Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Thoughts about 2011
Hi Steve, good question. I'll contribute for an Introductory Course on eGovernance - I hope it will be very much helpful for the audience from the developing part of the world to exploit the possibilities of technology for good governance and this in turn will provide extra momentum to the development initiatives in all other sectors, especially in education. Hi friends, I would like to suggest that all of us may add our WE wish list for 2011 and accordingly we may venture to develop courses as well as the procedures for conducting the courses through a parallel process:) Those who are interested/experienced in formulating procedures can form a working group for the same - a WG for formulating procedures for WE online courses. ...Is it a tough target? but believe me, I am so much thrilled with the dream of a WE having so many successful online courses. -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Steve Foerster st...@hiresteve.com wrote: Anil wrote: As the New Year waits at the threshold of 2011, shall we plan more online courses on a variety of subjects? I think the time has come! Sounds good to me -- what course will you be offering? ;-) -=Steve=- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Thoughts about 2011
Hi Sebastian, thank you and very happy to have a WE neighbor from my neighborhood :) Your efforts are greatly appreciated! -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Sebastian Panakal sebastianpana...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anil, A worthy suggestion indeed. I have been advising the colleges where I teach 'College Level Training Program in General Informatics. I use the platform to introduce Wiki Educator to them too. The picture shows: from left - Wiki Neighbor Sebastian Panakal, Deputy Director of Collegiate Education, Principal of Sacred Hearts College, Staff Representative. Regards Sebastian Panakal. On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 3:24 PM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steve, good question. I'll contribute for an Introductory Course on eGovernance - I hope it will be very much helpful for the audience from the developing part of the world to exploit the possibilities of technology for good governance and this in turn will provide extra momentum to the development initiatives in all other sectors, especially in education. Hi friends, I would like to suggest that all of us may add our WE wish list for 2011 and accordingly we may venture to develop courses as well as the procedures for conducting the courses through a parallel process:) Those who are interested/experienced in formulating procedures can form a working group for the same - a WG for formulating procedures for WE online courses. ...Is it a tough target? but believe me, I am so much thrilled with the dream of a WE having so many successful online courses. -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Steve Foerster st...@hiresteve.comwrote: Anil wrote: As the New Year waits at the threshold of 2011, shall we plan more online courses on a variety of subjects? I think the time has come! Sounds good to me -- what course will you be offering? ;-) -=Steve=- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Sebastian Panakal www.eschoolkerala.com www.ebalajanasakhyam.com www.youtube.com/eschoolkerala www.eschoolkerala.wikispaces.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- 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] Thoughts about 2011
Dear Dr. Wayne and all other friends, As the New Year waits at the threshold of 2011, shall we plan more online courses on a verity of subjects? I think the time has come! *HAPPY, PROSPEROUS AND ESSENTIALLY A VERY BUSY NEW YEAR TO THE CREATIVE WE FAMILY!* -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] Re: Thoughts about 2011
Dear Dr. Wayne and all other friends, As the New Year waits at the threshold of 2011, shall we plan more online courses on a variety of subjects? I think the time has come! *HAPPY, PROSPEROUS AND ESSENTIALLY A VERY BUSY NEW YEAR TO THE CREATIVE WE FAMILY!* -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Indigenous language project in Solomon islands using the wikieducator
Hi David, Its wonderful! Thank you for the pointer! -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:18 AM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Friends, For your attention. This project pulls together many interesting threads, thanks to the WE! http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Marovo_Language#ICT_networking_in_Marovo_Lagoon_-_the_Marovo_Learning_Network *David Leeming* Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Jim's quiz experiments
A great addition! thank you very much Jim, thank you WE….and the ambitions now fly further high to have scoring and grading :) -- Warm regards Anil On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Been having a play with Jim's quiz experiment feature. So easy to set up. Try this copyright taster quiz as an example: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Example:_quiz_taster I suspect that we will be tweaking and improving this feature -- so treat it as experimental at this stage. Nice one Jim! Cheers Wayne On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Jim Tittsler jtitts...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 00:21, Vtaylor vtay...@gmail.com wrote: As a less-technical reply, I would like to see WikiEducator have a broad range of functionality in wikitext. [...] I've been experimenting with quizzes that are built upon simple wikitext. Simple nested lists become multiple choice questions and lists with underlined words become cloze exercises. This makes them simple to edit and they render nicely in print for teacher's guides. It is a very minimalist but functional approach. http://WikiEducator.org/Template:Quiz_Multiple_Choicehttp://wikieducator.org/Template:Quiz_Multiple_Choice http://WikiEducator.org/Template:Quiz_Clozehttp://wikieducator.org/Template:Quiz_Cloze Examples: http://WikiEducator.org/User:JimTittsler/Sandbox/Quizhttp://wikieducator.org/User:JimTittsler/Sandbox/Quiz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] iDevices translations
Hi David, You are most welcome. Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:17 AM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Sorry if this has been covered... Is it possible for WikiEducators to create new iDevices (pedagogic templates)? I wish to provide a set in Marovo language for this project http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Marovo_Language *David Leeming* Solomon Islands Rural Link -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: A Good News for OER
Dear friends, As Dr. Wayne has suggested a page for our research has been started at http://wikiresearcher.org/Oerlf OERLF is the acronym for Research on the Legal Frameworks for Open Educational Resources. Now let us shift the discussion to the talk page of our project page http://wikiresearcher.org/Talk:Oerlf As a first step please open an account at http://wikiresearcher.org and link your names under the section Research Collaborators on the page http://wikiresearcher.org/Oerlf As Dr.WM has mentioned, the structure of http://wikiresearcher.org/Oerlf is under development and hence please don't expect much tools for editing initially. However becoming pioneers in an evolving and promising project is really a nice idea! Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: A Good News for OER
Hi friends, Offer of Carina and Jaqueline to contribute on the OER related legislations in Australia and Brazil respectively is highly appreciated. And Dr. Wayne, thank you very much for your suggestion to pilot this research project on WikiResearcher.org. We may continue discussions in this list till WikiResearcher.org is launched. Once WikiResearcher.org is launched and our research page is opened, we will be able to shift the discussions to Wiki. What shall be our research project page name and page title on WikiResearcher.org? Anil On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Great idea ... If the project has a strong research focus, this could be a great pilot for the new WikiResearcher.org. We're in the processes of preparing for the launch as we speak. (The OER Foundation is planning to launch WikiResearcher.org to coincide with the celebrations of Open Access Week 2010. Don't say I said anything ;-)) Watch this space http://wikieducator.org/Open_Access_Week_2010 Cheers Wayne On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Jaqueline A. jvar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What a great idea! I would liketo also contribute to this project...I am Brazilian, currently working as a Media Specialist with public education in the USand also running the last leg of a doctoral program. I will look for info on OER legislation in Brazil..., Thanks:) Jackie Sent from my iPhone On Oct 11, 2010, at 19:37, Carina carina.bo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Anil and Sarita, I also would to contribute to this study! As I'm currently based in Australia, I would like to assist in providing information on OERs legislations, amonst other related topics, here in Australia. This is also one of my research interests! I look forward to developing this project together! Kind regards, Carina Dr Carina Bossu | DEHub: Innovation in Distance Education Research Fellow University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia Office +61 (2) 6773 2346 | Mobile: +61 407 994 625 | cbos...@une.edu.au | http://www.dehub.edu.au | http://www.wikieducator.org/DEHub http://wikieducator.org/User:Carina_Bossu On Oct 11, 7:55 am, joyce.mckni...@esc.edu wrote: Great idea sarita!-wikieduca...@googlegroups.com wrote: -To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com From: Sarita Kumar Sent by: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Date: 10/10/2010 09:21AM Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] A Good News for OER Dear Sir, I think, its a great idea. Lets start the project page on these lines. We can always add new ideas gradually as and when they come in the mind. SaritaOn Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 6:14 PM, aprasadaplett...@gmail.comwrote:Dear Gene, Satendra and Sarita ji, While googling for legislation on OER/Open text book, the first web page I got was that of Sen.Durbin'sbill, known as the Open College Textbook Act, which was introduced in Sept/2009. While going through the Senator's web pagehttp://durbin.senate.gov/showRelease.cfm?releaseId=318279and the bill athttp://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1714, we would realize that we, who work for OER/Open Text Books, have strong fraternity among legislators and policy makers at various parts of this green planet. As Gene has suggested we have to thank and also converge these efforts to a world platform for a better world. I would like to suggest that we may *Start a project page on WE ,ie, an OER on OER legislations *List various legislations from around the glob with summary *Study about how they can influence the growth of OER/Open Text Book and their effective use *Study the outcomes *Information on region specific open license norms *.And more that you can add These will be useful for researches, production of OER/Open Text Book, legislators and policy makers for further legislation alike and promote the creation and use of OER/Open Text Books. Your thoughts??? Warm regards Anilhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad -- 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 towikieduca...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email towikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjayhttp://www.wikieducator.org/Indiahttp://www.wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_Collegehttp://www.andcollege.du.ac.inhttp://groups.google.co.in/group/zoology_world -- 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] Study on legislation for Open Text Book/OER
I think a study on legislation/ attempts for legislation on Open Text Book/ OER all over the world will be very much helpful for the consolidation of efforts for promoting OER/Open Text Books. Perhaps such consolidated and regularly updated information would promote further legislation in favour of OER. Can't we start a research project page on this subject on WE? -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] A Good News for OER
Dear Gene, Satendra and Sarita ji, While googling for legislation on OER/Open text book, the first web page I got was that of Sen. Durbin's bill, known as the Open College Textbook Act, which was introduced in Sept/2009. While going through the Senator's web page http://durbin.senate.gov/showRelease.cfm?releaseId=318279 and the bill at http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1714, we would realize that we, who work for OER/Open Text Books, have strong fraternity among legislators and policy makers at various parts of this green planet. As Gene has suggested we have to thank and also converge these efforts to a world platform for a better world. I would like to suggest that we may *Start a project page on WE ,ie, an OER on OER legislations *List various legislations from around the glob with summary *Study about how they can influence the growth of OER/Open Text Book and their effective use *Study the outcomes *Information on region specific open license norms *.And more that you can add These will be useful for researches, production of OER/Open Text Book, legislators and policy makers for further legislation alike and promote the creation and use of OER/Open Text Books. Your thoughts??? Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad -- 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] A Good News for OER
A good news for OER from the website of Assistant Senate Majority Leader (USA) Dick Durbin : Assistant Senate Majority Leader (USA) Dick Durbin(D-IL) today introduced legislation designed to help students manage costs by making textbooks available to students, professors and the public for free on an easily-accessible website. This bill, known as the Open College Textbook Act, would create a competitive grant program for institutions of higher education, professors and organizations to create textbooks that can be made available online and licensed under terms that grant the public the right to access, customize and distribute the material, also known as “open textbooks”. See the full text at http://durbin.senate.gov/showRelease.cfm?releaseId=318279 -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Happy Software Feedom Day!
Hi Kim, thank you very much for reminding our community about this important day. *HAPPY SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY!!!* On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Kim Tucker kctuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Just a quick reminder to reflect on some of the roots of Free/libre and open resources for education ... and to celebrate :-). A few links: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ http://www.fsf.org/news/celebrate-software-freedom-day-with-the-libreplanet-community http://wikieducator.org/Say_Libre Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] An Ethical Dilemma -- Feeling sad :-)- When publishers don't do what they say they intend to do
Dear Dr. Wayne, I can imagine how humiliating the situation to you. Hope the publishers will come out with an erratum. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Never a dull moment in the free culture world. Ordinarily -- I would not post public notifications around potential misunderstandings or oversights by a publisher. However, I find myself facing an ethical dilemma. Particularly since today I'm been commenting considerably on my personal ethics and views associated with the non-commercial restriction on our national New Zealand MLE list. I was recently invited to write the forward for a new publication -- a book of tweets on open text books. Great idea, very cool and appropriate for our times. In response to the invite, my very first question was was: More than happy to provide a tweet -- what license will you be publishing the book under? Response: We will be doing this under Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike license- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ That is the current plan. Any interest in co-authoring? My response: I always check that anything I write is published under a free cultural works approved license :-) I would love to co-author So I do my bit, read the text, write a short forward and contribute a tweet. I now see that the book has been published under a CC-BY-NC-SA license -- which is very unfortunate, because I think its a great text and it seems that there has been an oversight in attributing my contributions under a license which meets the free cultural works definition which was a condition of my contribution. (See: http://www.happyabout.com/thinkaha/opentextbooktweet01.php). I've asked the publishes to print and distribute an erratum indicating that my personal contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA on the basis of our original agreement. I'm confident that they will do the right thing. When I submitted my tweet, I wrote: This is licensed under CC-BY which will enable a derivative under CC-BY-SA. I did this work during official time, and my employers IP policy requires that I release my work under a default CC-BY license. If there were any communications from the publisher in the interim about changing the license -- I missed these ;-(. Moreover, for the record, I would not have agreed to having anything I write published under an NC license. It's ironic that while the book carries a NC restriction -- the international public can purchase the texts, hard copy or ebook for a listed price of $19.95 or $14,95 and see that currently some discount applies. Anway -- this is a public announcement that my forward is licensed under a CC-BY-SA license and my tweet - No 31 is openly licensed under a free cultural works approved license (CC-BY) in this case. The publisher was free to add an NC restriction on the tweet - -but has omitted to attribute the source :-(. For the record, both versions of the texts I submitted are licensed under a CC-BY license. You are free to take these texts, reuse them, adapt them, modify them and if you like sell them :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org/ Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20/ Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Passing of a WikiEducator friend; Chris Babowal
Hi Randy, It is really sad…and perhaps the first reported loss of the WE family! WE family may convey its deepest condolences to the family of Chris Babowal ...And thank you Randy, you’ve done the most right thing in collecting the facts and reporting the same in the WE list. Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, It is with deep regret that I am writing to inform you of the passing of Chris Babowal - a friend of WikiEducator. http://wikieducator.org/User:Babceo She was passionate about Open Source for Education - and collaborated with a number of people in our WikiEducator community... I have been in touch with her family, and they have graciously provided some detail about her, her life and interests. A private funeral was held for immediate family on Thursday, August 19, 2010. A Mass in celebration of her life will be held in early September. For more details contact her son, Michael Babowal at mbabo...@me.com. Her bio follows this message (below). On behalf or our WikiEducator community, I wish to say May her memory be a blessing, and may her family know no further sorrow. - Randy On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Chris Babowal bab...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Randy, I know that she was very much into Open Source for Education and online testing. It was a dream of hers to one day have her oral/aural testing available to take online. Here is a short bio and a couple of pictures of her. Born January 14, 1950 in San Francisco, CA - Mary Christine Chris (Nason) Babowal, made her journey home to God on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at her home in San Jose, CA. She leaves behind her husband Roger of 35 year, daughter Miche'al Christine Shelly (34), son Roger Michael II (32), daughter-in-law Crystal (28) and grandson Roger Michael III (10 and 1/2 months). Chris was the founder, president and chairman of Babowal Associates, Inc. Babowal Associates, Inc. provided ARELS American English examinations and certificate programs, since 1992. Chris had been trained to develop listening and speaking tests using the ARELS methods by the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations, a department within the University of Oxford, England and ARELS, the Association of Recognized English Language Schools. The ARELS speaking and listening examinations were among the earliest creators (1962) of semi-direct listening and speaking test in the world. She ventured into the business English testing by developing a needs analysis process call Functional Language Task Analysis based off of Jorie Phillippi Kennedy's Functional Task Analysis. Mrs. Babowal taught individuals from every educational level (preschool to post graduate) and provided training in corporate settings. She was made an esquire of the University of Oxford when she signed a partnership agreement with them in 1994. The Babowal Associates, Inc. and University of Oxford partnership agreement was the first for-profit partnership of the University of Oxford in their 900-year history. She held a BS in Aeronautic Engineering and BA in Early Childhood Development and an MA in Secondary Education. She also had certificates in English as a Second Language (ESL) from San Jose State and held a California teacher's certificate and Adult Education Supervision and Coordination. She was certified by Jorie Phillippi Kennedy to provide Functional Task Analysis, FTA in 1989. By 1992, Mrs. Babowal had added language to the analysis and called it Functional Language Task Analysis. When working in the public school sector, she was responsible for the development of ESL parenting classes, several workplace and family literacy ESL programs that are still in use throughout the San Francisco Bay area. She was a dedicated wife, proud and loving mother and grandmother. Chris enjoyed spending time with her husband, daughter, son, daughter-in-law, grandson and dog. She had a passion for learning about other languages cultures, reading, listening to books on tape, decorating, cooking, health, knitting and travel. A private funeral was held for immediate family on Thursday, August 19, 2010. A Mass in celebration of her life will be held in early September. For more details contact her son, Michael Babowal at mbabo...@me.com. Letters of sympathy or flowers can be sent to: The Babowal Family 2588 Pioneer Avenue San Jose, CA 95128 You can also make a donation to your favorite charity in Chris' name. -- *From:* Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com *To:* Chris Babowal bab...@sbcglobal.net *Cc:* Wayne Mackintosh (Home) mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com *Sent:* Thu, August 19, 2010 6:11:53 AM *Subject:* Re: Passing Hi Michael, Many thanks for sharing - she was a member of our WikiEducator.orgcommunity - 15,000 educators in 120 countries.
