[WikiEducator] Invitation to the Environmental Glossary

2010-02-10 Thread john stampe
This invitation is to all those interested in the environment, and especially to biologists. I have set up an environmental glossary at http://www.wikieducator.org/EnvGloss, and am now invited anybody to join the fun by adding terms. There is no set format for glossary entries, as the fields

Re: [WikiEducator] Invitation to the Environmental Glossary

2010-02-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi John, Great project and well aligned with the philosophy of OER! After all -- OER is also a sustainable and renewable resource :-). Will do my best in helping you promote the glossary project around the world. Cheer Wayne On 10 February 2010 21:01, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com

Re: [WikiEducator] Invitation to the Environmental Glossary

2010-02-10 Thread Alison Snieckus
Great idea, John. I added the term Biosphere to the B page. I'm not experienced enough in this field to offer original content, so I searched for a resource that I could reuse. I found one easily on the Connexions site (cnx.org), licensed CC-BY: AP Environmental Science

Re: [WikiEducator] Invitation to the Environmental Glossary

2010-02-10 Thread Edward Cherlin
How about making it multilingual? On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 03:01, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com wrote: This invitation is to all those interested in the environment, and especially to biologists. I have set up an environmental glossary at http://www.wikieducator.org/EnvGloss, and am now

Re: [WikiEducator] Invitation to the Environmental Glossary

2010-02-10 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi All, WikiEducator and the OER Foundation has a relationship with the Monterey Institute of Technology and Education (www.montereyinstitute.org). The have a considerable number of environmental science course material through their HippoCampus Site:

Re: [WikiEducator] Invitation to the Environmental Glossary

2010-02-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On 11 February 2010 03:24, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: How about making it multilingual? Hi Edward --- Agreed, WE need to extend our multilingual reach. Do you have any thoughts, ideas or advice regarding the best way to approach a multilingual glossary? Is is better to keep

[WikiEducator] seems slow?

2010-02-10 Thread kirby urner
I'm having a dickens of a time loading Wikieducator pages this afternoon, not a serious problem as I'm not projecting in class today. There could be a million explanations that have nothing to do with New Zealand, right? Gratifying to see over a 1000 views of our Python

Re: [WikiEducator] seems slow?

2010-02-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Kirby, Yeah - -WE is slow at the moment -- based on our tests it appears to be a rather slow Internet at the moment. Thankfully our servers are not physically located in New Zealand -- you would then definitely experience a slow connection. Sadly the pipe into New Zealand is not adequeate to

[WikiEducator] Regional Caribbean Learning4Content workshop - 84 Participants - 30 countries

2010-02-10 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Dear Friends, I would love you to demonstrate the power of our community to our Caribbean friends. Would you help me to make them feel welcome in our Wiki Family by leaving them a note on their user pages, where appropriate. I am sure all of them would appreciate it.