Re: [WikiEducator] Mobile friendly Wikieducator pages?
Hi Wayne That sounds like a great option. If I understand you, the content would be live on Wikieducator and be mirrored on Word Press? Or would I create directly on Wordpress? My goal is still to create open content because I see application beyond my local field site; I usually hope that others will collaborateand sometimes they do. Wikieducator is ideal for collaboration. Of course I can plop in an OER license on any platform Thanks for the offer; I'd like to give it a try. Declan On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 12:58:37 AM UTC-4 Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > Hi Declan, > > We have not implemented mobile responsive solutions for WikiEducator - In > short, this is a resource challenge in finding development time for > implementation given our commitments on other technical priorities. > > In the short term, I could provide your College with a WordPress site > with a responsive OERu theme so you can publish a collection of wiki pages > to the site. See for example LiDA101 <https://course.oeru.org/lida101/>. > At the bottom of each page on that course site, you will see a "Content" > link which takes you to the wiki source on Wikieducator. > > Would that help? > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > Wayne Mackintosh (PhD) > UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources > Managing Director, OER Foundation and OERu facilitator > > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 2:14 PM Declan wrote: > >> >> Hi folks >> >> I’d like to create some simple pages that will render well on mobile >> devices. Just simple text and a photo. The idea would be that they would >> render without the Wikieducator framing, or with the logo on top, and >> rather than running off the side of the screen, the text would wrap to the >> size of the device. Is it possible? Wikipedia seems to have it down. My >> intent is to launch content for nature walks using QR codes. The content >> would be broadly applicable to other users in. Here is an example: >> HGNP/goldenrod >> - WikiEducator <https://wikieducator.org/HGNP/goldenrod> >> Cheers >> Declan >> >> -- >> > -- 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 wikied...@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > wikieducator...@googlegroups.com > > >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "WikiEducator" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to wikieducator...@googlegroups.com. > > >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wikieducator/21bd733f-f1f8-49e4-83bd-5559908e65a9n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wikieducator/21bd733f-f1f8-49e4-83bd-5559908e65a9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email_source=footer> >> . >> > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wikieducator/5aa7d57f-4b51-4426-a76d-826d60cb64ban%40googlegroups.com.
[WikiEducator] Mobile friendly Wikieducator pages?
Hi folks I’d like to create some simple pages that will render well on mobile devices. Just simple text and a photo. The idea would be that they would render without the Wikieducator framing, or with the logo on top, and rather than running off the side of the screen, the text would wrap to the size of the device. Is it possible? Wikipedia seems to have it down. My intent is to launch content for nature walks using QR codes. The content would be broadly applicable to other users in. Here is an example: HGNP/goldenrod - WikiEducator <https://wikieducator.org/HGNP/goldenrod> Cheers Declan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wikieducator/21bd733f-f1f8-49e4-83bd-5559908e65a9n%40googlegroups.com.
[WikiEducator] Re: Delay on New WikiEducator Accounts?
Hi Wayne and Steve I'd also be happy to screen a few. Also I have a project cooking and I'd like to be able to approve new users for that purpose if that is possible. I guess I'm a Sysop and Wikiambasadoris user creation within my mystical powers? And if sois there a Wikimedia instruction page I can follow? Cheers Declan On Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 4:11:44 PM UTC-5, Steve Foerster wrote: > > Does anyone know whether there is a human approval component to new > accounts being established on WikiEducator, and if so who those humans are? > A colleague has tried to create an account, has confirmed his email > address, but has not received his password and it’s been a couple of days. > > Thanks, > > -- > Steve Foerster > President | New World University > steve.f...@newworld.ac | http://newworld.ac > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] New scientific paper based on OER content
Hi folks I have learned since joining Wikieducator that there really is no typical content or approach to OER. The projects are as strange and idiosyncratic as the individuals dreaming them up. And yet they find homes here and based on page visit data, they are at least seen by others. The page on maintaining chainsaws has not been modified since 2009...and has received more than 20k visits. My old Biology in Elementary Schools page was visited nearly 80k timesonce the course ended I considered whether I should scrap it; I should not! A bit more obscure, my streams project wiki is the foundation for an iPhone/Android app and changes made on Wikieducator are (mystically) reflected in the phone in my pocket. I presented this at an international conference last week and it was rather cool to see all the hands go into pockets to download as soon as I provided the search terms. Wikieducator content instantly transmitted into the hands of the entomologist specialists who will use it. I don't believe that the phone activity is captured in the 4 or 5 K visit count. Falling under the category of "truly strange" perhaps, is a collection of skulls my students have built called 'digital coyote' which we started to provide calibrated coyote skull images from diverse geographical locations for educational usage. The idea was to share a fairly scarce resource (seriously, how many teachers have 100+ coyote skulls for their students to measure). We did that and we published a teaching article about it; teachers and students can measure and compare skulls from…Alaska and Texas for example. But….we realized that the resource we had built was of sufficient quality to also serve as a model for the research community. Three undergraduate student researchers and I have just published that paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325214710_Use_of_Point-and-Shoot_Photography_to_Compare_Regional_Differences_in_Canis_latrans_Coyote_Skull_Size This research is in large part based on OER content hosted by Wikieducator in turn based on images we placed in Wikimedia Commons , but this particular paper is non-educational and not a candidate for the Eric platform….so we shared it instead on Researchgate. SoooI don't yet know where my next OER adventure will take me but in the meantime, I'd like to express a heartfelt thanks to the OER community for the logistical and technical support in encouraging this sort of strange and wonderful collaboration. Sincerely Declan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [WikiEducator] Nature trail mobile app
That's fun Luis I clicked on the purple circlechildren planting in car tyres. Looked like a great hands-on opportunity. I started playing with some sites on WE trying to figure out what exactly to put on the wiki. I learned from the Macroinvertebrate app that the images need to be small so as not to fill the phone memory. So videos would not be goodunless there's phone service to link out to youtube. This one would not use reusable templates like the insect templatesbut would need a consistent format to talk with the app software. I laid out the idea here: http://wikieducator.org/Trail with an example trail content here with borrowed images: http://wikieducator.org/Trail/example It's a little ugly. I need to figure out how to break it into blocks lined up one on top of the other. And it needs to be as simple as possible. On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 4:19:34 AM UTC-4, Luis Miguel Morillas wrote: > > Hi, Declan > > It's a cool and a very interesting and collaborative idea. We have got > a wiki where teachers can upload resources and experiences and we > geolocalize them and show in a map[1]. But an app using tracks is very > interesting. > > > [1] https://innovacion.educa.aragon.es > > Saludos, > > -- luismiguel (@lmorillas) > > > 2017-03-21 2:25 GMT+01:00 Declan <declan...@gmail.com >: > > Hi folks. I posted this on the FB group just now. Not sure how best to > > reach the WE community these days. > > > > What do you think of a wiki-based mobile app for nature > > trails? An educator could establish a trail using a mobile > > phone/camera/GPS. Others could follow the trail and the content would > > pop up when you approached a location.with a photo to overlay on the > > landscape (like PokemanGo but with realityaugmenting reality). > > Content would live on Wikieducator and be pulled up and down to the > > mobile app. > > > > The technology could be applied to any sort of trail.from pub crawl > to > > historical trails to geocaching. > > > > -- > > -- 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 wikied...@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > wikieducator...@googlegroups.com > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "WikiEducator" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to wikieducator...@googlegroups.com . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Re: Nature trail mobile app
Thank you! On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 12:01:58 AM UTC-4, Kavita Sinha wrote: > > I like this initiative. > Do ask me if you need help. > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Re: Nature trail mobile app
Not yet. Just cooking up the basic idea at this point. But, I have managed to pull something like this together before with help from Louis and from some computer science students On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 9:54:55 PM UTC-4, hollisTrinidad and Tobago wrote: > > *Has this app been created yet?* > *What software to adapt here?* > *Thanks.Sounds real interesting.* > *Hollis Sankar* > *Trinidad and Tobago* > > > On Monday, 20 March 2017 21:25:44 UTC-4, Declan wrote: >> >> Hi folks. I posted this on the FB group just now. Not sure how best to >> reach the WE community these days. >> >> What do you think of a wiki-based mobile app for nature >> trails? An educator could establish a trail using a mobile >> phone/camera/GPS. Others could follow the trail and the content would >> pop up when you approached a location.with a photo to overlay on the >> landscape (like PokemanGo but with realityaugmenting reality). >> Content would live on Wikieducator and be pulled up and down to the >> mobile app. >> >> The technology could be applied to any sort of trail.from pub crawl >> to historical trails to geocaching. >> > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Nature trail mobile app
Hi folks. I posted this on the FB group just now. Not sure how best to reach the WE community these days. What do you think of a wiki-based mobile app for nature trails? An educator could establish a trail using a mobile phone/camera/GPS. Others could follow the trail and the content would pop up when you approached a location.with a photo to overlay on the landscape (like PokemanGo but with realityaugmenting reality). Content would live on Wikieducator and be pulled up and down to the mobile app. The technology could be applied to any sort of trail.from pub crawl to historical trails to geocaching. -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Seeking Luis Miguel!
