Super Painter Spotlight: flattail

Posted by Michael on April 4th, 2008 No Comments

Super Painters come in all shapes and sizes– they are aspiring artists, soap opera fanatics, teenage developers, fish keepers, PhD students. The list goes on and on. This week we’d like to introduce you to flattail– a university professor, reptilephile, and all-around Wetpaint all-star.

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Here’s a little more about flattail, in his own words:

About me: I’m not your typical computer geek or Wetpaint user–I actually prefer to be outside without a computer (and I don’t have a cell-phone or web-connected PDA either). My wife and I are biologists, and we have done field work in remote locations in mountains and deserts studying black bears and horned lizards (for up to six months at a time).

However, I enjoy new technology and using the internet in collaborative ways. I teach biology classes at a regional campus for Utah State University. Several of my classes are broadcast to another campus, so the class wiki site is a way for me to interact more with my students.

Why I wiki: I recognize that individual stupidity surpasses group stupidity, and that group wisdom is greater than individual knowledge. I think the world is too steeped in competition, and that collaboration is where the answers really lie.

My interest in becoming a contributor to wikis came when I was frustrated with our class physiology textbook, and partway through the class I told the students we were rewriting the syllabus and instead of lecturing we were going to make the world’s first free online physiology textbook. I stumbled across Wetpaint when I wanted to have a wiki site for students to collaboratively suggest test ideas, and it has evolved from there.

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