[WikiEducator] User Page Expo Award Winners
Dear Friends, Pease help us congratulate the winners of the WikiEducator User page Expo Awards (http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE) for the month of August and September 2010. They are both well deserved. The winners are: Jenni Parker for August at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:jennip and Cynthia D'Costa for September at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Agnes Congratulations to both of you!! Warm wishes Patricia and Nellie Patricia Schlicht and Nellie Deutsch http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] User Page Expo Award Winners
Dear Jenni and Cynthia, Congratulations. Your pages are real good and trust Patricia to spot them! :) Savithri On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Dear Friends, Pease help us congratulate the winners of the WikiEducator User page Expo Awards (http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE) for the month of August and September 2010. They are both well deserved. The winners are: Jenni Parker for August at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:jennip and Cynthia D’Costa for September at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Agnes Congratulations to both of you!! Warm wishes Patricia and Nellie *Patricia Schlicht and Nellie Deutsch* * * * * *http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht* *http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller* * * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110019 Ph: 011 26294542, 011 29293224 Res: 25848151, 25843496 Fax: 011 26294540, Res: 25848151 http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article397395.ece http://eduframe.net/andc http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://andc.info http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] User Page Expo Award Winners
Dear Jenni and Cynthia, Congratulations to both of you on fantastic pages. Great inspiration for all of us. Sarita On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Jenni and Cynthia, Congratulations. Your pages are real good and trust Patricia to spot them! :) Savithri On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Dear Friends, Pease help us congratulate the winners of the WikiEducator User page Expo Awards (http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE) for the month of August and September 2010. They are both well deserved. The winners are: Jenni Parker for August at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:jennip and Cynthia D’Costa for September at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Agnes Congratulations to both of you!! Warm wishes Patricia and Nellie *Patricia Schlicht and Nellie Deutsch* * * * * *http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht* *http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller* * * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110019 Ph: 011 26294542, 011 29293224 Res: 25848151, 25843496 Fax: 011 26294540, Res: 25848151 http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article397395.ece http://eduframe.net/andc http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://andc.info http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjay http://www.wikieducator.org/India http://www.wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://www.andcollege.du.ac.in -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
RE: [WikiEducator] User Page Expo Award Winners
Hi Everbody/Dear Savithri, I need to correct a small misperception. User pages are suggestions that come from the community to Nellie and I. While we of course spot them too, mostly they are recommendations from our Wiki friends that reach us for consideration for the Awards. Thanks in any case! Warm wishes, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Savithri Singh Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 11:42 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Cc: wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] User Page Expo Award Winners Dear Jenni and Cynthia, Congratulations. Your pages are real good and trust Patricia to spot them! :) Savithri On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: Dear Friends, Pease help us congratulate the winners of the WikiEducator User page Expo Awards (http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE) for the month of August and September 2010. They are both well deserved. The winners are: Jenni Parker for August at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:jennip and Cynthia D'Costa for September at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Agnes Congratulations to both of you!! Warm wishes Patricia and Nellie Patricia Schlicht and Nellie Deutsch http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110019 Ph: 011 26294542, 011 29293224 Res: 25848151, 25843496 Fax: 011 26294540, Res: 25848151 http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article397395.ece http://eduframe.net/andc http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://andc.info http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] prototyping voting machines in democracy-funded schools
