[WikiEducator] Re: How do we support and respect educator contributions in WE?

2009-10-23 Thread john stampe
Jim, sorry about the delay but I have been busy with personal business. Protecting original efforts and years of research is a serious question that WE and wiki's, in general, must come to terms with before they will truly benefit the communities they serve. Actually, much as gone on in this

[WikiEducator] Re: A great idea for eliminating government waste

2009-10-23 Thread Gurmit
Dear Wayne While the argument to reduce govt. waste through collaborating to produce free OERs is appealing, it rests on certain assumptions. The author does hints at these,but not enough. For example: 1. While hard sciences curriculum can be 'standardised' and 'applied' globally/nationally.

[WikiEducator] Re: How do we support and respect educator contributions in WE?

2009-10-23 Thread john stampe
Sorry, for the delay but I have been busy with personal business. I think we are on the same wavelength here. It would be possible to design a single template with parameters specifying the different reasons for requesting users not to edit the page, for example: - Currently being used

[WikiEducator] Workgroup: Amendments to Open Community Governance Policy

2009-10-23 Thread Kim Tucker
Hi all, Does anyone know of some good resources on governance/ community governance which might help us enhance the Open Community Governance Policy? If so, please add: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Amendments_to_Open_Community_Governance_Policy/Resources Thanks Kim PS New

[WikiEducator] Re: How do we support and respect educator contributions in WE?

2009-10-23 Thread jkelly952
John and Wayne Thank you for suggestions of using external sources, to hold the research and original materials, that could be linked into WE pages. The “building of import == export capability between WikiEducator and the Connexions platform” is very interesting. This would allow WE members

[WikiEducator] Style guidelines workgroup update

2009-10-23 Thread Jesse Groppi
Hi all! Here's the news from the style guide http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Style_guide front: Guideline approvals are still on hold whilst we wait for the community council to briefly reconvene on our behalf. They will be looking to approve our draft policy

[WikiEducator] Re: How do we support and respect educator contributions in WE?

2009-10-23 Thread Jesse Groppi
My apologies to all for coming into this so late; my inbox this week looks like someone set off an email bomb! On the whole, I agree that some measure must be taken to inform readers and members of the authors' intent for collaboration. It gets me frustrated when I see that, despite the

[WikiEducator] Re: How do we support and respect educator contributions in WE?

2009-10-23 Thread Jesse Groppi
Valerie, In my experience in wikis, *none* of the categories are ever officially administered, and all of them are user inspired. Members are free to create whatever categories that please them, usually guided by a set of guidelines and watched over by a group of experts and helpers. The

[WikiEducator] Should we develop an additional tutorial to the Learning4Content tutorials for the purpose of teaching Copyrights

2009-10-23 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Dear Friends, I had a few recent discussions regarding the need to inform about copyrights and I was wondering if it was a good idea to expand the WikiEducator Learning4Content Tutorials and add a ''Copyright' Tutorials that addresses the need for more information, options and enhances open

[WikiEducator] RE: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: Should we develop an additional tutorial to the Learning4Content tutorials for the purpose of teaching Copyrights

2009-10-23 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Hi Phil, As you say, we do have brilliant Learning4Content tutorials 1-10 which teach how to use wiki technology, plus a few more on other important subjects such as the use of Kaltura (video editing) for instance, and how to create a learning resource and others etc that are not taught in

[WikiEducator] RE: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: Should we develop an additional tutorial to the Learning4Content tutorials for the purpose of teaching Copyrights

2009-10-23 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Hi Steve, That is a very good question, Steve and there is no easy answer. There are many books out there that in no way provide all the answers but attempt to give a general overview of what the license restrictions mean and refer or provide references to more information elsewhere. I don't

[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: Should we develop an additional tutorial to the Learning4Content tutorials for the purpose of teaching Copyrights

2009-10-23 Thread Patricia Schlicht
...or develop them country specific and in the process develop the largest copyright information resource pool there is Cheers, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Patricia Schlicht Sent: Friday, October