User:White Eagle

= Welcome =

Welcome to my User page in WikiEducator.

My name is Günther Osswald, a school teacher for mathematics and physics in Germany.

Please don't hesitate to contact me for your concerns. Right here. (My Email I've taken out because I've got too much Spam.)

= My Roles in WikiEducator =

Elected member of the WE Community Council

WE ambassador

Contact person for the biggest German educational Wiki ZUM Wiki

WE contributor


 * wiki pages
 * posts to WE discussion forum Google Groups

= My Wiki Projects =



I did a short presentation of WikiEducator at the Online Educa Berlin conference on eLearning, Dec. 3-5, 2008. The slides I used you can access here.

Center for innovative physics teaching in Uganda

SUPRA: About 1000 pages of high quality educational materials for the teaching of physics in elementary schools, for my request generously donated under CC-BY license by the department of physics of LM-University of Munich/Germany. I'm about to organize translation into English and integration into WikiEducator.

Mechanics11: A Wiki project at my school. On-line Script for my courses in Physics/Mechanics, college level (in German)

Astro13: Platform for my grade 13 course in Astronomy/Astrophysics

Platform for Physics Teachers in Africa

2ph2: Platform for my grade 12 course in Electo-magnetism

LoCoEx: Database for Low-Cost-Experiments in School Physics

= My Articles in WE =

My vision, of how WikiEducator can support open and distance learning ODL in secondary education (formal and non-formal) in the developing world.

My thoughts of how to make good use of a wiki to support the educational community, includes an article for teachers to enhance their motivation for participation in WikiEducator

My proposal for non-violent communication in WikiEducator

= My Motivation =

Since I was 15 years old, I have found this world we live in to be quite unjust. After my university studies, I spent 9 months teaching in the Philippines, experiencing the lack of good educators. Later I went to India, Peru and Senegal, and was deeply moved by seeing so many young intelligent people without proper possibilities of education. Recently, I have started reading research literature about open and distance learning (ODL), excited by the incredible new possibilities offered by the internet.

I feel I have collected so much experiences through my work in the classroom, and I want to share them with the world!

But still more important for me is networking, building a community, as only a lively community of educators can achieve progress in the improvement of world education.

My main intention currently is to build up a platform for Physics teachers at secondary level in Uganda.

= My Biography =


 * 1980: School leaving examination
 * 1981-1986: Studies of Mathematics and Physics at TU and LMU München
 * 1986: State examination
 * 1987: Overseas experience teaching in Philippine schools
 * 1988-1990: Traineeship as teacher
 * 1990-2008: Work as secondary school and college teacher at different schools in München
 * 2004: marriage, we have now 3 children
 * Joined WE in Feb. 2007
 * September 2008: Elected as member or the WE Community Council

= My Wiki Partners = Uganda: Canada: Israel:
 * Vincent Kizza
 * Florence Namukasa
 * Peter Kato
 * Joseph Lubega
 * Randy Fisher
 * Wayne Mackintosh|
 * Patricia Schlicht
 * Nellie Deutsch

and many others:

= My Favorite Links =

WE statistics says, I'm by Okt. 2008 on rank 27 of all recently active WikiEducators, excl. bots, ordered by number of contributions

WE Usage Statistics shows, that Germany is No. 1 among the countries that visit WikiEducator!

My user page in the German ZUM-Wiki

WE discussion forum (Google Groups)

= My Sandbox = = My Sandbox2