Hi there I wanted to acknowledge some WE help in a publicationbut I lost the contact info for Luis Miguel. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Here's my intended wording: "This project would not have been possible without the help of Luis Miguel Morillas who wrote and implemented the code to transfer Atmar and Patterson’s data sets to Wikieducator." Cheers Declan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Re: Soft launch - A new home for the OERu community site
I also signed up. Looks great. -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Re: Potential new project. Aquatic insect key
I looked at the shark key. Looks like a fairly typical dichotomous key. That structure also exists for bugsgreat starting point Another way I'm considering implementing a new key structure: Provide a set of images and ask a question. As each question is answered the panel of potential images would change. For example: if the user answered yes to does the animal have jointed legs, then all of the worm or snail images would be replaced by insect/spider images. the panel of images would gradually become a closer match as more questions were answered. My thoughts are still in process -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [WikiEducator] Potential new project. Aquatic insect key
an interactive resource for identification! On Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 6:52:44 AM UTC-4, Luis Miguel Morillas wrote: But you want to create an encyclopedia of aquatic invertebrates or some kind of interactive resource to classify them? Saludos, -- luismiguel (@lmorillas) 2015-08-08 3:45 GMT+02:00 Declan declan...@gmail.com javascript:: Hi folks I have put some aquatic insect resources online in WE and I'm considering a new one. The idea is an aquatic invertebrate key...point and click with lots of photographs. All traditional identification keys essentially work the same way...paired questions that walk you through the identification process. But imbedded in this process, and ignored in a paper key, there is some binary logic. Each insect either has or has not got each of several characteristics. I think my first draft will be similar to the traditional, time honored key. ButI think that I can make the process more efficient by building some mug shot pages. The idea will be to have panels of 4 images and have users click on the best match. Most people can tell if they have a snail, an insect, a worm, or an arachnid. My thinking is that 4 pictorial choices could rapidly take a person through the process and reduce some frustration for beginners. Also built into all organism classifications we have nested groups. Several species within each genus; some genera within each family.etc. I wonder if I need to build that into file structure? Or would that be better handled using Wiki categories and sub categories? Any thoughts or suggestions before I begin? Cheers Declan -- -- 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 wikied...@googlegroups.com javascript: To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator...@googlegroups.com javascript: --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator...@googlegroups.com javascript:. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Potential new project. Aquatic insect key
Hi folks I have put some aquatic insect resources online in WE and I'm considering a new one. The idea is an aquatic invertebrate key...point and click with lots of photographs. All traditional identification keys essentially work the same way...paired questions that walk you through the identification process. But imbedded in this process, and ignored in a paper key, there is some binary logic. Each insect either has or has not got each of several characteristics. I think my first draft will be similar to the traditional, time honored key. ButI think that I can make the process more efficient by building some mug shot pages. The idea will be to have panels of 4 images and have users click on the best match. Most people can tell if they have a snail, an insect, a worm, or an arachnid. My thinking is that 4 pictorial choices could rapidly take a person through the process and reduce some frustration for beginners. Also built into all organism classifications we have nested groups. Several species within each genus; some genera within each family.etc. I wonder if I need to build that into file structure? Or would that be better handled using Wiki categories and sub categories? Any thoughts or suggestions before I begin? Cheers Declan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Fewer spammers?
Hi folks is it my imagination or have we had fewer spammers recently in WikiEducator? Refreshing trend! Happy Educating Declan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Re: Seasons Greetings
Season's greetings indeed!! Wishing everyone a wonderful 2015. -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [WikiEducator] .....and now for something completely different? an Iphone app
Very much a student initiativecontent, photographs by Saint Mikes students and UVM students working at Saint Mikesand the programming on the app was done by computer science students in University of Vermont working with a different professor. It's not like I have the first clue how to program an appbut they set it up so that I can add content to the wiki and sync it up to the appboggles my mind. Thanks for the responses. WE has been quite an adventure for me...nothing I learned in grad school. There is huge potential here; very supportive community providing training and help for no reason other than a desire to further education across the globe. On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 11:26:39 PM UTC-4, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: Hi Declan, Wow - -that's so cool. A student initiative taking the streams project mobile! Nice one!. W On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Declan declan...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi folks we just launched a free Iphone/Ipad app in I tunes based on the streams pages on Wikieducator. The app reflects slimmed-down content from here: http://wikieducator.org/Streams/home so that teachers and students can take their tailor-made bug web sites to the field where there is no wifi. Most important...it preserves the wiki flexibility...any changes made to the wiki get reflected in the app every time the sync button is pushed. Search for Vermont macroinvertebrate in the app store if you are interested. one more way Wikieducator can be used. Cheers Declan -- -- 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 wikied...@googlegroups.com javascript: To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator...@googlegroups.com javascript: --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator...@googlegroups.com javascript:. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation UNESCO, COL and ICDE Chair in OER, Otago Polytechnic OER Foundation Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] .....and now for something completely different? an Iphone app
Hi folks we just launched a free Iphone/Ipad app in I tunes based on the streams pages on Wikieducator. The app reflects slimmed-down content from here: http://wikieducator.org/Streams/home so that teachers and students can take their tailor-made bug web sites to the field where there is no wifi. Most important...it preserves the wiki flexibility...any changes made to the wiki get reflected in the app every time the sync button is pushed. Search for Vermont macroinvertebrate in the app store if you are interested. one more way Wikieducator can be used. Cheers Declan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Let's roll out the welcome mat.....because it's hard to be a Wikineighbor...or even WikiNeighbour ;)
When I joined WE some years back I was warmly welcomed by several Wikieducators and I returned the favor to folks who came after me. But now instead of looking through the recent changes for folks to welcome, I look through for spammers to block and then delete their content. Jim actually does the Lion's share of this work, but it's unfortunate that effort must go in that direction. I don't believe there is an easy way to stop this. Instead I propose that we identify the real Wikieducators. I invented a category that we can use to tag legitimate Wikieducators. We can look to the category page to identify those valued new users who are actually here to participate and not sell garbage. In that way, the regular users can be confident that they are welcoming promising participants and not wasting keystrokes on spammers. If you are aware that a new user is really a participating Wikieducator, I propose that we tag these real users by placing this: [[Category:WE]] .Wiki Educator on their user page. Members of the WE community can periodically welcome newcomers by visiting this page: http://wikieducator.org/Category:WE Perhaps once the new person has been welcomed 3 or 4 times by different users, the person doing the welcoming should remove the category from the new user page to slim down the category and make it easy to see the new folks? Any thoughts? Cheers Declan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Seeking collaborators; mammalogists; musem curators; educators; every continent
