On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 13 November 2011 08:46, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com wrote:
As conceived, the IEP and its parent the PPP (pardon the acronyms), were about contributing to wikipedia, about learning how to contribute, and
about
having fun while learning.
Hi Bishakha,
This is a bit of a derail from your e-mail, but I wanted to clarify your use of the past tense (they *were* about contributing). I think the thread title here may be creating some confusion about what has actually happened. That, or else I may be confused myself :-)
Hey Sue,
I used 'were' not because I think IEP and yes, thanks, GEP :) are dead - but to point out how they 'were' conceived.
Anyway, it's great that you clarified this, given the thread's title.
The IEP as I understand it is not over: contrary to the subjectline of this thread, it hasn't "died." A number of schools have participated in the pilot phase of the IEP. My understanding is that the project has been mostly successful, except for one school, or set of schools, at which there were serious problems with plagiarism that, despite repeated efforts, the team couldn't get resolved.
I'm hoping we'll hear more about the successes of the project, and
eventually come to a balanced understanding of what worked and what didn't.
At this stage, we're hearing much more about what didn't work, so it's hard to assess the pilot meaningfully.
Cheers Bishakha