Re: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator helps our wiki friends
CONGRATS DR. WM!, CONGRATES WE! On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Wikipedia is planning the launch of the Public Policy Initiative this fall semester in the US whereby faculty will use the wiki as a teaching tool to enhance the quality of Public Policy articles in Wikipedia. The OER Foundation and WikiEducator are helping our friends at Wikipedia, by serving on the Advisory Board for the project which includes representation from from the University of Georgia, American University’s Washington College, the University of Mississippi, George Washington University, Harvard University, Indiana University and the US Consumers Union. WE are proud to be able to help our friends at the Wikimedia Foundation. This demonstrates the power of the free culture --- by collaborating we all achieve more! See: http://blog.wikimedia.org/ Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] Development of WE page on Wikipedia
Dear friends, The article about WikiEducator on wikipedia (available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikieducator ) has to be further developed with more updated project information and in line with WP standards. Wikipedians in our list may please see for further development of the page. -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Development of WE page on Wikipedia
Hi Randy, thanx...the edit comment on the article page seems to undue edit comment from a newbie editor.. On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Anil, for noticing this. I've added the number of users (15,000+). Also, it's interesting that there's a note on the page, that considers it an advertisement - any ideas how to make the content less like advertising? - Randy On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:39 AM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, The article about WikiEducator on wikipedia (available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikieducator ) has to be further developed with more updated project information and in line with WP standards. Wikipedians in our list may please see for further development of the page. -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant, OD/Change Management, E-Learning, Collaboration Performance Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Capacity Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.722.5577 (EST) Skype: wikirandy - Stakeholder/Community Engagement Project Implementation - Change Transition Management - E-Learning, Online Collaboration Learning Communities - Coaching Facilitation - My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Nomenclature for WikiMaster
If we go for a change, I would prefer Guru :) On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Carol carolcoopertay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I'm new to this group, so Hi to everyone. I co-facilitating the current WikiEducator workshop and I came across the WikiMaster certification. Now I am a great advocate of using gender-neutral terminology. I know that master could be thought of as mastery of a skill/subject but even so the term has a long history of being associate with male activity, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master. With origins in Medieval Guilds which of course were only open to men. I would like to propose that a gender-neutral term be found. For example WikiExpert, Guru, Principal, Champion, Pro, Virtuoso What are your thoughts? Best wishes Carol -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil http://www,wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Congratulations WIkiEducator -- 15,000 users!
CONGRATS WE! WE (as well as eL4C41) is likely to get further enriched with 30 new members from Tamil Nadu OU by 30/7/10 On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi WikiEriends CHEERS! 15,017 members alreadyvery encouraging progress indeed. Motivates us to work harder ..the world is becoming aware of OER's and it is delightful to see so many educators wanting to get down to developing them. Warm wishes Gita Mathur On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 10:39 +1200, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: Hi Everyone, Wow -- overnight we achieved the 15,000 user threshold! Not bad for the summer / winter break depending on where you reside. On 1 July 2010, we celebrated our milestone of 14,500 users. Three weeks later WE celebrate reaching 15K. Well done WikiEducator! We speculated whether we would achieve 15,000 users by the end of this month -- not too unreasonable given that we're hosting our record breaking WikiEducator Gives Back workshop (currently with 379 registered participants form 50 countries!). Nonetheless a great achievement -- 500 new accounts in 3 weeks. Shall we try another record? 400 registered participants for the WikiEducator Gives Back workshop before the weekend? Perhaps we're pushing our luck? There is still time to enrol as we've only just started. Help spread the word --- this is an amazing workshop demonstrating the power of community collaboration. See: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C41/About OER will change the world for the better! Just watch this space :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Inaugural OERF Foundation Report - -Early release.
Dear Dr. Wayne, Thank you for sharing it. Information flow keeps connections strong. Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, In the spirit of Open Philanthropy I provide a link to the inaugural annual report of the OER Foundation approved by the Board of Directors yesterday. Please note that this is the pre-audited version as we are still awaiting the auditors report. Open content licensing and a commitment to open process affords us the freedom to share this report. You can download a copy here (3.8MB download): http://oerfoundation.org/files/OERF-Report_2009-Pre-Audit-version.pdf Our collaborative efforts continue to contribute to our organisational maturity. This will enable us to scale international OER futures in the formal education sector by an order of magnitude! BIG thanks to all WIkiEducators who continue to work tirelessly for the social good of education. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Poster: WIkiEducator Gives Back free online workshop - please share
Dear Dr. Wayne, Excellent work! Congratulations to both of you! See the output at www.apletters.blogspot.com (shall I keep it there?) Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Poster: WIkiEducator Gives Back free online workshop - please share
Dear Dr. Wayne, Thank you, you are right, let us wait till the official launch. I will put it back immediately after that. Warm regards Anil On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anil, Great example and thanks for testing this on your blog. Looks good. Technically we should hold back untill the official launch of our donation campaign in the next couple of days, although I don't see any harm in you leaving it on your blog in the mean time. Good one! Cheers Wayne On 23 June 2010 22:26, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dr. Wayne, Excellent work! Congratulations to both of you! See the output at www.apletters.blogspot.com (shall I keep it there?) Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil Prasad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Creative Commons Interviews WikiEducator
A very good read…well asked by Timothy Vollmer and well said by Dr. Wayne. BIG THANKS to both of your for sharing it On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Creative Commons approached the OER Foundation and WikiEdcuator for an interview. The interview is posted here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22470 It's great to see how our collective work is maturing and that we can make a real difference in Education on a global scale. Cheers Wayne -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Poster: WIkiEducator Gives Back free online workshop - please share
Dear Dr. Wayne, GREAT!!! WE may also provide html code for directly linking the poster to individual blogs Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, We're on track to achieve a new milestone for WikiEducator: The highest number of enrolments for a Learning4Content workshop in celebration of providing free training opportunities to more than 4,000 educators! We have already received 70 registrations from 18 different countries after our first week of registrations! We growing by the day :-) You can help WikiEducator by spreading the word among your networks. Please point prospective participants to: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C41/About Wow - -we've already recorded 1,300 page views on the participant page :-) * A free poster to share with your neighbours* Many WikiEducators do not have 24/7 Internet connectivity and they may not have the advantage of receiving our social networking announcements for this celebratory workshop (e.g. blogs, twitter, identi.ca, facebook etc.). You can help to spread the word by printing out the poster attached and posting this on your institutions noticeboard, or distributing in the pigeonhole message boxes at your instituion. Feel free to email the poster as an attachment to your colleagues and friends. (With thanks and acknowledgement to Gita Mathur ( http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur) in India for this smart recruitment idea.). You can also view and download the poster online: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C41/Poster Anybody want to predict the number of participants for the WIkiEducator Gives Back workshop? How many countries will we reach with this celebratory workshop? We could institution a community Kudos prize for the best prediction :-). Exciting times Cheers Wayne -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Supporting WikiEducators in walking the talk :-)
Great work! much needed, now community members may also review the license position of already uploaded images. Definitely, I agree with Wayne, uploading images first to commons.wikimedia.org and then link it to WE is the ideal choice. We may make it a part of image uploading policy. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Jim Tittsler jtitts...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 19:20, Joshua Gay joshua...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to get a copy of this code? It is the code used by the WMF Commons, with only minor changes to suit WikiEducator. You can see our versions at http://WikiEducator.org/MediaWiki:Upload.js and http://WikiEducator.org/MediaWiki:UploadForm.js. There is some good documentation on the original at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:UploadForm.js/Documentation I'm still working my way through all of the possible licenses and their associated templates... but slowly making progress. I think I have the CC-0, CC-BY, and CC-BY-SA cases which are the most common here. -- 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 from this group, send email to wikieducator+ unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject. -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.
Re: [WikiEducator] Supporting WikiEducators in walking the talk :-)
Dear Dr. Wayne, Exactly, we require a barnraising event. Some thoughts... - Let us take (your) first mail in this discussion as the official notification for the need to review image uploading procedure and licensing of already uploaded images to ensure they are CC-BY-SA complaint. - Community Volunteers may place a License under review template on the edit page of the images that do not specify license - Community may be requested to review their own uploads by themselves and place CC-BY-SA license in sure cases - community support will be available for this process. (Shall we specify a deadline for this?) - Members may request deletion on the edit page of images that are sure cases of license violation. (For this shall we require a second level of reviewers to recommend deletion to the Admin user? ) - Initiate a community support system to find out free license equivalents when the images marked for deletion are found to be essential for widely used OER pages on WE. - Create a WE support page exclusively for this venture Though it will take time, I think there is no way other than examining each and every image through a barnraising event, because WE matters now. Warm regards Anil On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anil, You're right we definitely need to think about getting existing images sorted --- Perhaps we should think about organising a community barnraising event ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising) to help. We'll need to think about how we will do this -- I guess there are many questions, for example: - Do we delete or place a warning of sorts on images where we are not sure of the licensing? - I suspect that we will find many images which are clearly personal photographs that have been uploaded -- can we assume that these are licensed under our default CC-BY-SA license? - Should we initiate community strategies to find free licensed equivalents for images where there are clear copyright contraventions. - Other questions? I'm very chuffed and pleased to see these improvements --- getting better one step at a time :-) Cheers Wayne On 19 March 2010 19:33, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Great work! much needed, now community members may also review the license position of already uploaded images. Definitely, I agree with Wayne, uploading images first to commons.wikimedia.org and then link it to WE is the ideal choice. We may make it a part of image uploading policy. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Jim Tittsler jtitts...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 19:20, Joshua Gay joshua...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to get a copy of this code? It is the code used by the WMF Commons, with only minor changes to suit WikiEducator. You can see our versions at http://WikiEducator.org/MediaWiki:Upload.js and http://WikiEducator.org/MediaWiki:UploadForm.js. There is some good documentation on the original at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:UploadForm.js/Documentation I'm still working my way through all of the possible licenses and their associated templates... but slowly making progress. I think I have the CC-0, CC-BY, and CC-BY-SA cases which are the most common here. -- 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 from this group, send email to wikieducator+ unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject. -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+ unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject. -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion
Re: [WikiEducator] Supporting WikiEducators in walking the talk :-)
Exactly, we may proceed with a Work Group On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anil, These are good suggestions and thanks for your contributions in helping us think through the process. We'll need to do some preparatory work. As you've pointed out -- we''ll need a few guidelines on how the project will work, and I suspect that we may need to develop additional support resources, finish the missing templates etc. It's a big task -- we have more than 24,000 uploaded files, so its going to take a little time :-). What do you think -- given that this is a community wide issue, should we set up a WE community workgroup? (See: http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups/Guidelines). Cheers Wayne On 20 March 2010 00:17, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dr. Wayne, Exactly, we require a barnraising event. Some thoughts... - Let us take (your) first mail in this discussion as the official notification for the need to review image uploading procedure and licensing of already uploaded images to ensure they are CC-BY-SA complaint. - Community Volunteers may place a License under review template on the edit page of the images that do not specify license - Community may be requested to review their own uploads by themselves and place CC-BY-SA license in sure cases - community support will be available for this process. (Shall we specify a deadline for this?) - Members may request deletion on the edit page of images that are sure cases of license violation. (For this shall we require a second level of reviewers to recommend deletion to the Admin user? ) - Initiate a community support system to find out free license equivalents when the images marked for deletion are found to be essential for widely used OER pages on WE. - Create a WE support page exclusively for this venture Though it will take time, I think there is no way other than examining each and every image through a barnraising event, because WE matters now. Warm regards Anil On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anil, You're right we definitely need to think about getting existing images sorted --- Perhaps we should think about organising a community barnraising event ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising) to help. We'll need to think about how we will do this -- I guess there are many questions, for example: - Do we delete or place a warning of sorts on images where we are not sure of the licensing? - I suspect that we will find many images which are clearly personal photographs that have been uploaded -- can we assume that these are licensed under our default CC-BY-SA license? - Should we initiate community strategies to find free licensed equivalents for images where there are clear copyright contraventions. - Other questions? I'm very chuffed and pleased to see these improvements --- getting better one step at a time :-) Cheers Wayne On 19 March 2010 19:33, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Great work! much needed, now community members may also review the license position of already uploaded images. Definitely, I agree with Wayne, uploading images first to commons.wikimedia.org and then link it to WE is the ideal choice. We may make it a part of image uploading policy. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Jim Tittsler jtitts...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 19:20, Joshua Gay joshua...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to get a copy of this code? It is the code used by the WMF Commons, with only minor changes to suit WikiEducator. You can see our versions at http://WikiEducator.org/MediaWiki:Upload.jshttp://wikieducator.org/MediaWiki:Upload.jsand http://WikiEducator.org/MediaWiki:UploadForm.jshttp://wikieducator.org/MediaWiki:UploadForm.js. There is some good documentation on the original at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:UploadForm.js/Documentation I'm still working my way through all of the possible licenses and their associated templates... but slowly making progress. I think I have the CC-0, CC-BY, and CC-BY-SA cases which are the most common here. -- 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 from this group, send email to wikieducator+ unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject. -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator
Re: [WikiEducator] March UPE
CONGRATULATIONS JIM! On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Sma Halim smaha...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Jim! Your work is an inspiration to me. You are very deserving of this award. All the best to you. -- A. Halim Program Officer RUPANTAR 14/1 Farazipara Lane, Khulna-9100 BANGLADESH Phone: +88-041-731876, Fax: +88-041-810747 Cell : +88-01718-019286 Email: ha...@rupantar.org, r...@khulna.bangla.net, i...@rupantar.org Web : www.rupantar.org On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Jim! Your advice and regular counsel on WikiEducator's technical backbone IS a tremendous asset to our community. From my desk a BIG thank you and special note of appreciation for all you do. Jim is a hacker of note --- he is one of those rare technologists who understands and listens to educators and this will take WikiEducator to new heights. I appreciate Jim's guiding hand over our project, most notably his professional approach in providing sound technical judgement, even when I go overboard with crazy ideas! WE're very proud to have you on board as Lead Software Engineer. Thanks for all you do in helping us make OER happen for the world. Cheers Wayne On 5 March 2010 19:25, Peter prawstho...@gmail.com wrote: Hello WikiEducators, It is an honour to announce this months UPE, Jim Tittsler. Jim Tittsler is one of WikiEducators exemplary technical people. Jim, with a handful of other people, keeps the WikiEducator technology up and running. For the longest time I have been in awe of Jim's commitment to the care and feeding of WikiEducator. I believe his belief in this project goes beyond any professional commitment, the number of hours he has committed and his dedication to innovation and making WikiEducator meet the needs of the educators who use this platform is outstanding. Jim's knowledge of the technical platform which WikiEductor is built allows the contributors to focus upon building content, rather than wonder about the technology. With awe and great admiration I announce Jim Tittsler as the March UPE. Congratulations, Jim! And thanks for working so hard in the background. http://wikieducator.org/User:JimTittsler http://wikieducator.org/UPE#March_2010 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Wayne Mackintosh, 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] Need for Statistical studies on OER
Dear Dr. Wayne and all other friends, There is acute shortage for open and free reusable statistical data and graphs on various aspects of OER , ODL, ODL using OER etc. OER may be a comparatively a younger child of education sector, but it has sufficiently grown up to trigger statistical studies. Moreover it is betters to store data from the childhood itself smile. Such studies and data would definitely enhance the reliability of OER and ODL using OER and ODL in general, which is the gravest need of the time and people. We may also think about releasing the graphs in public domain. The world would highly appreciate if OERF can open up a regular system for itrelease of half yearly or annual statistical data -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogpot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Happy Birthday WikiEducator! Now to widen access to scalable OER futures.
HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY WE!!! On 2/14/10, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Happy Birthday WikiEducator! We are now maturing and growing up. This provides a solid foundation for us to move forward in widening access to scalable OER futures around the word :-). Sadly, the majority of the world's population are undeserved when it comes to education. We need your help in planning our voluntary donation drive so that we can expand and extend our mission in working collaboratively with the free culture towards the development of free teaching materials in support of all national curricula. - WE believe that sharing teaching materials as OER can make difference in widening access to learning for all. - WE believe that supporting educators in acquiring the skills to develop OER collaboratively will help us in achieving our goals. In this regard, the OER Foundation oversees the world's largest wiki training project in education under the Learning4Content project. So what does this have to do with birthdays? Our WikiEducator domain names were registered on 12 February 2006. I made my first edits on the WikiEducator site on 13 Feb, and depending on where you are situated in the world --- our Birthday coincides with Valentines day :-). A good day for a birthday of an international OER project --- we can reflect and celebrate our love of education and our commitment to sharing knowledge freely. WE started with one registered user in 2006 and today, 12,700 educators have created a WikiEducator account. WE have provided training opportunities to thousands of teachers, lecturers and trainers in more than 120 different countries -- but we need to do more if we're going to achieve our vision and make a substantive contribution to the future sustainability of education. The OER Foundation is the legal entity responsible for supporting the technical and operational infrastructure of the WE community. As a registered charity we aim to foster the development of sustainable OER ecosystems. We derive our funding from three main sources: 1. International donors, international agencies and government contracts 2. Organisations that join the OER Foundation as contributing members -- We provide value added services in helping these members achieve their objectives using OER. ( http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Join#Table_of_OERF_membership_benefits_-_Detailed_Comparison) 3. Voluntary public donations We are now ready to plan and launch a public donation strategy. I need your help in developing a robust and successful donation plan for our collective work. In accordance with the OER Foundation's committment to open philanthropy, early drafts of our donation plan and thinking are being developed in the wiki: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Donation_planning Please take a look and visit this page. You are invited to list any questions and/or suggestions on this wiki page as well. WE will monitor the page and do our best to answer all your questions. If you can volunteer a little time in helping us developing our donation plans, please list your names as well and the areas where you can assist us. WE need all the help we can get ;-). Looking forward to building OER futures together. Cheers Wayne -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator service restored
Hi Jim and Dr. Wayne, Congrats! On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jim, On behalf of the WikiEducator family --- a BIG thank your for your technical leadership, guidance and support in moving the data centre, upgrading the installation and the implementation of rich text editing. Our Bouquet this week definitely belongs to our Lead Software Engineer of the OER Foundation and WE community. WYSIWYG editing is going to take collaborative OER development to a new level. We're very excited about rich text editing going live. Our thanks for a smooth and painless transition. Cheers Wayne On 7 February 2010 13:16, Jim Tittsler j...@oerfoundation.org wrote: The data center move and software update is (mostly) complete. You should be able to resume editing all of the WikiEducator language instances. (I see some people already are. :-) I've done some simple testing (both human and automated), and the key features I use are working. But I know that WikiEducator is a large community that doubtlessly uses the site(s) in ways that I don't. If you find something that appears broken, *please* let us know either by: - stopping by the web chat (see the left panel of the wiki or use a standard IRC client to visit irc.freenode.net and join the #wikieducator channel) - mailing the wikieducator-t...@googlegroups.com list - mailing me directly - registering on http://tech.wikieducator.net/ and creating a trouble ticket With all of the software updates and faster hardware, I think this is a good move for our community. The most user visible feature is the addition of the optional rich text editor, but several other rough edges have been sanded down and we've added another bit of redundancy to our content backup scheme. Thanks everyone for your patience and help during the testing and move, Jim WikiEducator tech group -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Wayne Mackintosh, 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Good News: United Nations Volunteers
Great news, Congratulations Dr. Wayne! and thank you very much UNV Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Late last year Anil, Phil, Randy, John and others were exploring the idea of working with United Nations Volunteers (http://www.unv.org ) -- See earlier discussions on the list - http://tinyurl.com/ybcfwbv You may recall that we were concerned about the all rights reserved copyright provisions of the UNV site with reference to content our community would generate in listing our volunteer needs on the UNV site. This practice did not align with our with our core community values associated with open content licensing. I agreed to contact Elise Bouvet, Online Volunteering Programme Specialist at UNV on behalf of the OER Foundation and the WikiEducator community for UNV to consider an exception in our case. Elise took the initiative to contact their legal department and WE are very pleased to confirm that UNV have agreed to an exception to license content we produce for the UNV site under our default CC-BY-SA license. I have uploaded a copy of the letter from UNV confirming this exception for our community: http://tinyurl.com/yzrtbcf I would like to commend the United Nations for listening and being prepared to consider our request. This is a testament to UNV's commitment to respond to the needs of the volunteer community they serve. If WE had a monthly *Bouquet *Award, January's award would definitely go to UNV :-). -- perhaps we should think about instituting a community Bouquet Award where we can nominate people and organisations to recognise outstanding contributions of people and organisations who serve WE in a special way? Thoughts? I think WE should move forward in preparing a volunteers proposal for consideration by UNV. Randy has already set up a page for us to collaborate on drafting the proposal here: http://www.wikieducator.org/UNVhttp://www.google.com/url?sa=Dq=http://www.wikieducator.org/UNVusg=AFQjCNFyCecQl33ImXe8u5Mz5fv6yWvZeA 2010 is going to be an amazing year for OER! Cheers Wayne -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil Prasad -- 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] STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH HAITI
DEAR ALL, WE MAY STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH HAITI -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] WE environmental resources
Hi John, An amazing leap forward to protect our most precious PLANET with the power of OER! Congratulations! In an earlier message Peter, Vincent and other friends were also indicated their plans for OER on Environmental related topics. Now you have provided a strong node for linking all efforts together. At http://www.wikieducator.org/EnvironEd , we may also provide sections for OERs on Environment Friendly Technologies. Count me also in, offer you all support. Warm regards Anil On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:25 PM, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, all - Welcome to the new year. At the beginning of the year many people were talking about WE and the environment. So with these thoughts and yesterday's kick-off of the International Year of Biodiversity, I have set a resource page on WE at http://www.wikieducator.org/EnvironEd. I have already included links to all other environmental pages listed in Category:Ecology and Environment. If you have an environmentally themed page not in this category then please add your page. I have also included links to environmental data, blogs, etc. I also think it would be a good idea to have a environmental glossary on WE (there is a botany glossary but with no entries). I can help on chemistry and engineering terms, but I am not a biologist. Cheers, John http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com P.S. The official press release for International Year of Biodiversity is at http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=608ArticleID=6441l=ent=long -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil Prasad -- 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] To save our PLANET; a new year resolution
Dear Brothers and Sisters in our WikiEducator family, *First of all wish you a happy and prosperous new year 2010 and many more.* New Years are the ideal time for new resolutions; it is a custom also. I would like to propose a New Year resolution for 2010. What shall WE, as one of the strongest open community of Educators who believe in open philanthropy, do to save our PLANET? The dangers being faced by our PLANET - the most precious planet in the vicinity of science so far - are getting very much visible now. The situations necessitate urgent attention and action. I feel that if the future environmental situations would force the world population to queue up for the daily ration of oxygen supply, floating over water and wearing heavy insulated suits, all prosperity would mean nothing but a curse. Value of money will be lost once the PLANET is sick. We do not want this nightmare to happen. As Educators we have the responsibility to thoroughly study the dangers being faced by our lovely PLANET and share it with others. We also have the responsibility to help governments, educational institutions and other organizations to formulate and implement remedial measures. Let us take a resolution; during 2010 we would contribute at least one open-educational-content in this matter. Since the issue is about our PLANET, it covers all disciplines of study. The Scientists in our WE family may come forward with alternate planet-friendly open technologies to replace any existing technology that substantially ruins our PLANET. I also add copy of this mail to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change so that they can also provide valuable inputs to our discussion. Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com/2009/12/to-save-our-planet.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] A teacher is interested in her students taking the L4C course
Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, We may plan a module on WE to place wiki and OER development online training requests as Mary Ziller has done and Volunteer Educators to take up the assignment in the same way UN runs Online Volunteering www.* onlinevolunteering*.org/ http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/ in addition to the existing funded L4C or funded L4C may also be made a part of it. There will be separate forms for placing Training Requirements capturing all the required information regarding location, contact person, number of participants, level of training, preferred time and duration etc Similarly volunteer registration modules will also capture all the required details as we are doing already for L4C facilitators. And necessarily there should be a volunteer contract for the successful conduction of each training programme Thougts?? On 12/5/09, Mary lightst...@gmail.com wrote: Can a teacher get a node for her class to get free wiki skills training? Or is there some other way to accommodate students? Thanks in advance, Mary Ziller -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] December UPE
Hi, CONGRATULATIONS NELLIE! On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Peter prawstho...@gmail.com wrote: With great honour I announce Nellie Deutsch as the December UPE! Nellie is an exemplary WikiEducator. I believe that compliment doesn't go far enough in describing Nellies international works in many different capacities. I know her to facilitate many L4C workshops, be very active in the WE council, to add tremendous energy to high school education, online curriculum development and English as a second language. I know what I have described here only touches the surface of Nellies work as an educator. I often wonder if Nellie every sleeps. It has been a pleasure to work with Nellie on a number of initiatives. With great honour I announce Nellie Deutsch as the December UPE. Congratulations, Nellie!!! And the best of the season to you and your Family. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [WikiEducator] Power point presentations
Hi Nadia, Open the power point in Open Office Impress and export as Macromedia Flash (.swf) and then upload the .swf to WE. Animations may not work On 11/29/09, Nadia El Borai nadiaelbo...@mac.com wrote: How can I add the power point presentation to the page http://wikieducator.org/Wikimedia_Conference_Japan_2009 I thought of changing it to a pdf. file but then don't know how to add it. Maybe I should change it to svg and then put it on as images, but that would take time. Is there an easier way? Thank you, Nadia Nadia El Borai http://wikieducator.org/User:Nadia_El_Borai blog: http://nadia-cyclamen.blogspot.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad -- 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 blog or newsletter?
Hi Phil, any piece of thought or information you circulate or publish online, on your liberty and responsibility, can form your Blog, provided, you should have at least one landing page to link them, and that page will be the home for your Blog. -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: I do not really know what a blog is. Is my set of rants a blog? If the coach does the pushups, The athlete will not get stronger Community Empowerment: www.scn.org/cmp/ WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle Join our discusssion forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 blog or newsletter?
Hi Randy, that is great! On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I got the OK from Ken Udas to move his Terra Incognita / Penn State blog to WikiEducator. He also said that he would help out. - Randy On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:35 AM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote: There must be WikiEducators who blog or write articles that could be WE blog posts. Perhaps by looking back through our posts we can find some things to re-post on the WE blog as contributors. I blog now and then - mostly as course assignments, but sometimes when there are other important community discussions going on. http://learningonline.blogspot.com/ If you have a blog and would be interested in contributing past or future posts, please reply with a link to your blog. Let's see what we have available. This will really help kick-start the WE blog process. ..Valerie -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: gardening the Initiatives list; now A, B, C, etc.
Hi Randy, you are right, the listing is very easy now. Great work! On 11/7/09, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Well, it's moving into winter here on the East Coast, and I have felt compelled to do some WikiEd gardening! I separated out the A, B, C, etc., so it's easier to see where projects fit, well at least from my perspective. smile Hope it helps - and please continue to add your projects to this page! http://www.wikieducator.org/Initiatives - Randy -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?
Dear friends, As almost other sectors of communication, Blogs also have a very big mass of audience. For this audience penetration, though Blogs are generally considered personal publishing, almost all the Corporates in the world maintain Corporate Blogs. I hope we can combine together the ideas of Blog and News Letter. The major items of the Blog in a given period will become the content for the Newsletter, and as Dr. Wayne has mentioned, it will talk for the WE community among those who are not active in WE site and not a frequent visitor of our blog. In the Blog and newsletter we may find place for corporate advertisements that have deliverance to our mission. It can be advertisements about events, ODL courses, publications, public awareness campaigns etc etc On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Valerie, I'm pleased that you have reminded us of the Newsletter and blog ideas! * Thoughts about a Newsletter* Yes -- the OER Foundation definitely wants to support and promote a newsletter for the WikiEducator community. There is so much happening in our family around the world and we need to keep folk up-to-date with what's happening. A newsletter is also a great way to connect the disconnected :-). It's difficult for WikiEducator's who are less active on the site to know about all the exciting things that are happening. WikiEducator will certainly be able to put the community journalism concept to good use ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_journalism) In short - -the OER Foundation is very supportive of this idea and I want to see a professional, high quality quarterly newsletter for our family. As you know, WikiEducator will succumb to corporate advertising on our open education sites. However, I'm wondering about how the community feels about advertising in a professional Newsletter? We need funding to support the editorial and professional work associated with a high quality newsletter (notwithstanding the contributions from WikiEducators around the world for the newsletter.) Thoughts? * Thoughts about a WikiEducator blog* Over the last three years -- I've been wanting to host a WikiEducator blog. In fact, we installed Wordpress on our server with the view to a WikiEducator community blog. However, we need to do a little thinking about how best to implement a community blog for WikiEducator, for example: - Do blog posts on a collective WikiEducator blog represent the views of WikiEducator as a community? The blog sphere is typically a personal publishing space -- as opposed to a collective community voice. What is the approach that WikiEducator should adopt? - For example, While WikiEducator was operating under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Learning --- understandably a blogging policy was introduced by the agency, which restricted freedom of speech of individuals wanting to blog about different issues. Where do we draw the line between personal views and collective organisational opinion of an international project? - The OER Foundation is very keen to host and support a community blog for WikiEducator. However, we need advice and support from the community regarding the best way to do this. Perhaps we need to establish a blogging workgroup to think about all the issues and propose a set of guidelines for a WikiEducator blog - technically, hosting a dedicated blog for WE is no problem and the OERF will support this. However we need a clear set of guidelines developed by the community regarding the best way to implement. Thanks Valerie -- great suggestions and thanks for reminding us of these gaps in our community :-) Cheers Wayne 2009/11/4 valerie vtay...@gmail.com Did anything ever come of earlier suggestions that there be a WikiEducator blog with multiple contributors or a collaboratively written newsletter? I poked around and didn't find much. old discussions http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/fa1128ff6e7401a4/dfa591a45e4391f6?hl=enlnk=gstq=newsletter#dfa591a45e4391f6 old pages http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:NewsLetter Write an article for a magazine/newsletter styled publication describing the wiki concept and how people can become involved http://wikieducator.org/WikiMaster/WikiApprentice_Level_1 I'm having my students work collaboratively in small groups to come up with a WikiEducator promotion. http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Fall_2009#Final_Projects Naturally, their first question - Where is the WikiEducator newsletter? Umm, I'll get back to you on that... Is there a good answer to this question? ..Valerie -- 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
[WikiEducator] Re: November UPE
HI, HALIM DADA HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS FOR THIS MOST DESERVING RECOGNITION!!! On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Peter prawstho...@gmail.com wrote: During a recent discussion (six weeks back) the UPE team was reviewing candidates for the coming award. Abdul Halim was suggested as one of the candidates for the November UPE. I took the time to review his user page and was most impressed. I greatly appreciate his use of colors, fonts and graphics, I found myself drawn into who Abdul Halim is and all the wonderful work he does. I found his interest in community radio inspiring as I know how effective a medium it can be at a community level. It is with great pleasure that I announce Abdul Halim as the November UPE. Congratulations, Abdul Halim!!! http://www.wikieducator.org/User:M._A._Halim -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator visits Antarctica
CONGRATULATIONS TRISHA ... and eagerly awaiting to read your experience and findings related to your Antarctica exploration on WikiEducator On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.comwrote: Great !! It'll be real COOL to read a first-hand report about Trisha's stay at Antartica. Savithri 2009/10/27 Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Hi Everyone, Trisha Korth (http://wikieducator.org/User:Tkorth), a primary school teacher from Warrington School has been granted a Primary Science Teacher Fellowship with the Royal Society. Trish has joined a team of marine ecologists from NIWA to study the coastal organisms living below the frozen sea ice of the Ross Sea in Antarctica., As we speak trish is connecting from Antarctica with students and WikiEducators around the world! Trish signed up for a Learning4Content workshop and has established an OER portal page to document her journey. See: http://wikieducator.org/Antarctica Trish is connecting with students back home from Antarctica and is taking WikiEducator with her on this amazing discovery. For example, students from Waikouaiti School are asking: - How did it feel landing on the 2m thick ice? - What other types of animals have you seen? - How did it feel going in the dinosaur? - What did it feel like on the Dc17? - Have you done a cart-wheel on the ice yet? (Which will make sense when you visit Trish's portal page: http://wikieducator.org/Antarctica ) - Where there any baby emperor penguins? Trish is an inspiration showing us what a motivated teacher can do with OER and open source technologies. Trish is posting a video and photo log of her experiences on WikiEducator. WE look forward to the next installment (see: http://wikieducator.org/Trisha%27s_photos_and_video_clips) . Trish -- WikiEducator say's thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world! Cheers Wayne 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 -- डॉक्टर सावित्री सिंह प्रधानाचार्य आचार्य नरेन्द्र देव कॉलेज ( दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय ) गोविन्दपुरी, कालकाजी नयी दिल्ली 110019 Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 97862584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: How do we support and respect educator contributions in WE?
Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, It is Collaboration Vs Protection; we need to fine tune http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Consensus On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, WE is a unique educational wiki project in many respects. We are different, for example, from Wikipedia in the sense that our collaboration is not focused on developing an objective encyclopedia entry resulting from the micro-contributions of a large number of editors. At the same time, we benefit from the advantages associated with mass collaboration, for example shared training materials. Moreover, WE has organised itself as a community of educators working on a wide range of different OER artifacts, for example: open textbooks, OER courses for online teaching, learning activities based on external resources, lessons, articles and research papers, handouts, glossary projects for use as a reference resource, the establishment of project or community nodes, the development of funding proposals as free content etc. Other wiki projects within the OER landscape have organised themselves around the nature of the objects being produced, for instance: Encyclopedia articles in the case of Wikipedia http://www.en.wikipedia.org/ or books in the case of Wikibooks http://www.en.wikibooks.org/ . Therefore we need to think creatively about how our community develops procedures to support the attainment of our individual and collective aims, while respecting the intent of the original creators. For example: - There are institutions which develop courses on WikiEducator which are not intended for collaborative authoring due to local curriculum requirements. - There are individuals who develop materials on WikiEducator which they would like to make available for others to create derivative works, but would prefer not to have other educators edit their materials. - There are many projects in WikiEducator which are seeking wide collaboration and contributions from the community. So the question is: How do we support and respect educator contributions in WE given the different intentions of our individual contributions? Valerie has alerted my attention to this important topic (see: http://wikieducator.org/Thread:Ownership,_status,_granularity_and_category_(3)) -- Thanks Valerie. So what is the best way to signify intent and ownership of OER materials in WikiEducator. How do we communicate and respect a contributor's intention where they do not want collaborative authoring and participation on their OER resources? If an educator finds a valuable resource they want to use and improve -- can they edit and change the resource without creating problems for the original authors resulting from their modifications? Clearly we need a mechanism to visually communicate the intent of the creator to prospective editors. We need a messaging system which says, for instance: - I need help and welcome WikiEducators to collaborate, edit and improve this resource, or - I have no problems if you copy this resource and modify for your own purposes -- but will appreciate if you don't make changes because I'm using this in my course, or - I don't mind editorial improvements but don't want editors to make substantive changes to my OER --- suggestions and comments are welcome on the corresponding talk page. It seems to me that we need a template or content infobox which clearly communicates the intent of the original OER creator in terms of permissible contributions and/or restrictions with regard to community edits. Thoughts? Are there any other intents than those listed above? You gotta love the WikiEducator project -- we're figuring out solutions that work for education. We're pioneering the future that has already happened :-). Cheers Wayne -- 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 -- Warm regards Anil --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: How do we support and respect educator contributions in WE?
Dear Dr.Wayne, I think the ambit of consensus is so broad so that it can include consensus to ‘do not edit’ :) such and such thing….by such and such members….on such and such occasions etc etc Of course it has to deal with editing guidelines and Policy for page protection also I am not challenging the cause to be got protected, but thinking about the right documentation for the same. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anil, I think you're very right about consensus on resources where there is an intent to collaborate on the development of a universal resource which would be applicable in a wide variety of contexts. However, consider for example a Ugandan teacher who is developing an OER on Ugandan history for a Year 10 Class in accordance with the Ugandan national curriculum. For instance, lets say a New Zealand teacher discovers this resource for possible use in a social studies lesson on East Africa under the New Zealand curriculum. Obviously the New Zealand curriculum requirements will be different regarding emphasis, year level and learning objectives. I don't think that it would be fair on the Ugandan teacher for the New Zealand teacher to edit and change the resource. In this example -- I don't think that we are delaing with a collaboration VS protection issue. The Ugandan teacher would like to make his/her teaching materials avialble for adaptation and reuse in other contexts, but would not want teachers from other countries to alter the teaching materials in ways that it may not align with their national curriculum. (If you see what I mean.) I'm thinking here of ways to best communicate the intentions of the resource creator. Its not protected becuase the content is freely available to be copied and modified for use in another learning situation. On the other hand -- resources which are intended for univeral use (and ultimately part of an International Qualifications Framework) would need to focus and support WikiEducator's evolving consensus processes. Does this make sense? Cheers Wayne 2009/10/20 aprasad aplett...@gmail.com Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, It is Collaboration Vs Protection; we need to fine tune http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Consensus On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, WE is a unique educational wiki project in many respects. We are different, for example, from Wikipedia in the sense that our collaboration is not focused on developing an objective encyclopedia entry resulting from the micro-contributions of a large number of editors. At the same time, we benefit from the advantages associated with mass collaboration, for example shared training materials. Moreover, WE has organised itself as a community of educators working on a wide range of different OER artifacts, for example: open textbooks, OER courses for online teaching, learning activities based on external resources, lessons, articles and research papers, handouts, glossary projects for use as a reference resource, the establishment of project or community nodes, the development of funding proposals as free content etc. Other wiki projects within the OER landscape have organised themselves around the nature of the objects being produced, for instance: Encyclopedia articles in the case of Wikipedia http://www.en.wikipedia.org/ or books in the case of Wikibooks http://www.en.wikibooks.org/ . Therefore we need to think creatively about how our community develops procedures to support the attainment of our individual and collective aims, while respecting the intent of the original creators. For example: - There are institutions which develop courses on WikiEducator which are not intended for collaborative authoring due to local curriculum requirements. - There are individuals who develop materials on WikiEducator which they would like to make available for others to create derivative works, but would prefer not to have other educators edit their materials. - There are many projects in WikiEducator which are seeking wide collaboration and contributions from the community. So the question is: How do we support and respect educator contributions in WE given the different intentions of our individual contributions? Valerie has alerted my attention to this important topic (see: http://wikieducator.org/Thread:Ownership,_status,_granularity_and_category_(3)http://wikieducator.org/Thread:Ownership,_status,_granularity_and_category_%283%29) -- Thanks Valerie. So what is the best way to signify intent and ownership of OER materials in WikiEducator. How do we communicate and respect a contributor's intention where they do not want collaborative authoring and participation on their OER resources? If an educator finds a valuable resource they want to use and improve -- can they edit
[WikiEducator] Re: How do we support and respect educator contributions in WE?
Dear Dr. Wayne, You are right. We may list out the instances with reason, the message to be displayed for each instance, develop template and add it on consensus page http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Consensus under a proper sub title. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anil, I see we're on the same page here :-) I'm not calling or suggesting universal protection of pages -- far from it -- it's not the wiki way. I'm looking for us to find solutions within the ambit of our consensus thinking to provide an indication to prospective editors to say please don't edit this page --- what I envisage is a template box which communicates this message -- including the range of reasons this may be necessary within the template box, without protecting the page. Does this make sense? W 2009/10/20 aprasad aplett...@gmail.com Dear Dr.Wayne, I think the ambit of consensus is so broad so that it can include consensus to ‘do not edit’ :) such and such thing….by such and such members….on such and such occasions etc etc Of course it has to deal with editing guidelines and Policy for page protection also I am not challenging the cause to be got protected, but thinking about the right documentation for the same. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anil, I think you're very right about consensus on resources where there is an intent to collaborate on the development of a universal resource which would be applicable in a wide variety of contexts. However, consider for example a Ugandan teacher who is developing an OER on Ugandan history for a Year 10 Class in accordance with the Ugandan national curriculum. For instance, lets say a New Zealand teacher discovers this resource for possible use in a social studies lesson on East Africa under the New Zealand curriculum. Obviously the New Zealand curriculum requirements will be different regarding emphasis, year level and learning objectives. I don't think that it would be fair on the Ugandan teacher for the New Zealand teacher to edit and change the resource. In this example -- I don't think that we are delaing with a collaboration VS protection issue. The Ugandan teacher would like to make his/her teaching materials avialble for adaptation and reuse in other contexts, but would not want teachers from other countries to alter the teaching materials in ways that it may not align with their national curriculum. (If you see what I mean.) I'm thinking here of ways to best communicate the intentions of the resource creator. Its not protected becuase the content is freely available to be copied and modified for use in another learning situation. On the other hand -- resources which are intended for univeral use (and ultimately part of an International Qualifications Framework) would need to focus and support WikiEducator's evolving consensus processes. Does this make sense? Cheers Wayne 2009/10/20 aprasad aplett...@gmail.com Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, It is Collaboration Vs Protection; we need to fine tune http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Consensus On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, WE is a unique educational wiki project in many respects. We are different, for example, from Wikipedia in the sense that our collaboration is not focused on developing an objective encyclopedia entry resulting from the micro-contributions of a large number of editors. At the same time, we benefit from the advantages associated with mass collaboration, for example shared training materials. Moreover, WE has organised itself as a community of educators working on a wide range of different OER artifacts, for example: open textbooks, OER courses for online teaching, learning activities based on external resources, lessons, articles and research papers, handouts, glossary projects for use as a reference resource, the establishment of project or community nodes, the development of funding proposals as free content etc. Other wiki projects within the OER landscape have organised themselves around the nature of the objects being produced, for instance: Encyclopedia articles in the case of Wikipedia http://www.en.wikipedia.org/ or books in the case of Wikibooks http://www.en.wikibooks.org/ . Therefore we need to think creatively about how our community develops procedures to support the attainment of our individual and collective aims, while respecting the intent of the original creators. For example: - There are institutions which develop courses on WikiEducator which are not intended for collaborative authoring due to local curriculum requirements. - There are individuals who develop materials on WikiEducator which they would like to make available for others to create derivative
[WikiEducator] Re: We're making history again
CONGRATULATIONS!!! A PROUD MOMENT INDEED!!! On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, We've just received notification from Jim that he has installed a Hebrew localisation for WE :-) On behalf of OERF and the WikiEducator family I'd like to express our thanks and gratitude to Jim's tireless commitment and technical support. This is an important prototype for WikiEducator being our first language install for a right-to-left language. http://he.WikiEducator.org/ http://he.wikieducator.org/ We're very fortunate to have a dedicated team in Israel under the trusted leadership of Nellie, one of our Community Council members who will guide us through this process. We should take a moment to reflect on the power of the open source software model. None of this would have been possible without the language localisations available using the best wiki software engine in the world -- Mediawiki! Some extensions used by the WikiEducator installation may not be translated yet -- I hope that our WikiEducator colleagues in Israel will help in translating these extensions as our contribution back to the Mediawiki community. Gee -- you gotta love the open source software model. Cheers Wayne -- 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 -- Warm regards Anil Prasad --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: A sneak preview of WYSIWYG editing in WikiEducator :-)
Dear friends, They question Why can't you give some more editing tools in wiki? by the new members in the workshops are now answered. An excellent job! CONGRATULATIONS! There is tremendous scope for further development, let our friends come up with ideas and solutions. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations! This is great! Gita http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.comwrote: A very very useful tool. Congratulations Jim !!! Warm wishes 2009/10/14 Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Hi Everyone, With BIG thanks to Jim Tittsler and his tireless WikiEducator dedication -- we are able to offer WikiEducators a sneak preview and experience of WYSIWYG editing planned for the near future. A health warning -- this is hosted on our beta-test server install in preparation for our upcoming migration to the Athabasca University installation :-). DO NOT spend copious hours editing pages on this site --- every time we update newer snapshots of the real WE database, the edits on the test servers will be erased. However -- we can't hold our excitement back and want to give WikiEducators a sneak preview of this exciting future. Also - don't complain if the server is down -- we're still testing, tweaking and getting things right. 1. Go to: http://we1.wikieducator.net/Main_Page 2. Login with your Wikieducator username and password 3. Select a page in the wiki for editing -- try your user page. 4. Click on the [Rich Editor] link which appears on top of the screen 5. Start having fun with a WYSIWYG editor. Note: - We will implement a more elegant solution for selecting the default editor (eg in user preferences) - We will implement the advancement of rich text editing in Phases (for example, currently editing templates is still not ideal for newbies. We will address this in Phase 2 of the implementation.) - There are still various features and services which are still not operational on the test servers -- these will be migrated before going live on the new install. Looking forward to hearing your feedback, thoughts and suggestions for moving forward. I think this is going to make a big difference to participation from educators around the world. We've waited a long time for this opportunity and its great to see WYSIWYG editing becoming a reality for WE. Cheers Wayne -- 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 -- Gladys Gahona http://www.gladysgahona.com http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Online_schedule/eL4C31 http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops Skype:chela5808 -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: WYSIWYG Editor for WikiEducator
WYSIWYG will definitely bring in more WE editing time. On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, For sometime our Community has requested that we implement a WYSIWYG editor in WikiEducator. Many teachers and educators say that wiki text is a barrier to participation. WikiEducator is keen to respond to these requests. To date, we've been holding back on implementing rich text editing for two reasons: - Maturity of the WYSIWYG technology (Most notably issues with templates and large content pages) - A reliable funding source to implement the refinements that will be necessary for an educational wiki The MediaWiki+FCKeditor project has matured considerably over the last 2 years and we believe that it is now feasible to install WYSIWYG editing for WikiEducator. Also, with funding support from the New Zealand Ministry of Education we are now in a position to start work on the implementation of refinements that will be required for educators (for example, pull down menus for our pedagogical templates incorporating text boxes for the different parameters for these templates). We need to cater for two kinds of users: 1) Those (like myself ;-) ) who prefer wiki syntax to rich text editing and (2) those users who would prefer using a WYSIWYG environment. Fortunately -- the FCKeditor enables users to make the choice. Even within the FCKeditor -- there is an option to edit using wiki text. NOTE: Experienced WikiEducators can continue to edit in the usual way -- They will NOT be required to switch over to Rich Text Editing. I propose that we use a phased approach: - *Phase 1*: Install the FCKeditor WYSIWYG editor as an optional user preference. The editor works well for the majority of editing functions, however the implementation for templates is not ideal and could be confusing for newbies. That said, newbies do not typically start using templates until they are more experienced and experienced editor will know how to use templates should they choose to use the RTE option. Therefore, I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages in holding back on the implementation until we get a better user interface for editing templates. There will be a few pages in WikiEducator where the rich text editor will not work effectively -- for example pages which are largely rendered through templates. On these pages we will turn-off RTE editing. These pages are maintained by experienced editors -- so there shouldn't be any issues in maintaining these pages. During Phase 1, there is a possibility that we will not have WYSIWYG capability for talk pages or the template namespace. - *Phase 2*: Continue with development work regarding the refinements we need for an educational wiki. These enhancements will be released once tested and reliable at a later stage during the project. WikiEducators can test how WYSIWYG editing works using the MediaWiki+FCKeditor project. Create an account and test the editor using the sandbox on this wiki: http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/Sandbox Please try this out and let us know what you think. Thoughts and suggestions are welcome! I think that this is an important and valuable step for WikiEducator and that we should be bold and move forward with the suggestion. Cheers Wayne -- 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 -- Warm regards Anil Prasad --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: India Page Featured WE
CONGRATULATIONS DR. DILIP On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends Dr. Dilip Barad is the Featured WE on India Page. Let us look at his page at: http://wikieducator.org/User:Dilipbarad CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Dilip Barad Warm wishes Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 -- Warm regards Anil Prasad --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Outcome of the voting for officer bearers
Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, Congratulations to all elected officers. As the person who tabled the motion I must inform sincere gratitude to all those who participated in the procedure. I do not suggest reconsideration of procedures, bye On 9/15/09, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I've administered the voting process in accordance with the procedures tabled for the election of officers. Voting has closed. All candidates were duly nominated and members of Council voted in accordance with the procedures specified by the approved motion. As Chair pro tem, in the interests of fairness to all candidates, I have ruled against nominees voting for themselves. The Office bearers elected under this motion are: - Chair: Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg - Deputy Chair: Savithri Singh http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl - Executive Secretary: Alison Snieckushttp://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus(Without voting rights on Council) Anil has raised material concerns with reference to closing the voting time in accordance with procedures tabled for administering the election. I request that members of Council look into the matter to see whether an amendment to the voting procedure should be tabled. See: http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Community_Council/Meetings/Second/Election_of_officers Cheers Wayne -- 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 -- Warm regards Anil Prasad --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Outcome of the voting for officer bearers
Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, Congratulations to all elected officers. As the person who tabled the motion I must inform sincere gratitude to all those who participated in the process. I do not suggest reconsideration of procedures, bye On 9/15/09, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I've administered the voting process in accordance with the procedures tabled for the election of officers. Voting has closed. All candidates were duly nominated and members of Council voted in accordance with the procedures specified by the approved motion. As Chair pro tem, in the interests of fairness to all candidates, I have ruled against nominees voting for themselves. The Office bearers elected under this motion are: - Chair: Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg - Deputy Chair: Savithri Singh http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl - Executive Secretary: Alison Snieckushttp://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus(Without voting rights on Council) Anil has raised material concerns with reference to closing the voting time in accordance with procedures tabled for administering the election. I request that members of Council look into the matter to see whether an amendment to the voting procedure should be tabled. See: http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Community_Council/Meetings/Second/Election_of_officers Cheers Wayne -- 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 -- Warm regards Anil Prasad --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Cape Town Open Education Sign-Up
Hello John, DONE! On 8/31/09, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com wrote: As discussed in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/0e3d599bb19e7bd8#, the Open Education Foundation would like to have a mass sign-up of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration by WE members on 17 September, 2009 as part of the official launch of the Open Education Resources Foundation. As part of that I have created two pages; first is a short fact sheet on the Cape Town declaration here: http://www.wikieducator.org/CapeTown. Of course, feel free to add additional material Secondly, I created a page for people to list their names either if they have already sign the declaration or if they have not and wish to do so on 17 September: http://www.wikieducator.org/CapeTown/WE_Sign_Up. So, please add you name if you have already signed or wish to. Best regards, John http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com -- Warm regards Anil Prasad --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Strategy for future online L4Cs by OERF; suggestions
Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, I think that OERF requires a different strategy for future online L4C workshops. While we keep it open for all, we may also give thrust to specific region in each workshop. The Facilitators would be bound to formally contact heads of a certain minimum numbers of academic institutions from that region to discuss the programme and to facilitate participation from such institutions. It may also be insisted that a certain number of active WikiEducators (Ambassadors) from such regions should Co-facilitate the online L4C to ensure fruitful communications as above. All the above measures are suggested to ensure that a good percentage of serious prospective contributors are inducted to the community after each workshop. This will also help us to bring in more institutional partners to OERF. Above suggestions are not comprehensive, and also hope they are not wild smile -- Warm regards Anil Prasad --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration
Hi, it is right; solidarity is always a positive social gesture. I have signed it early March this year. On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John that's a very astute observation :-) You will see that I'm personally one of the early signatories of the declaration -- see the bottom of this page: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration :-) Also, Otago Polytechnic (the host institution of the OER Foundation) is also a signatory of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration) -- I can assure you that we're 150% behind the document. WikiEducator committed to the Free cultural works definition ( http://freedomdefined.org/Definition) before the inception of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. I've been holding my breath that no one would notice the absense of the OERF signature - we're a new non profit -- Now the cat is out of the bag ;-) -- We're planning the official launch of the OER Foundation to coincide with Software Freedom Day which is celebrated on 17 September around the world. We've been holding back on the official launch of the OER Foundation for this important day. See: http://softwarefreedomday.org/ One of our planned activities will be the OERF's official signing of the Cape Town Open Content Declaration. Now that our launch secret is now public -- perhaps we should plan a global WikiEducator initiative invloving individuals signing the Open Content Declaration and having a page dedicated to all WikiEducators who sign the declaration on SFD. No need for a WE council decision on this -- we adopted free content licensing as a core value of WE from the start of the project :-). Is a non-negotiable value of the community. Perhaps we need an informal workgroup to plan activities around SFD coinciding with the official launch of the OERF. Thoughts? Cheers Wayne 2009/8/21 john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com The Wikieducator website home page has a link to the Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration (even though indirectly through the featured institution section). But looking through the list of signatories, I noticed that the OER Foundation is not a signatory to the declaration. Not sure if such a decision would need to be approved by the Council. P.S. All wikieducators should also sign the declaration if you have not already. You can sign here: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/sign-the-declaration http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com -- 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 -- Warm regards Anil Prasad --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Featured WE 08/2009 on India page
Dear friends, Dr. Sarita Kumar ( http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjay ), Associate Professor in Zoology in Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi is now featured on the India page of WikiEducator ( http://www.wikieducator.org/India ). Let us congratulate Dr. Sarita Kumar -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Policy guidelines for Admin/Sysops - draft Charter of the Workgroup for feedback
Dear all, The Workgroup for developing policy and guidelines for the WikiEducator Admin/Sysops users has developed a draft charter for its functioning. The charter is an internal management mechanism to regulate the functioning of the group including specific working objectives for the group, activity plan, discussion and approval procedures etc. The draft charter is available for review at http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Administrators page. The workgroup will consider all feedback and comments added below the Wrapping up section on the above project page or on its talk page before 3 August 2009. The members of the workgroup shall indicate their approvals for the final draft by signing under the vote for the charter section by 4 August 2009. In this scenario - a majority vote by workgroup members would indicate the Workgroups's approval. Once the above charter is approved by the Workgroup, an asynchronous meeting of the Workgroup will commence on http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Administrators page to develop policies and guidelines for the WikiEducator Admin/Sysops users. This is a very important initiative and hence we invite all our esteemed community members to visit http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Administrators and add their invaluable feedback. For the workgroup, -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Updating current events page
Dear all, Please don’t forget to update http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Current_events page. The events could be: Workshops related to WikiEducator, Training Programmes related to WikiEducator, Talks related to WikiEducator, Meetings/conferences in your organization or locality where WikiEducator will be presented or discussed, Publishing of features on Main/Country/Project pages, Comments being made by prominent personalities on WikiEducator, Appearance of media reports relating to WikiEducator,Opening of new projects on WikiEducator, Important turning points related to existing projects, News regarding adoption of OER from WikiEducator by Institutions/Academic bodies,Content donations being received by WikiEducator,Important announcements related to WikiEducator,News about important accomplishments/achievements of WikiEducator community members etc etc. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Business Procees for WE; Policy and Guidelines - Discussion 2
Dear friends, The first discussion posted in this respect the previous day was a kind of ice breaker. Even though it received only a few remarks, I am confident that many members might have read it and may be thinking about it. So we are now entering into the second round of discussions in this matter. WikiEducator community has achieved enviable growth within a short span of time with the seamless efforts put in by the whole community starting from Dr. Wayne. Now in order to make the growth sustainable and the whole business process of the community flawless and stable, we have to prepare detailed policies and guidelines for performing user rights and managing the community along with complaint handling mechanisms. Rather than venturing a new set up, we may study existing good examples and adopt as much as possible to avoid wastage of valuable time and efforts. That is, we are not going to indulge in “reinventing the wheel again and again”. In this regard I would suggest a through discussion on Wikipedia model that is tested by time. It is not possible to brief the whole system of Wikipedia here; however I will highlight some major points that will be helpful to our members who are not familiar with Wikipedia content/community administration procedures. In Wikipedia there are Policies and Guidelines. For Wikipedia “Policies have wide acceptance among editors and are considered a standard that, with rare exceptions, all users should follow” and “Guidelines are considered more advisory than policies, with exceptions more likely to occur. If a guideline appears to conflict with a policy, then the policy should in most cases take precedence over the guideline. However, this does not mean that it is appropriate to ignore guidelines simply because they are guidelines; like the policies, they exist for good reasons”. Following are the Policies of Wikipedia: • Behavioral: standards for behavior on Wikipedia to make it a pleasant experience for everyone. • Content: define which topics are welcome on Wikipedia, and provide quality and naming standards. • Deletion: the body of policies dealing with page deletion. • Enforcement: what actions editors can take to enforce other policies. • Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used here, and remedies for misuse. Following are the guidelines for Wikipedia • Behavioral guidelines outline ways for editors to behave and interact with each other on talk pages and elsewhere at Wikipedia. • Content guidelines apply only to the article namespace (unless otherwise specified in the guideline), and offer advice on identifying and including encyclopedic information in articles. • Deletion guidelines explain criteria and procedures for deleting unwanted pages. • Editing guidelines usually provide non-content advice about categorization, navigation or other how-to-edit advice for editors. • Naming conventions apply only to the article namespace and detail the correct ways to refer to many people, places, things, and events. • Notability guidelines apply only to the article namespace; they outline the criteria that a subject must meet to merit an article at Wikipedia. • Style guidelines apply only to the article namespace and detail extensive advice on writing style, formatting, grammar, and more. Again, Wikipedia has user categories with specific rights as we do have at WE (http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:ListGroupRights) . Except for users and auto confirmed, there is a request and approval mechanism to get the roles of your preference. Based on the above policies and guidelines the functions of each role in the community are defined and explained in detail. For example see the details for Admin/synops (synops means system operators) here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMIN As WikiEducator is a community concentrating on the development of content relating to Qualification Frameworks and Courses for both formal and non-formal education sectors we may have to develop additional procedures and user hierarchies. All these has to be based on the essential freedoms that WE believe in. Now community may think about a strategic outline for this crucial project to commence. Strategic outline should cover the initial steps to be taken. It may cover: Giving a name to the project Open a project page List out priorities Categorize tasks Form separate work groups for each categories of task And more Definitely it is not going to be an easy task. It may take years for us to reach some where near our destination. Therefore we have to start at the earliest. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters
[WikiEducator] Business Process for WE; Policy and G uidelines – Discussion 2
Dear friends, The first discussion posted in this respect (on the previous day) was a kind of ice breaker. Even though it received only a few remarks, I am confident that many members might have read it and may be thinking about it. So we are now entering into the second round of discussions in this matter. WikiEducator community has achieved enviable growth within a short span of time with the seamless efforts put in by the whole community starting from Dr. Wayne. Now in order to make the growth sustainable and the whole business process of the community flawless and stable, we have to prepare detailed policies and guidelines for performing user rights and managing the community along with complaint handling mechanisms. Rather than venturing a new set up, we may study existing good examples and adopt as much as possible to avoid wastage of valuable time and efforts. That is, we are not going to indulge in “reinventing the wheel again and again”. In this regard I would suggest a through discussion on Wikipedia model that is tested by time. It is not possible to brief the whole system of Wikipedia here; however I will highlight some major points that will be helpful to our members who are not familiar with Wikipedia content/community administration procedures. In Wikipedia there are Policies and Guidelines. For Wikipedia “Policies have wide acceptance among editors and are considered a standard that, with rare exceptions, all users should follow” and “Guidelines are considered more advisory than policies, with exceptions more likely to occur. If a guideline appears to conflict with a policy, then the policy should in most cases take precedence over the guideline. However, this does not mean that it is appropriate to ignore guidelines simply because they are guidelines; like the policies, they exist for good reasons”. Following are the Policies of Wikipedia: • Behavioral: standards for behavior on Wikipedia to make it a pleasant experience for everyone. • Content: define which topics are welcome on Wikipedia, and provide quality and naming standards. • Deletion: the body of policies dealing with page deletion. • Enforcement: what actions editors can take to enforce other policies. • Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used here, and remedies for misuse. Following are the guidelines for Wikipedia • Behavioral guidelines outline ways for editors to behave and interact with each other on talk pages and elsewhere at Wikipedia. • Content guidelines apply only to the article namespace (unless otherwise specified in the guideline), and offer advice on identifying and including encyclopedic information in articles. • Deletion guidelines explain criteria and procedures for deleting unwanted pages. • Editing guidelines usually provide non-content advice about categorization, navigation or other how-to-edit advice for editors. • Naming conventions apply only to the article namespace and detail the correct ways to refer to many people, places, things, and events. • Notability guidelines apply only to the article namespace; they outline the criteria that a subject must meet to merit an article at Wikipedia. • Style guidelines apply only to the article namespace and detail extensive advice on writing style, formatting, grammar, and more. Again, Wikipedia has user categories with specific rights as we do have at WE (http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:ListGroupRights) . Except for users and auto confirmed, there is a request and approval mechanism to get the roles of your preference. Based on the above policies and guidelines the functions of each role in the community are defined and explained in detail. For example see the details for Admin/synops (synops means system operators) here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMIN As WikiEducator is a community concentrating on the development of content relating to Qualification Frameworks and Courses for both formal and non-formal education sectors we may have to develop additional procedures and user hierarchies. All these has to be based on the essential freedoms that WE believe in. Now community may think about a strategic outline for this crucial project to commence. Strategic outline should cover the initial steps to be taken. It may cover: Giving a name to the project Open a project page List out priorities Categorize tasks Form separate work groups for each categories of task And more Definitely it is not going to be an easy task. It may take years for us to reach some where near our destination. Therefore we have to start at the earliest. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype:
[WikiEducator] Re: Business Process for WE; Policy a nd Guidelines – Discussion 2
Thank you Nellie, your contribution is most anticipated. On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Great initiative, Anil. Build it and WE will follow. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:35 PM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, The first discussion posted in this respect (on the previous day) was a kind of ice breaker. Even though it received only a few remarks, I am confident that many members might have read it and may be thinking about it. So we are now entering into the second round of discussions in this matter. WikiEducator community has achieved enviable growth within a short span of time with the seamless efforts put in by the whole community starting from Dr. Wayne. Now in order to make the growth sustainable and the whole business process of the community flawless and stable, we have to prepare detailed policies and guidelines for performing user rights and managing the community along with complaint handling mechanisms. Rather than venturing a new set up, we may study existing good examples and adopt as much as possible to avoid wastage of valuable time and efforts. That is, we are not going to indulge in “reinventing the wheel again and again”. In this regard I would suggest a through discussion on Wikipedia model that is tested by time. It is not possible to brief the whole system of Wikipedia here; however I will highlight some major points that will be helpful to our members who are not familiar with Wikipedia content/community administration procedures. In Wikipedia there are Policies and Guidelines. For Wikipedia “Policies have wide acceptance among editors and are considered a standard that, with rare exceptions, all users should follow” and “Guidelines are considered more advisory than policies, with exceptions more likely to occur. If a guideline appears to conflict with a policy, then the policy should in most cases take precedence over the guideline. However, this does not mean that it is appropriate to ignore guidelines simply because they are guidelines; like the policies, they exist for good reasons”. Following are the Policies of Wikipedia: • Behavioral: standards for behavior on Wikipedia to make it a pleasant experience for everyone. • Content: define which topics are welcome on Wikipedia, and provide quality and naming standards. • Deletion: the body of policies dealing with page deletion. • Enforcement: what actions editors can take to enforce other policies. • Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used here, and remedies for misuse. Following are the guidelines for Wikipedia • Behavioral guidelines outline ways for editors to behave and interact with each other on talk pages and elsewhere at Wikipedia. • Content guidelines apply only to the article namespace (unless otherwise specified in the guideline), and offer advice on identifying and including encyclopedic information in articles. • Deletion guidelines explain criteria and procedures for deleting unwanted pages. • Editing guidelines usually provide non-content advice about categorization, navigation or other how-to-edit advice for editors. • Naming conventions apply only to the article namespace and detail the correct ways to refer to many people, places, things, and events. • Notability guidelines apply only to the article namespace; they outline the criteria that a subject must meet to merit an article at Wikipedia. • Style guidelines apply only to the article namespace and detail extensive advice on writing style, formatting, grammar, and more. Again, Wikipedia has user categories with specific rights as we do have at WE (http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:ListGroupRights) . Except for users and auto confirmed, there is a request and approval mechanism to get the roles of your preference. Based on the above policies and guidelines the functions of each role in the community are defined and explained in detail. For example see the details for Admin/synops (synops means system operators) here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMIN As WikiEducator is a community concentrating on the development of content relating to Qualification Frameworks and Courses for both formal and non-formal education sectors we may have to develop additional procedures and user hierarchies. All these has to be based on the essential freedoms that WE believe in. Now community may think about a strategic outline for this crucial project to commence. Strategic outline should cover the initial steps to be taken. It may cover: Giving a name to the project Open a project page List out