Hi folks, please share this message with your biologist friends and other science educators. My students and I have just begun expanding our online museum collection of skulls on Wiki Educator and are seeking collaborators. The collection is here:http://wikieducator.org/Digital_Coyote and currently includes 132 skulls. Most are coyotes from different parts of the United States. We also have several domestic dogs, Alaskan wolves, 6 fox species, a groundhog and a jackaladding more as time permits All images are calibrated so that measurements can be made from the photos. We'd love to have some collaborators: *Educators. What creative ideas can you generate from this collection? Open-ended or directed learning opportunities for students. Sub-collections permitting students to ask specific questions. Share the collection with your students for science fair projects. What specific skulls would you like added to the collection? More minds; more ideas; W.E. power! *Scientists; collectors; curators. Get more value from your skull collection by sharing it.we do not want your actual skulls..*.just the images*..we lack the manpower and space to care for your valuable specimens and return them safely. Coyotes from known locations are valuable to expand our starting project on geographical variation. Any other species regardless of location would be useful for taxonomic diversity and phylogenetic comparisons. A whole collection of any broad-ranging species would be a fascinating contrast to our coyote collection. Domestic animals to demonstrate artificial selection. Whatever ideas occur to you; we are each limited only by our imagination; share your creativity. *Grant seekers: WE is an ideal platform to host your broader-impact educational materials. You are welcome to work within our framework or copy components wholesale to your own WE pages. Wishing you all a wonderful evening/morning/night/afternoon where ever you are! Declan McCabe -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Re: Progress towards mobile and responsive design?
Going mobile would be very useful for my streams pages. Each page has a map to the specific stream site that the page was designed for. Having that content available for download to a tablet would be valuable alsoby that I mean I'd like to download a page and all of it's nested links to my tablet and then use it at at a field site without net accesswe can dream! -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator thumbnail sketch / handout
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[WikiEducator] Dog skulls coming online
Hi folks, We have completed our collection of 70 coyote skulls on WE. Next we are adding a small collection of domestic dogs. This should serve as a comparison between an artificially selected species and a wild species. http://wikieducator.org/Digital_Coyote I think our final collection might be photographs of a dozen species of wild canids plus the other species we have in our collection. These could be used for morphology-based phylogenetics. If anyone has skulls or photos they'd like to contribute please let me know. Cheers Declan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[WikiEducator] Re: Biologists: Coyote skull resource up and running
Michael had more timeup to 46 total with a dozen from northeast and 9 from Washington state for a nice East West comparison. On Monday, January 28, 2013 2:09:51 PM UTC-5, Declan wrote: Sandy and Alison, It will be great to see it getting some use beyond my own classroom. I'd welcome any lessons or activities you'd like to post to the site. Special thanks to Michael Gordon and Catherine Vu who have done the lion's share of photography. More skulls coming! Declan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[WikiEducator] Re: Biologists: Coyote skull resource up and running
Sandy and Alison, It will be great to see it getting some use beyond my own classroom. I'd welcome any lessons or activities you'd like to post to the site. Special thanks to Michael Gordon and Catherine Vu who have done the lion's share of photography. More skulls coming! Declan -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[WikiEducator] Biologists: Coyote skull resource up and running
Hi folks, I mentioned a resource I was considering some time back; it is now up and running. Applicable to biology/zoology/evolution/stats courses. Cheap, hands-on, hypothesis-driven lab activities. http://wikieducator.org/Digital_Coyote The current summary: - A virtual museum of carefully photographed, calibrated coyote skull images. - Still growing, but with 36 skulls from 12 US states and 1 Canadian province, I think the resource is ready for use. - Measurements accurate to within 2mm (more typically 1 mm) can be taken from the photographs. - Students can test some hypotheses immediately: - H1: Eastern coyote skulls are larger than those from the west. Published literature confirms that the eastern population includes DNA of wolf origin. Body weight measurements are larger in the east. But do the skulls confirm the pattern? - H2: Northern skulls are larger than southern skulls. Bergmann's rule would suggest this hypothesis. We have enough material online to quickly test this. Once our Texas skulls are added we will have a more robust data set available. - Statistics students hungry to generate their own data could use the collection as source data for regression and ANOVA. The future: - Our total collection of coyote skulls includes 60 skulls and we intend to upload all of them as time permits. We are slow in uploading because the calibration check on each image takes time, but we'll add 2 to 4 per week until May. - We have a modest collection of 24 domestic dog skulls that we will add. This will serve to compare variation in a naturally selected population Vs an artificially selected population. - We'd love to see a parallel set of skulls from another wild population (the 2 populations of black-backed jackals? dingos?). If there is a curator interested in digitally sharing a collection please let me know. How can you help? - Use the resource and give us feedback - Donate images of skulls from your collection (our Kansas skull is one such donation). - Develop and share laboratory exercises using the collection. - Send us skulls of known origin to be added to the research collection (non-cleaned skulls should be frozen to kill insect pests and sealed in plastic bags before shipping; let me know they are coming dmcc...@smcvt.edu). If you have arbitrary skulls gathering dust we'll put them to good use in our general teaching collection: Dr. Declan McCabe; Biology Box 283; Saint Michael's College; Colchester VT 05403; USA Trades considered also. Our New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona skulls were gratefully accepted donations. WE folks: thanks for your support and hosting this project. Declan -- -- 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] Northeastern USA biologists: Stream insect resource up and running
Hi again, Another resource; this one fairly specific to our region: http://wikieducator.org/Streams/home Summary: - You can use this series of templates to build a tailored insect ID tool specific to the stream you visit with your students. - Generate a filled page with photographs and descriptive text of the taxonomic groups found at your site. Taxonomic keys can be a barrier to students who are completing a simple river comparison lab. Unless you are training taxonomists it may be unreasonable to expect accuracy using a professional key. For diversity studies, a gallery of the 'usual suspects' may improve accuracy and more rapidly generate a data set: http://wikieducator.org/Potash_Brook Special thanks to Jim and others in the WE community for help in launching this project. Night Declan -- -- 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: Can you test drive an idea for me?
Thanks Alison, Currently there are 15 skulls. I have not entered anything in the way of metadata, but the collection state can be read from the tags in the photos. I'd welcome any measurements, comments, suggestions. Thanks also for the edits; I appreciate any help I get. Cheers, Declan -- 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: Can you test drive an idea for me?
