User talk:Patricia.Loeblein

I am glad that I found the archive for week 1. Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 19:41, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

The information provided from the link "talk page guidelines" is wonderful. I was nervous about etiquette and the clear explanations made me comfortable. Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 19:46, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Belated welcome to WIKISOO!

Hi Patricia, I see that when I was making the "welcome wagon rounds" I missed you! Sorry about that. Please contact me on my talk page should you ever have any questions you don't feel are suitable for posting on the TALK tab - though that's an ideal place as everyone can see and benefit from the Q/A there. Thanks for being so astute about class communications. Keep the feedback coming! - Sara FB (talk) 22:05, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Be as visible as you like :)

I think it encourages other students who have questions and are shy to ask them :) "See" you in class later. - Sara FB (talk) 22:26, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Trish

I just added a PhET Article on my sandbox for editing Klidessau (talk) 01:29, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Kathy,

I am now an official "reviewer" for the article (at least I think so). I added a section after reading the comments from others. Looks like a great beginning.Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 18:21, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Patricia, you asked about a comparable featured article. Wikipedia has very few FAs about organizations, so it's a little tricky. I wonder if this one might be of interest: Belarusian Republican Youth Union. It's obviously a controversial entity, but as a fairly short article, I think it may serve as a useful guide, and the section structure may be worth considering. (Do note that it was approved as FA in 2007, and does not appear to have been formally reviewed since then except as part of a featured topic; so it may or may not fully reflect FA quality in its current form.) I hope this helps. There are a few other articles about large companies and organizations, but these might not be very relevant guides, since they are very long and detailed and draw on extensive corporate history. -Pete (talk) 04:55, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

You asked about the etiquette of user talk pages -- sorry for the slow reply on that! The software is frustrating: there are advantages to replying on your own talk page (keeping the discussion together) and also to replying on the other person's talk page (alerts them more prominently). You can do either; some people will respond on their own talk page and then put the {{talkback}} template on the other person's page to alert them. (There are currently changes afoot to how notifications work on Wikipedia, so perhaps this will all get easier soon!)

Sorry there isn't a simple answer to that one; but you seem to be doing fine with it. Keep the questions coming -- and feel free to ask them at WT:WIKISOO, I think your fellow students like seeing various questions answered there! -Pete (talk) 15:42, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

KD answers

Just testing the talkback template as a way for you to answer my question about citing. "I am wondering about the 4 different "links/cites" I see in articles: for example in the second paragraph of the article you have "PhET (phet.colorado.edu)" , then a hot link to "physics"physics , then a numbered cite (, and then Spanish. This is one thing that I think would go in the Google doc." thanks Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 01:59, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Kathy, I sent Pete a link to this too because I wanted to find out more about the talkback tool. I wondered if I can send more than one person to the section - sort of like starting a shared google doc. Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 02:09, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Trish, perfect timing -- I just posted the archive link on the class page. Here it is so you don't have to track it down! I'll check back on your quesitons about links, but right now it's dinnertime. Thanks for "talking back" to the teacher ;) -Pete (talk) 02:58, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Edits for PhET Article

Hi Trish,

I've taken some stuff out of the PhET Article because I wanted to blog about it and it's up in public. BTW, it's the second entry in Google after out website so let's try and keep the actual page free of grammatical errors and very proper. Maybe the best is to play in your Sandbox until the text is good and working then post to the article?

