[WikiEducator] Clearing collections
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 bug? David Leeming Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC
Hi all, We have to understand that the XO is not an office computer and to compare it with an EEE PC is comparing chalk and cheese. The XO is a learning tool for very young children, and a teaching tool for their teachers. The mesh networking, with almost every activity on the laptops designed to collaborate, alone is something that puts it quite apart from the EEE PC. However, I believe the OLPC is not about merely the XO but is about a highly scale-able approach to applying ICT to improve basic education - about starting as many children off on a good start to a life of learning. The activities (and even the sharing function) might at some stage be portable to another device like the EEE PC (but it would be a very poor performer). OLPC wouldn't mind, as long as it works. That's not the point. In ten years if we are all still here, we will see this differently - a low-cost specially designed ICT learning tool for all children will be just something we take for granted. It would be absurd to imagine giving windows (or standard Linux distros with office software) laptops to 100 eight-year olds and their teachers, as we did in PNG in June, and then coming back after 5 months and finding the results that I did a couple of weeks ago (copied below). I found teachers actively using the laptops , the children obviously highly motivated and engaged with learning both in and out of class. Some pictures at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Oceania (see the PNG page, and also the Solomon Islands page which has some Youtube videos including of a teacher using the laptop in a grade 1 lesson). I believe it was a mistake to believe that you could have got any value from an unguided introduction to the OLPC for the Tuvalu teachers, indeed it seems to have been a misguided approach as the principles of OLPC and the mode of operation were clearly not understood. I am the one who will be implementing OLPC trials in Tuvalu early next year but I am confident I can steer this in the right direction. I have also been conducting Wikieducator L4C workshops in the Pacific and it seems to me that the OLPC principles are highly in tune with the world of open educational resources, and the need to create new ways to empower Pacific educators to pool together regionally relevant content and methods. The below is some feedback copied from a report - yet to be posted on the OLPC Oceania wiki. Sorry if this makes it quite a long posting. If anyone wishes, I am happy to provide some more information, for instance on how we see the educational impacts, challenges and potential for Wikieducator linkage (in fact, we have already been using the IMS content export facility to download HTML content for the school servers that are also installed in the host schools). We have started OLPC projects in several countries, including Solomon Islands where I am based. But the below refers to PNG as I have just returned from there. FEEDBACK FROM THE TRIALS PROJECTS IN PNG This feedback is in no way a substitute for a proper evaluation. SPC has plans for these, wishing to work with appropriate agencies and institutions. Part of the strategy for the trials is to work with Departments of Education to develop objective frameworks which can be measured. In PNG, trials were started in June at Gaire and Dreikikir. Only grade 3 was involved in each school owing to availability of laptops at that time. However, both sites have been assessed and arrangements made to complete both schools so that all teachers and students will receive laptops, by the end of the year. The implementation will involve full training for teachers and introduction of support and monitoring arrangements. However, there are some observations that can be made following the five months since the trials were started in June 2008. The SPC advisor David Leeming visited both schools in November 2008 accompanied by representatives from the Department. Teachers were asked to give feedback (reported below more or less in their own words). FEEDBACK ON DREIKIKIR (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Papua_New_Guinea and http://www.olpc.org.pg) Feedback from teachers . Enormous enthusiasm. They really see the value of the programme and the head teacher is requesting the additional XOs immediately. . Motivation of grade 3s has soared, teachers too. Demand for transfers in to Dreikikir are increasing, and two teachers who have been promoted and have to transfer out were almost in tears as the prospect of leaving . They have been amazed by the self learning capacity, with learning continuing out of class, and obvious skills and knowledge of the grade 3s. The kids gave a demo and they were bursting with confidence, quite unlike their shy former selves during training in June. . They have been using the XOs in lessons on a regular basis. Both guided and unguided. Examples, regular use of Record in science
[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC
Hi Valerie, try http://laptop.org/manual I am happy to reply to this thread as much as people wish! David Leeming OLPC Coordinator, SPC and Technical Advisor, People First Network Honiara, Solomon Islands -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of valerie Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2008 1:56 a.m. To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC When I first started looking into OLPCs, there was a one page guide for people who had used other computers. It addressed lots of these issues and explained work arounds or alternatives. It had a list of fun activities that would help orient an experienced computer user to XO behaviors. By the time I got an XO, the page was gone - someone decided that this was inappropriate. Apparently there were some mistakes or misunderstandings that were contained in the document. If you had an XO you should stumble around and learn to love it. Too bad. I think the OLPC folks would get more support by helping PC users be successful and understand what trade offs have been made and why as well as translating PC into XO. There are lots of us who would like to be more positive, but the learning curve is just too steep without some assistance. With all our PC baggage, it is hard to get to a starting point to explore the real power and innovations. There are so many great things the little green machine can do. A mouse and a USB memory stick are invaluable for us differently-abled computer users. I had to install Opera to get around the authentication certificate issue to access Moodle on one of the school's servers. I loved the bright, clear screen. It was a huge hit going through security in airports. And it certainly made a fashion statement, especially if there were little kids around. If anyone has a copy of the OLPC guide for PC users, that would be a great place to start. Making that correct and current would help enormously. ..Valerie On Nov 30, 8:59 pm, Jim Tittsler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 14:22, Leigh Blackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The next thing I noticed was the browser. At first glance it looks a little like Google's Chrome, but less than 3 clicks around you soon realise that ... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC
Maria, The real experts to reply to your question are the teachers and children already using the laptops. SPC has a current programme with currently over 1000 6-8 year olds and 100 primary school teachers mostly with absolutely no prior computing experience using the OLPC laptops and finding them excellent for teaching and learning in remote community schools. Several thousand more shortly to be deployed under the SPC trials programme. It's designed for young ages, 6 years upwards, and for teachers to introduce more child-centres approaches such as more active, discovery learning and learning by doing. The focus of the teacher training is on the curriculum integration, i.e. teaching ideas. Teachers with no experience normally start creating lesson resources, worksheets, local language readers, etc within 2-3 days of starting. Children become experts by themselves, as we discovered in PNG after 5 months. It does not need technology experts to use or introduce! In PNG there are several educational institutions (i.e. DWU - St Benedicts and Don Bosco Tech Institute) already having introduced OLPC into their teacher training programmes. Some other comments: I believe the way it was introduced in the workshop was in good faith, and I am perhaps guilty of not providing some guidance on how the exercise should be done. I am a teacher myself - I worked as a VSO volunteer in two very remote Solomons schools for 3 years in the 90s. One of them had no resources, no books, no equipment. I taught science using empty tin cans and stones from the beach. The laptop would have transformed how I could teach and the early lives of those children. One example alone - the laptop comes with content already installed, including a slice of the wikipedia providing an entire reference encyclopaedia on Chemistry - a marvellous resource for any science teacher and mark my words, the children too!. Add the school server and you could pack it with the entire Wikipedia, the entire school curriculum resources, community continuing education materials, information on any subject. The scale of the program would mean that all those excellent highly motivated teachers that I have known, in those remote schools, could become empowered to collaborate in content development - of relevant, Pacific-centred resources. Think of the OLPC as wide approach to transforming basic education, not just a laptop. If you want a browser with tabs, it's all open for you to start a project and develop one, and furthermore, you can even localise it to your local language . It's all possible with an open development approach. Firefox 3 can be installed if you need that, etc, etc. By the way, the software is not a fixed set - there are hundreds of activities that can be downloaded and installed. The OS version is also more advanced now with version 8.2 - not what you found on the Tuvalu batch which are yet to be updated. The principles of OLPC are about one-to-one computing (child ownership - but interpreted from Pacific view point), and connectivity - everything you do on the laptop can be shared. These are not lab computers where children won't get a look in and if they do, only teach them office skills - which can certainly come later. They do have browsers and can access the wiki certainly, and as the whole development approach is open I would expect to see teachers using them creatively for producing local content, not only on the wiki but with other open source tools - eXeLearning for instance, is a simple-to-use offline HTML content authoring tool that will run on the XO. The main thing is that this is designed to scale - and that is where the transformational aspects will be seen. David Leeming OLPC Coordinator, SPC and Technical Advisor, People First Network Honiara, Solomon Islands From: Maria Droujkova [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2008 7:24 a.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC I have two questions for David Leeming, based on this conversation. Thank you for offering to answer, David. 1. From Leigh's experience, it looks like OLPC laptops take an onsite specialist (or specific detailed instructions) to get, even (or especially?) for people with computer background. One can't just start using them, given previous computer experiences. Is it so? 2. In your opinion, are these laptops appropriate tools for wiki work, as exemplified by that 40-person workshop, in the light of the fact they aren't really computers? -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. naturalmath.com: a sketch of a social math site groups.google.com/group/naturalmath: a mailing list about math maker activities groups.google.com/group/multiplicationstudy the family multiplication study --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed
[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC
Hi Leigh, Thanks for those references – I will check them out we can discuss this with my colleagues and learn from them, on a different list as it may be getting a bit off subject. I’ll get back to you. However, just to complete this thread, let me reply once more:- To reply to your questions, I think the concept is to bring the activity-focused approach to the front, hence the “radically different interface”. However, we are talking mainly of 6-12 year olds and as they use the laptop they do acquire all the keyboard and mouse skills, scrolling, concept of windows and menus. In my experience of training computing to complete beginners, that gives them a great start to the more traditional interfaces including Ubuntu and Windows, whatever the policy that prevails. If the OLPC is linked to the SPC’s regional VSAT programme, the RICS systems come with a server and optionally some desktop computers for community access, and those are being supplied with Ubuntu, I have noticed. In the Solomons we have a growing network of Distance Learning Centres (www.schoolnet.net.sb) and those make ideal hubs for OLPC projects in nearby schools, and thus teachers and more experienced, older students will have access to more traditional computing technology. However, there is quite a lot you can do with the XO. It does have a terminal (as an activity) and you can get in to the back end and customise it as you wish. There are communities around the world developing all kinds of applications (activities) for it (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities - see the link to All Activities), as well as localisation projects. The content development side is lagging behind (although there is a new concept of collections category). That is where I thought there would be synergy with Wikieducator. I did not envisage the XOs themselves being used by the more expert educators specifically for content development in a setting like your workshop, rather I envisaged any available technology to be used to develop content for the XO school servers. Certainly, the laptops also will allow a much greater pool teachers in rural schools using the laptops to collaborate and contribute. On robustness, a lot of thought has gone into it. This is where there is no comparison with the EEE PC. You can drop them onto carpeted concrete from 1.5m - that is certified! We have tested that (from 2m onto uncarpeted concrete unintentionally!!!). In Brazil the BBC