Dear Ramakrishnan, Thank you for your kind offer. My hope is that interested professors like yourself would develop some materials on Wikieducator to walk students through the basics of statistical analysis. Eventually there will be enough material on the site so that you could choose a set from Texas (7 specimens came in the post today) and a set from Alaska (I have 6) and use the data for a t-test. I have 10 from the Northeast US and more than that from the West. Alternatively one could choose a series from a range of latitudes to run a regression. Another way to illustrate regression would be to ignore latitude and simply measure length and width from a series of skulls and regress one against the other. It has been my experience that simply providing data to biology students falls flat. They are happier if they collect their own data. In my own course I can bring out 30 skulls and calipers to let them measure. But I suspect that few professors have a box of skulls in their lab...even fewer high school teachers have such a strange resource. That was the basis for the idea. When my students return in September we will photograph more skulls and upload them. This is actually a common research method; scientists usually do this by visiting museum collections; I think the photographic approach is fairly uncommon. I hope I can convince a few teachers or scientists to make measurements from the existing photographs to see how this works. We should be able to get the same measurement for length from the left side and the right side of the same skull. Width should be the same on the top and bottom views. Different teachers should arrive at the same number. Also I want to make sure that the instructions are intelligible. Cheers, Declan -- 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: Can you test drive an idea for me?
Hi all, thanks for the interest. yes, printing is an option; measuring with Open Office is an easier option. In either case one would need to measure the length of the skull; measure the length of the ruler in the photo and do some simple math to calibrate the measurement to ruler. Instructions are here: http://wikieducator.org/Coyote/Project_tools. It can also be done with the total width. Long term goals: add photographs of 40 coyote skulls from Texas through Alaska; from east coast West coast. The idea is that students can test two hypotheses: 1 Bergmann's Rule: Animals get larger as you go north 2. East coast Coyotes are larger than west coast Coyotes (because of hybridization with wolves) We hope others will find other ways to make use of the photos. Cheers, Declan -- 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: Can you test drive an idea for me?
Another idea that occurred to me was to use the measurements for statistical exercises: regression; T-tests; that sort of thing. -- 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: Can you test drive an idea for me?
Thanks Don we are hoping to get a few measurements to ground truth the technique. Cheers Declan -- 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] Can you test drive an idea for me?
Hi folks, I have a coyote skull project shaping up. If anyone would be willing to try measuring some skulls online I'd appreciate it. Just follow the instruction here: http://wikieducator.org/Coyote/Project_tools#Measuring_from_photographs Pick a skull from here: http://wikieducator.org/Category:Skull and measure total length or width. Post your results and comment on the discussion page for the skull in question. I'd like to see if the instructions make sense. I'm also open to ideas for ways to use the data set. Cheers, Declan -- 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: WikiEducator office hours and IRC - informal problem solving
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[WikiEducator] Next biology idea - Skull morphology
Hi folks, My bug project seems to be up and functioning and I'm thinking of a new idea. I'm developing a lab for teaching evolutionary biology using coyote skulls. I have a few from Massachusetts and Vermont (USA). I ordered some from Alaska, Washington State, Montana; seeking more from Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, and Maine (Ebay - you can find anything). Two basic ideas: 1. compare skull size between the northeast population and the west. The northeast coyotes are actually wolf hybrids and tend to be larger. 2. test Bergmann's rule with the north- south gradient along the west coast of the US. There are certainly other ideas that could be addressed but have not occurred to me... The wiki part - for 101 reasons, not everyone can conveniently amass a collection of coyote skulls (nor should they have to). But I have a copy stand and a digital camera so my plan is to photograph the skulls with a calibration ruler in each shot and place the photos in a series of galleries on wiki pages (each skull gets a gallery of 6 photos covering each elevation). Measurements can be made from the photos using free software such as Irfanview (or OER products that folks may suggest). My thought is that students will be happier generating their own data than being handed a spreadsheet. Collaboration? It's complicated to attempt importing wildlife parts - but digital images of coyote skulls from Mexico and Canada would add value to the data set. Anyone interested in the idea? Any suggestions to improve it before I start photography? Cheers, Declan -- 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] Booklet feature
Hi folks, I recall that there was a way to build booklet-scale PDFs by somehow collecting a series of WE wikis. I think you could make a single page- numbered PDF from 2 or more wiki pages. Do we still have that feature and if so what is it called so that I can relearn. Cheers, Declan -- 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: Booklet feature
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[WikiEducator] Re: Booklet feature
I just tried it out. What a great feature! Jim had already convinced me that a more printer friendly format was essential. Now that I see this book format and recognizing that these pages may see use at outdoor field sites, I agree even more. I also like how the photo licenses are handled. This may become even more important if we start importing more photos from other photographers. Thanks again. Declan -- 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: Stream insect site is up and runing
Kirby,
The front end and back ending has gone blissfully over my head. I'm
not a computer expert, but I find wikis very user friendly.
But I can tell you that the red swish really is a missing picture. We
moved from a web site where we had permission to use images from a few
sources, but not permission to use them on a wiki. So we used the
photographs that we took in our lab and found a few others in Wiki
Media Commons. Some are still missing, but we have the preserved
insects and a camera..
You are correct, it is rather like a baby book that you personalize.
Our starting point is to provide photos pf the common insects where we
work (Vermont and Puerto Rico USA). Many of the insect families are
broadly distributed, so the templates can be used for many locations
to reflect the unique combination of bugs for a stream of interest.
Try this in your sandbox:
{{Chironomidae}}
{{Elmidae}}
{{Hydropsychidae}}
It will plop in a brief description and photograph of three of the
most common insects in rivers. Our hope is that schools, nature
centers, and watershed associations interested in this sort of thing
will make their own pages using the simple template system.