[WikiEducator] Re: Business Process for WE; Policy a nd Guidelines – Discussion 2
Thank you Gladys, ardent WE Ambassadors like you make the goals attainable. On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Anil, You are certainly making the task easier, thank you for the invaluable information you are providing on the posts. As Nellie said, WE follow :) Warm wishes 2009/7/11 aprasad aplett...@gmail.com Dear friends, The first discussion posted in this respect (on the previous day) was a kind of ice breaker. Even though it received only a few remarks, I am confident that many members might have read it and may be thinking about it. So we are now entering into the second round of discussions in this matter. WikiEducator community has achieved enviable growth within a short span of time with the seamless efforts put in by the whole community starting from Dr. Wayne. Now in order to make the growth sustainable and the whole business process of the community flawless and stable, we have to prepare detailed policies and guidelines for performing user rights and managing the community along with complaint handling mechanisms. Rather than venturing a new set up, we may study existing good examples and adopt as much as possible to avoid wastage of valuable time and efforts. That is, we are not going to indulge in “reinventing the wheel again and again”. In this regard I would suggest a through discussion on Wikipedia model that is tested by time. It is not possible to brief the whole system of Wikipedia here; however I will highlight some major points that will be helpful to our members who are not familiar with Wikipedia content/community administration procedures. In Wikipedia there are Policies and Guidelines. For Wikipedia “Policies have wide acceptance among editors and are considered a standard that, with rare exceptions, all users should follow” and “Guidelines are considered more advisory than policies, with exceptions more likely to occur. If a guideline appears to conflict with a policy, then the policy should in most cases take precedence over the guideline. However, this does not mean that it is appropriate to ignore guidelines simply because they are guidelines; like the policies, they exist for good reasons”. Following are the Policies of Wikipedia: • Behavioral: standards for behavior on Wikipedia to make it a pleasant experience for everyone. • Content: define which topics are welcome on Wikipedia, and provide quality and naming standards. • Deletion: the body of policies dealing with page deletion. • Enforcement: what actions editors can take to enforce other policies. • Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used here, and remedies for misuse. Following are the guidelines for Wikipedia • Behavioral guidelines outline ways for editors to behave and interact with each other on talk pages and elsewhere at Wikipedia. • Content guidelines apply only to the article namespace (unless otherwise specified in the guideline), and offer advice on identifying and including encyclopedic information in articles. • Deletion guidelines explain criteria and procedures for deleting unwanted pages. • Editing guidelines usually provide non-content advice about categorization, navigation or other how-to-edit advice for editors. • Naming conventions apply only to the article namespace and detail the correct ways to refer to many people, places, things, and events. • Notability guidelines apply only to the article namespace; they outline the criteria that a subject must meet to merit an article at Wikipedia. • Style guidelines apply only to the article namespace and detail extensive advice on writing style, formatting, grammar, and more. Again, Wikipedia has user categories with specific rights as we do have at WE (http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:ListGroupRights) . Except for users and auto confirmed, there is a request and approval mechanism to get the roles of your preference. Based on the above policies and guidelines the functions of each role in the community are defined and explained in detail. For example see the details for Admin/synops (synops means system operators) here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMIN As WikiEducator is a community concentrating on the development of content relating to Qualification Frameworks and Courses for both formal and non-formal education sectors we may have to develop additional procedures and user hierarchies. All these has to be based on the essential freedoms that WE believe in. Now community may think about a strategic outline for this crucial project to commence. Strategic outline should cover the initial steps to be taken. It may cover: Giving a name to the project Open a project page List out priorities Categorize tasks Form separate work groups for each categories of task And more Definitely it is not going to be an easy task. It may take years for us
[WikiEducator] Re: Business Process for WE; Policy a nd Guidelines – Discussion 2
Thank you Dr. Sarita ji, now let us think about a strategic implementation plan for the project. On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Sarita Kumar sarita.sanja...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Anil Sir, Thanks for taking this great initiative and providing the information below. We will try hard to reach the goals at the earliest. Regards Sarita On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:58 PM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Gladys, ardent WE Ambassadors like you make the goals attainable. On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Anil, You are certainly making the task easier, thank you for the invaluable information you are providing on the posts. As Nellie said, WE follow :) Warm wishes 2009/7/11 aprasad aplett...@gmail.com Dear friends, The first discussion posted in this respect (on the previous day) was a kind of ice breaker. Even though it received only a few remarks, I am confident that many members might have read it and may be thinking about it. So we are now entering into the second round of discussions in this matter. WikiEducator community has achieved enviable growth within a short span of time with the seamless efforts put in by the whole community starting from Dr. Wayne. Now in order to make the growth sustainable and the whole business process of the community flawless and stable, we have to prepare detailed policies and guidelines for performing user rights and managing the community along with complaint handling mechanisms. Rather than venturing a new set up, we may study existing good examples and adopt as much as possible to avoid wastage of valuable time and efforts. That is, we are not going to indulge in “reinventing the wheel again and again”. In this regard I would suggest a through discussion on Wikipedia model that is tested by time. It is not possible to brief the whole system of Wikipedia here; however I will highlight some major points that will be helpful to our members who are not familiar with Wikipedia content/community administration procedures. In Wikipedia there are Policies and Guidelines. For Wikipedia “Policies have wide acceptance among editors and are considered a standard that, with rare exceptions, all users should follow” and “Guidelines are considered more advisory than policies, with exceptions more likely to occur. If a guideline appears to conflict with a policy, then the policy should in most cases take precedence over the guideline. However, this does not mean that it is appropriate to ignore guidelines simply because they are guidelines; like the policies, they exist for good reasons”. Following are the Policies of Wikipedia: • Behavioral: standards for behavior on Wikipedia to make it a pleasant experience for everyone. • Content: define which topics are welcome on Wikipedia, and provide quality and naming standards. • Deletion: the body of policies dealing with page deletion. • Enforcement: what actions editors can take to enforce other policies. • Legal and copyright: law-based rules about what material may be used here, and remedies for misuse. Following are the guidelines for Wikipedia • Behavioral guidelines outline ways for editors to behave and interact with each other on talk pages and elsewhere at Wikipedia. • Content guidelines apply only to the article namespace (unless otherwise specified in the guideline), and offer advice on identifying and including encyclopedic information in articles. • Deletion guidelines explain criteria and procedures for deleting unwanted pages. • Editing guidelines usually provide non-content advice about categorization, navigation or other how-to-edit advice for editors. • Naming conventions apply only to the article namespace and detail the correct ways to refer to many people, places, things, and events. • Notability guidelines apply only to the article namespace; they outline the criteria that a subject must meet to merit an article at Wikipedia. • Style guidelines apply only to the article namespace and detail extensive advice on writing style, formatting, grammar, and more. Again, Wikipedia has user categories with specific rights as we do have at WE (http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:ListGroupRights) . Except for users and auto confirmed, there is a request and approval mechanism to get the roles of your preference. Based on the above policies and guidelines the functions of each role in the community are defined and explained in detail. For example see the details for Admin/synops (synops means system operators) here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMIN As WikiEducator is a community concentrating on the development of content relating to Qualification Frameworks and Courses for both formal and non-formal education sectors we may have to develop additional procedures and user hierarchies. All these has to be based on the essential
[WikiEducator] Re: Ethics for executing user rights
Dear all, Our community is always generous in identifying and appreciating the great efforts put in by our members. Let us give a loud applause to all great works! Now coming to the real subject, normally group list discussions will deviate from subject as it become lengthy and will be difficult to consolidate. Earlier in many occasions, like the series of discussions on TQF triggered by Leigh etc we have faced hard times in consolidating the inputs. Therefore the collaborative development of the ideas on Wiki is the ideal way smile. Therefore we may form groups (like the groups already started for policies) to work out guidelines against each user right. To start with, we may form four groups to discuss guidelines for the user rights of the following four user categories. Bureaucrats Sysops Bots Users including auto confirmed. *Community may suggest a proper page url for the guidelines preparation project *sub pagesfor each group may be opened from the project page. *Interested memebrs may list their names on the group pages *On the sub page/group page, each user right may be given as a section and below that draft guidelines may be attempted. The above work will become a valuable resource for the overall WE Policy development. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: I am only left to reciprocate, thanks everybody. Always a pleasure and never a chore Warm wishes, Patricia -- *From:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *NELLIE DEUTSCH *Sent:* Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:46 PM *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Ethics for executing user rights You guys are very kind. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Amihai, In fact, Nellie and Patricia /are/ sysops: see the special page http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsersusername=group=sysoplimit=50 . I can already tell it's much deserved, as well! Jesse -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Ethics for executing user rights
Hi Nellie, You are right usages can some times go out of scope, what would you mean when some form read Write YES or NO against each question'' smile Said that, let us wait for more comments before opening a page WE page. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest you go ahead and start the process on the wiki, Anil. I am not sure whether this falls on a workgroup that is already there. WE involves an international community with multiple cultures and languages. I refrained from using the word diversity. However, we should clarify and be extra cautious when using words or expressions that may offend some members. For example; can you clarify what you mean when you say against each user right in the following sentence: Therefore we may form groups (like the groups already started for policies) to work out guidelines against each user right. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:07 AM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Our community is always generous in identifying and appreciating the great efforts put in by our members. Let us give a loud applause to all great works! Now coming to the real subject, normally group list discussions will deviate from subject as it become lengthy and will be difficult to consolidate. Earlier in many occasions, like the series of discussions on TQF triggered by Leigh etc we have faced hard times in consolidating the inputs. Therefore the collaborative development of the ideas on Wiki is the ideal way smile. Therefore we may form groups (like the groups already started for policies) to work out guidelines against each user right. To start with, we may form four groups to discuss guidelines for the user rights of the following four user categories. Bureaucrats Sysops Bots Users including auto confirmed. *Community may suggest a proper page url for the guidelines preparation project *sub pagesfor each group may be opened from the project page. *Interested memebrs may list their names on the group pages *On the sub page/group page, each user right may be given as a section and below that draft guidelines may be attempted. The above work will become a valuable resource for the overall WE Policy development. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: I am only left to reciprocate, thanks everybody. Always a pleasure and never a chore Warm wishes, Patricia -- *From:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *NELLIE DEUTSCH *Sent:* Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:46 PM *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Ethics for executing user rights You guys are very kind. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Amihai, In fact, Nellie and Patricia /are/ sysops: see the special page http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsersusername=group=sysoplimit=50 . I can already tell it's much deserved, as well! Jesse -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Ethics for executing user rights
Jesse, This proposal may wait till somebody say 'Let us open a new page' smile On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Anil, I agree with Nellie. If a group like that doesn't already exist, create it. Start off the discussion with some basic idea of what you think should be in the guidelines. Jesse http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi NELLIE DEUTSCH wrote: Anil, I must confess, I have never encountered against in that way. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:39 AM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie, You are right usages can some times go out of scope, what would you mean when some form read Write YES or NO against each question'' smile Said that, let us wait for more comments before opening a page WE page. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest you go ahead and start the process on the wiki, Anil. I am not sure whether this falls on a workgroup that is already there. WE involves an international community with multiple cultures and languages. I refrained from using the word diversity. However, we should clarify and be extra cautious when using words or expressions that may offend some members. For example; can you clarify what you mean when you say against each user right in the following sentence: Therefore we may form groups (like the groups already started for policies) to work out guidelines against each user right. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:07 AM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Our community is always generous in identifying and appreciating the great efforts put in by our members. Let us give a loud applause to all great works! Now coming to the real subject, normally group list discussions will deviate from subject as it become lengthy and will be difficult to consolidate. Earlier in many occasions, like the series of discussions on TQF triggered by Leigh etc we have faced hard times in consolidating the inputs. Therefore the collaborative development of the ideas on Wiki is the ideal way smile. Therefore we may form groups (like the groups already started for policies) to work out guidelines against each user right. To start with, we may form four groups to discuss guidelines for the user rights of the following four user categories. Bureaucrats Sysops Bots Users including auto confirmed. *Community may suggest a proper page url for the guidelines preparation project *sub pagesfor each group may be opened from the project page. *Interested memebrs may list their names on the group pages *On the sub page/group page, each user right may be given as a section and below that draft guidelines may be attempted. The above work will become a valuable resource for the overall WE Policy development. On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: I am only left to reciprocate, thanks everybody. Always a pleasure and never a chore Warm wishes, Patricia -- *From:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *NELLIE DEUTSCH *Sent:* Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:46 PM *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Ethics for executing user rights You guys are very kind. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Amihai, In fact, Nellie and Patricia /are/ sysops: see the special page http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsersusername=group=sysoplimit=50 . I can already tell it's much deserved, as well! Jesse -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org
[WikiEducator] Ethics for executing user rights
Dear all, We are all very happy to see the growth of our WikiEducator family with brilliant addition of more and more enthusiastic members each day. Now I think, it is time to think about community governance guidelines for each category of users…and it is urgent. If preparation of a comprehensive community governance proposal by the community and deliberation by WCC would take time, we may adopt interim guidelines for the time being. Following four categories of users are now crucial to the community. Bureaucrats Sysops Bots Users including auto confirmed. Though the rights of the above hierarchy of users are listed at http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:ListGroupRights , general ethics to be followed while executing the rights are yet to be framed. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Ethics for executing user rights
Hi Jesse, In every open communities, user rights are required to be regulated by ethics or you may call guidelines, for example Sysops can delete pages, it should be subject to certain principles otherwise it will create chaos and disputes. One of the best examples for such guidelines/ethics is Wikipedia community governance model. On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Anil, I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Could you supply some examples of where this sort of policy has already been implemented? And I could just be out of the loop because I'm new to WE, but what is the reasoning behind needing such a thing? Jesse http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: COL features WE projects: Connections June 2009
I just read it. Its GREAT!, this news has been added at http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Current_events On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, The Commonwealth of Learning has included two feature articles on WikiEducator in Connections: 1) A front page item on WikiEducator's Learning4Content project: http://www.col.org/news/Connections/2009jun/Pages/default.aspx 2) An article on the News section covering the launch of WE going independent. http://www.col.org/news/Connections/2009jun/Pages/News.aspx 3) In addition, the WikiEducator's new teacher collaboration portal has been features as a new resource http://www.col.org/news/Connections/2009jun/Pages/NewResources.aspx I commend COL's foresight and courage for nurturing the establishment of WikiEducator and their ongoing support in contributing financially to the support of our technical infrastructure. Well done COL! You saw the future of OERs and ICT4Development combined with the wisdom to allow a succesfull project grow and prosper as an independent project. You can download a full copy of the June 2009 addition of Connections here (Note 1.17MB download) http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/Connex_June2009.pdf -- 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 -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: July UPE: Anubha Das
CONGRATS ANUBHA On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Peter prawstho...@gmail.com wrote: A large round of applause for Anubha Das. Anubha has been an active contributor to WikiEducator since February 2009. After being directed to Anubhas' profile page I was struck by its comprehensiveness and couldn't help but commenting to myself how it is as exemplary as a UPE could be. After reading through all the contents of Anubhas' profile page I feel I now know this WE community member, even though we have never met in a workshop or a discussion I know we could share many stories and enjoy a walk through a heavily forested trail. It is with great pleasure to award Anubha Das the July 2009 featured user page. Congratulations, Anubha Das. http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE#July_2009 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Yanubha Nellie, Patricia Peter -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Nomination for User Page Expo Award - Halim from Bangladesh
Dear all, I would like to nominate Mr. Halim from Banglades for the next months User Page Expo Award http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE Plz see his page at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:M._A._Halim He coordinates the Bangladesh WikiEducator Chapter related activities. Plz also see http://www.wikieducator.org/Bangladesh and the linked pages thereon to see his contributions. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Current events page
