[WikiEducator] Re: Hugely important fossil description published under CCA License
Welcome everyone to PLoS (I have followed them since their inception and am a registered user). PLoS is one of the very first open access journals. One of the co-founders is Harold Varmus, now the co-chairman of Obama's science advisory committee. They now have seven journals (see http://www.plos.org/journals/) To those interested in this article should check out their Palaeontology Collection (http://www.plosone.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fissue.pone.c01.i02). There is lots of materials for biology teachers on PLoS, explore their website. If you register, you can comment and rate this (and any other) article. You can also get e-mail alerts or RSS feeds. Also check out the everyONE blog http://everyone.plos.org/ . John http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com From: Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 4:47:11 AM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Hugely important fossil description published under CCA License Hi Declan --- You're not over reacting --- this is an excellent example of the scalability of OER. The site uses a CC-BY license which effectively empowers educators to take ownership of their teaching :-) and reconfigure and remix the resources in innovate ways. Sharing knowledge and resources is what education is all about! I also see that the site has a feature to export the articles in XML format --- which raises interesting possibilities for import == export between the platforms. As our fund raising for the OER Foundation kicks in -- we should be able to get more technical capacity on board to make this kind of magic happen! Cheers Wayne 2009/5/20 Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com On May 19, 9:35 pm, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Declan, I followed the link you have provided. It is Great. Shall WE community wikify it? Anil We certainly should! I suspect this will be in the next edition of a great many Biology text books and will be the basis for exploring evolution with upcoming biology students. This platform can potentially move faster than textbook publishers and provide the resource that others would use, thus putting us out in front and raising the WE profile among biologists. Perhaps I'm over reacting, but I see this paper as an enormous finding. I want to develop it for my own course and would be interested in collaborating with other WE biologists on college modules based on the paper. Any takers? Cheers, Declan -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Hugely important fossil description published under CCA License
Hi Declan --- You're not over reacting --- this is an excellent example of the scalability of OER. The site uses a CC-BY license which effectively empowers educators to take ownership of their teaching :-) and reconfigure and remix the resources in innovate ways. Sharing knowledge and resources is what education is all about! I also see that the site has a feature to export the articles in XML format --- which raises interesting possibilities for import == export between the platforms. As our fund raising for the OER Foundation kicks in -- we should be able to get more technical capacity on board to make this kind of magic happen! Cheers Wayne 2009/5/20 Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com On May 19, 9:35 pm, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Declan, I followed the link you have provided. It is Great. Shall WE community wikify it? Anil We certainly should! I suspect this will be in the next edition of a great many Biology text books and will be the basis for exploring evolution with upcoming biology students. This platform can potentially move faster than textbook publishers and provide the resource that others would use, thus putting us out in front and raising the WE profile among biologists. Perhaps I'm over reacting, but I see this paper as an enormous finding. I want to develop it for my own course and would be interested in collaborating with other WE biologists on college modules based on the paper. Any takers? Cheers, Declan -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Hugely important fossil description published under CCA License
On May 19, 9:35 pm, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Declan, I followed the link you have provided. It is Great. Shall WE community wikify it? Anil We certainly should! I suspect this will be in the next edition of a great many Biology text books and will be the basis for exploring evolution with upcoming biology students. This platform can potentially move faster than textbook publishers and provide the resource that others would use, thus putting us out in front and raising the WE profile among biologists. Perhaps I'm over reacting, but I see this paper as an enormous finding. I want to develop it for my own course and would be interested in collaborating with other WE biologists on college modules based on the paper. Any takers? Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Hugely important fossil description published under CCA License
Dear Declan, Thanks for providing a great link on evolution with amazing figures for WE community, especially biology teachers. I saw it and was quite thrilled being a biologist. And.you are not over reacting, believe me! Please let me know if you require any help for developing any biology course. I am always there. Sarita Kumar http://wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjay http://wikieducator.org/India On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: On May 19, 9:35 pm, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Declan, I followed the link you have provided. It is Great. Shall WE community wikify it? Anil We certainly should! I suspect this will be in the next edition of a great many Biology text books and will be the basis for exploring evolution with upcoming biology students. This platform can potentially move faster than textbook publishers and provide the resource that others would use, thus putting us out in front and raising the WE profile among biologists. Perhaps I'm over reacting, but I see this paper as an enormous finding. I want to develop it for my own course and would be interested in collaborating with other WE biologists on college modules based on the paper. Any takers? Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Hugely important fossil description published under CCA License
Please let me know if you require any help for developing any biology course. I am always there. Sarita Kumarhttp://wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjayhttp://wikieducator.org/India Hi Sarita, You can certainly help! Thanks for sharing my excitement. I set up a placeholder with some suggestions. As I develop my course materials I will link them from this site: http://www.wikieducator.org/Darwinius Others are welcome to improve what I post, and I certainly hope to use whatever other biologists develop. We need tech help (usually not in short supply) to make this project be a good model for other collaborations and more importantly to increase usability. Anil, and Sarita, thank you both for your interest. Let's see who else we can recruit! This may well keep me in WE in my off season. Good night, Declan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