Cheers,
Declan
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[WikiEducator] Re: Stream insect site is up and runing
Alison, thanks for the interest! I need to write and publish about the idea once I get some more kinks worked out, but I'm getting there. Re data, we share all data here: http://www.uvm.edu/~streams/?Content=pages/download_data.inc All freely available for use. Not everyone has the resources to gather such data, so we have a responsibility to share them. If you play around in there you'll see that it's like drinking from the fire hose; lots of data My thought would be to extract subsets that could address interesting statistical lessons. For regression for example, one might keep the number of points under 15 so that the work could be done in spread sheets. Lots of possibilities :) Night Declan -- 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: Citations, the Internet, and Wikipedia
Jim, I would say you are exactly on topic. If we can engage students, get them thinking critically about new material, and considering the quality of sources, then we will have taken an important step. Cheers, Declan -- 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] Stream insect site is up and runing
Hi folks, We have launched a new project: http://wikieducator.org/Rivers/home Our starting point is to provide insect identification tools for high schools working on specific river sites. I have a dozen or so collaborating schools and we'll start by providing sites for them. Here is an example: http://wikieducator.org/Snipe_Island_Brook Each river site simply strings together a series of templates designed to ID the common bugs based upon samples we or other teachers and students have taken at the river in question. Identification is a significant entry barrier for young scientists and we hope to lower that barrier. Working through a traditional taxonomic key is labor intensive for beginers and can lead to misidentification. The templates can be sorted in other ways and I hope that other educators in other places can make use of the resource. If there are other biologists interested, we'd welcome collaborators. We are adding more photographs as time permits and will shortly add more rivers. Thanks Jim T for all of the support in getting up and running. Cheers, Declan -- 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: Stream insect site is up and runing
Hi Alison, Thanks for the encouragement! I'd welcome any expanded use of this. Send me a New Jersey sample and we'll tailor a site to your favorite stream! There will be large overlap in the fauna. With your interest in stats, there may be other opportunities to colaborate. We have insect community data along with water quality and land use data from over 60 streams. I currently use the resource to provide real data and fodder for analyses for my own courses, but I'd like to expand on that at some point. As you can imagine, there are all sorts of data available to suite nearly any analysis you may be interested in teaching. Continuous/discrete/categorical. Cheers, Declan -- 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: Citations, the Internet, and Wikipedia
There was an interesting article comparing scientific accuracy in Wikipedia with Britannica published in Nature: Internet encyclopedias go head to head. Giles, Jim; Nature; Dec 15, 2005; 438, 7070; Britannica rebutted the article and Nature fired back. Fascinating, but ironically you'd need subscriptions to read the articles :) I grade papers regularly and I do not accept Wikipedia as a citation; nor do I accept Britannica. If I published a scholarly article using Wikipedia (or Britannica) as a cited source, it would in all probability be weeded out during the editorial process. This is the standard for my field and I therefore hold my college students to the same standard. It's not about the quality of the source; rather it's about primary Vs secondary sources. Having said that, I regularly encourage students to use encyclopedias as starting points in their research. I use Wikipedia for rapid facts for my own work. Personally I find it approximates traditional encyclopedias in many ways and I find the graphics very convenient for lecture presentations. It's also easier to use than many online encyclopedias. I needed information about kuru today - started in Wikipedia; grabbed some nice graphics regarding prion replication; moved on to the New England Journal of Medicine for maps; genotypic frequencies of resistant alleles etc. The images from Wikipedia I could choose to share online and reuse in any way I liked (public domain image in this case). The NEJM images - I could purchase a slide set for $15 and reuse would involve some sort of copyright process I'm sure. Importantly, the Wikipedia information on kuru was spot on and cited the NEJM paper that I also used. My take home is that Wikipedia is as useful a traditional encyclopedia. Neither is a primary source, and I ask my students to use primary sources. But consider this: many if not most students use primary sources incorrectly. They pull information from the introductions..and introductions are written on the strength of other published articles.introductions are in fact secondary sources embedded within primary sources. Oh the joys and complications that presentsI'm ranting slightlyclearly I should be grading lab reports on natural selection in goldenrod galls. -- 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] Navigation bar misplaced
Hi folks, I noticed that the navigation bar on the left side of Wikieducator seems to have slipped down to the bottom of the page. The problem seems to occur only in Firefox (I use 9.0.1). All appears fine when I dust off MS Hexplorer :) Cheers, Declan -- 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: Navigation bar misplaced
Thanks Jim, you fixed it indeed! Cheers, Declan Thanks for the report. I only use the newer Vector skin, so I hadn't noticed. Firefox 9 confused our old version of Mediawiki's browser detection code which made it think it was the KDE browser and applied some fixes to the layout that were to work around bugs there. I think I've fixed that problem. Thanks, Jim -- Jim Tittsler Te Anau, NZ OER Foundationhttp://OERfoundation.org/ -- 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: Is my bug project a match for W.E.?
Happy holidays all, thanks for the many suggestions and help with this project. It is now coming along and I should have the first river pages running in the early new year. It's great to be back and active in the WE community once again. Cheers, Declan -- 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: students service learning and student to be a small teacher
Declan , do you think , if suppose to let you to do that , any future challenges you might think of ? leo Hi Leo, I did not attempt to organize the older children to work with the younger ones. I do know that one of our partner schools (Mater Christi School in Burlington Vermont) runs very successful programs called reading buddies and math buddies. Children who are new readers go to the younger grades and read picture books to the very young children. It boosts reading confidence in the new readers and motivates them to become better readers. I also think it gives them an excuse to read books that are sufficiently basic for their reading level. My feeling on these programs is that the teachers in the school are the best judges to match the right task to the the right child, and also match them with compatible younger children. For that reason, I did not attempt to get into this with my course. Have fun! Declan -- 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: students service learning and student to be a small teacher
Hi Leo, I ran a similar program for 3 years. I taught a course for college students training to be primary school teachers. Local teachers would send us learning objectives and my students developed lesson plans. Then they taught the lessons to the students from our local schools. My students got experience, the local schools enjoyed the collaboration and their students had a unique science experience. A full description is here: http://wikieducator.org/Wikis_as_collaborative_writing_tools_in_science_education Shorter summary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9-CNlIqsY And all of the lesson plans that the students developed are here: http://wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools My students were as you say small teachers. I learned a few important lessons: 1. Teams of 3 students work well to develop and teach the younger students - if one student is ineffective or ill, the school students still have a good lesson and the teachers at the school will ask you to come back. 2. Brief lessons work well - 20 minutes on a topic is good for kids ages 6 through 9. 3. I used 6 stations and the young students rotated through the program - so 2 hours total and no time for boredom. 4. My students put everything they needed in a box; they did a trial run of the entire activity in the classroom before trying it with kids. Everything needed went back in the box. 5. 20 of my students could very easily handle 60 or more young students. We had a lot of fun, but because of staffing changes I no longer offer the program. Feel free to use any of the lessons; that's why they are on Wikieducator. It is a wonderful thing you have planned. Enjoy. Declan -- 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: Is my bug project a match for W.E.?
Hi Jim, yes! Very regular structure! There would be 3 page types: - images; bug pages and river pages. Each insect get's a simple descriptive bug page with an embedded image; each river page is simply a collection of bug pages in a table (based upon what we have collected from that river). My plan would be to build a preloaded page that would simply launch and partly populate each new page. I'd like to predetermine the file path so that they all start with wikieducator.org/rivers/VTUSA/RiverX for example. The RiverX piece would be the river name for each new stream added and would be in a box filled in by the user. The /VTUSA piece would be in a different box and the whole lot would get strung together to give me some file structure discipline (not a feature of my previous W.E. project). Is there any additional file structure I should put above my Rivers/ piece? Should I aim for shorter file names or more informative? The bug images come with a natural nested file structure (thanks to Linnaeus). My question: Does it make more sense to load all of the images to Wikimedia commons and use them from there? The Wikimedia folks have a structure for insect images and I'd slot into that. All images used will have been photographed in my lab and I'm willing to share without restriction - some I currently use will have to be rephotographed . If I recall correctly, it is a fairly easy matter to bring WikimediaCommons images into WE. The Add a row feature http://wikieducator.org/User:JimTittsler/Data would be very useful! It would give control to the teachers. Right now I make a static web site and if the schools find a new bug they must send it to me to get it added to their web site - so rather clumsy. Cheers, Declan -- 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] Is my bug project a match for W.E.?
Hi folks, I have been fairly tuned out from W.E. for some time because of changes in my teaching opportunities. But I have a project that may fit the W.E. mission. It's a bit more specialized and therefore more obscure than my previous project. I work with schools that identify invertebrates in rivers as part of a large research collaboration. I host invertebrate identification web sites http://academics.smcvt.edu/Vermont_rivers/ each of which is tailored to the individual streams being visited by my partner schools. Each river page like this one: http://academics.smcvt.edu/Vermont_rivers/River%20sites/WR_AllnBrk_361.htm is just a shell that presents content from 16 or so web pages, each of which looks like this: http://academics.smcvt.edu/Vermont_rivers/Bug_templates/Arthrop/Insecta/Trich/hydropsychidae_ceratopsyche.htm The advantage being that when I update the Ceratopsyche page, the changes get reflected on all river pages that use the ceratopsyche page. There are about 100 such puzzle pieces that can be assembled into a river web site bases on what bugs we find there. It strikes me that recreating this resource on W.E. would be technically very feasible and once the puzzle pieces were there, they could be reassembled by others to match their favorite river. There are of course limitations; my bugs are specific to Vermont and Puerto Rico. However, it would not be much of a stretch to expand it to the North East US. At the family level it would cover a slightly broader geographic region. Potential collaborators might jump on the idea and expand it by creating their own puzzle pieces? Crop scientists might emulate the idea to fit their unique systems. Had I not a working model that get's about 20 hits a day I'd say that this was all pie in the sky. But I think it has some potential if the WE community feels that it has a place for something such as this. What do folks think? Declan -- 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: Is my bug project a match for W.E.?