VOTING MACHINES IN SCHOOLS Those following the many conflict-of-interest stories that have always plagued the voting vista, might appreciate the advisability of having schools serve as testbeds for democracy in those systems favoring this form of self-government (not all of them do). The idea is to use both paper ballots and electronic systems of various kinds (optical scanners, touch screens...), with vendors invited to field test, getting some positive visibility for so doing. It's not just the polling booth that we care about, but the back end tabulation system and, most important, all the safeguards and cross-checks that make election results auditable, perhaps permanently on record (just like famous sports contests, forever archived to videotape (yes, I know, videotape has a half-life)). Students and faculty will have responsible administrative roles in what amount to realistic simulations, using equipment the vendors hope will someday see the light of day in higher stakes arenas. Not every high school would need to test every make and model. However, a lot the the proposed electronic systems run as open source software on commodity hardware, perhaps with some custom peripherals (a particular kind of touch screen for example). I say high schools without meaning to exclude colleges and universities from running similar experiments (many already do). However, I'm particularly interested in moves to revitalize the teenage wasteland layer, which by most accounts is where major breakage occurs. GATHERING PUBLIC SECTOR RESOURCES I'm not sure what materials on Wikieducator and other open courseware repositories already contain, as far as technical information regarding the various secret balloting technologies (from paper based tabulation to LCD based). A context for this thread is my having just attended a conference called DjangoCon, here in Portland, Oregon. Django is a free and open source framework for developing web applications, anything that runs through a web browser and likely talks to a back end database. Congressman Wu, chairman of a House subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, gave one of the keynotes. I've been watching this initiative take shape through my Pauling House Campus connections as well. Linus Pauling, x2 Nobel prize winner, launched many of his chemistry studies right here near the foot of Mt. Tabor, an extinct volcano within our city limits. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tabor,_Portland,_Oregon From a recent posting to our discussion list: PS: getting working voting machines in the high schools is a really good idea. Encourage kids to learn what makes them tick. Have several mock elections every week, on all kinds of student and faculty proposed topics. Look for cheats, discover schemes, do some dry runs for that real world you're about to get into... It's also a good idea because it'll be vry interesting to find out what politicians feel the have the political capital to fight against it. What, too expensive? Open source? C'mon! I'll post a follow-up link to the Math Forum when it appears, then to more journalism in the blogosphere I might happen across (I'm mostly looking into the Python community these days, i.e. those using the Python programming language, an eclectic group). Here it is already: http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7203847tstart=0 MAKING CYBERSPACE SAFER What's related to this thread, even if you're not looking at prototyping voting infrastructure, is creating a safe intranet. I'm a liberal arts type in espousing free and unfettered access to information, but the flip side is vulnerability to malware, malignant memes, a lot of those crazy ideas a strong education will supply you with antibodies to fight, but a weak one will leave you prey to. Schools need to provide something like a sandbox, relatively free of malicious predators, and this is one reason why adopting Internet policies is so slow.** Here's a recent post somewhat belaboring the obvious in this respect (that newbies are vulnerable, especially if untrained). The lesson extends to those experimenting with democracy though. Rigged voting equipment is malware as well. http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2010/09/internet-is-broken.html The post just before it chronicles Congressman Wu's recent visit to our esoteric little conference (only about 250 attendees). Kirby ** entertaining true story: our local police department in Hillsboro, home of Intel, was feeling really frustrated by how the schools were turning the Internet into something scary and fascist, expected police to show up and make everyone worry about downloading free stuff (pirating), prono, chat rooms -- whatever behaviors. Lots of lurking dangers out there, sure, but what about the stuff that's legally free, like the web browser itself, maybe even the whole operating system. Why weren't the schools teaching more about that. The police were so frustrated they set up a Linux lab in the
Re: [WikiEducator] User Page Expo Award Winners
Congratulations Jenni and Cynthia. Your pages are beautiful. Yes, very inspiring...and informativeand FUN! Alison On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Dear Friends, Pease help us congratulate the winners of the WikiEducator User page Expo Awards (http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE) for the month of August and September 2010. They are both well deserved. The winners are: Jenni Parker for August at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:jennip and Cynthia D’Costa for September at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Agnes Congratulations to both of you!! Warm wishes Patricia and Nellie *Patricia Schlicht and Nellie Deutsch* * * * * *http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht* *http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller* * * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] An Ethical Dilemma -- Feeling sad :-)- When publishers don't do what they say they intend to do