Thank you Ms.Valerie, let us build it together On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:01 PM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anil A WE Currents events page is a wonderful idea. Thanks. On Jun 22, 9:51 pm, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: While we discuss the future strategies for WikiEducator we may also maintain thehttp://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Current_eventspage regularly updated. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: June's UPE is Phil Bartle
HI DEAR PHIL, CONGRATULATIONS! On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Phil Congratulations for UPE Award. Warm wishes Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 06:40 -0500, Gladys Gahona wrote: Yes indeed Peter, Phil makes very good things happen, and I am honored to congratulate my dear friend for being such a wonderful person!! Felicitaciones Phil. Warm greetings 2009/6/3 Peter prawstho...@gmail.com When I first came across Phils' work I couldn't help but have a big smile on my face. I like his tag line of No rest for the wikied. I know of a saying No rest for the wicked. I wonder how these two relate ;) As I further explored Phils' work I was encouraged by his works in making WikiEducator available in four languages (English, Spanish, Portugese French). He may not be doing the translation himself, yet he is making things happen. Also, take a look around all of Phils' profile sub-pages so much great work in bring references and resources together. It is with great pleasure to award Phil Bartle (http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle) the June 2009 featured user page. Congratulations, Phil. -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary Tertiary grades. http://storytelling-cultures.ning.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 Skype:chela5808 -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Launching WikiEducator Germany
It is a great moment, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TEAM! On 5/5/09, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: Dear Friends, Likewise, I would like to follow in Jorge’s, Gladys’, Ben’s and Ricardo’s footsteps and announce the launch of WikiEducator Germany, a work in progress http://www.wikieducator.org/Germany Cheers, Patricia *From:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Gladys Gahona *Sent:* Monday, May 04, 2009 1:01 PM *To:* WikiEducator Main Discussion List *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Launching WikiEducator Mexico Dear WikiEducators, We are very happy to announce the launching of WikiEducator Mexico, WEMEX. Please visit us at http://wikieducator.org/Mexico Meet the pioneering team at: http://wikieducator.org/Mexico/WEMEX Cheers Jorge,Gladys,Ben and Ricardo -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary Tertiary grades. http://chela5808.wordpress.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 Skype:chela5808 -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] India Page Featured user May/2009
Dear all, Dr. Gita Mathur (http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur) is the featured user of India page (www.wikieducator.org/India) of WikiEducator for May/2009. Let us Congratulate Dr. Gita Mathur. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: a question of copyright
Dear Phil, It depends on the (implied smile) terms and conditions under which the journal accepts and publishes articles. Legally, you have to refer those conditions before sharing them again. Alternatively, in future cases, you can insist a suitable open license for you articles when you give it to some publisher. Recently I heard an interesting incident about how a veteran writer made a veteran newspaper here to write 'Copy left' under his feature. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: If I write an article and an academic journal publishes it, does the journal own the copyright, so the only things I can do with it is to cite it or quote it? Or, do I still own the copyright? If I own the copyright do I have the right to upload it to WikiEducator and therefore change the copyright to ca by se? Phil If the coach does the pushups, The athlete will not get stronger Community Empowerment: www.scn.org/cmp/ WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: L4C is making history! - We need your help
Definitely, Ms. Patricia's contributions to our family are invaluable. All of us repeat the BIG thanks to her. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.orgwrote: Hi Nellie, Yeah -- the kudos belongs to the WIikiEducator community and folk like yourselves who never sleep helping others on their path to becoming active contributors to the OER movement. We shouldn't forget the amazing admin and facilitation support we have among our family. I've just remembered a very serious omission in my post about L4C statistics -- and that is my thanks to Wiki Patricia who meticulously keeps track of our all our statistics for the L4C project -- This is a huge task given the global scale of this project and we wouldn't have been able to achieve half of what we have without Patricia's tireless administration behind the scenes -- not too mention her skills as online facilitator as well. I know that she's blushing as I am posting this email because she doesn't expect public recognition. Nonetheless, every time I ask for the status on our L4C project -- within minutes Patricia has emailed a detailed spreadsheet to me of all the vital stats on the L4C project so that I can make these impressive announcements on the list. On behalf of the community --- BIG thanks Patricia. Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 01:44 -0700, NELLIE DEUTSCH wrote: Wayne, Congratulations to all the members of Wikieducator and the ones to come!!! And they will come :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C24 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller skype:nelliedeutschmuller On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.org wrote: Hi everyone, I've just updated our latest statistics for the Learning4Content initiative. WikiEducator is making history. WE have launched and implemented (to the best of my knowledge) the largest wiki training project for educators in the world! 2360 participants have registered for 73 L4C workshops since January 2008. If you do the mental math this averages out at 1.14 workshops per week! WE have launched 23 Online workshops and 50 Face-to-face workshops in 30 different countries, including: Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Canada, Cameroon, Israel, India, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Kenya, Kingdom of Tonga, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Saint Kitts Nevis, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda and Zambia. On a personal note -- I concede that I did have a few sleepless nights wondering whether we would be able to achieve our ambitious target of 2500 educators by the end of round 1 of the funding for this project ;-). How could I doubt the open community model? WE have now achieved 94% of our target of 2500 educators. WE still have a few workshops to go before 30 June 2009 under round 1 of the L4C project. Please invite your friends and colleagues to sign up for one of the remaining online L4C workshops: http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration Spread the word at your organisations, post invitations on your discussion lists and your blogs. Let's show the world how we can exceed our targets. A BIG thank you to the WikiEducator community and all the amazing L4C facilitators around the world who have turned this dream into reality. When we started L4C, there were only 3 facilitators. Our list of L4C facilitators is now nearing 30 with many L4C graduates becoming trainers in their own right. You've got to love the scalability of the open model :-). I'm working on a funding proposal to continue with work with L4C capacity building around the world. I'm also seeking to secure funding to assist with the development and implementation of an L4C Intermediate level course. Given the overwhelming success of L4C -- I'm confident that we will find additional funding to widen access to capacity building in OER using the wiki model. Watch this space :-). Cheers Wayne -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad (Co-Facilitator eL4C 21) http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] India Node on WE - Featured user for April 2009
Dear all, Meet Dr. Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, the featured user for April/2009 on India Node on WikiEducator (http://www.wikieducator.org/India). Let us congratulate Dr. Ramakrishnan. CONGRATULATIONS, DR. RAMAKRISHNAN!!! -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad (Co-Facilitator eL4C 21) http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Fwd: [WikiEducator] L4C is making history! - We need your help
Hi Dr. Wayne, it is really a good news On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.orgwrote: Hey Gita, Much of our achievement in widening access to L4C is the result of the amazing work done by WikiEducator India -- I'm told that the Indian Government has requested COL to assist with L4C workshops to be conducted at all state ODL institutions in the country. India is leading by example! Cheers Wayne On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:33 -0700, Gita Mathur wrote: Hi Wayne This is wonderful. It further strengthens my commitment towards WikiEducator and our lovely Community. Great progress... Warm regards Gita Mathur On Apr 1, 9:14 am, Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.org wrote: Hey Gladys -- I have a strong suspicion that WikiLatinos will be outstripping growth when compared to the WIkiAnglos in the near future. Keep up the good work! Cheers Wayne On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:41 -0600, Gladys Gahona wrote: Oh yes Wayne, I can't wait to see WikiLatinos grow and grow and grow... smile We are close Cheers for that !!! 2009/3/31 Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.org Hey Leo, Believe me -- we're getting close to being able to launch a Chinese Mandarin WE :-) With the establishment of the OER Foundation (a new non profit entity) which will be supporting the WIkiEducator project -- we will be able to launch localisations of WE for non-Commonwealth countries. I admire your patience --- your dedication to WE will be rewarded in the near future! In the mean time, you may want to see if you can find a few folk to help with the translations of the English tutorials. Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 11:04 +0800, Wong Leo wrote: Hey Wayne , Indeed Wonderful Job , looking forward to see more Chinese teachers joining in this amazing WORK to make WE better . Have forwarded this to 2 google groups IN china to do with Online teaching and learning Leo with best regards -- Forwarded message -- From: Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.org Date: 2009/4/1 Subject: [WikiEducator] L4C is making history! - We need your help To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Hi everyone, I've just updated our latest statistics for the Learning4Content initiative. WikiEducator is making history. WE have launched and implemented (to the best of my knowledge) the largest wiki training project for educators in the world! 2360 participants have registered for 73 L4C workshops since January 2008. If you do the mental math this averages out at 1.14 workshops per week! WE have launched 23 Online workshops and 50 Face-to-face workshops in 30 different countries, including: Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Canada, Cameroon, Israel, India, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Kenya, Kingdom of Tonga, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Saint Kitts Nevis, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda and Zambia. On a personal note -- I concede that I did have a few sleepless nights wondering whether we would be able to achieve our ambitious target of 2500 educators by the end of round 1 of the funding for this project ;-). How could I doubt the open community model? WE have now achieved 94% of our target of 2500 educators. WE still have a few workshops to go before 30 June 2009 under round 1 of the L4C project. Please invite your friends and colleagues to sign up for one of the remaining online L4C workshops: http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration Spread the word at your organisations, post invitations on your discussion lists and your blogs. Let's show the world how we can exceed our targets. A BIG thank you to the WikiEducator community and all the amazing L4C facilitators around the world who have turned this dream into reality. When we started L4C, there were only 3 facilitators. Our list of L4C facilitators is now nearing 30 with many L4C graduates becoming trainers in their own right. You've got to love the scalability of the open model :-). I'm working on a funding proposal to continue with work with L4C capacity building around the world. I'm
[WikiEducator] Re: VOTE EARTH
That's nice, DONE! On 3/29/09, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All To mark this special Day I have started a Category [[Category: Ecology and Environment]]. Add this to the bottom of your page to meet all concerned Educators. Aim is to Educate people about Environmental Issues. Warm wishes Gita Mathur http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur On Mar 29, 9:29 am, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, It is always a matter of great pleasure for all of us to see that our WE family is rightly responding to and involving in vital social issues. I make this comment not only based of Earth Hour campaign abut also after witnessing the excellent performance of our family members (now a day when ever I see a member/participant list I go through it curiously to see whether WEs are there) in many other venues, to name some - UNDP, UNESCO, Free Software Communities, popular forums of universities and other Developmental/ODL promoters etc etc -- Warm regards Anilhttp:// wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasadhttp://wikieducator.org/Indiahttp://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Frameworkhttp://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Educatio...http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters On 3/29/09, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all This one hour Earth day was observed by me and many of my students. It not only saved electricity, it gave a sense of responsibility and satisfaction too. Gita http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur On Mar 29, 7:24 am, Sarita Kumar sarita.sanja...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Anil Sir, Thanks for the message below I understand the grave situation of global warming created by man itself. I did switched off the lights for Earth Hour. Sarita On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:55 PM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, We have to realize that global warming is the most dangerous threat being faced by our Green Planet. Again it is the most sorrowful truth that global warming is triggered my Man, the most favored creation on this green planet. Let us join hands today and VOTE FOR EARTH. At 8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth, Turn off your lights for Earth Hour, record your vote and share it with the world! See details here... http://www.earthhour.org/home/ -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad(Co-FacilitatoreL4C 21) http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Educatio. .. http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad (Co-Facilitator eL4C 21) http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 case study for Open Education Course
Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, Surely, as a trusted body of (online) ODL, we have to take up responsibilities like the present one. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM On 3/22/09, Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.org wrote: Hi Everyone -- Writing from a very warm Samoa and flaky internet connection. First an apology for my silence on the list --- the withdrawal symptoms are unbearable! Have been hectically busy preparing for my international mission to Samoa and a talk at the NZ Ministry of Education conference where I was able to profile our WE achievements ( http://www.minedu.govt.nz/educationSectors/Schools/Initiatives/ICTInSchools/DayInTheLife/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx ). The Mozilla foundation (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education) , CC Learn ( http://learn.creativecommons.org/ ) and the P2PU ( http://www.peer2peeruniversity.org/) are developing an exciting course about about open content licensing, open web technologies and open teaching methods (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/EduCourse ). They have asked us to develop a case study on our Learning4Content initiative which they will use in the course as an example --- I've started a draft over here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/L4C_Case_study In the spirit of collaboration in Open Education movement -- I'm keen to help contribute to the success of their course. Like all of us -- I wish we had more time Please help me refine and improve this draft before handing over to the folk at Mozilla/CC-Learn/and P2PU. Cheers Wayne Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Query
Dear Sarita Neeti, Please see the extract from a Wikipedia article on the subject. Some websites saves bandwidth by instructing your web browser to store many parts of the site in its local cache (normally on your hard drive), so that they are downloaded only once. This includes articles you've previously viewed, images previously displayed, style sheets, JavaScript, etc. * * *Internet Explorer* - *To reload a page and bypass the cache*: - *either:* Hold the *Ctrl* key, and press *F5*. - *or:* Hold the *Ctrl* key, and click the *Refresh* button on the Start bar. - *To completely clear the cache* (see note above): *Internet Explorer 7* Click “tools”, Delete Browsing History, and then delete all. Make sure to click on the checkbox also delete settings stored by *add-ons*. Then click OK. *Mozilla family* This includes *Firefox*, *Netscape Navigator* (versions 6.x and 7.x) and * SeaMonkey*. - *To reload a page and bypass the cache*: - *either:* Press both *Shift* and *Ctrl* and then press *R*. (Alternatively, hold down the *Ctrl* key, and press *F5*.) On a Mac, use the *Command* key instead of *Ctrl*. - *or:* Hold down the *Shift* key, and click the *Reload* button on the navigation toolbar. - *To completely clear the cache* (see note above): - From the 'Edit' or 'Tools' menu, choose 'Preferences' or 'Options'. Expand the 'Advanced' options and choose 'Cache' or 'Privacy'. Click the button called 'Clear Cache'. - In newer versions of *Mozilla Firefox*, you can easily clear the cache, history and cookies: Hold down the *Ctrl* and *Shift* keys, and press *Delete* (or *Del*), then choose what you want to remove. Or from the 'Tools' menu, select 'Clear Private Data'. You may like to see the complete article here.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_your_cache * *-- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Neeti Misra neeti.a...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sarita, My husband and I also face the same problem sometimes. The date and time remain same as the last log in date and time unless and until we log in. regards, neeti On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Sarita Kumar sarita.sanja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, There is a query. I am not able to see current date and time on my user page unless I log in. Whereas, on other's pages, I can see it without logging in. Is it like this only or there is some problem in my page? I checked the syntax also, it is same in all pages. Thanks Sarita Kumar http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjay --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 user, UPE and QA Framework
Dear Dr. Wayne, I agree with you. We have to make our Home Page - the living room of our online home - more active and dynamic. It should be able to tell about our OER efforts at a glance. Featured used is a good idea to introduce invaluable efforts by individual members and facilitate commitment and involvement. It for this reason India page started the Featured user series. Again we have to introduce promising projects. There are two considerations before us…one: Featuring an evaluated content - I like the idea and efforts of Peter in this regard very much. Two: we may also feature promising projects to facilitate increased rate of collaboration. We may have an editorial board for the home page who will be attending the home page 24 x 7 basis. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.orgwrote: Hi Peter WE friends Thinking out load here --- Under our emerging QA framework ( http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_Framework/Featured_Works) there is a subsection called other featured items Would it make sense to re-classify the framework to include a sub-section called Featured WIkiEducators or Featured Individuals (or something similar) It seems to me that there are distinctive categories, namely 1) Featured Works (including Featured work featured collaboration) 2) Featured Individuals (including UPE or featured user page and featured contributor) 3) Featured Institutions Perhaps this will work better than other featured items. What do folk think? I also think we should encourage featured users, UPE winners etc to write up a short personal story or testimony. This is something I started doing to capture personal stories with reference to L4C graduates as part of our reporting on the Learning4Content project. See for example: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Draft_Featured_Users . It would be great to have a rotating Featured Individual spot on the WE front page which could link to the personal story of these featured WikiEducators. People relate to real stories. I see that Curriki has a featured member on the home page. As our UPE numbers and featured individuals have grown -- we could set up a feature which would, for example display a different feature member every hour on the home page (similar to the WikiEducator photo which displays a different image for each hour of the day.) This reminds me of the need for us to think about redesigning our landing pages I'll post a separate item on the list. BTW Peter -- my life is now becoming a little more settled after my relocation to NZ and I will be spending some quality time trailing the QA framework and the evaluation of our first featured work :-). What this space! Cheers Wayne A well planned and formated user page is in some respects featured content Taking this a little further, I think that there is also an argument to acknowledge featured users. For example, innovative project ideas, contributions to the community etc. This all contributes to the Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Volunteers: Working group for Website redesign?
