Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)

2009-11-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
This turns out not to be the case. More below. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 23:16, Steven Parker sparke...@gmail.com wrote: denial of the existence of global warming, or denial of the truth of evolution? The space race is a product of movie special effects? The earth is flat? It is difficult for me

Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)

2009-11-28 Thread Steven Parker
Hi Edward Sorry mate no fallacy, no conspiracy IPCC climate scientists actually have been scandousily busted cooking and destroying the data on global warming, this should be welcomed by wikieducators with an open mind (No denial) for what this means fro teaching (The scientific process) why not

Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)

2009-11-28 Thread Steven Parker
Here is a link to the hacked data for a read. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XD050VKY On 11/28/09, Steven Parker sparke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Edward Sorry mate no fallacy, no conspiracy IPCC climate scientists actually have been scandousily busted cooking and destroying the data on global

Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)

2009-11-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:28, Steven Parker sparke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Edward Sorry mate no fallacy, How do you know? You ignored the very fact that I have evidence. no conspiracy IPCC climate scientists actually have been scandousily  busted cooking and destroying the data on global

[WikiEducator] Re: Will WYSIWYG editing make a difference for WE?

2009-11-28 Thread simonfj
Geez mate. It threewww me when I opened the edit page and had the original looking back at me. Staring; looking for the box with the code (habit of course). Bloody brilliant! So when are you going to offer this to the WMF? (and are you going to have a' save to' box which says, where do you want

Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)

2009-11-28 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Steve, Well said and excellent post! We have the age of enlightenment to thank for the marvels of nuclear fission and the atom bomb :-(. Sadly, in a post enlightenment age we are still struggling between the age old tensions between science and humanity. What have we learned? WikiEducator is a

Re: [WikiEducator] Will WYSIWYG editing make a difference for WE?

2009-11-28 Thread Samuel Rose
Thanks Wayne and Jim On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Will WYSIWYG editing make a difference? WE think so, and we need your help. There is a keen interest among WikiEducators for us to implement WYSIWYG editing. Over the past

[WikiEducator] Power point presentations

2009-11-28 Thread Nadia El Borai
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

Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)

2009-11-28 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Just wanted to add that Jerome Bruner takes Wayne's statement that Education is humanity and will always be contextually and culturally bounded a bit further when he claims that human beings deliberately teach each other in settings outside in which the knowledge being taught will be used. The

Re: [WikiEducator] Power point presentations

2009-11-28 Thread aprasad
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

Re: [WikiEducator] Power point presentations

2009-11-28 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Nadia, The easiest way would be to upload your slide show to something like http://www.slideshare.net/ and then linking to the page. Another alternative would be to use Open Office and to save the file in flash format (swf) and then use the flash syntax to embed the file in WikiEdcuator.