Wayne, much success on our quest to add to world knowledge. Here in Israel - we're working the 'Wikipedia Law, which will release the rights of all pictures taken by government employees for the free use of the public. 3 more readings left! All the best, Amihai Bannett On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Never a dull moment in the free culture world. Ordinarily -- I would not post public notifications around potential misunderstandings or oversights by a publisher. However, I find myself facing an ethical dilemma. Particularly since today I'm been commenting considerably on my personal ethics and views associated with the non-commercial restriction on our national New Zealand MLE list. I was recently invited to write the forward for a new publication -- a book of tweets on open text books. Great idea, very cool and appropriate for our times. In response to the invite, my very first question was was: More than happy to provide a tweet -- what license will you be publishing the book under? Response: We will be doing this under Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike license- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ That is the current plan. Any interest in co-authoring? My response: I always check that anything I write is published under a free cultural works approved license :-) I would love to co-author So I do my bit, read the text, write a short forward and contribute a tweet. I now see that the book has been published under a CC-BY-NC-SA license -- which is very unfortunate, because I think its a great text and it seems that there has been an oversight in attributing my contributions under a license which meets the free cultural works definition which was a condition of my contribution. (See: http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/opentextbooktweet01.php). I've asked the publishes to print and distribute an erratum indicating that my personal contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA on the basis of our original agreement. I'm confident that they will do the right thing. When I submitted my tweet, I wrote: This is licensed under CC-BY which will enable a derivative under CC-BY-SA. I did this work during official time, and my employers IP policy requires that I release my work under a default CC-BY license. If there were any communications from the publisher in the interim about changing the license -- I missed these ;-(. Moreover, for the record, I would not have agreed to having anything I write published under an NC license. It's ironic that while the book carries a NC restriction -- the international public can purchase the texts, hard copy or ebook for a listed price of $19.95 or $14,95 and see that currently some discount applies. Anway -- this is a public announcement that my forward is licensed under a CC-BY-SA license and my tweet - No 31 is openly licensed under a free cultural works approved license (CC-BY) in this case. The publisher was free to add an NC restriction on the tweet - -but has omitted to attribute the source :-(. For the record, both versions of the texts I submitted are licensed under a CC-BY license. You are free to take these texts, reuse them, adapt them, modify them and if you like sell them :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] Re: User Page Expo Award Winners
Jenni and Cynthia, a big felicidades to both of you! Your pages are great examples of color, graphics, and type. Well done! Benjamin http://wikieducator.org/User:Bnleez On Sep 13, 1:34 pm, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: Dear Friends, Pease help us congratulate the winners of the WikiEducator User page Expo Awards (http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE) for the month of August and September 2010. They are both well deserved. The winners are: Jenni Parker for August athttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:jennip and Cynthia D'Costa for September athttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Agnes Congratulations to both of you!! Warm wishes Patricia and Nellie Patricia Schlicht and Nellie Deutsch http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] An Ethical Dilemma -- Feeling sad :-)- When publishers don't do what they say they intend to do
Hi Amihai, That's fantastic news! Which department is leading the effort in Israel for open licensing? What license will you be using? What work are you doing in the education sector? Would love to learn more! Keep up the good work. Cheers Wayne On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Amihai Bannett buildingjewishwo...@gmail.com wrote: Wayne, much success on our quest to add to world knowledge. Here in Israel - we're working the 'Wikipedia Law, which will release the rights of all pictures taken by government employees for the free use of the public. 3 more readings left! All the best, Amihai Bannett On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Never a dull moment in the free culture world. Ordinarily -- I would not post public notifications around potential misunderstandings or oversights by a publisher. However, I find myself facing an ethical dilemma. Particularly since today I'm been commenting considerably on my personal ethics and views associated with the non-commercial restriction on our national New Zealand MLE list. I was recently invited to write the forward for a new publication -- a book of tweets on open text books. Great idea, very cool and appropriate for our times. In response to the invite, my very first question was was: More than happy to provide a tweet -- what license will you be publishing the book under? Response: We will be doing this under Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike license- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ That is the current plan. Any interest in co-authoring? My response: I always check that anything I write is published under a free cultural works approved license :-) I would love to co-author So I do my bit, read the text, write a short forward and contribute a tweet. I now see that the book has been published under a CC-BY-NC-SA license -- which is very unfortunate, because I think its a great text and it seems that there has been an oversight in attributing my contributions under a license which meets the free cultural works definition which was a condition of my contribution. (See: http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/opentextbooktweet01.php). I've asked