[WikiEducator] Re: Reorganising my user page

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Elizabeth, Yes, getting used to formatting tables with Wiki syntax is different (and more difficult) than HTML. All I can suggest is you look at other WE tables to get used to the syntax. The L4C registration page has a good example of a well formatted table;

[WikiEducator] Re: GFDL 1.3 released

2008-11-04 Thread Steve Foerster
Erik wrote: the Free Software Foundation has today released the version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License, the licensed used by Wikipedia. This version of the GFDL allows GFDL-wikis to switch to CC-BY-SA - see section 11, relicensing: Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation! Sing,

[WikiEducator] WE Main Style Sheet

2008-11-04 Thread Randy Fisher
I'm noticing a whole new design and font setup for the main wiki page, and subpages Does anyone else see this - and can you explain this? Thanks, Randy -- Randy Fisher - Change Management Collaboration, Human Performance Engagement, Sustainable Communities

[WikiEducator] Re: WE Main Style Sheet

2008-11-04 Thread Brent
I'm not seeing it and i've also checked the main css page and nothing has changed there either ... must be you Randy. brent. -- http://digitalsynapse.co.nz -- On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Randy Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WikiEducator] Re: Reorganising my user page

2008-11-04 Thread Robert Kruhlak
Hi Liz, WE is running a simple table extension (formerly called tabbeddata) that makes it simpler to add data to a table. To make a table that uses commas for separating columns and return for the rows, try: tab sep=comma Hi, Hello, Yes Bye, Good Night, No /tab You can find more information

[WikiEducator] Re: Reorganising my user page

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Thanks Rob... That's an easier table to use... Peter On Nov 4, 12:50 pm, Robert Kruhlak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Liz, WE is running a simple table extension (formerly called tabbeddata) that makes it simpler to add data to a table. To make a table that uses commas for separating

[WikiEducator] Re: WE Main Style Sheet

2008-11-04 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Brent, You're right - phew! thank you I checked my learner's user page, and she had it checked also - I changed it back It must have affected my name too, because I have several windows open... Thanks for being there. - Randy On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Brent [EMAIL

[WikiEducator] Facilitating Online Communities Mini Conference 2-9 November 08

2008-11-04 Thread Leigh Blackall
http://flickr.com/photos/iboy_daniel/77412822/Participants in the Facilitating Online Communties coursehttp://www.wikieducator.org/Facilitating_online_communitieshave come together to coordinate an online mini conference. Below are the range of events scheduled so far. Keep an eye on the

[WikiEducator] Re: Reorganising my user page

2008-11-04 Thread Leigh Blackall
I use Open Office to create tables. Open Office has an export to media wiki. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Rob... That's an easier table to use... Peter On Nov 4, 12:50 pm, Robert Kruhlak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Liz, WE is running a

[WikiEducator] Re: GFDL 1.3 released

2008-11-04 Thread Kathy Pusztavari
Wow, this would be a VERY good thing. It will keep projects from getting too convoluted within licensing if they want to combine wikieducator stuff with wikipedia, wikiversity, or commons (I think). -Kathy -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL

[WikiEducator] K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Hello All, The K12 project I have been working on got some unexpected media exposure... puts WE into some good light. http://www.canada.com/northshorenews/story.html?id=bfe6fdde-f3c8-4994-9c41-39c11f2ab085 I know I'm not alone in this effort (Nellie, Gunther, Others). So I was thinking for all

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Peter, The news item is very impressive. 64 of grade 12 students students are interested in collaborating with students from other countries. So far, I managed to find a school in Washington, DC for 32 of my grade 11 students. I would like to see a lot more high school kids on WE. Warm wishes,

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Thanks Nellie, I look forward to the review of this project early next summer to see how we did in relation to what we have aspired to do... So far it has been exceeding my expectations. I certianly hope we can meet our definition of success;

