[Helpers] experiences Re: Please check in...

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

   Hello:

   What lesson of the course are you on now, yourself?  With your own 
progress through the course?

    I have added some experiences to some of the lessons already. It just 
sort of naturally flowed out of editing the lessons, I would remember 
threads from the tea room that came up over the years. Often I was looking 
for snippets of my own writing to add to the essay, knowing I had written 
the content before and not wanting to write it out again.

  I have the google search on my computer, so it did not take long to 
search my hard drive for tea room archives and other essay snippets, and it 
looked through some K-list archives too.

    My format is to paste the one or two best ones from the tea room into 
the "experiences" text window and link to others.  In one case I summarized 
a K-list question from another member and posted my response, instead of 
trying to track him down to ask permission.

   I have blanket permission to use the tea room posts and/or grad essays 
of a few members, like Gustaf and Troy.  I also used some of my own 
experiences, or wrote them out.

    I did not ask consent for all of them. Lazy! Hyperfocused on the 
writing, not wanting to distract with writing emails.  I changed the 
usernames instead!  I feel I ought to ask permission, just did not have 
patience for it at the time.   Eventually FST will become a book, including 
the experiences I used, so I will need consent for that, but the links 
won't be part of it.

   I think the thing to do might be to go to the updated lessons as Sachiko 
gets the DONE word docs pasted into the new lesson forms. That way you can 
see them as html, and also see what experiences have been added.

    The other option I considered was to go through the tea room archives 
year by year, making note of the best posts and what lesson they were about.

  Then go through that list,  lesson by lesson and select the best for 
adding to the lesson content. I don't feel it is necessary to ask 
permission to link to a tea room post from a lesson, only to add the text 
to the lesson itself.

   With the tea room posts I usually chose the best of a thread, and 
sometimes added links to the rest of the thread at the bottom. I am keeping 
with the format of my writing italicized.

I've attached an example, the new earthsky lesson. You will see an 
experience added, and also an incomplete link at the bottom. The 
experiences links sort of need to be whole http:// links not relative 
links, for them to work on the FST CD later.
   I did not ask permission from that student, yet.

   Sandra D: note a whack of new links at the bottom of the page.

At 06:27 AM 02/05/2006, you wrote:

>I still don't have Internet connectivity at home.  I started to look at the
>tea room archives (that I enjoy), but the word files don't work for me
>because I don't have access to word at work.  I'm still not too clear on how
>you want the student experiences to be printed.  Also, I haven't been able
>to see the word documents you already have worked on. I have a couple of
>questions:
>
>What's the format you want them on?
>
>Do you want just the student experiences or your reply or both?
>
>Do you want them to be edited or just copied as they are?
>
>Do you want me to ask the students for permission for including their
>experiences in the course?
>
>
>Thank you for your attention,
>
>Sandra Cantu
>
>
>
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