filmed someone using the laptop in the rain for 1 hour. The screen (which is very high resolution and size for the target price of USD 100) can have the backlight turned off and then it is readable outside in blazing sunshine, in black and white mode, something you cannot do on traditional laptops of any type. The version 8.2 now has aggressive power management so that if you turn the wireless off, one battery charge will last 8 hours, and it only needs less than 2 hours at 17W to re charge. My Asus EEE PC gets so hot I get worried leaving it on unsupervised. I am sure it uses heaps more power . Power supplies are a major challenge and so this is highly significant. The XOs do have a touch pad problem with hot humid climates, you may have noticed. But all XOs shipped from November should be equipped with newer hardware with this fault corrected – you can always plug in a USB mouse as work around. Waste management is definitely in SPC’s sights. Ian Thomson, my full time colleague and RICS coordinator has worked in NZ on recycling programs and is developing strategies to recommend to participating countries. David Leeming OLPC Coordinator, SPC and Technical Advisor, People First Network Honiara, Solomon Islands From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leigh Blackall Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2008 4:32 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC Hi David, thanks for all this information.. it is certainly helping me to reflect on my experience. Perhaps the problem was our expectation and approach to the OLPC in Tuvalu. We were expecting to use the computers primarily to access and work on the Internet. I've since learned that the operating system on those particular OLPCs is old and the problems have been fixed. But I have also discovered some disconcerting background info on OLPC development (see Brian Lamb's comment in my blog: Your critique reminded me of Ivan Krstić, who left the OLPC project in some frustration. We were asked not to blog (!) his very candid remarks at a recent speaking gig I saw him at recently, though many of his criticisms are here: http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi Though the potential is also represented in a post like this: http://radian.org/notebook/astounded-in-arahuay It is great to hear success stories from others. Perhaps the Tuvalu experience was the first full blown
[WikiEducator] Re: Offline Wikieducator mirrors and slices
Hi Maria Yes, the idea is to focus first on using the WE as a repository, although they The teachers here) fully intend to start creating WE pages themselves, starting with OLPC lesson plans linked to their curriculum. I have always been excited about linking the Wikieducator to OLPC. Here in Nauru, where I am helping them with teacher OLPC training for a fast growing OLPC country programme, they have the connectivity that makes this possible, although it's quite slow and thus limited for teacher's use (as opposed to live in the classroom). They have an XS school server (OLPC community software) but little content to put on it. It will take a long time for the curriculum development people locally and regionally to come up materials, and in the meantime the teachers can do something about it themselves. They know best what is relevant and what isn't. They use a rich task curriculum in the primary education system here, and it's easy to search the WE and find resources that provides content in ready learning format, download as PDF (it works fine on an XO) and then upload onto the school server in the correct category (i.e. Rich Task XYZ, Year 2, Week 1, Social Science thread, etc). What I am wondering about is having an offline mirror or a slice of the wikieducator (a read only snapshot on DVD that could maybe be updated every few months and received by mail). This will great aid the searching of teachers, and open it up to the students - it's simply impracticable for 40 students in a class to access the Internet through a slow (64-128kbps) link, especially as others may also be online. So we need an offline snapshop. The teachers can find quiet times to work online on collaborative development of content etc. I do think the Wikipedia has been released on DVD at times. So why not the WE? I think WE on a flash drive might also be a great idea. It would obviously be a cut down version. In fact the OLPC has collections including a small slice of the Wikipedia on Chemistry that can be installed permanently on the XO, despite the meagre memory. David Leeming Technical Advisor, People First Network, Honiara, Solomon Islands Wikieducator User page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming Alt. Email: da...@leeming-consulting.com -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Maria Droujkova Sent: Saturday, 9 May 2009 12:09 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Offline Wikieducator mirrors and slices On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: Hello all, I'm working on OLPC projects amongst other things, in areas where Internet access is at a premium. I'm interested in exploring any potential ways to improve access to the WE - and for that matter other wikis including the Wikipedia. For instance, offline mirrors - which might synchronise overnight - regular slices on DVD etc. I'd be very interested in collaborating on this. David, In some schools I know where kids use computers a lot, they carry things around on usb memory sticks. Is something like that a possibility? -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath our email group http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Tables cell aliagnment
Hi, a techie question I have been using Open Office to create tables and export as MediaWiki code to the Wikieducator. I would like to know how to force cell alignment (i.e. top, left justified). Appreciate any advice. David Leeming, Solomon Islands -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
RE: [WikiEducator] Tables cell aliagnment
Thanks Wayne, that was what I wanted to know, where to put the attributes.
Looking forwards to the new editor! I will be out of a job for my tricks up
my sleeve will be made redundant!
David
From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh
Sent: Monday, 25 January 2010 10:00 a.m.
To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Tables cell aliagnment
Hi David,
Within the next fortnight we'll be implementing the WYSIWYG editor on WE. So
in the near future you won't need to mess around with wiki syntax for tables
:-).
However, if you're in a hurry you can add XHTML attributes to Mediawiki
tables -
See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables
Assume this simple 2-cell table:
{| class=prettytable
|-
| Cell 1
| Cell 2
|-
|}
You can, for instance specify the background color, alignment and width of
Cell 1 as follows:
{| class=wikitable
|-
| width=60% bgcolor=#cc align=left | Cell 1
| Cell 2
|-
|}
(Note the insertion of the additional pipe | after the attributes for Cell
1. )
Cheers
Wayne
2010/1/24 David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb
mailto:leem...@pipolfastaem..gov.sb
Hi, a techie question
I have been using Open Office to create tables and export as MediaWiki code
to the Wikieducator. I would like to know how to force cell alignment (i.e.
top, left justified). Appreciate any advice.
