[WikiEducator] Re: Bring in the Ning

2009-05-30 Thread Brent
hmmm ... that might not be such a bad idea. brent. -- http://www.waihekeradio.org.nz http://pedagogyofthecompressed.blogspot.com/ On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Ben bnl...@yahoo.com wrote: In the spirit of diversity, openness, and continual improvement

[WikiEducator] Re: wikinews

2009-04-11 Thread Brent
i'm not really up on how wikinews accepts stories ... but there's nothing wrong with pitching a story about Wikieducator to Wikinews if there is a story to be told here. brent. -- http://www.waihekeradio.org.nz http://pedagogyofthecompressed.blogspot.com

[WikiEducator] Re: Pressure to Integrate Technology in Higher Education

2009-04-02 Thread Brent
its interesting to note that now the FCK+mediawiki is now a pure extension to MediaWiki and that there is now the option to toggle on/off the rich editor .. with the default being off. brent. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.orgwrote: On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 06

[WikiEducator] Re: Infobox personal in Spanish Instance of WikiEducator

2009-03-25 Thread Brent
Gladys... You'll probably need to edit this page: http://es.wikieducator.org/MediaWiki:Common.css you can look at the equivalent on the english wikied here: http://www.wikieducator.org/MediaWiki:Common.css changes to this page affect the CSS of the entire site. brent

[WikiEducator] Re: Please change your user page photo

2009-02-16 Thread Brent
as people are making out (twitter effect maybe). I'm sure that there's probably other sections more henious but this one will get all the attention. my .10 worth. brent. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Wayne Mackintosh wmackint...@col.orgwrote: Hi Leigh As an educator, I'm now blacked out

[WikiEducator] Re: Oops, another tech issue

2008-12-21 Thread Brent
if you are just trying to make an image into a simple link to another page you can use this template: http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Clickpic but for more complex imagemaps ... yes, we would need to install the extension. brent. -- http

[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: WIkiEducator 3.0 -- Asking the right questions

2008-10-15 Thread Brent
this might be useful: http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:ContentInfobox brent. -- http://digitalsynapse.co.nz -- On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:00 AM, valerie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a list of preferred category

[WikiEducator] Re: WIkiEducator 3.0 -- Asking the right questions

2008-10-14 Thread Brent
people could start here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Category:Needs_Categorisation brent. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:41 AM, valerie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Maria I agree - your suggestions are great, except that most of the WikiEducator content is not yet tagged, referenced

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator Discussion Group

2008-10-01 Thread Brent
How about something like ... Because Liquid Threads has killed off discussion and interaction on the wiki, please join one of our growing number of mailing lists instead. :-) sorry, couldn't resist. brent. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:05 AM, minh mcCloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Join

[WikiEducator] Re: Group created

2008-09-21 Thread Brent
there but we can use a normal page rather than a talk page, or route around LQT with a subpage. brent. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Steve Foerster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created the group for the WikiEducator Community Council. Those who are members have been added already, others can

[WikiEducator] Re: another text on OER, but not an OER!!

2008-09-19 Thread Brent
offtopic slightly ... but there's an inspirational interview with Leo and Alexander Hayes that you can check out here for a bit of context: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=flnw08 brent. On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Wong Leo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/19 Alex P. Real [EMAIL

[WikiEducator] Re: another text on OER, but not an OER!!

2008-09-17 Thread Brent
Isn't that the page that all the great discussion got lost in the move to Liquid Threads? brent. ps. I agree with you. That paragraph is awful and you should remove it immediately. They have regular discussion pages over there too so you might even be able to get into some good discussion

[WikiEducator] Re: Deleting a page

2008-09-16 Thread Brent
done. brent. On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Nadia El Borai [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Dear Brent, Thank you for answering my question. This is the page I would like to delete http://wikieducator.org//تدريس_ا لايكبنا I moved the contents to http://wikieducator.org/ تدريس_الايكيبانا Other

[WikiEducator] Re: Gallery for pics

2008-09-16 Thread Brent
i don't see a way to do it as a gallery ... i did take a look at this page: http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:Log selected *upload log* then put your username in ... or this might be better http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:Newimages put the Username in the Search field. Brent

[WikiEducator] Re: Gallery for pics

2008-09-16 Thread Brent
i think its only recent uploads whatever that means. brent. On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: It seems that although the username search does return some images uploaded by the user, it doesn't list them all (?) On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:07 PM

[WikiEducator] Re: Deleting a page

2008-09-14 Thread Brent
Nadia... Only Sysops can delete pages .. if you tell me the name of the page I can delete for you. Brent. On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Nadia El Borai [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Could you kindly tell me how I can delete a page. I deleted the content as the spelling of the title

[WikiEducator] Re: Using WE Templates

2008-09-07 Thread Brent
instructions on how to use it on the page itself. If you really need to modify the template, the best idea is probably to copy it to another template namespace, ie. Template:NellieNav or something and work on that one. Brent. On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:34 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

[WikiEducator] Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California

2008-08-19 Thread Brent
Would-be reformers are trying to beat the high cost -- and, they say, the dumbing down -- of college materials by writing or promoting open-source, no-cost online texts. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-textbook18-2008aug18,0,4712858.story brent

[WikiEducator] Re: Liquid threads consensus?