Hi Wayne, Great to hear from you! I'm working with high schools for the most part. We link several schools so that they can share data on several streams and ask larger scientific questions than they could on their own. They generate and share water quality and land use data sets also. I end up using the web site in my own teaching at the college level also. Taxonomic skill is a big barrier for entry-level students and photographic keys are a help. There are certainly renowned bug experts in Dunedin who may warm to a project like this. Who knows? I did some quick playing in the sand to see if this might technically work and I'm confident it would: http://wikieducator.org/User:Dmccabe/My_sandbox/obscure_Bugs. Clearly I'm ahead of my grading if I can do this tonight. Cheers, Declan -- 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: abandoned pages with little or no content
Agreed; most of the pages in question were long-since abandoned and I deleted them. I left the U Auckland logos for the user to take care of the licensing. I admire Anil's Herculean effort. People are busy and it is a challenge to attract their time and energy to even worthy projects. -- 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: abandoned pages with little or no content
Hi folks, I took an interest in the deletion template a couple of years back because my students needed a way to efficiently delete files. I proposed a trial period and asked for input. It seems to me that 2 years give or take is about enough. The template seems to work (at least to me). But I just looked at the listed files today, and all but one of the pages were created by one user and the deletion was requested by a different user. I'm not comfortable deleting them in this case; I agree that adding a stub template would be more appropriate. Cheers, Declan -- 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: Aquatic insect images
Thanks for all the input! Some clarifications: *These will be pen-and-ink drawings, so we'll be starting with a flat- bed scanner to get the images onto the computer. *I have access to Adobe Illustrator and can in principle get to whatever format would be best; and I can get local tech support for Illustrator. I just took some arbitrary images from online and converted them to svg using the trace function. From there I could scale a playing card image up to something you could plop on a tee-shirt with zero pixelation. So I can understand the appeal of SVG. Will get moving on this in the new year. Cheers, Declan -- 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] Aquatic insect images
Hi folks, I have located a promising student with the right combination of art skills and insect knowledge to produce some high-quality images of aquatic insects. I have a list in mind; microscope with drawing tube; most of the specimens I need; and an immediate use for the images. But others could find other uses, so I'm planning on placing the images on Wikimedia commons and then sharing the derivative educational products on wikieducator. We'd like to see the images reused. So questions: What license is most appropriate? Is wikimedia followed by WE the best way to go? These will be black ink line drawings: what format is best? PNG? Cheers, Declan -- 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: Help Needed;Teaching/Learning Resources
Hi Elizabeth, some primary school science resources here: http://wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools Cheers Declan -- 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: Scitable by Nature Knowledge
True Wayne, It's a commercial copyrighted product paid for by advertising. But the articles are free to the end user. I realize that it's not going to be free cultural works definition. I'm sharing it simply because I thing it will be of use to the WE community in their classrooms. There is an other side of the coin here. Scitable is making use of wikimedia resources: Example: http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/characterizing-communities-13241173 article making use of wikimedia image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shark_Silhouette.jpg . How should the attribution have been handled in this situation? Cheers, Declan -- 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] Scitable by Nature Knowledge
Hi folks, this is a new resource that may be of use to the science educators out there: http://www.nature.com/scitable It's a free science library. Cheers, Declan -- 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: removing entomology content
Hi folks, I also have done a quick side-by-side comparison. The overlap is extensive; the original author has requested it's removal. Out of respect for the author's wishes, I think it should be removed. I think we need to act quickly and in good faith so that authors are more likely to warm to our cause. Suggestions for collaboration can perhaps follow from there. When the time comes to start rebuilding entomological content, I am very confident that a structure very similar to this will emerge. At that point I'll happily contribute photographs and information. My students and I have been sharing aquatic insect content here: http://academics.smcvt.edu/Vermont_rivers/. We are well set up to capture web-ready insect images and can photograph-to-order if a happy entomologist would like to write content and tell us what to point our microscopes at. We do not have an extensive terrestrial specimen collection, but the college's teaching collection would be more than adequate to get many of the images needed to populate a general entomological resource. Cheers, Declan -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
[WikiEducator] Re: Form-based Upload file page
Hi all, I appreciate the drop-down forms etc. It does slow my students down and forces them to think about copyright - this is good. How much of a technical challenge would it be to simply import wikimedia images along with all of their metadata? There'd be fewer mistakes! I have certainly found my own images in wikimedia that were uploaded to wikipedia and no trace of attribution or whatever (arbitrary) license I had used. Simple transfer among the wiki resources would make it easier. Cheers, Declan -- 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: Form-based Upload file page
Thanks Alison! that's perfect! -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
[WikiEducator] Figure caption issues in Rich Text Editor
Hi folks, First of all I should say that I love the rich text editor; particularly for inserting figures and tables. It is very user friendly for my students and hey are less intimidated than by the old editing method. My students were working here: http://wikieducator.org/Ice_Cream_Matters! and had a hard time with captions in the rich text editor. We edited one caption and saved. Then when editing subsequent captions, the earlier caption would disappear. I went in with the old editor and largely resolved the problem, but it was a little frustrating for a while there. Have others had that problem? Cheers, Declan -- 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: WE environmental resources
It's great to see these projects developing. One small contribution is here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Sustainability/Classroom_contracts Some students at Saint Michael's College developed a sustainability commitment; I use it in my courses and by hosting it on WE, it is paperless and can be signed electronically. Others would be very welcome to take our wording, develop their own and link them from this starting page. Cheers, Declan -- 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] Biology in Elementary Schools
Hi folks, Please join me in welcoming 40 new wikieducators. They college students are registered for Biology in Elementary Schools and are currently establishing user accounts and completing parts of the tutorial before their course begins. From there they will develop lessons to implement in the classrooms of our partner schools in Vermont (USA). Cheers, Declan -- 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: Where to report spam
A delete template will cause some admins to take a peek! Seems like as good a use of the template as any other. Cheers! Declan -- 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: December UPE
Congrats Nellie, amazing work and well deserved. Cheers, Declan -- 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] page rankings
Hi folks, I recall that there is a WE link that ranks all pages by hit counts. Can someone point me in the right direction please? Thanks, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Wikipedia model
Hi folks, I started a project based on the Darwinius fossil find some time back. The initial idea was fairly basic: get diverse biologists together to build teaching materials based around the biology of the publication. I lacked time to develop the project. In many ways I'm glad. The fossil find has resulted in some interesting controversy and may actually be a more valuable 'teachable moment' about the process of science. Regardless, the next couple of weeks will reveal if I have time to build this resource and add it to my current course, or take a pass this year and incorporate it in a future course. If there is interest among other scientists, please visit and collaborate: http://www.wikieducator.org/Darwinius My other project is open to collaboration once my students remove WIP tags: http://www.wikieducator.org/Biology_in_elementary_schools. Before removing the WIP tags, my students are earning grades, and would welcome any technical help they can get. Actually, I have no objections if any of their projects lead to a natural collaboration. I'm currently enrolling students in the Spring 2010 iteration of the course. That will probably be the last cohort of students for a while; my intent is that the resources we have accumulated will provide science activities that can be linked, cannibalized, improved, and shared. Finally I have a non-WE project aimed at getting high school students into streams. It is locally tailored to Vermont field sites and so I have not brought it to WE. I'd be very much open to collaborating with other stream ecologists if any see a natural fit with what you do: http://academics.smcvt.edu/Vermont_rivers/ My students and I are constantly checking the taxonomic accuracy; if you see a mistake, we'd love to hear about it. If the images are of broader use to biologists let us know; we'll 'Wikimedia' them. Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Ideas and thoughts WE's working in the school sector
Hi Gurmit,
I think WE is an ideal platform for what you have described. In
particular, if teachers working with a scientific writing class use
our resource, there are great ways to use simple templates to offer
rapid advice for the most common writing mistakes. For example, open
a wiki page (or discussion page); type {{citations}} and hit save.
