[WikiEducator] Re: quality, paticipation and skills

2008-07-05 Thread Leigh Blackall
Along with all the features, we may as well include featured user as well... On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, Apology for the tardy response -- but a few thoughts on your questions.  1. Do you also believe that what our quality standard(s) should

[WikiEducator] Re: How to get teaching materials translated andconverted?

2008-07-05 Thread Barbara Dieu
For my secondary school students translation was in the French curriculum. Instead of translating texts which had absolutely no connection to anything else , I suggested we translate the pages from This is Our Time project http://www.timeproject.org/, or which we were the homebase. The students

[WikiEducator] Re: How to get teaching materials translatedand converted?

2008-07-05 Thread Steve Foerster
Wayne wrote: Don't forget that our WikiEducator community would also benefit tremendously from these initiatives smile. WE already has a few examples worth exploring. Steve Foerster has started called XXI Texts -- the idea being to update text books which are in the public domain.

[WikiEducator] Re: How to get teaching materials translatedandconverted?

2008-07-05 Thread Wayne
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 09:53 -0700, Steve Foerster wrote: In our case, though, part of the delay is that I believe that something that comes out of the public domain should stay there, even as it's revised, so having a complete WE policy on exactly how we use alternative licenses within WE

[WikiEducator] Re: How to get teaching materials translated andconverted?

2008-07-05 Thread Jim Tittsler
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding conversion of HTML into mediawiki syntax -- there is an online webservice that we could try. See: http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/ Or use the HTML::WikiConverter module from CPAN. Since there are a large

[WikiEducator] Re: How to get teaching materials translated andconverted?

2008-07-05 Thread Randy Fisher
Should we have a page: www.wikieducator.org/Converters OR www.wikieducator.org/Conversion with links to the Conversion options Randy On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Jim Tittsler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding conversion of

[WikiEducator] Re: How to get teaching materials translated and converted?

2008-07-05 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Valerie, This is really helpful ~ thanks. Would you mind posting this on the Community Media list ~ we have a small, growing communityand you're welcome to join! http://groups.google.com/group/community-media - Randy On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:05 PM, valerie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[WikiEducator] Clearing collections

2008-07-05 Thread David Leeming
I can't clear my collection in Wikieducator. I click Clear Collection, select OK and it shows as cleared but as soon as I navigate away the collection has persisted. Same with saving a collection, I can delete some of the articles in my collection but when I save it saves them all anyway. A