David Leeming, Solomon Islands
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[WikiEducator] Wikieducator for OLPC
WikiEducators might like to see how we have been leveraging the WE in the Pacific Islands region with One Laptop Per Child. The WE was used in this OLPC start up workshop in Tuvalu, very usefully, and made possible due to the prior L4C workshop (thanks Leigh!), in several ways. Many of the participants had WE skills although had yet to really make use of them. (a)We developed a deployment plan for their OLPC programme collaboratively during the workshop using the WE. This was not only very efficient, but really helps the team take ownership of the plan. It then allows continuous refinement, all with high transparency. One example of how we integrated the XOs and WE in the workshop... participants worked in groups on an objectives framework, using the XOs to collaboratively develop the table. I.e. they used the Write Activity (word processor) in sharing mode with the document editable on each XO synchronously. We then took the completed tables (as .odt files) and used Open Office to export the WikiMedia text and whack it into WE. Very nice integration of the technologies with the workshop and training objectives. (b) This then lays the foundations for the second important potential for the WE. This is that it can become a repository for lesson plans, resources and curriculum content developed by the teachers in the OLPC programme and first steps by curriculum officers. We were inspired by Wayne's comments below: So for example, a teacher could re-contextualise and re-use a wikipedia (and wikieducator) article for a lesson by adapting the resource for the age level of the students or selecting those components of an encyclopaedia article which map to the particular curriculum. It would be great to see WikiEducators experimenting with the adaptation and remix of Wikipedia articles as lesson plans or teaching materials for specific curricula. We're keen to try this under the OERNZ project here in New Zealand. It is early days yet, but I think there is a good potential from the Tuvalu project that may provide a model for the region. We'll be working with partners, especially OER Foundation and SPC. http://wikieducator.org/OLPC_Tuvalu To complement the WE pages we set up a Google Group and a Ning. David Leeming Honiara -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] Schools Wikipedia
I have just come across the schools-wikipedia.org Seems like a useful resource. One can download it (I haven't managed yet because I live in a bandwidth poor country). Interested in feedback from anyone using it. I am thinking it might be very useful in countries where most (usually rural) schools have no or limited Internet access. I am aware that one can get Wikipedia on DVD in various forms but the accessibility of this one seems very attractive. David Leeming Solomon Islands -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] Schools Wikipedia
I have just come across www.schools-wikipedia.org Seems like a useful resource. One can download it (I haven't managed yet because I live in a bandwidth poor country). Interested in feedback from anyone using it. I am thinking it might be very useful in countries where most (usually rural) schools have no or limited Internet access. I am aware that one can get Wikipedia on DVD in various forms but the accessibility of this one seems very attractive. David Leeming Solomon Islands -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] PDF and Books download problem
Wayne, I am having problems with the PDF download and Book feature with most or all of the pages in this site http://wikieducator.org/OLPC_Tuvalu The this one, it only contains some text and tables http://wikieducator.org/OLPC_Tuvalu/Deployment/Governance I am getting an error about the provided file handle not writable in /usr/local/wm-svn/extensions/Collection/collection.body.php on line 1342 Can you replicate this error? Is it my template? Maybe this will also help others, David Leeming Solomon Islands -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
RE: [WikiEducator] PDF and Books download problem
Jim, Many thanks for getting that going! The odt download is excellent! Just what the doctor ordered. Very excited about that. Regarding PDF, the old collections tended to be quite large; did you do anything regarding optimising the compression in the PDF generator? David Leeming Leeming Consulting, P.O. Box 652, Honiara, Solomon Islands Tel: +677 747-6396 (m) 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com From: Wayne Mackintosh [mailto:mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 12:29 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Cc: David Leeming Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] PDF and Books download problem Hi David, Just a quick note to let you know that Jim has the wiki == pdf extension running on the new servers. BIG thanks Jim. We still have a little work to tweak the print specific versions of the pedagogical templates, updating the help files etc, but all of this is on the to do list. There is also a beta version running where you can download a collection in OpenOffice's odt format -- still a few bugs with images, captions and tables -- but rather cool because users can download a WikiEducator educator collection for localisation offline on their desktops :-) Appreciate your patience -- but each day we're getting closer to a better future for education using open networks and free content :-) Cheers Wayne On 12 February 2010 18:45, David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb wrote: Wayne, I am having problems with the PDF download and Book feature with most or all of the pages in this site http://wikieducator.org/OLPC_Tuvalu The this one, it only contains some text and tables http://wikieducator.org/OLPC_Tuvalu/Deployment/Governance I am getting an error about the provided file handle not writable in /usr/local/wm-svn/extensions/Collection/collection.body.php on line 1342 Can you replicate this error? Is it my template? Maybe this will also help others, David Leeming Solomon Islands -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator..org/User:Mackiwg http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest
Hi All, A technical question but it gives me the opportunity to share with you about an interesting project; I am working with UNESCO on an exciting project in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, to create an environmental wiki OER version of an environmental encyclopaedia in local Marovo language Reef and Rainforest (by Professor Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen, 2005). They'll use a special wiki of their own for the actual content, and there will be a mediation (QA) process, but to maximise the participation we'll for instance be creating lesson plans for teachers to use in the networked schools in Marovo, including a few OLPC pilot schools, to access and create content. I created a portal page for the school at which the project is based, Patukae, and am working on pages on the WE to help us collaborate to develop such lesson plans and procedures. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College I came across this spiffing resource (what a wonderful tool the WE is!) and realised that it is exactly what we want, a tool to create standard lesson plans using an agreed template. http://wikieducator.org/New_Zealand_Schools_OER_Portal/Resources/Standard_le sson_plan_template What I need is to make a version of the above for the project. It is specific to the Reef and Rainforest project so ideally would be located below here. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language I have managed to do most of this by copying and editing the WikiEducator template http://wikieducator.org/Template:Inputbox_Standard_lesson_plan All is working, but one last task, how can I edit (including the location) of the preload and created pages? David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] iDevices translations
Sorry if this has been covered... Is it possible for WikiEducators to create new iDevices (pedagogic templates)? I wish to provide a set in Marovo language for this project http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
RE: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest
Hi Wayne, One final touch... can I add something to the input box code so it creates the page under a specified page? Currently it saves it in the root. I'd prefer the long prefix not to be visible in the input window. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language/Lesson_Plan_template David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 1:54 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest Hi David, Looks like an exciting project and great to see that you are reusing ideas and templates from the OERNZ project. Wow -- we're impressed you've basically got all the setup working nicely. Well done! On this page: http://wikieducator.org/Template:Inputbox_Reef_Rainforest_Lesson_Plan Go into edit view, and you will see the following syntax: inputbox type=comment bgcolor=#F7F9EE width=70 preload=Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Marovo_Language/Less on_Plan_template/preload_page buttonlabel=Create a new Reef and Rainforest lesson plan break=yes /inputbox The page containing the text for the preload is: http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language/Lesson_Plan_template/preload_page If you edit the preload text page above -- it will change the default text which the input box will preload. (Make sure that you only change the text on your preload page -- and not the preload pages for other input boxes in the wiki.) For more info on the Input box feature see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox You're almost there -- well done! Cheers Wayne On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:22 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Hi All, A technical question but it gives me the opportunity to share with you about an interesting project; I am working with UNESCO on an exciting project in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, to create an environmental wiki OER version of an environmental encyclopaedia in local Marovo language Reef and Rainforest (by Professor Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen, 2005). They'll use a special wiki of their own for the actual content, and there will be a mediation (QA) process, but to maximise the participation we'll for instance be creating lesson plans for teachers to use in the networked schools in Marovo, including a few OLPC pilot schools, to access and create content. I created a portal page for the school at which the project is based, Patukae, and am working on pages on the WE to help us collaborate to develop such lesson plans and procedures. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College I came across this spiffing resource (what a wonderful tool the WE is!) and realised that it is exactly what we want, a tool to create standard lesson plans using an agreed template. http://wikieducator.org/New_Zealand_Schools_OER_Portal/Resources/Standard_le sson_plan_template What I need is to make a version of the above for the project. It is specific to the Reef and Rainforest project so ideally would be located below here. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language I have managed to do most of this by copying and editing the WikiEducator template http://wikieducator.org/Template:Inputbox_Standard_lesson_plan All is working, but one last task, how can I edit (including the location) of the preload and created pages? David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg , Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator http://www.wikieducator.org%20 Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message
RE: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest
OK, thanks Wayne Is it possible then to have a prefix appear in the text area of the input box i.e. Patukae/ So that users can then just add their lesson plan name to it without worry of mistakes David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 2010 3:39 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest Hi David, Not sure we can achieve this -- A page is created using the name specified in the text area of the input box. You may want to think about adding a category into your preload text to assist in finding resources. Cheers Wayne On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:01 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Hi Wayne, One final touch... can I add something to the input box code so it creates the page under a specified page? Currently it saves it in the root. I'd prefer the long prefix not to be visible in the input window. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language/Lesson_Plan_template David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 1:54 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest Hi David, Looks like an exciting project and great to see that you are reusing ideas and templates from the OERNZ project. Wow -- we're impressed you've basically got all the setup working nicely. Well done! On this page: http://wikieducator.org/Template:Inputbox_Reef_Rainforest_Lesson_Plan Go into edit view, and you will see the following syntax: inputbox type=comment bgcolor=#F7F9EE width=70 preload=Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Marovo_Language/Less on_Plan_template/preload_page buttonlabel=Create a new Reef and Rainforest lesson plan break=yes /inputbox The page containing the text for the preload is: http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language/Lesson_Plan_template/preload_page If you edit the preload text page above -- it will change the default text which the input box will preload. (Make sure that you only change the text on your preload page -- and not the preload pages for other input boxes in the wiki.) For more info on the Input box feature see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox You're almost there -- well done! Cheers Wayne On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:22 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Hi All, A technical question but it gives me the opportunity to share with you about an interesting project; I am working with UNESCO on an exciting project in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, to create an environmental wiki OER version of an environmental encyclopaedia in local Marovo language Reef and Rainforest (by Professor Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen, 2005). They'll use a special wiki of their own for the actual content, and there will be a mediation (QA) process, but to maximise the participation we'll for instance be creating lesson plans for teachers to use in the networked schools in Marovo, including a few OLPC pilot schools, to access and create content. I created a portal page for the school at which the project is based, Patukae, and am working on pages on the WE to help us collaborate to develop such lesson plans and procedures. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College I came across this spiffing resource (what a wonderful tool the WE is!) and realised that it is exactly what we want, a tool to create standard lesson plans using an agreed template. http://wikieducator.org/New_Zealand_Schools_OER_Portal/Resources/Standard_le sson_plan_template What I need is to make a version of the above for the project. It is specific to the Reef and Rainforest project so ideally would be located below here. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language I have managed to do most of this by copying and editing the WikiEducator template http://wikieducator.org/Template:Inputbox_Standard_lesson_plan All is working, but one last task, how can I edit (including the location) of the preload and created pages? David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send
RE: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest
Many thanks Wayne, I am convinced the categories are the most elegant way to do it, and less error prone. Yes, it is a great project, with so many spin offs: - The core objective is to scale up an energise a non-ICT local language resource for schools - Creating a wiki version with wiki-based lesson planning tool, reinforces the local ownership, so that this becomes a dynamic and living resource managed by the owners of the indigenous knowledge themselves - It is generally demonstrating the potential of ICT in a way that is very firmly linked to official education strategy and curriculum, in this case science, culture, vernacular education policy, and the now official standard that all teachers should have ICT skills and know how to apply them in teaching and learning - It also helps to legitimise / mainstream the OLPC pilot (Patukae school is one of the Solomon's 3 schools) - The ICT allows the resource to be accessible to many schools and even Diaspora, students overseas etc, (ref. Kupainen, http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_3.asp#2 2006). - The lesson planning tool is creating a lot of interest. One question the Director of Secondary asked me immediately when seeing the lesson planning tool and realising that this demonstrated potentials much wider than just the Marovo wiki project, was can this be made available in schools with no Internet. The Ministry is beginning to look at ways of providing electronic resources more widely to schools, and only a few percent have Internet access. Mobile coverage will increasingly help but even