Dear Dr. Wayne and other friends, We may constitute an Editorial board comprising committed experts from different essential areas, that will facilitate consolidation on suggestions on redesign, plan it, implement it and maintain the home page - the living room of our online home - more active and dynamic on 7 x 24 basis. It should be able to tell about our OER efforts at a glance. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.orgwrote: Hi everyone Open questions: 1) Should WE redesign its homepage and important landing pages? 2) Will improved information design of the WE main page and important landing pages improve retention? 3) Should WE form a working group to consider proposals for Website redesign? 4) If so -- do we have any volunteers who will put their hands up in thinking about redesigning the website? (Especially folk who have good experience in this area -- but everyone is most welcome to give a hand). A little background info Website referrals and direct traffic account for 26% of our total visits with search engine referrals making up the balance. On average visitors to WE view 3.62 pages per visit. What's interesting is that our home page makes up only 3% of our total page views -- suggesting that folk do find specific content pages in the wiki. Other top ranked pages, include, for instance: * The recent changes page http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:RecentChanges * The Content page which lists content projects http://www.wikieducator.org/Content * The India national page node http://www.wikieducator.org/India * The Iniatives page which lists projects in the wiki http://www.wikieducator.org/Initiatives * The Otago Polytechnic sales and marketing course page http://www.wikieducator.org/Sales_and_Marketing * The eXe online manual http://www.wikieducator.org/Online_manual * A lesson on Forms of Energy developed by the HOD of Technology Education, University of Education, Winneba in Ghana http://www.wikieducator.org/Lesson_1:_Forms_of_Energy_and_Energy_Transformations It's risky to postulate definitive conclusions based on these stats but I guess its reasonable to say: 1. Educators are interested in monitoring and observing changes in the wiki 2. Important landing pages include content listings, WE initiatives/projects and national project nodes 3. Individual content projects in WE do attract significant traffic. What does this mean for the information design of our site? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Catalogue of available images on WikiEd
Hi Phil, Here is the url http://wikieducator.org/Special:ImageList On 3/3/09, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: Can we have a page of images on WikiEd that we could use for our different purposes? I find it difficult to know what there is and if anything I might use is around. If the coach does the pushups, The athlete will not get stronger Community Empowerment: http://www.scn.org/cmp/ WikiEducator No Rest for the WikiEd. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle Join our discusssion forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Catalogue of available images on WikiEd
Hi Gladys, Definitely, at times we may require the same picture in more categories On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:28 AM, chela5808 gladysgah...@gmail.com wrote: Important: an image may have more than one category. e.g. a country flag image may have two categories: [[Category:Country name]] [[Category:Flags]] Comments please... On 3 mar, 22:49, Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats once more Anil, I'll start ASAP with my own uploaded pictures Thank you for the implementation. Gladys 2009/3/3 aprasad aplett...@gmail.com Dear all, Gladys has made a good suggestion. We are required to categorize the images to encourage reuse of existing images. If there is no such facility to an easy look through the available picture galleries members may upload afresh all the images required for their projects. Therefore a well structured category system will save our server space also. So Glady's suggestion has been implemented! Now we have Images Category [[Category:Images]] I also created a Sub Category for computer pictures [[Category:Computer]] to add computer related pictures and enlisted 25 pictures through a random search. Now the community together may announce a Image Categorization Project. Wherein all the community members may create appropriate sub-categories for images and search out relevant images and place the category tag. How? 1. First go tohttp://www.wikieducator.org/Category:Imagespage and see what categories are there. 2. If the category you want to make has not been already there create it. How? Search out a suitable image for your category. When you click the image/or link the image will open on a page. Then get the page on edit mode and place the tag [[Category:New Category Name]] here replace 'New Category Name' in the example above with your intended category name. Now save the page and you will see the new category in red link below the page. Click the red link and it will open in edit mode. Write a sentence about the category as guidance to others and Place the tag [[Category:Images]] to make your new category a sub category of the Category Images 3. Now search out more images suitable to your category and place your new category tags on the pages. To search images go to http://wikieducator.org/Special:ImageList or http://wikieducator.org/Special:NewImages or http://wikieducator.org/Special:UncategorizedImages -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Educatio. .. Skype: apletters On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.com wrote: Phil, You can also try this one: http://wikieducator.org/Special:UncategorizedImages You'll find a mixture of images, mp3, pdf, etc. Gladys 2009/3/3 aprasad aplett...@gmail.com Hi Phil, Here is the urlhttp://wikieducator.org/Special:ImageList On 3/3/09, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: Can we have a page of images on WikiEd that we could use for our different purposes? I find it difficult to know what there is and if anything I might use is around. If the coach does the pushups, The athlete will not get stronger Community Empowerment: http://www.scn.org/cmp/ WikiEducator No Rest for the WikiEd. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle Join our discusssion forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Educatio... Skype: apletters -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary Tertiary grades.http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 traffic ranking
Hi Randy and other friends, One solution could be to connect people to WE projects and promote active interactions with in the project groups. Of course first of all we may formalize a community criteria for a project smile On 2/28/09, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, To put Stephen's post in context, 80% of our content is generated by about 10% of active users compared to 3% of active users generating 80% of Wikipedia's content. Now, if our 10% of active users were as prolific as Stephen, who knows where we could be? smile And, if we could increase the proportion of active users vs. less active users - say, nudge the number up to 15% or 20%, that would be pretty dandy too. When you have ideas for increasing this conversion rate, please let us know. Congrats all around! Cheers, - Randy On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Stephen Downes step...@downes.ca wrote: Hiya, To put this into context, according to Alexa, downes.ca has a traffic rank of: 119,571 To reach your rank in a relatively short time is a significant accomplishment. -- Stephen Patricia Schlicht wrote: Dear Friends, Just to say, I just had a look at the Alexa stats. We are making progress. We are now in 123,414th place. Well done everybody. Warm regards, have a nice weekend. Patricia -- --- Stephen Downes ~ Researcher ~ National Research Council Canadahttp://www.downes.ca ~ step...@downes.ca** Free Learning -- Randy Fisher * Change/Transition Program/Project Support * Stakeholder Engagement, Collaboration Performance * Community Building Organization Development * eLearning eCoaching * Open Source Open Education + 1 604.684.2275 wikira...@gmail.com http://www.wikieducator.org - Member, WikiEducator Community Council http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher * Can You Do the Wiki-Wiki? http://www.wikieducator.org/Wiki_Wiki Skype: wikirandy -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 at freed.in
Hi, it is a good news. We have to make people realize that Online ODL is the promise for the future of education and get people work for WE. Why can't u add it in the news section of India page also... On 2/22/09, Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.com wrote: Freed.in was a conference for and by the India Linux Users Group - ILUG . It usually has only techno-geeks talking about FOSS. This time we decided to intrude and enable FOSS and OER on the same plaform, particularly due to the parallel philosophy - the essential freedoms, Creative Commons, use of FOSS etc.. There were three presentations based on WE - one by me, the other by Gita and Promilla and the third by the English Honours Group at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College. = a few eyebrows were raised, but on the whole the audience realised there was sense in such integration. In effect we brought about a radical change - the FOSS community were forced to started thinking about on what FOSS can achieve in areas beyond software!! I am thankful to Niyam Bhushan, a FOSS evangelist ( who has been coming in to WE workshops for talks on FOSS, and CC) who coerced us to participate. AND college also had a presentation in FOSS - students had also fun volunteering for the event!!! :) see *freed.in* for more details. Savithri -- Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 97862584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-Gargi at Freed.in Meet
Hi, it is a good news. We have to make people realize that Online ODL is the promise for the future of education and get people work for WE. Why can't u add it in the news section of India page also... On 2/22/09, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: Thank you for sharing, Gita. This is quite comprehensive and gives a lot of insights in the thought process of what has been happening at Gargi College. Well done! Warm regards, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gita Mathur Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:12 AM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator-Gargi at Freed.in Meet See the Presentation Slides of Gita-Promila Freed.in Talk delivered on Feb.21, 2009, at a meet in JNU, New Delhi. See the section 1.8 on page of Gita Mathur. [http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur]. We discussed the Gargi Faculty experience with WikiEducator at the meet organised by Linux-Delhi Group. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2009: London, 28th March 2009
Hi Jonathan Gray, Thanks for the information. Hi Dr. Wayne, Is it possible to arrange a wokshop for WE...introduction/familiarisation/invite suggestions on next phaseetc etc. or an exhibition/presentation counter? On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Jonathan Gray jonathan.g...@okfn.orgwrote: ~~ Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2009 ~~ * where: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, London, UK * when: 28th March 2009, 1030-1830 * home: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/ * programme: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/programme * register: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/ * call for proposals: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/cfp/ * last year: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/2008/ The Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) is back for its fourth installment bringing together individuals and groups from across the open knowledge spectrum for a day of talks, discussions and workshops. This year the event will feature dedicated sessions on 'open knowledge and development' and 'open data and the semantic web'. In addition we are reserving a substantial part of the event for the 'Open Space'- sessions, workshops and discussions proposed either via the call for proposals or on the day. Interested in giving a paper? Have a project to talk about? Want to run a workshop or session? Please see the call for proposals: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/cfp/ Want to get involved in putting the event together or otherwise helping out? Contact us at info [at] okfn [dot] org or add your name to the OKCon wiki page: http://okfn.org/wiki/okcon/2009/ Last but not least: we encourage early registration as space is limited: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/ -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Please change your user page photo
Hi Leigh, Would you please provide details on 'Stand up against Guilt Upon Accusation for New Zealand' On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Leigh Blackall leighblack...@gmail.comwrote: To this: http://wikieducator.org/Image:Blacked-out.jpg so that it appears like this: http://wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: CCNC
Hi Peter, You are right, CCNC requires a committed team and such a team will definitely be able to complete the course development in 2009 and facilitate adoption by institutions. We may contact all who associated earlier /strengthen their involvement as well as bringing in new members. How shall we proceed? On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Peter prawstho...@gmail.com wrote: Anil, This is fantastic to see. As you can see I have been involved with this project intimately. I am particularly proud of Module 5 as it was a challenge to take the database module (for which little curriculum already existed) and move it forward. I also agree this project could have a significant impact in the realm of ICT4D. One thing I do believe is it needs a coordinated effort. It needs to be targeted to OpenOffice 3.0 and it needs to print to pdf VERY well. It needs to have a consistent theme and usability across all the modules. And the formative and summative assessment activities need to align with the ICDL. I would again very much like to be involved in a project team to take this on. IMO it requires a commited team wanting to bring it to completion. Without this team it will only make limited progress and end up with an inconsistent look and feel, which therefore limits its usability as a learning resource. Just my $0.02 worth. Maybe the time has come where a team will form. Sincerely, Peter On Feb 3, 10:49 pm, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi new brothers and sisters in our WE family, Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate (CCNC) is a very promising project on WikiEducator. Coinciding with Software Freedom Day 2006 (16 September), Sir John Daniel, President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), announced plans to institute the Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate (CCNC). This COL initiative will widen access to ICT skills training using free software and will be distributed as free content for anyone to use, modify and distribute. Please visithttp:// wikieducator.org/Commonwealth_Computer_Navigator%27s_Certificateand see how you can help to complete the course development. -- Warm regards Anilhttp:// wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasadhttp://wikieducator.org/Indiahttp://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Frameworkhttp://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Educatio. .. Skype: apletters -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] CCNC
Hi new brothers and sisters in our WE family, Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate (CCNC) is a very promising project on WikiEducator. Coinciding with Software Freedom Day 2006 (16 September), Sir John Daniel, President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), announced plans to institute the Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate (CCNC). This COL initiative will widen access to ICT skills training using free software and will be distributed as free content for anyone to use, modify and distribute. Please visit http://wikieducator.org/Commonwealth_Computer_Navigator%27s_Certificate and see how you can help to complete the course development. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Profile issues
Hi Declan,
I have cheked out {{profiles|}} It is a very helpful template. The
message in it is also very accurate. Thanks for this great contribution.
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On 1/29/09, Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
as pointed out by Anil, many new users are establishing profiles, and
frequently on the root directory. The result is a series of minor
(and very polite, apologetic) edit wars.
Possible solution: I made a template called profiles. Simply enter
{{profiles|}} on the user's discussion page and also on the multi-
edited profile page to help the users in question. I hit this one
just now: My_Profile, but there are others and I'm out time.
As always, feel free to make my template more elegant!!
Cheers,
Declan
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[WikiEducator] User Page Creation
Dear all, The best practice is WE with regards to creation of user pages is to create the same by editing the system created user page link while creating an account. But now it is seen that a lot of members, especially the new members are creating separate user pages and profile pages linked directly to the root directory that is www.wikieducator.org in the their names apart from the default user pages. Interestingly enough, today I have noticed that three new registrants have linked a page called My profile to their user pages and each one was editing it to make it his/her own profile page smile http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=My_profileaction=history Therefore, I would suggest that, all the L4C facilitators and other members who help the new comers may give specific guidance on the best practice in creation and updating of user pages. This issue also connect to the issue on where to start a new page? - We have to take up these logical page linking issues very seriously for a systematic development of our online community as well as online curriculum. Warm regards Anil -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] User Page Creation
Dear all, The best practice in WE with regards to creation of user pages is to create the same by editing the system created user page link while creating an account. But now it is seen that a lot of members, especially the new members are creating separate user pages and profile pages linked directly to the root directory that is www.wikieducator.org in their names apart from the default user pages. Interestingly enough, today I have noticed that three new registrants have linked a page called My profile to their user pages and each one is editing it to make it there own profile page smile http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=My_profileaction=history Therefore, I would suggest that, all the L4C facilitators and other members who help the new comers may give specific guidance on best practice in the creation and updating of user pages. This issue is also connected to the issue on where to start a new page? - We have to take up these logical page linking issues very seriously for the systematic development of our online community as well as online curriculum. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Stallman visits slum computing center
Dear Chris, It is really great. Thanks for sharing. -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM Skype: apletters On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Chris Harvey gnuch...@gmail.com wrote: I think this article may be of interest to some people on this list, its a nice story. http://sreejithsblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/stallman-visit-slum-computing-center.html Here is an extract from his speech: I am honored to be here in the community computer center that is in the name of Dr BR Ambedkar. I have read about Ambedkar and I was inspired by the work he has done for the dalit people in India. There are many issues among the poor and marginalized in India that are more important than using free software. But, free software is one of the tool that helps the poor and dalit to resolve some of the issues they are facing. Poor can't afford proprietary softwares and free software helps them to accees computers. While proprietary software companies are like the colonial rulers who exploited the masses, free software is freedom and liberation. Ambedkar Community Computer center is a model for the other parts of the india in such a way that it gives access to computers for the poor without compromising the freedom. The Ambedkar Community Center is doing a great job by empowering the poor with knowledge of free software. Warm regards Chris Harvey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Free Software Education
*Dear friends at Free Software Foundation,* I am a volunteer educator supporting the www.wikieducator.org project that aims at free and open education curriculum by 2015. I am also a supporter of Free Software movement. I have also participated in the recently concluded FSFS conference at Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala which was a great success in developing commitment in the minds of each and every participant for *'Free Software, Free Society'*. In this backdrop, I would like to share the following thoughts about Free Software education with the friends at FSF as well as WikiEducator community. I think that one of the major aspects that adversely affects the pace of the spread of Free Software options, is the lack of awareness that is caused by the absence of the formal pedagogical systems that promote the teaching and learning of FOSS in most parts of the globe. However some Governments and academic institutions have already started to promote the same, for example in Kerala Governemnt has introduced Free Software education in the General Education Sector. Such initiatives in the different parts of the world are required to be made a general trend. As a first step, a facility may be established to maintain a repository of the details of such best practices from the different parts of the world to be collected through free software communities and collaborating organizations. Organized efforts are required to ensure that free software education is getting consideration in the National Curricula or National Qualifications Frameworks of different countries. To make it happen, the Free Software communities may, in collaboration with Academic Bodies and Academicians, regularly try to develop, update and maintain curricula for different levels of education so that the academic bodies/universities can adopt the same to their qualification frameworks and curricula. The Higher Education Sector requires setting up of technical qualification frameworks for Free Software education to enable academic bodies to run professional certification as well as graduation and research courses on FOSS. It may also explore the possibilities, in collaboration with Academic Bodies and Academicians, to run technical courses under Free, Open and Online Distance Learning system – which is going to be the leading education system for the future. I think it will be the ideal choice for the theme 'Free Software, Free Society'. -- *Warm regards* ** Anil Prasad http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