Similar templates can quickly be made for other common writing
mistakes.
Good luck,
Declan
On Jun 24, 6:30 am, Gurmit gurmit.si...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Wayne and everyone
I am tasked with creating an open access toolkit on scientific
writing to help developing country researchers write better science so
they can succeed at publishing in international journals.
I'm not sure how to go about it - should we create a basic toolkit
first, using content experts, or should we do it as Wiki, and build a
community around it? I'd also need to teach trainers how to use it for
mentoring inexperienced writers to improve their manuscripts.
I'd like to do it with WikEducator colleagues, and also ensure its
reusable and sustainable, so its a global resource.
I'd love to hear your advice, and your support in developing this
would be great!
Warm regards from a windy Geneva,
Gurmithttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gurmit
On Jun 22, 11:53 am, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi everyone,
This past week I've been working on a funding proposal aimed at establishing
a national New Zealand OER collaboration for the school sector, working in
close collaboration with the local Ministry of Education and key
stakeholders.
While this proposal has a strong New Zealand focus, there are two aspects
which may be of international interest for our community:
- The tools development stream (Stream 2) in the proposal which aims to
improve usability of the WikiEducator platform for Newbies
- The possibilities of replicating national initiatives like this in
other countries.
I'd encourage WikiEducators working in the school sector or policy makers
within Ministries of education to take a look and let us know what you
think.
See:http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_conte...
Any advice or thoughts you may have are always well received :-)
This proposal is still work in progress, but in line with the OER
Foundation's commitment to open philanthropy -- we develop all our proposals
transparently as free content.
Cheers
Wayne
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Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
Director,
International Centre for Open Education,
Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
Board of Directors, OER Foundation.
Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator,www.wikieducator.org
Mobile +64 21 2436 380
Skype: WGMNZ1
Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg
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[WikiEducator] Re: Please be careful not to contribute to the e-divide.
When I discussed the free resources available on WE with a grade school teacher just back from Tanzania, she gently informed me that reliable electricity and even more basic needs were larger issues for her former school than access to even a very basic computer. I wonder what we can do about making paper versions of lesson plans available. The PDF feature together with the collections feature might be the way to go? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Vandalism?
Hi folks, this looks like vandalism to me: http://www.wikieducator.org/Wiki_Tips_and_Tricks http://www.wikieducator.org/Talk:CCNC http://www.wikieducator.org/Ambassadors/Record_of_promotional-events Should we block 'em; is there a better approach that might target their IP address (editing in same time frame might suggest same individual). Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Vandalism?
OK then, I blocked 4 user names. If any are in error,please let me know. I did not fix the sites; I'll leave that to the site authors. Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Bring in the Ning
Were it not for the problems with liquid threads, I'd be for discussing WE on WE. Never heard of Ning; but willing to try. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Calling all biologists; seeking collaboration
OK folks, as I mentioned in a different post, an amazing paper with full-color resources available just came out in PLOS. I am seeking collaborators interested in developing lectures, case studies, evaluative materials, inovative laboratory exercises based on the paper and the data provided. This will be brand new, ripped from the headlines, and no student will come to your class and say 'I covered that in secondary school'. I have set the ball rolling using liberally borrowed code (as is my habit) from folks who are better at writing it than I (The Teacher Collaboration folks). I set up a home page from which various other pages link: http://www.wikieducator.org/Darwinius So far the linked pages are largely blank but I hope they will begin to fill rapidly. I don't know exactly what pages we need, because the 'we' so far is rather small. But I hope it will grow, so please recruit your friendly neighborhood biologist to the project and let's see what can be done. Let's have something excellent before the text books can catch up with us. Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Hugely important fossil description published under CCA License
On May 19, 9:35 pm, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Declan, I followed the link you have provided. It is Great. Shall WE community wikify it? Anil We certainly should! I suspect this will be in the next edition of a great many Biology text books and will be the basis for exploring evolution with upcoming biology students. This platform can potentially move faster than textbook publishers and provide the resource that others would use, thus putting us out in front and raising the WE profile among biologists. Perhaps I'm over reacting, but I see this paper as an enormous finding. I want to develop it for my own course and would be interested in collaborating with other WE biologists on college modules based on the paper. Any takers? Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Hugely important fossil description published under CCA License
Please let me know if you require any help for developing any biology course. I am always there. Sarita Kumarhttp://wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjayhttp://wikieducator.org/India Hi Sarita, You can certainly help! Thanks for sharing my excitement. I set up a placeholder with some suggestions. As I develop my course materials I will link them from this site: http://www.wikieducator.org/Darwinius Others are welcome to improve what I post, and I certainly hope to use whatever other biologists develop. We need tech help (usually not in short supply) to make this project be a good model for other collaborations and more importantly to increase usability. Anil, and Sarita, thank you both for your interest. Let's see who else we can recruit! This may well keep me in WE in my off season. Good night, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: May UPE is Declan McCabe
Hi all, This is indeed an honor! You are all too kind. I have to give credit to: about 90 highly motivated young educators for developing content; more than a dozen teachers in our partner schools for providing learning objectives and then hosting our 'six-ring-circus' science program or visiting our college; an ever growing number of WEducators for patience in teaching me to use WE; and to the many community members from whom I regularly borrow bits of code to make things run smoothly. I thank you all! And I thank you again for honoring our project in this way! It's particularlly gratifying to be listed among such excellent company on the UPE site! Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Reflections
Could too far away be *Latitude*: North 21° 02.091 *Longitude*: West 086° 53.212 ... more or less? Sounds like a great location :) I look forward to a math/bio connection. Thank you both for the kind words and encouragement. This little community has grown in leaps and bounds, and it is a great privilege to be part of it. My plan is for at least one more set of students on this project in Spring 10; there may be a break after that and the course will come around again perhaps in Spring 12. In the mean time I'm doing this: http://www.uvm.edu/~streams/ and in particular this: http://academics.smcvt.edu/Vermont_rivers/ It's a complete change of gears and I focus on it for my summer; it leaves little time for WE, but I tend to return refreshed. See you all in 2010! Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Site down?
Hi folks, Is this just me? Wikieducator seems to be down so, any thoughts on how long we might be out of action? Minor panic for me; I'm in the process of grading several wiki projects. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Site down?