the publishes to print and distribute an erratum indicating that my personal contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA on the basis of our original agreement. I'm confident that they will do the right thing. When I submitted my tweet, I wrote: This is licensed under CC-BY which will enable a derivative under CC-BY-SA. I did this work during official time, and my employers IP policy requires that I release my work under a default CC-BY license. If there were any communications from the publisher in the interim about changing the license -- I missed these ;-(. Moreover, for the record, I would not have agreed to having anything I write published under an NC license. It's ironic that while the book carries a NC restriction -- the international public can purchase the texts, hard copy or ebook for a listed price of $19.95 or $14,95 and see that currently some discount applies. Anway -- this is a public announcement that my forward is licensed under a CC-BY-SA license and my tweet - No 31 is openly licensed under a free cultural works approved license (CC-BY) in this case. The publisher was free to add an NC restriction on the tweet - -but has omitted to attribute the source :-(. For the record, both versions of the texts I submitted are licensed under a CC-BY license. You are free to take these texts, reuse them, adapt them, modify them and if you like sell them :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International
Re: [WikiEducator] An Ethical Dilemma -- Feeling sad :-)- When publishers don't do what they say they intend to do
Wikimedia Israel is working on the law and we're in discussion with the different government agencies to see if we need to change the law. We got the ball rolling when we were invited to a Knesset (Israel's parliament) discussion in honor of Hebrew Wikipedia's 100,000th article. By the way - Wikimania 2011 will be in Haifa - hope to see y'all there! That's what I do on my free time. My day job is - Educational Director of Israel Connect, a program twinning Jewish schools from around the world with their peers in Israel. See www.israelconnect.org and www.facebook.com/israelconnect (Like!) for more details. All the best from Winnipeg (where I am raising funds for Israel Connect - any leads would be welcome), Amihai On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Amihai, That's fantastic news! Which department is leading the effort in Israel for open licensing? What license will you be using? What work are you doing in the education sector? Would love to learn more! Keep up the good work. Cheers Wayne On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Amihai Bannett buildingjewishwo...@gmail.com wrote: Wayne, much success on our quest to add to world knowledge. Here in Israel - we're working the 'Wikipedia Law, which will release the rights of all pictures taken by government employees for the free use of the public. 3 more readings left! All the best, Amihai Bannett On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Never a dull moment in the free culture world. Ordinarily -- I would not post public notifications around potential misunderstandings or oversights by a publisher. However, I find myself facing an ethical dilemma. Particularly since today I'm been commenting considerably on my personal ethics and views associated with the non-commercial restriction on our national New Zealand MLE list. I was recently invited to write the forward for a new publication -- a book of tweets on open text books. Great idea, very cool and appropriate for our times. In response to the invite, my very first question was was: More than happy to provide a tweet -- what license will you be publishing the book under? Response: We will be doing this under Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike license- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ That is the current plan. Any interest in co-authoring? My response: I always check that anything I write is published under a free cultural works approved license :-) I would love to co-author So I do my bit, read the text, write a short forward and contribute a tweet. I now see that the book has been published under a CC-BY-NC-SA license -- which is very unfortunate, because I think its a great text and it seems that there has been an oversight in attributing my contributions under a license which meets the free cultural works definition which was a condition of my contribution. (See: http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/opentextbooktweet01.php). I've asked the publishes to print and distribute an erratum indicating that my personal contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA on the basis of our original agreement. I'm confident that they will do the right thing. When I submitted my tweet, I wrote: This is licensed under CC-BY which will enable a derivative under CC-BY-SA. I did this work during official time, and my employers IP policy requires that I release my work under a default CC-BY license. If there were any communications from the publisher in the interim about changing the license -- I missed these ;-(. Moreover, for the record, I would not have agreed to having anything I write published under an NC license. It's ironic that while the book carries a NC restriction -- the international public can purchase the texts, hard copy or ebook for a listed price of $19.95 or $14,95 and see that currently some discount applies. Anway -- this is a public announcement that my forward is licensed under a CC-BY-SA license and my tweet - No 31 is openly licensed under a free cultural works approved license (CC-BY) in this case. The publisher was free to add an NC restriction on the tweet - -but has omitted to attribute the source :-(. For the record, both versions of the texts I submitted are licensed under a CC-BY license. You are free to take these texts, reuse them, adapt them, modify them and if you like sell them :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator
Re: [WikiEducator] An Ethical Dilemma -- Feeling sad :-)- When publishers don't do what they say they intend to do
Dear Dr. Wayne, I can imagine how humiliating the situation to you. Hope the publishers will come out with an erratum. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Never a dull moment in the free culture world. Ordinarily -- I would not post public notifications around potential misunderstandings or oversights by a publisher. However, I find myself facing an ethical dilemma. Particularly since today I'm been commenting considerably on my personal ethics and views associated with the non-commercial restriction on our national New Zealand MLE list. I was recently invited to write the forward for a new publication -- a book of tweets on open text books. Great idea, very cool and appropriate for our times. In response to the invite, my very first question was was: More than happy to provide a tweet -- what license will you be publishing the book under? Response: We will be doing this under Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike license- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ That is the current plan. Any interest in co-authoring? My response: I always check that anything I write is published under a free cultural works approved license :-) I would love to co-author So I do my bit, read the text, write a short forward and contribute a tweet. I now see that the book has been published under a CC-BY-NC-SA license -- which is very unfortunate, because I think its a great text and it seems that there has been an oversight in attributing my contributions under a license which meets the free cultural works definition which was a condition of my contribution. (See: http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/opentextbooktweet01.php). I've asked the publishes to print and distribute an erratum indicating that my personal contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA on the basis of our original agreement. I'm confident that they will do the right thing. When I submitted my tweet, I wrote: This is licensed under CC-BY which will enable a derivative under CC-BY-SA. I did this work during official time, and my employers IP policy requires that I release my work under a default CC-BY license. If there were any communications from the publisher in the interim about changing the license -- I missed these ;-(. Moreover, for the record, I would not have agreed to having anything I write published under an NC license. It's ironic that while the book carries a NC restriction -- the international public can purchase the texts, hard copy or ebook for a listed price of $19.95 or $14,95 and see that currently some discount applies. Anway -- this is a public announcement that my forward is licensed under a CC-BY-SA license and my tweet - No 31 is openly licensed under a free cultural works approved license (CC-BY) in this case. The publisher was free to add an NC restriction on the tweet - -but has omitted to attribute the source :-(. For the record, both versions of the texts I submitted are licensed under a CC-BY license. You are free to take these texts, reuse them, adapt them, modify them and if you like sell them :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] An Ethical Dilemma -- Feeling sad :-)- When publishers don't do what they say they intend to do
Hi Anil, I'm sure it was an honest oversight -- but it is problematic for me when my name is associated with a text which does not carry a free cultural works approved license and I didn't give permission for this. I would far rather they didn't use my forward (assuming they wanted to use an NC restriction.) and cleared this with me before the time -- I'm not chasing publications but care passionately about sharing knowledge freely. Unfortunately -- now its like trying to un-ring a bell ;-). I'm confident that we'll get this sorted with the publisher. Appreciate your note -- thanks. W On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:28 PM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dr. Wayne, I can imagine how humiliating the situation to you. Hope the publishers will come out with an erratum. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Never a dull moment in the free culture world. Ordinarily -- I would not post public notifications around potential misunderstandings or oversights by a publisher. However, I find myself facing an ethical dilemma. Particularly since today I'm been commenting considerably on my personal ethics and views associated with the non-commercial restriction on our national New Zealand MLE list. I was recently invited to write the forward for a new publication -- a book of tweets on open text books. Great idea, very cool and appropriate for our times. In response to the invite, my very first question was was: More than happy to provide a tweet -- what license will you be publishing the book under? Response: We will be doing this under Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike license- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ That is the current plan. Any interest in co-authoring? My response: I always check that anything I write is published under a free cultural works approved license :-) I would love to co-author So I do my bit, read the text, write a short forward and contribute a tweet. I now see that the book has been published under a CC-BY-NC-SA license -- which is very unfortunate, because I think its a great text and it seems that there has been an oversight in attributing my contributions under a license which meets the free cultural works definition which was a condition of my contribution. (See: http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/opentextbooktweet01.php). I've asked the publishes to print and distribute