[WikiEducator] Reorganising my user page

2008-11-04 Thread elizabeth mbasu
Hi everyone, I'd like to fit my text in a table. How do I do this so that it does not spread all over Liz --- On Mon, 11/3/08, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone To: WikiEducator

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Peter, This is a wiki. You are more than welcome to anything that my students and I have added. You may add to it and place it or replace it, add to it, and place it where you think it would be appropriate. I would love for someone to finally play around with the wiki pages like they would with

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Nellie, Perhaps in your comment below, there are the seeds of an idea What if, at some point, there were a cluster of WikiEducators - who decidedmaybe in a conference setting - to work as a group, and collaborate on a group of pages, on a given topic, or theme This could be

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Randy, This is how I see the wiki working. I thought we all did. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.nelliemuller.com http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd http://www.building-relationship.com/education

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Nellie, Yes, I do too But we have a GAP, from where we are right now - to where we want to be A smaller, focused effort, which then reports its findings / experience to the larger whole, might be a good way to help us to get where we want to be. - Randy On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:31

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Leigh Blackall
Hi Peter, I really like the spin on the wording that that journo has done: WikiEducator looks like Wikipedia. In fact, it uses the same software. And, like the online encyclopedia, its mission is ambitious. It seeks to put all the world's educational materials online and make them freely

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-11-04 Thread Leigh Blackall
I was just browsing an old course and came across the good old video The Machine is Using Us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE. Its been a while since I watched this, but re watching it shows it to be still true and useful in terms of perspective relating to decentralised, distributed,

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Leigh, With all due respect, Not that I disagree with what you are saying its just that I think you need a new pair of glasses. You seem to be reading a lot into things and being overly pessimistic about good works. In the big navel gazing world we live in, it is good people are putting efforts

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Leigh Blackall
Hi Peter, You said: I challenge you to point me to something better than WE in bringing an international set of educators together to create a free curriculum Now I'm worried (though I'm relieved you dance :) a free curriculum, surely a slip of the tongue Peter? The Internet is bringing

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Leigh Blackall
Oh, BTW.. I hope you're not thinking I am poo pooing the K12 project! Not at all! In fact I have already forwarded the story onto a number of people. I especially like the fact that it is more student generated. Just checking that you aren't relating my highlight of a particular way of describing

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Maria Droujkova
Education is a set of tools we grab as needed, for our current work and play. Starting from that (radical unschooling) position... What are things I can be doing with our local math clubs that go beyond personal and intra-club meanings, and toward community meanings? Kids creating purely

[WikiEducator] Re: Clarrification of a free curriculum

2008-11-04 Thread Wayne
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 11:46 +1300, Leigh Blackall wrote: We shoudl copy that and replace all one curriculum sounding lines straight away. Just a brief clarification -- the notion of a free curriculum should not be misinterpreted as an attempt to build a meta-curriculum for all nations. It has

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Wong Leo
Hey Peter and Leigh , I really like the conversation , and want to bring some of my 2 cents , and again from Chinese perspective , I just got back from Hongkong , Let me start from the newspaper reading from Hongkong, In hongkong if you have been , you take MTR a lot and they give you free

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Wong Leo
btw I received some of personal emails /invitations from WE members during last month , I didnot have the internet access when I was at Hongkong for my internship , I will get back to all of you ASAP , really sorry for that , Leo 2008/11/5 Wong Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Peter and Leigh ,

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Not smellin' any poop Leigh... but thanks. On Nov 4, 4:41 pm, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, BTW.. I hope you're not thinking I am poo pooing the K12 project! Not at all! In fact I have already forwarded the story onto a number of people. I especially like the fact that it is

[WikiEducator] Re: K12 initiative making the news

2008-11-04 Thread Peter
Leigh, I guess we are in non-violent agreement then... ah so were back to the collaborative networky thing... so what does it take to build a node on the network? Is WE just going through the standard lifecycle of becoming a node? Now, I want to see you dance! Peter On Nov 4, 4:36 pm,