AHA!! I just noticed the "similar threads" feature!!!

[Peek a Boo]

If you click on a thread and scroll allll the way down to the bottom, it will list any threads w/ similar topics!!

How did I miss that???
i know how--- i was too busy whining about the board change and focussing on giving out "reputation points", lol!!!

hee hee......

[Sharon in SC]

We learn something new every day!! (I didn't know either!) Thanks for sharing.

[Mx5]

We're just learning new stuff every day here. Coooooooooooool.

[Lisa at Home]

Maybe there had not yet been enough posts to have comparable posts, cause I declare it wasn't there earlier!

~Lisa

[sleepy]

Cool! I never noticed that.

[Janna]

So Peek, apparently I have missed the "reputation" threads. For what reasons do you mark the reputation? I just assumed it was only for when you want to mark someone negatively. I thought the green was already showing it was fine. (?)

Hey, totally off this subject, I know you teach SWR - can I ask a quick question? My ds 6 just recently started list A. He writes the words fine and we dictate them together, he knows about 36 of the phonograms and we review the rules everyday, but the rules aren't sticking. I know that it will take repetition for that. But once we dictate the words into his PLL, he seems to forget them. Since he's not reading yet, how do I go about doing spelling "tests" for him? He has all 20 words in list A, so we can technically move on to list B, but I don't know if I should? I don't feel like a "test" over list A would be beneficial because this is so new to him. What do you think?

Sorry to throw this question into this thread. Hope it's OK.

[Peek a Boo]

it's perfectly fine to toss that Q into the mix too :-)

here's an excellent post by Myrtle describing the reputation feature.
make sure you click on the little "scales" at the top right of her post box [right after the post #2] to give her the credit she's due for explaining it!



http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=933&highlight=reputation

[Janna]

LOL, ok, so are you not going to answer my question? Just letting me know it's fine to ask? Ha!

[Rhonda@LivingWater]

I don't think I had ever scrolled down that far,lol. That is actually a very handy feature.
I still don't understand the "reputation" rating but I guess we'll get the hang of that.

[Karin]

Thanks for this. I didn't even know what those scales were for, either. I still don't totally understand them, but the boards were down both times I tried to get on yesterday (or at least my server couldn't find them) and I had a lot of trouble on the weekend. I'm logged on now when I should be doing school because I haven't been able to get on. Hopefully when things settle down I can go back to my routine.

[Peek a Boo]

Janna--
did the link explaining reputation not show up in my post? :(

i'll cut n paste her reply just in case. :D

Rhonda, I think the "reputation" importance won't come in handy till the board has been around a few weeks. Or months.....?

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The idea is that when folks see a particularly outstanding post that they "rep" the poster. Those posters with the most outstanding posts will eventually accumulate little squares by their names. Looks like everyone so far has only a single little green square. I don't know exactly how the algorithm works for this board but other boards have a formula by which those when someone with a high rep reps someone else it's worth more points to the receiver than if someone of low rep, or few posts, reps them. I've also seen boards where you can negative rep a person if you don't like their post but I haven't seen it here.

It's not clear how this will play out on these boards. If the board culture is such that folks rep those with informational posts then you'll see the super helpful people with the highest reps. If they rep those that are witty and funny then the rep would indicate the political popularity of the poster.

Another function that it might serve is a private way of giving someone a "thumbs up" for something they have said without doing so publically (Remember the old "ITA" posts??)

When you rep someone you are given the opportunity to make a comment and you can explain to them why you repped them. When someone reps you, there will be a note of it in your user account. ('ll rep you so that you can see) It will tell you the particular message that you were repped on. The poster repping you is not revealed.

If you go to list of users an click at the top of the column which is titled "reputation" it will show those with the highest reps at the top. Right now those are the board administrators and this will give you an idea of what a high rep would look like.

[Peek a Boo]

Hey, totally off this subject, I know you teach SWR - can I ask a quick question? My ds 6 just recently started list A. He writes the words fine and we dictate them together, he knows about 36 of the phonograms and we review the rules everyday, but the rules aren't sticking. I know that it will take repetition for that. But once we dictate the words into his PLL, he seems to forget them. Since he's not reading yet, how do I go about doing spelling "tests" for him? He has all 20 words in list A, so we can technically move on to list B, but I don't know if I should? I don't feel like a "test" over list A would be beneficial because this is so new to him. What do you think?

Sorry to throw this question into this thread. Hope it's OK.

Oh SHEESH!! My mask must be acting as blinders, LOL!! I totally did NOT read the rest of your post --i scurried to answer the part about reputation, lol.
Smack me now, will ya??

anyway- to answer your OTHER Q:

yes, feel free to move on. The rules will start to stick as he sees them being applied. Mastery of rules/markings/phonograms etc is not required to move on to more --as long as they are spelling the words ok. If he's REALLY struggling after a couple lists, then i'd back up and review from teh beginning. You might find the review to be a lot faster and work "better" at that point. I would also ask on the SWR list since I haven't used SWR w/ a non-reader yet --beyond teaching my 3yo the phonograms :-)

Good luck!.

[Janna]

No, it worked. I'm talking about the SWR question I had for you, LOL.

[Peek a Boo]

yes, feel free to move on. The rules will start to stick as he sees them being applied. Mastery of rules/markings/phonograms etc is not required to move on to more --as long as they are spelling the words ok.

and to clarify---w/ a 6yo who's not reading yet, I think him dictating together w/ you is "enough". i wouldn't sweat that he still needs help dictating them into his log on his own.

[Janna]

LOL, I thought something wasn't right!

Thank you for your answer! I won't worry about the actual "test" today. But I am a member of the SWR group, so maybe I will ask. We'll see...

Anyway, take those blinders off would, ya? ;)