OK; panic over; seems to be back, phew!! On Apr 22, 2:24 pm, Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Is this just me? Wikieducator seems to be down so, any thoughts on how long we might be out of action? Minor panic for me; I'm in the process of grading several wiki projects. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Deleting pages
Hi folks,
I started a deletion system a while back. Users are invited to add the
tag {{Delete}} to unneeded pages or files. The tag lists the page
here:http://www.wikieducator.org/Category:Deletion_requested and an
administrator can then decide to delete or not. Thus far it seems to
be working reasonably well. One user edited the category page to add
his request for deletion; that worked and I removed his request after
deleting the page he had in mind; several other users used the tag as
intended; there is one Disney character file that I tagged for
deletion and am reluctant to also be the person to delete the same
file (perhaps a reasonable approach?).
Anyway, some questions:
* Do we need a system for deletion?
* Is this system working?
* Are people happy with it?
* What changes if any are needed to make more functional?
and finally:
* Is this of broad enough interest that we should link it from a
tutorial?
Your thoughts would be welcome.
Cheers,
Declan
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[WikiEducator] Re: a question of copyright
Most journals I have published in permit me to post a pdf file online. Google scholar links to those pdf, so I recommend that when ever possible and legal, we should post the pdfs online to facilitate access. It is important to check however, because not all publishers permit posting of pdfs. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: wikieducator - 14 new messages in 4 topics - digest
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[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education *NFE discussion
Hi Phil, Personally I work here only in Spring semesters when I'm teaching my wiki-related course. Much of the technical discussion sails over my head innocuously. You have contributed content as I expect many teachers will do. There are others who are better versed in the technowizardry and I say 'let them have at it'. I can pop in later and borrow the code that they have willingly shared here and apply it to my purposes. So, I would suggest sticking with it if the mood strikes you. And if not, then you have made a contribution that will remain and will at some point be built upon by others, or by you if your mood brings you back this direction. Most important, I would not let the technical learning curve get in the way of content. All the best, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Ages (age ranges) on educational materials.
Good thought! My students currently develop and tag their projects based on U.S. grades. However, that does not translate universally and an age rating would be universal. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Uploaded file names, overwritten pictures
Hi folks, I don't know how big this problem is, but students of mine have used fairly simple names for files such as 'me.jpg' and 'handout.png' and saved them to the root directory. In some cases they have inadvertently overwritten other files; their files have have been over written by others. A look at the history of this file(not one of my students) illustrates the problem: http://www.wikieducator.org/Image:Picture.jpg It was actually rather amusing to see someone's profile picture gazing fondly at us from the middle of a lesson plan, but probably something we could have avoided if the uploader had heeded the message on the upload screen (my students have been guilty of ignoring that message also). Suggestions: **I suggest that workshop and classroom facilitators (like myself) emphasize using unique and specific names for files. **Perhaps we should consider having images as sub pages of wiki pages rather than using the typical flat structure of the wiki; is there a way to modify the upload page such that file names default to being sub pages of the page from which the upload option was launched? Finally, perhaps this is a sufficiently rare problem that it can be ignored? Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Text wrapping question
Hi folks, I have tried multiple times before posting here; but how can I make this little template fit in a page with the page text wrapping around the frame? The template: http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Mold Once I have this working I intend to develop a series of safety/hazard templates patterned on the basic model. Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] New message notification not working
Hi folks, Am I correct that in the past I received notifications of new messages when I logged on? I have tried several times to generate this message. I used an alter ego to send messages to myself http://www.wikieducator.org/Thread:Trying_liquid_threads_(1)#lqt_thread_6571 , and this feature does not seem to work for me. Has this been a problem for others? Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: February UPE is Gladys Gahona
Gladys, Congrats on all you have achieved in a short period of time. Congrats also on the well-deserved recognition. Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Wikieducator.com?
Hi Wayne and Randy, I appreciate the thought and planning going into this exploration. Ultimately we all need to make a living and if there is some payback for for WE then so much the better. I don't see an immediate way to jump in, but I hope others do! Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Featured Project category; Community Media
Hi all, I started a discussion over on the page as suggested by Peter. In summary: *I think we need some defensible standards that would satisfy the peer- review requirements of many institutions. *Because the WE projects are diverse and span many disciplines, I don't think a 'one-size-fits-all' review process will work. *A menu approach may work whereby projects would need to satisfy a certain minimum number of criteria out of a larger list of possible criteria. Thus content-driven projects could stand alone without hands-on demos; process-driven projects (and I'm thinking scientific method for example) might not need expansive bibliographies. *Solo projects should be welcome. Many of us strive along in our obsessive academic ways and end up with a product worth sharing. Collaboration while nice, need not be a measure of quality. My 2 cents for the night; keep up the good work! Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Sustainability
Hi folks, Given that the WE resources can be used in a paperless manner, I thought a simple sustainability idea was within the realm of what WE is about. I started this: http://www.wikieducator.org/Sustainability/Classroom_contracts based on the sustainability contract developed for the most part by our students: http://www.wikieducator.org/Sustainability/Classroom_contracts/Saint_Michael%27s_College. If you find this useful, feel free to steal the wording and tailor it to your setting. I'd love to see discussion on the discussion tabs over in WE because few if any of my students come here. Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Wikieducator.com?
Hi all, one of my students stumbled onto our .com alter ego. I noticed a lot of familiar users. Has there been discussion here that I missed in my off season (June through December)? How will it work? Do we anticipate that the products will be generated mostly by WE users? Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: 15 Useful Things Students Do with Mobile Phones
This is interesting! From my students: 16. Uploading stills and video to Wikieducator. The lower rez stills upload without modification. 17. Reading weather reports and suggesting we abandon a field site (feeling a little pig headed, I decided to risk staying and the storm hit 20 miles to our east) I think the phone angle is interesting. Perhaps we also need a '15 things to do with a wiki' list. Just 15 won't cut it, but a top 15 might be useful. Perhaps we can add that polling feature that some wikis use. Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] In praise of wikieducator tutorials
In previous semesters working with students on WE, I reinvented various wheels, in particular I designed my own tutorials. This year I used the WE tutorials; this year my students have encountered fewer difficulties and life has been smoother in general. So thank you Wayne, Rob, Randy, Brent, Helena, and the many other contributors to this wonderful resource. Cheers Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: deletions
Gladys, here's a first stab at this: http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Personal Let me know what you think! Edit away to improve it. Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: deletions
Never mind! it seems my computer was pulling up a cached version of the category On Feb 3, 9:36 am, Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately the 'Deletion requested' category remains active after the page has been deleted. Looks like the tag will have to be removed prior to deletion. Any clever solutions? For now I'll add a note to the category page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: deletions
Unfortunately the 'Deletion requested' category remains active after the page has been deleted. Looks like the tag will have to be removed prior to deletion. Any clever solutions? For now I'll add a note to the category page. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Generate PDF file on WE
Hi Gladys, Wayne M. set this template up for me: http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:BES_print . It is used on pdfs generated from any projects that use the BES template. It means that I can separately manage what shows up on top of pdf documents. I need it because the pdf generator frequently mishandles hotlinks resulting in words being smashedtogetherlikethis. Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] deletions
Hi folks,
Some wikis have a deletion request procedure. On Wikia, the author
can insert a tag: {{delete}} with a brief explanation and an
administrator decides whether to delete. We have a template, but I'm
not sure that folks use it.
So, do we have a procedure; do we need one?
Cheers,
Declan
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