[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Hillary
Hi everyone What I do with our slideshows is put a link (the slideshare url) into our wiki activity so that those looking at it can press on the link which leads through to slideshare. We also embed the slideshare into a blog which we use as an interface to the wiki. Hope this is clear? Hillary

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Wayne
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 10:35 +1200, Leigh Blackall wrote: > I think Eric's suggestion is a good one. Ditto -- lets get this onto the agenda for the first council meeting. Cheers Wayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

[WikiEducator] A simple hack to resolve the quiz printing problem

2008-06-26 Thread Peter
So I want my CCNC modules to print well to pdf... I wanted the formative (and summative) module questions to print to pdf. So I put the MCQ quizzes into a template and created a companion template of the same name with the _print suffix and presto my qiuzzes so up in the pdf. Check out my sandbox

[WikiEducator] Re: Ongoing F2F in Zambia

2008-06-26 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Victor, Congrats of this fresh crop of new entrants to the User Expo! - Randy On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations Victor! > > Its wonderful to see the WikiEducator family growing in Zambia. I do hope > that WikiEducators will take the trouble

[WikiEducator] Re: Ongoing F2F in Zambia

2008-06-26 Thread Wayne
Congratulations Victor! Its wonderful to see the WikiEducator family growing in Zambia. I do hope that WikiEducators will take the trouble to leave a few encouraging messages or advice on the respective user pages. http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Zambia_Workshops/Face-to-Face_schedul

[WikiEducator] Re: Ongoing F2F in Zambia

2008-06-26 Thread Minhaaj ur Rehman
wow congrats for organizing the event vmensah. i better step on my f2f program here in pakistan. good luck with the workshop. On Jun 26, 10:11 pm, vmensah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Yesterday, we started the first F2F L4C workshop here in Zambia and it > was a "blast". Today's

[WikiEducator] Re: Expo for User pages?

2008-06-26 Thread Minhaaj ur Rehman
ad hoc conspiracy ? hehe i like the idea steve. i totally agree with the idea of encouraging and recognizing the extra ordinary pages with large prizes. Recognition is all that matters. Our way of telling people that we respect and honor their contribution to WE. Thanks for removing my user page t

[WikiEducator] Re: Expo for User pages?

2008-06-26 Thread Steve Foerster
Minhaaj wrote: << Ok, this is my start for the community. I invite everyone to design rules for the competition, procedures and selection for the best page. Feel free to edit it the way you want. I better run and get my user page tweaked. >> You know, I like what Leigh said about recognition be

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Wayne
Hi Chris -- Surfing your blog and contributions to the list -- I'm suspect that you have an interesting story to tell. Cheers Wayne On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 19:32 +1000, Chris Harvey wrote: > Thank you for sharing your story Wayne, hopefully I can write > something more meaningful like this soon.

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Wayne
Hi Erik, I think this is a productive compromise. We should table these ideas for the first WE council to research and decide on the best way forward. I agree with you that we would need a solid policy before implementation. I suspect that there will be long and productive discussions :-). Cheer

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Wayne
Hey Minaaj -- I'm just a teacher with a passion for education, but thanks for the kind works . Cheers Wayne On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 05:08 -0700, Minhaaj ur Rehman wrote: > Very inspirational story Wayne. I must say, people like you are the > change agents of miracles. I can see how your experience

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Wayne
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 20:08 +1200, Brent wrote: > Freedom is a double edged sword; too many instances of people killed > to get it, who then kill to keep it. Hey Brent -- that's very true and I do see the logic of your argument. The issue of embedded 3rd party media is not a decision I can take

[WikiEducator] Ongoing F2F in Zambia

2008-06-26 Thread vmensah
Dear Friends, Yesterday, we started the first F2F L4C workshop here in Zambia and it was a "blast". Today's lessons have also being very encouraging. While i bring facilitation on this 3-day event to a close tommorrow at noon (10hours GMT), i will be very happy if members of this wonderful WE fam

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Erik Moeller
One possible compromise might be to allow, by policy, the embedding of external media from sites which - recognize free content metadata, - make available source data. This policy could be extended by process to upload copies of source data to WikiEducator, to ensure that the content will surviv

[WikiEducator] Re: How wikieducator keep the cultural identity of the students

2008-06-26 Thread Minhaaj ur Rehman
Chinese is the most spoken language on earth. I won't be much help in contributing to chinese WE since i dont know how to speak chinese but i passionately support introducing chinese WE. Just like ubuntu, education should be free for everyone in their own language that can be distributed freely :)

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Minhaaj ur Rehman
Very inspirational story Wayne. I must say, people like you are the change agents of miracles. I can see how your experiences have shaped your love for free education and FOSS. I appreciate that and respect that. I on the other side, forgive me for being one of the academics who speak out against

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Harvey
> > I don't think that this argument is valid. Embedding a Slideshare video > doesn't require us using any proprietary code on our server How do you watch the videos on your server? If anything we should possibly be more accomodating to this practice than > Kultura, which has a proprietary playb

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Brent
I don't think that this argument is valid. Embedding a Slideshare video doesn't require us using any proprietary code on our server and extending this to third parties in this way doesn't seem right to me ... its over-extending a bit don't you think? By this argument we should also not allow any co

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Wayne
On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 10:25 +1200, Leigh Blackall wrote: > Embedding 3rd Party Media is not copying. Uploading media into Kaltura > IS copying. Embedding 3rd party media is explicitly encouraged by the > services and authors, where as copying them into Kaltura is not, and > in my view IS a breach

[WikiEducator] Re: embedding slideshare presentations?

2008-06-26 Thread Wayne
Hi Leigh, Minhaaj, Chris and friends Gee -- I got my work cut out for me in responding to all these issues in what is a complex debate. That said, the thing I respect most about the WE family is our open and transparent dialogue -- we may not agree all of the time -- but when the going gets tough