2008-07-16 Thread Brent
out there with incentive ($) to code this feature. In that case I'd vote for dropping them all together. brent. On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Declan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have found the liquid thread function to be frustrating, and I tend to avoid using discussion pages

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Brent
. Freedom is a double edged sword; too many instances of people killed to get it, who then kill to keep it. brent. On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Josh -- Yip this is the right place to ask the question. Slideshare is an impressive technology

[WikiEducator] Re: New Messages, but none

2008-06-20 Thread Brent
well... no wonder you didn't get any messages, you'd click the New Massages link ... bet you didn't get a massage either ;-) (but if you did let me know how you did it.) brent. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a bit of trouble clearing new

[WikiEducator] Re: PLEASE GET BRIAN LAMB WITH WIKIEDUCATOR

2008-06-09 Thread Brent
take a look at this: http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Horticultureaction=feedfeed=rss to get an idea of what i'm talking about. brent On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smart work Leigh ... I'm thinking that we should try creating a Blip TV rss feed

[WikiEducator] Re: PLEASE GET BRIAN LAMB WITH WIKIEDUCATOR

2008-06-09 Thread Brent
should add that i did that in response to looking at this blog post today: http://jimgroom.umwblogs.org/2008/02/17/proud-spammer-of-open-university-courses/ which I found kind of interesting in an interoperable/mash-up kind of way. brent. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED

[WikiEducator] Re: Incorporating Open SourceSoftwarewithUniversal Education at WikiEducator

2008-06-06 Thread Brent
is not open source, but it at least uses an open protocol in SIP ... so there's half the battle. brent. On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Chris Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using Gizmo is another alternative, and someone else maintains the infrastructure for us. :-) No its not http

[WikiEducator] Re: Incorporating Open Source Software withUniversal Education at WikiEducator

2008-06-05 Thread Brent
There was the start of a page here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Linux and you can also look at: http://www.wikieducator.org/Category:Free_Software but otherwise i'd be keen to get something like this going with a bit more organisation, structure, etc. brent. On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:02 PM

[WikiEducator] Re: Quick tip for people using structured pages in Wikied

2008-05-21 Thread Brent
I think we should also note that it was actually a Wikieducator, http://wikieducator.org/User:JimTittsler who created this extension ( http://wikieducator.org/Extension:WETitle) which is now available for any MediaWikis out there to install. Nice one Jim. brent. On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:45 AM

[WikiEducator] Re: free courses for educators on web 2.0 tools for instruction and learning

2008-05-01 Thread Brent
of pressure to discuss, to give a title, to reply in an ordered fashion, and sort of sucked the simplicity and ease out of it. Oh well. Google to the rescue(?) again... sorta. brent. On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:37 AM, nelliemuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy, After my conversation with you on SKYPE

[WikiEducator] Re: Fwd: {{Sustainable Otago}} Anyone know anyone in computing in Zimababwe

2008-04-07 Thread Brent
done this? ... http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:Search?search=zimbabwefulltext=Search brent. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone on Wikieducator from Zimbabwe, or know someone in Zimbabwe? See below for more details... -- Forwarded

[WikiEducator] Re: server down? or is it my end?

2008-02-25 Thread Brent
Declan... it's currently down but its being looked into ... hopefully be resolved before too long. brent. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Declan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, my students and I are coming up empty on wikieducator tonight. So, is it just us and our campus server

[WikiEducator] Re: server down? or is it my end?

2008-02-25 Thread Brent
i should say... that it looks like a larger network problem. There are a few sites in Europe that are currently unavailable. bren.t On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Declan... it's currently down but its being looked into ... hopefully be resolved before too

[WikiEducator] Re: Immersive Education

2008-02-05 Thread Brent
see also: http://pedagogyofthecompressed.blogspot.com/2008/03/second-life-second-rate.html brent. On Feb 6, 2008 2:01 PM, Jim Tittsler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 1:56 PM, Randy Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the Croquet Consortium - who is involved, and where

[WikiEducator] Re: Immersive Education

2008-02-05 Thread Brent
http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page brent. On Feb 6, 2008 1:56 PM, Randy Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the Croquet Consortium - who is involved, and where is there a link, or info on it? Thanks! - Randy On Feb 4, 2008 12:17 PM, Rasporich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[WikiEducator] Re: Please set me straight on user talk/discussion pages

2008-01-27 Thread Brent
Erik: What might be more beneficial is to have Trac page or a Sourceforge page for LQT, somewhere where bug reports and documentation can start being built up. brent. On Jan 28, 2008 1:52 PM, Erik Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/28/08, Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know

[WikiEducator] Re: Please set me straight on user talk/discussion pages

2008-01-27 Thread Brent
Erik: i'll start a bug report template and page on WikiEd and if you can point any developers you run into there. brent. On Jan 28, 2008 4:03 PM, Erik Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/28/08, Brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik: What might be more beneficial is to have Trac page

