[WikiEducator] Re: a question of copyright

2009-04-07 Thread john stampe
Phil, The traditional model of academic journals is that the author signs over the copyright to the journals publisher. However, today there is the growing field of open access journals. In these the author maintains the copyright, usually through Creative Commons (the same as wikieducator).

[WikiEducator] Re: the power of less

2009-04-07 Thread Maria Droujkova
There is a fun presentation about game mechanics in serious applications, called Building a princess saving app: http://lostgarden.com/Mixing_Games_and_Applications.pdf It has learning curves for typical games and apps. According to the author, the learning curve for a typical application is

[WikiEducator] Re: the power of less

2009-04-07 Thread john stampe
The problem that I have with people who talk about the power of less or WYSIWYG is how ironic the statements are if you look at real life. In another thread somebody mentioned that they had problems getting unversity lecturers to learn wiki syntax. Yet I have seen the same type of people going

[WikiEducator] Re: The most overwritten, multi linked photo contest?

2009-04-07 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Declan, Hi I have seen this photo more than once, I think it came out a pacific workshop, and the question you raise, really not sure. Wondered that myself as well. Cheers, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On

[WikiEducator] Re: a question of copyright

2009-04-07 Thread Declan
Most journals I have published in permit me to post a pdf file online. Google scholar links to those pdf, so I recommend that when ever possible and legal, we should post the pdfs online to facilitate access. It is important to check however, because not all publishers permit posting of pdfs.

[WikiEducator] Re: The most overwritten, multi linked photo contest?

2009-04-07 Thread Gita Mathur
Hi Declan and Patricia I also noted this many times during my F2F workshop and I think this is due to some mistake by a Newbie learning to upload Photos. I have replaced it with the following note. (This file is an Example photo for learning to upload a photo in the WikiEducator tutorials. This

[WikiEducator] Re: The most overwritten, multi linked photo contest?

2009-04-07 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Thank you, Gita. Now Theo went on a trip around the world (smile!) Warm regards and thanks, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gita Mathur Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 7:21 PM To: WikiEducator Subject:

[WikiEducator] Re: The most overwritten, multi linked photo contest?

2009-04-07 Thread Gita Mathur
Patricia I am happy I looked into this. You are right, that sure was a World Tour! Smile Warm regards Gita On Apr 8, 8:07 am, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: Thank you, Gita. Now Theo went on a trip around the world (smile!) Warm regards and thanks, Patricia -Original