for a few years, the cost of mobile web is extraordinary in these countries - in PNG Digicel charge 2 kina per MB (USD 70c per MB - when salary and budgets are factored in, the affordability is 1000s of times less than in Australia). So the idea of small, low power (solar powered) offline caches, running services such as wikis, Moodle, LAMP-based repositories is now seriously being investigated. Of course, that is exactly what the OLPC XS server does. But it can be done with a simple Ubuntu installation running a wiki and serving html based resources. I have set up one such server as a wireless broadcast system running Wordpress with a mobile extension so that even mobile phones with wi-fi access can easily be used to download (and upload) content. So the question is, would it be possible to export a section of the WE (i.e. my Patukae pages - for example) containing the required templates and WE-specific files, and then install them on a standard mediawiki installation running offline? David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 1:36 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest Hi David, Yes you can use the parameter default=Patukae/ to load the default text for the input box. See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox Some newbies may find this confusing and they will be able to delete and or change the default text. Its your call. I would still auto nstert a category in your pre-load text so you can monitor new pages created and check that they were created properly -- then you can remove the category. Easier to monitor this way saving time and energy. Cheers Wayne On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:12 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: OK, thanks Wayne Is it possible then to have a prefix appear in the text area of the input box i.e. Patukae/ So that users can then just add their lesson plan name to it without worry of mistakes David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 2010 3:39 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest Hi David, Not sure we can achieve this -- A page is created using the name specified in the text area of the input box. You may want to think about adding a category into your preload text to assist in finding resources. Cheers Wayne On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:01 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Hi Wayne, One final touch... can I add something to the input box code so it creates the page under a specified page? Currently it saves it in the root. I'd prefer the long prefix not to be visible in the input window. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language/Lesson_Plan_template David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com
RE: [WikiEducator] Jim's quiz experiments
I'll be road testing this one for sure! David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2010 12:23 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Jim's quiz experiments Hi Everyone, Been having a play with Jim's quiz experiment feature. So easy to set up. Try this copyright taster quiz as an example: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Example:_quiz_taster I suspect that we will be tweaking and improving this feature -- so treat it as experimental at this stage. Nice one Jim! Cheers Wayne On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Jim Tittsler jtitts...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 00:21, Vtaylor vtay...@gmail.com mailto:vtay...@gmail..com wrote: As a less-technical reply, I would like to see WikiEducator have a broad range of functionality in wikitext. [...] I've been experimenting with quizzes that are built upon simple wikitext. Simple nested lists become multiple choice questions and lists with underlined words become cloze exercises. This makes them simple to edit and they render nicely in print for teacher's guides. It is a very minimalist but functional approach. http://WikiEducator.org/Template:Quiz_Multiple_Choice http://WikiEducator.org/Template:Quiz_Cloze Examples: http://WikiEducator.org/User:JimTittsler/Sandbox/Quiz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg , Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducator http://www.wikieducator.org%20 Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
RE: [WikiEducator] offline WikiEducator
Many thanks Jim. I will try this out in the next few days and report back. David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jim Tittsler Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2010 9:12 a.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] offline WikiEducator On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:45, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: So the question is, would it be possible to export a section of the WE (i..e. my Patukae pages - for example) containing the required templates and WE-specific files, and then install them on a standard mediawiki installation running offline? You can use http://WikiEducator.org/Special:Export to export the pages of interest (especially easy if you are interested in a particular category). The administrator of the other wiki can then import that XML using the Special:Import page. Unfortunately that does not pull image/file data (which would require additional scripting). Jim P.S. Other ideas: 1. You could script something to pull the pages and their images, similar to the way I build the offline manual for eXe. http://exe.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=exe/exe;a=blob;f=tools/getMa nual.py;h=a24bbe73049dcdf628c61749dd471cdbe13b1d72;hb=HEAD Given the MediaWiki API, you could script something that pulled wikitext (and even images/files) from one and wrote them into the other (significantly simplified if you didn't need to maintain history or worry about merging changes). 2. We can export into LMS package formats, so the content (including images) can be displayed in Moodle rather than a wiki. 3. We may have the ability to export Collections/Books in ePUB format in the next few months. 4. I think it could be interesting to see ZIM files for subsets of WikiEducator. http://www.openzim.org/Main_Page I'd love to work on the concept of federating wikis that were not permanently connected, but there are a lot of edge cases to consider. Going one direction (via export and import) is workable today. This is a topic I find extremely interesting, but which could quickly get out of scope for this list. I encourage you to join the wikieducator-tech mailing list if there is something here that sounds worth collaborating on. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
RE: [WikiEducator] Save as Daisy
All, I should explain, we are in a training workshop organised by ITU on inclusive e-apps, in Chiang Rai Thailand. The workshop brings together experts in the Daisy accessibility and audio book project www.daisy.org (Professor Kawamura) and also we did a session on L4C. We see a lot of parallels and were wondering if in some way there is potential to develop a Save as Daisy function as is the case with MS Word and Open Office, where you can download a free extension to save as a Daisy audio book from the Daisy website. It stuck us that maybe the Open Office version, which is FOSS, could be adapted to the WikiEducator. As Daisy is right at the forefront in accessibility standards development this would seem to make sense. But maybe the technologies are not compatible? Anyway, I thought it worth mentioning! David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of otgonbayar Purevsuren Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2010 5:52 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Save as Daisy It is Otgonbayar from Mongolia I think it is possible to convert wikieducation daisy format. Wikieducation got own heading and special tags we can use this. And converting process will be other more advanced server that includes speech engine. We will add books in queue to convert that we can avoid server performance :) it is only a brianstorming... BR P.Otgonbayar On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:39 PM, David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com wrote: Hello WikiEducators Has there been any discussion on this list in the potentials of integrating Daisy in some way to the WikiEducator, such as a WikiEducator version of Save As Daisy? David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[WikiEducator] Rich Editor