[WikiEducator] Watchlist Thread Problem

2008-01-24 Thread Brent
Anyone having problems deleting/marking read threads that appear on their watchlist? I can't delete or mark any of them as read today and they're going to start piling up quickly. brent. -- http://digitalsynapse.co.nz http://greymatter.co.nz

[WikiEducator] Re: Template generator quirk

2008-01-22 Thread Brent
on the one to the left. brent. On Jan 23, 2008 3:01 AM, Declan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Wayne, I'll add the category as you suggested; then I can do a history check on the flagged pages. Cheers, Declan -- http://digitalsynapse.co.nz http

[WikiEducator] Re: Kaltura Collaborative Video Editing Extension Enabled

2008-01-18 Thread Brent
that is a strange little video ... sometimes I feel just like that. brent. On Jan 19, 2008 10:01 AM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what a curious little video! Is there some text to explain what is happening with that termite? With text on the same page we could go about doing

[WikiEducator] Re: Kaltura Collaborative Video Editing Extension Enabled

2008-01-17 Thread Brent
maybe we should start a collaborative video for the Davos question, see: http://nz.youtube.com/davos brent. On Jan 18, 2008 1:19 PM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, yes, it took my MP$ and is playing it back - all be it painfully slow. So if it takes MP4 why doesn't it display

[WikiEducator] Re: Interactive tables

2008-01-15 Thread Brent
that you get a kind of a bar graph thing going on. Might also be worth taking a quick look at this project on Wikiversity: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Bloom_clock brent. On Jan 16, 2008 9:59 AM, Declan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Is there a way to build interactive tables

[WikiEducator] Re: MediaWiki API?

2008-01-14 Thread Brent
it would be great if this could be turned on ... as we can't run any bots without it from what i understand. brent. On Jan 15, 2008 9:36 AM, Jim Tittsler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the MediaWiki API http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API available on WikiEducator? I tried http

[WikiEducator] Re: Some possible instability tonight

2008-01-11 Thread Brent
Erik .. i'm sure you saw this in my previous posts, but there is an update to the RSS extension from 0.6.1 to 0.6.3 ... and Jimbojw (the original author) does have a user page on WikiEd. brent. On Jan 12, 2008 8:14 AM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks Eric.. I hope the RSS

[WikiEducator] Re: An alternative hosting path

2008-01-11 Thread Brent
aw gee... thanks :-) brent. On Jan 12, 2008 10:50 AM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Brent is the one that has got me up and running with Ubuntu... its great having him close by in the chat box. A very responsive guy that seems to know a little about a great many things. He

[WikiEducator] Re: An alternative hosting path

2008-01-10 Thread Brent
approach of our community towards exploring the potential of the platform that we run a kind of 'sandboxed' wiki as well to play around with and explore extensions, bots, etc on before throwing them on the live WikiEd platform. So perhaps 2 servers? :-) brent. 1) COL goes to tender

[WikiEducator] Re: Something wrong with RSS

2008-01-09 Thread Brent
I reckon that as a first shot we should just update the extension to the latest version if possible and see if this fixes it. brent. On Jan 9, 2008 11:28 PM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I've tried emailing the author of the RSS extension, but have had no reply. The RSS

[WikiEducator] Re: Something wrong with RSS

2008-01-09 Thread Brent
on the PDF functionality, let alone video editing. brent. On Jan 10, 2008 11:15 AM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who does that? Is it Eric? Wayne? a group of people? Brent, do you have such access? Seems funny to have anyone jockying the content, but only one jockying the software. I

[WikiEducator] Re: Polls

2008-01-06 Thread Brent
http://wikipoll.free.fr/mediawiki-1.6.5/index.php?title=Source_code brent. On Jan 7, 2008 1:47 PM, Randy Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Declan, I think it could be useful, depending on what it's going to cost to put that functionality into WE, or if it is already there. For WikiEd's

[WikiEducator] Re: LiquidThreads x-mas wishes

2007-12-23 Thread Brent
threads to delete with one click, or possibly even a select all option. brent. On Dec 24, 2007 12:23 AM, Erik Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All - David has one week of development left in his Wikia contract on LiquidThreads. If there are any specific (small) wishes that you have, now

[WikiEducator] Re: Something wrong with RSS

2007-12-22 Thread Brent
on WikiEd: http://wikieducator.org/User:Jimbojw thru which you could email him. brent On Dec 23, 2007 1:42 PM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Something is not right with Wikied's RSS outputs. When I lift the feed and redisplay it in a reader or on another website, the level 2

[WikiEducator] Re: Wiki interface

2007-12-17 Thread Brent
are adding about 5 to 10 more grammatical constructs into their vocabulary -- if they can't do that, then perhaps being a teacher ain't really for them ;-) brent. On Dec 18, 2007 2:49 PM, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, yes. I'm gaim.. an hour per day x 10 days... exact dates? Times

[WikiEducator] Re: LiquidThreads updated

2007-12-04 Thread Brent
Erik... Can you point me to where the source code for LQT is being kept? brent. On Dec 5, 2007 6:36 AM, Erik Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been bold and installed the latest version of LQT on WikiEducator. As a side benefit, we're also running the latest version of MediaWiki now