Faceted Curriculum Project/About Threads

A thread is a collection of blocks, linked according to the desires of a specific audience. There will be many types of threads.

Creating a new thread type
A new thread should be created as a subcategory of "FCP Thread". When creating a new thread, the following questions should be addressed and written in the subcategory description page:
 * 1) Are threads of this type meant to be linear or nonlinear?
 * 2) What criteria will be used to determine the inclusion of a block in the thread? In other words, which topics are to be covered in this thread?
 * 3) What criteria will be used to join blocks in the thread? Why should one block come before another (for example, based on logical or pedagogical dependence)?

Creating a thread
When creating a thread (of a given type), some summary information should be given. This should include:
 * 1) The purpose of the thread. For example, a thread might be designed as a curriculum for an Algebra II course, or a thread might be designed to get from basic principles in geometry to the Pythagorean theorem in the fastest way possible.
 * 2) The intended audience and prerequisites for following the thread.

The thread itself should be represented as a directed graph, whose nodes are blocks. More research is needed, in order to represent threads using semantic mediawiki software.