Here's what I took out:

A teacher might find a benchmark for which they need ideas and find a PhET sim, for example, on The Physical Setting>Plate Tectonics map on Benchmark SMS-BMK-0034 , there is a link to Plate Tectonics. Also, Merlot Physics which is "An online collection of Physics teaching and learning resources that includes: Links to Member-Selected Learning Materials, Peer Reviews of High Quality Materials, and Teaching Experiences of MERLOT Members" has featured PhET as a Showcase , Physics Front which is a "free service provided by the AAPT in partnership with the NSF/NSDL" has about 100 ideas with editor reviews; recommended subjects, levels, resource type, appropriate courses, categories and ratings; ideas for use in units, correlation to AAAS standards; and related activities. Pedagogy in Action Library provides access to a library with 3 elements: Teaching Methods Modules, Learning Activities, and Research on Learning Bibliography.. Pedagogy in Action contains an article "Resources for using PhET simulations in class – PhET Activities Database" which includes summary, learning goals, context for use, desription and teaching materials, Teaching Notes and Tips, Assessment, and Guidelines for developing new activities using PhET.

I tried to fix it but I was confused. Maybe we want to make this into a list? I couldn't follow it and figure that you knew what you wanted to say.

Thanks, Kathy

Klidessau (talk) 18:48, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

thanks for reviewing. I worked on this hard, but if it is confusing, I am really glad you took it out. My objective was to find places where communities other than PhET are sharing ideas about how to use the sims. I am not sure what grammatical errors I made. I have seen some articles where they use a table or lists. I put the cut out pieces in my sandbox. So far I just made a note or 2 for you and broke the references to the different communities into paragraphs.

Can you get to my sandbox to read/edit? I am just trying to catch up a bit from my weekend. I will go to class tonight and will be working again tomorrow afternoon through Sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Patricia.Loeblein/sandbox#Work_for_PhET_article72.42.107.78 Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 23:10, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Course archives

Trish, I finally posted the archives from Week 6 of our class. So sorry to take so long -- I saw your message, but was mixed up, and thought I had already taken care of it. Arg! Anyway, they are now live here, in the chart at the bottom of the page: Education Program:Peer to Peer University/Writing Wikipedia Articles (2013 Q2) -Pete (talk) 23:14, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

thanks Pete. BTW, did I miss the reunion or is there a new date? I see that someone else asked a similar question. I have been on holiday and offline for a few weeks. Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 19:28, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Trish, I completely dropped the ball on the reunion! I will be sending out an email shortly with a new date. Maybe it will work better now that you're back from holiday…silver lining?? -Pete (talk) 00:42, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

I am so glad I did not miss the reunion. Thanks Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 00:22, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Team 1 OER growth

Hey Patricia, I just joined your team late. I can't make it to the live sessions so I'll review them as they are released. Look forward to collaborating. →⚙量zhu (talk·contribs) 17:49, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Great to have you aboard. I will be attending the webinars this week and next, but then I go back to the classroom and will be using the archives like you. Trish Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 20:25, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Welcome back to WIKISOO!

Welcome back - belatedly - to the School of Open Writing Wikipedia Articles Class (#WIKISOO)! As you know, our main course page here should be your home page. Post questions at any time on our TALK page, found at the top left tab of the course page. So glad you signed up again - feel free to contact me with questions. - Sara FB (talk) 15:33, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

OER inquiry

Hi Patricia.Loeblein, I'm sending you this message because you're one of about 300 users who have recently edited an article in the umbrella category of open educational resources (OER) (or open education). In evaluating several projects we've been working on (e.g. the WIKISOO course and WikiProject Open), my colleague Pete Forsyth and I have wondered who chooses to edit OER-related articles and why. Regardless of whether you've taken the WIKISOO course yourself - and/or never even heard the term OER before - we'd be extremely grateful for your participation in this brief, anonymous survey before 27 April. No personal data is being collected. If you have any ideas or questions, please get in touch. My talk page awaits. Thanks for your support! - Sara FB (talk) 20:46, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the email to my regular working address. I had a total CPU failure in October and was operating on whatever CPU I could, so I had not logged into WP in a long time. I recently got a new computer and am still configuring it. I am taking the survey and decided to login to WP so I could see if I had actually ever joined any "WikiProjects". Good question because it made me want to get back into checking in regularly. Patricia.Loeblein (talk) 23:20, 25 April 2014 (UTC)