an erratum indicating that my personal contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA on the basis of our original agreement. I'm confident that they will do the right thing. When I submitted my tweet, I wrote: This is licensed under CC-BY which will enable a derivative under CC-BY-SA. I did this work during official time, and my employers IP policy requires that I release my work under a default CC-BY license. If there were any communications from the publisher in the interim about changing the license -- I missed these ;-(. Moreover, for the record, I would not have agreed to having anything I write published under an NC license. It's ironic that while the book carries a NC restriction -- the international public can purchase the texts, hard copy or ebook for a listed price of $19.95 or $14,95 and see that currently some discount applies. Anway -- this is a public announcement that my forward is licensed under a CC-BY-SA license and my tweet - No 31 is openly licensed under a free cultural works approved license (CC-BY) in this case. The publisher was free to add an NC restriction on the tweet - -but has omitted to attribute the source :-(. For the record, both versions of the texts I submitted are licensed under a CC-BY license. You are free to take these texts, reuse them, adapt them, modify them and if you like sell them :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send
Re: [WikiEducator] An Ethical Dilemma -- Feeling sad :-)- When publishers don't do what they say they intend to do
Wayne, This was an exceptional commentary of your dilemma, because it 1)demonstrated what creative commons was all about, and 2) demonstrated, through your honesty and forthrightness the importance of this idea. Demonstrate by example. Good for you, Wayne. Gene On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:28 PM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dr. Wayne, I can imagine how humiliating the situation to you. Hope the publishers will come out with an erratum. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Never a dull moment in the free culture world. Ordinarily -- I would not post public notifications around potential misunderstandings or oversights by a publisher. However, I find myself facing an ethical dilemma. Particularly since today I'm been commenting considerably on my personal ethics and views associated with the non-commercial restriction on our national New Zealand MLE list. I was recently invited to write the forward for a new publication -- a book of tweets on open text books. Great idea, very cool and appropriate for our times. In response to the invite, my very first question was was: More than happy to provide a tweet -- what license will you be publishing the book under? Response: We will be doing this under Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike license- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ That is the current plan. Any interest in co-authoring? My response: I always check that anything I write is published under a free cultural works approved license :-) I would love to co-author So I do my bit, read the text, write a short forward and contribute a tweet. I now see that the book has been published under a CC-BY-NC-SA license -- which is very unfortunate, because I think its a great text and it seems that there has been an oversight in attributing my contributions under a license which meets the free cultural works definition which was a condition of my contribution. (See: http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/opentextbooktweet01.php). I've asked the publishes to print and distribute an erratum indicating that my personal contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA on the basis of our original agreement. I'm confident that they will do the right thing. When I submitted my tweet, I wrote: This is licensed under CC-BY which will enable a derivative under CC-BY-SA. I did this work during official time, and my employers IP policy requires that I release my work under a default CC-BY license. If there were any communications from the publisher in the interim about changing the license -- I missed these ;-(. Moreover, for the record, I would not have agreed to having anything I write published under an NC license. It's ironic that while the book carries a NC restriction -- the international public can purchase the texts, hard copy or ebook for a listed price of $19.95 or $14,95 and see that currently some discount applies. Anway -- this is a public announcement that my forward is licensed under a CC-BY-SA license and my tweet - No 31 is openly licensed under a free cultural works approved license (CC-BY) in this case. The publisher was free to add an NC restriction on the tweet - -but has omitted to attribute the source :-(. For the record, both versions of the texts I submitted are licensed under a CC-BY license. You are free to take these texts, reuse them, adapt them, modify them and if you like sell them :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- With Best Wishes for an Even Better Day Gene-loeb Gene-loeb Aronin, Ph.D. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum:
Re: [WikiEducator] An Ethical Dilemma -- Feeling sad :-)- When publishers don't do what they say they intend to do