Jim, I am working with the UNESCO environmental wiki project in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands. It's been decided that the content and the accompanying lesson plans should be located on the UNESCO wiki, i.e. all in the same place with same branding. The WikiEducator is going to feature more when the model is expanded or replicated, and as a tool for the online community of practice that we are building to support the ongoing activities. See here: http://ma.marovo.org/index.php?title=Lesson_Plans_in_Marovo And the WikiEducator pages... http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language The MediaWiki used by UNESCO does not have the Rich Editor, and to help teachers with entering wiki entries, especially the lesson plan template which uses tables, we are interested in whether we can install the Rich Editor in the UNESCO wiki. Is this going to be possible or very complicated to achieve? David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
RE: [WikiEducator] Next WikiEducator Learning4Content workshop to take place from June 26 to July 10, 2013
Hi I have a group of Solomon Islands government officers in the Youth Division of the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs who wish to use WikiEducator to collaboratively develop Youth training resources. Although I will be giving them face to face training this will be very useful as a primer and so I can focus more on their specific content development plans. I have run L4C in a few countries back in 2008 and have been a WikiEducator fan and user since then, but I need updating on latest developments so I will also join and then assist my Solomon islands colleagues. David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.rurallink.com.sb From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieducator@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramesh Sharma Sent: Sunday, 2 June 2013 7:43 p.m. To: WikiEducator; WikiEducator Learning4Content Workshops; wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Next WikiEducator Learning4Content workshop to take place from June 26 to July 10, 2013 Dear Friends, Our next free WikiEducator Learning4Content online training course EL4C54 Workshop Leveraging the potential of Open Educational Resources will take place from June 26 to July 10, 2013. Kindly go to below URL to register yourself and invite others for this exciting online workshop. Spread over around 10 days, you would learn or sharpen your wiki skills by devoting 20 to 30 minutes each day. Please register and spread the word. http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C54/Register With best wishes, Ramesh Sharma -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: [WikiEducator] Abridged summary of wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic
Hi Ramesh - regarding the below, these officers are new to Wikieducator and OERs apart from the person mentioned. I am sorry that I have been a bit offline regarding WikiEducator development for a while, and I am not sure - is this course the standard email-based WikiEducator skills training, which included introduction and OERs or is it a more specialised course focusing on OERs? My plan is to start by helping the half dozen officers sign up with WE accounts and join in with them, and then follow up with a face to face workshop where we can build on the skills and focus on their particular content development. Does that sound suitable? Hi Valerie Many thanks, it would be great to have your collaboration. The Youth officer who initiated this was involved in some early work with COL's Learning4Peace in 2009, when I trained youth groups in a rural area in some collaborative wools including WikiEducator. At the time there was no focus on how to use those skills but I am happy to say that the seeding of the idea has borne fruit as he is now the Deputy director of the national Youth Division and wants to use it to support their Ministry's programmes by collaborating with rural youth groups and stakeholders on training materials. I'll be in touch as we get going, David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.rurallink.com.sb -Original Message- From: Valerie Taylor [mailto:vtay...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 9:56 p.m. To: da...@leeming-consulting.com Subject: Fwd: [WikiEducator] Abridged summary of wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic Hi David Saw your note on the WikiEducator list. I'm a long time WikiEducator. I would be happy to work with your ladies on their training development. Please think about how remote volunteers can contribute. There have been a couple of WE groups looking into remote volunteering and collaboration - great idea and WE supports this work. It takes some organization on the community end to figure what they need and how others can help. There is a need to work out a process as well as the training content. I hope that you and the ladies would be willing to work on this together with me and other WE volunteers. All the best ..Valerie Valerie Taylor Daytona, FL -- Forwarded message -- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:45 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] Abridged summary of wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic To: Abridged Recipients wikieducator@googlegroups.com Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/topics Next WikiEducator Learning4Content workshop to take place from June 26 to July 10, 2013 David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com Jun 10 02:02PM +1100 Hi I have a group of Solomon Islands government officers in the Youth Division of the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs who wish to use WikiEducator to collaboratively ...more -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: [WikiEducator] Next WikiEducator Learning4Content workshop to take place from June 26 to July 10, 2013
Hi Ramesh - regarding the below, these officers are new to Wikieducator and OERs apart from the person mentioned. I am sorry that I have been a bit offline regarding WikiEducator development for a while, and I am not sure - is this course the standard email-based WikiEducator skills training, which included introduction and OERs or is it a more specialised course focusing on OERs? My plan is to start by helping the half dozen officers sign up with WE accounts and join in with them, and then follow up with a face to face workshop where we can build on the skills and focus on their particular content development. Does that sound suitable? Hi Valerie Many thanks, it would be great to have your collaboration. The Youth officer who initiated this was involved in some early work with COL's Learning4Peace in 2009, when I trained youth groups in a rural area in some collaborative wools including WikiEducator. At the time there was no focus on how to use those skills but I am happy to say that the seeding of the idea has borne fruit as he is now the Deputy director of the national Youth Division and wants to use it to support their Ministry's programmes by collaborating with rural youth groups and stakeholders on training materials. I'll be in touch as we get going, David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.rurallink.com.sb -Original Message- From: Valerie Taylor [mailto:vtay...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 9:56 p.m. To: da...@leeming-consulting.com Subject: Fwd: [WikiEducator] Abridged summary of wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic Hi David Saw your note on the WikiEducator list. I'm a long time WikiEducator. I would be happy to work with your ladies on their training development. Please think about how remote volunteers can contribute. There have been a couple of WE groups looking into remote volunteering and collaboration - great idea and WE supports this work. It takes some organization on the community end to figure what they need and how others can help. There is a need to work out a process as well as the training content. I hope that you and the ladies would be willing to work on this together with me and other WE volunteers. All the best ..Valerie Valerie Taylor Daytona, FL -- Forwarded message -- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:45 PM Subject: [WikiEducator] Abridged summary of wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic To: Abridged Recipients wikieducator@googlegroups.com Today's Topic Summary Group: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/topics Next WikiEducator Learning4Content workshop to take place from June 26 to July 10, 2013 David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com Jun 10 02:02PM +1100 Hi I have a group of Solomon Islands government officers in the Youth Division of the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs who wish to use WikiEducator to collaboratively ...more -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for October 2014: David Leeming
