Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Open philanthropy is the way to go!

2009-11-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 18:13, simonfj simo...@cols.com.au wrote: Congrats guys, Yu really are doing wonderful stuff. Can I bring up this one about the technology required to make the OER vision a reality. I wish i could talk about the physical infrastructure/distribution meaningfully but

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

2009-11-30 Thread Steven Parker
Alot of passionate opinion here, alot has been shared, to get back to the point I was originally making that contentious issues need a platform with 'Climategate' as an example for those who are still interested in what's happening. The Telegraph and Times have published this article on the

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

2009-11-30 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Steven, As an educator, I would like to make a difference they only way I know how and that is by educating people to become aware and perhaps change their habits to that we can save what we can. I would love to move this to WikiEducator the best platform I know and begin the process. Steven, you

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

2009-11-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:31, Steven Parker sparke...@gmail.com wrote: Alot of passionate opinion here, alot has been shared, to get back to the point I was originally making  that contentious issues need a platform with 'Climategate' as an example for those who are still interested in what's

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

2009-11-30 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Edward, Let's stop speculating and let's start moving. We can always edit and make changes; after all that's the wiki way on WikiEducator. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long

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

2009-11-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
OK, but not until I get up tomorrow morning. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:34, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Edward, Let's stop speculating and let's start moving. We can always edit and make changes; after all that's the wiki way on WikiEducator. Warm wishes, Nellie

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

2009-11-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
I see that we have a Global Warming page. http://wikieducator.org/Global_warming Would you like to set up a Climate Skepticism page? On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:24, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:31, Steven Parker sparke...@gmail.com wrote: Alot of

[WikiEducator] Re: OER Interoperability

2009-11-30 Thread simonfj
The NZ Ministry of Education is funding a trial that incorporates a test WikiEducator instance into a single sign on infrastructure for a cluster of schools here.  I'm a fan of lightweight mechanisms like OpenID which I hope the WE community may adopt, since we are not as strict about

[WikiEducator] Re: Open philanthropy is the way to go!

2009-11-30 Thread simonfj
The OER Foundation is very receptive to facilitating shared infrastructure. That said, to date we've not had much success with Karen yet in figuring our how WikiEdcuator.nz for example could collaborate and share the local NREN. Obviously synchronous communication tools would be a great value

[WikiEducator] Re: Open philanthropy is the way to go!

2009-11-30 Thread simonfj
As you figure these things out - and you can prime me with the right technical questions to ask the folks at CANAIRIE -http://www.canarie.ca- , I'll be happy to make some enquiries. My good buddy Jamie Rossiter may also have some contacts there that we may wish to contact. (I may be wrong,

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

2009-11-30 Thread Jan Visser
I have no time at present to check the detail of all the information provided in newspaper articles and am particularly unable, when reading a newspaper report, to check the quality and veracity of the interpretation of what actually happened. I do know, however, and have evidence to back

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Open philanthropy is the way to go!

2009-11-30 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Edward, In response to several sections of your post, numbered below: 1. The remaining gap in the plan is then to create the digital replacements for textbooks in every subject for every grade level. Given the potential savings, it should be possible to get governments to fund creation of

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

2009-11-30 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi All, Nellie raises a great point - and again part of the issue is why the Liquid Threads communications functionality on the wiki doesn't work so well. She has developed an elegant workaround by creating Discussions and Feedback pages on her courses but for the rest of us, the lack of

RE: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants) - IN ADDITION

2009-11-30 Thread Jan Visser
In addition to my earlier post today, here is an example of a news item just posted by 'The Scientist' (http://www.the-scientist.com). News: Science paper pulled Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 30th November 2009 03:26 PM GMT] Researchers are retracting a highly-cited 2004