the signatures and is built to enhance the ability of the reader to extract useful understanding efficiently. This page with signatures should then be the discussion page, behind and subsidiary to the "main article", to choose a term from Wikipedia.

Such tasks are REALLY useful as teaching exercises, should you happen to have a room full of idle students in your charge. They will learn just from the effort as well as from the content under discussion. If they can get feedback from their efforts from YOU, there is another avenue for intentional learning.

This could be a prime example of a WinWinWin, if profferred appropriately to interested parties. It could TurnProblemsIntoSolutions and benefit a wide world.

Could people subscribe to this wiki without first attending an AYE conference? That was not its intended purpose, but we repurpose stuff all the time, when justified by subsequent developments. Perhaps this further opening should at first be limited to students of participants as permitted by the wiki administrator.

DickKarpinski

Subscriptions? An interesting idea, Dick. Right now, anyone who knows the wiki address can read it. Writing is open to AYE participants, past or present, which gives us a certain amount of protection from some of the idiots who will infect any open wiki or blog. But a subscription fee, like the $60/year for my ShapeForum, would serve the same purpose. I like the idea, though I don't know how many people would be interested in paying. I'll take it up with the AYE hosts. - JerryWeinberg 2006.08.17

Updated: Thursday, August 17, 2006