Hi, I am quite honoured by this but surprised too, as the page is quite old and I have not updated it for some years. It’s a good reminder to do so!. Wikieducator still retains an essential place in any engagement I have in regard to digital literacy and the tutorial is still very useful and appreciated by people I have worked with especially teachers. In this part of the world we still have appalling connectivity, with almost all rural schools in Solomon islands unconnected; those that are struggle with some of the highest bandwidth prices in the world; even in Honiara it is not true to say that broadband is widely available if you go by any contemporary definition. I pay USD 420 per month for a 256 connection – add on purchasing power to the equation and for most the Internet is way out of reach beyond a meagre allocation of megabytses in their mobile phone top-up, quickly gobbled up by Facebook. The dominant telco hasn’t changed their ADSL prices since at least 5 years or more, and the authorities seem to be dominated by neoliberal ideologies, the consequences of the resulting uneven market response means that most school children still go through their entire school careers without acquiring any digital literacies. However, even with these challenges we see some light, a new satellite Internet company Kacific is launching a Ka-band HTS satellite in a couple of years that will bring cable-like connectivity in terms of prices to any inhabited island in the region, which should shake things up tremendously in favour of the digitally marginalised. So my point is that many educators and learners have not yet had the chance to benefit from collaboration and creativity tools such as Wikieducator, this will change and with benefits of scale that may mean content communities take on critical mass and educational institutions will begin to engage with the technology seeing it as more widely applicable. So I remain a huge fan of WE. David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.rurallink.com.sb From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieducator@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarita Kumar Sent: Monday, 10 November 2014 11:03 p.m. To: WikiEducator Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for October 2014: David Leeming Great..Congratulations David. On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Pankaj Khare pkh...@ignou.ac.in wrote: Congrats David --- Dr. Pankaj Khare MTech, PhD Registrar Student Registration Division Indira Gandhi National Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110 068 India Phone: +91-11-29571316, 29571302 On 8 November 2014 17:55, Ramesh Sharma ram...@oerfoundation.org wrote: Dear Friends, The WikiEducator http://wikieducator.org/UPE User Page Expo (UPE to its friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages that are particularly informative, innovative, visually appealing, or otherwise just plain clever. We are happy to announce the winner for October 2014. He is David Leeming. Lets learn more about him and the excellent work he is doing. UPE Award 4 October 2014 http://wikieducator.org/File:DLeeming1.jpg DLeeming1.jpg http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming David Leeming is a consultant in ICT for development and education based in Honiara, Solomon Islands. In addition to being an experienced project manager and workshop facilitator, he specialises in ICT for education, educational technology and sustainable rural development. He has worked as the Technical Advisor to the Solomon Islands People First Network, and more lately on the delivery of education services to remote areas, as manager of the http://www.schoolnet.net.sb/ DLCP project establishing distance learning centres connected with VSAT broadband Internet in Solomon Islands. The People First Network (PFnet) is a rural connectivity project consisting of an HF radio email network of email stations managed by remote and rural communities. Applications of information sharing and knowledge building are run over the network, including distance learning, financial and commodities, government, health and other information. Further, he has also been involved in to design an Oceania implementation of the “One Laptop per Child” (OLPC, popularly known as the “$100 laptop”) programme. He has facilitated workshops on national ICT strategy building, working with stakeholders in Solomon Islands and PNG. Let's congratulate http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming David for being the UPE winner for October'2014! with best wishes, Dr. http://wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller Nellie Deutsch and Ramesh Sharma http://wikieducator.org/User:Rcsharma -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http
RE: [WikiEducator] Digest for wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic
Hi Paul, how are you? Many thanks – some great links there, just what I need for this short introduction. I have some other leads and will try and feed back here which were most useful. David Leeming Solomon Islands From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieducator@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul West Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2015 5:33 p.m. To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Digest for wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic Hi David You could try this listing: http://www.africaeducation.org/open_courseware.htm This may also help: http://www.africaeducation.org/open_source1.htm Regards Paul On 30 July 2015 at 03:50, wikieducator@googlegroups.com wrote: https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digestutm_medium=email#!forum/wikieducator/topics wikieducator@googlegroups.com https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digestutm_medium=email/#!overview Google Groups https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digestutm_medium=email/#!overview Topic digest https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digestutm_medium=email#!forum/wikieducator/topics View all topics · Open courses for Pacific Islands teachers - and community - 1 Update http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/t/17795cafd18acc57?utm_source=digestutm_medium=email Open courses for Pacific Islands teachers - and community David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com: Jul 29 04:01PM +1100 Hello, I am trying to refresh myself on sources of open courses that would be of interest to Pacific Islands teachers. Moodle based or otherwise. MOOCs. I recall Open University and Open Polytechnic of NZ were pretty good. But I'm not up to date. Any tips very appreciated, David Leeming Solomon Islands Back to top You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digestutm_medium=email#!forum/wikieducator/join group membership page. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. -- --- Paul G. West http://www.paulwest.org/ http://za.linkedin.com/in/pgwest http://www.scoop.it/t/ict-oer-in-education -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Open courses for Pacific Islands teachers - and community
Hello, I am trying to refresh myself on sources of open courses that would be of interest to Pacific Islands teachers. Moodle based or otherwise. MOOCs. I recall Open University and Open Polytechnic of NZ were pretty good. But I'm not up to date. Any tips very appreciated, David Leeming Solomon Islands -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Nature trail mobile app
Good idea, Relates to community mapping, http://web.uvic.ca/~cburnett/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Geog-391-Mobile-Apps.pdf In the locations i would be interested in, for instance a community mapping of WASH resources in Pacific Islands, we’d need to have offline maps preloaded (and the trail objects database) or some way to account for that Just looked for opengreenmap.org but it seems to have a problem... would be interested in alternatives best David From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieducator@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rendi Hernawan Sent: Tuesday, 13 June 2017 5:03 a.m. To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Nature trail mobile app well i think that is briliant, so, we can share everything there. On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 8:25:44 AM UTC+7, Declan wrote: Hi folks. I posted this on the FB group just now. Not sure how best to reach the WE community these days. What do you think of a wiki-based mobile app for nature trails? An educator could establish a trail using a mobile phone/camera/GPS. Others could follow the trail and the content would pop up when you approached a location.with a photo to overlay on the landscape (like PokemanGo but with realityaugmenting reality). Content would live on Wikieducator and be pulled up and down to the mobile app. The technology could be applied to any sort of trail.from pub crawl to historical trails to geocaching. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