Hi Gene, Thanks for the note -- with every mistake (and I believe the publishers have made an honest mistake) there is a learning experience. Together we can make the world a better place -- and the open web and free content licensing can help. There is a place for everyone in the sun -- even publishers who can earn a living through publishing free content. The embarrassing point is that my name is now published under a non-commercial license :-(. However -- let's turn an honest mistake into a success for all involved. I have just received an email from the publisher requesting that we connect for a skype conversation later this evening. I will suggest that they drop the NC restriction and release the work under a CC-BY-SA license. That would be a smart move for them imho --- the free advertising resulting from a move like that would push and promote sales. We'll see what happens. Cheers Wayne On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:55 PM, gene aronin genel...@gmail.com wrote: Wayne, This was an exceptional commentary of your dilemma, because it 1)demonstrated what creative commons was all about, and 2) demonstrated, through your honesty and forthrightness the importance of this idea. Demonstrate by example. Good for you, Wayne. Gene On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:28 PM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dr. Wayne, I can imagine how humiliating the situation to you. Hope the publishers will come out with an erratum. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Never a dull moment in the free culture world. Ordinarily -- I would not post public notifications around potential misunderstandings or oversights by a publisher. However, I find myself facing an ethical dilemma. Particularly since today I'm been commenting considerably on my personal ethics and views associated with the non-commercial restriction on our national New Zealand MLE list. I was recently invited to write the forward for a new publication -- a book of tweets on open text books. Great idea, very cool and appropriate for our times. In response to the invite, my very first question was was: More than happy to provide a tweet -- what license will you be publishing the book under? Response: We will be doing this under Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike license- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ That is the current plan. Any interest in co-authoring? My response: I always check that anything I write is published under a free cultural works approved license :-) I would love to co-author So I do my bit, read the text, write a short forward and contribute a tweet. I now see that the book has been published under a CC-BY-NC-SA license -- which is very unfortunate, because I think its a great text and it seems that there has been an oversight in attributing my contributions under a license which meets the free cultural works definition which was a condition of my contribution. (See: http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/opentextbooktweet01.php). I've asked the publishes to print and distribute an erratum indicating that my personal contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA on the basis of our original agreement. I'm confident that they will do the right thing. When I submitted my tweet, I wrote: This is licensed under CC-BY which will enable a derivative under CC-BY-SA. I did this work during official time, and my employers IP policy requires that I release my work under a default CC-BY license. If there were any communications from the publisher in the interim about changing the license -- I missed these ;-(. Moreover, for the record, I would not have agreed to having anything I write published under an NC license. It's ironic that while the book carries a NC restriction -- the international public can purchase the texts, hard copy or ebook for a listed price of $19.95 or $14,95 and see that currently some discount applies. Anway -- this is a public announcement that my forward is licensed under a CC-BY-SA license and my tweet - No 31 is openly licensed under a free cultural works approved license (CC-BY) in this case. The publisher was free to add an NC restriction on the tweet - -but has omitted to attribute the source :-(. For the record, both versions of the texts I submitted are licensed under a CC-BY license. You are free to take these texts, reuse them, adapt them, modify them and if you like sell them :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator
[WikiEducator] Announcing an exciting collaboration between OCWC, WE Creative Commoners and the OER Foundation
Hi Everyone We are very pleased to announce an exciting collaborative project between the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC), WikiEducator, Creative Commoners and the OER Foundation (OERF). Collectively the OCWC and OERF have identified a common need to develop guidelines and support resources to assist educators and educational-decision makers to take informed decisions regarding Creative Commons licenses. We recognise the unique challenges and opportunities the education sector faces when taking decision regarding open content licenses. We aim to address this gap by working together :-) Please visit our project portal page: - http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing - If you can assist by donating a little time in sharing your knowledge and helping us further the objectives of open education -- please sign up as a participant here: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Participants - We're busy taking stock of existing materials we could remix for this project. If you know of suitably licensed materials we can remix to achieve our project objectives, please list these here: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Existing_resources - We need a team of translators who can help in translating the resources we develop into multiple languages. If you can help with translations for English into other languages -- please sign up as well: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Participants The OCWC will be setting up a dedicated discussion list for our international collaboration. Watch this space. You gotta love the open model --- this is how we nurture and build sustainable OER ecosystems. We'll see you in the wiki and chat with you soon on the OCWC discussion list :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20 Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
