Hi,
I'm new to this list. My name is Joshua Gay and I work at www.ck12.org and I
also help run textbookrevolution.org. I am also user jgay on IRC.
When it comes to embedding scripting languages or media one approach worth
looking at is modtex + wikitex by Peter Danenberg. Here is a link
Hi Wayne,
Right now the choices being discussed seem to be either MediaWiki built in
search or Google Search, right? I'm not sure if you've considered any other
third-party search solutions, but, one promising (FOSS) candidate is the
Sphinx Search Engine via the SphinxSearch MediaWiki Extension.
Wow, this is great news! That is a big step forward in terms of usability
*and* sustainability. Thanks.
If you attempted to upload an image or file these past few days -- you will
have discovered a more user-friendly interface for recording the required
metadata.
Is it possible to get a
I apologize ahead of time for derailing this conversation a bit. However, I
believe that it presents a good opportunity to touch upon what I believe to
be an important issue.
It seems like there is a deeper issue being discussed in this thread than
simply the findability of a project's site. For
There's a bunch of textbooks listed on a site I run called
textbookrevolution.org. We organize them by license type. I don't know what
the word open means anymore, but, there are many works licensed under
various creative commons licenses and the GNU GFDL, which might meet your
needs and/or
Hi James,
I had a few questions and comments.
Is there a formal definition of the GIFT syntax somewhere (e.g., Bakus-Naur
format) so that I can more easily write a parser?
Supporting GIFT on top of MediaWiki does seem possible, but, what is your
suggestion for working around the fact that
in the past decades of committee work.
On Oct 21, 11:35 pm, Joshua Gay wrote:
Is there a formal definition of the GIFT syntax somewhere (e.g.,
Bakus-Naur
format) so that I can more easily write a parser?
Sure, it's defined by Moodle's implementation --
http://cvs.moodle.org/moodle/question
of wikitext instead of XML.
Regards,
James Salsman
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Joshua Gay joshua...@gmail.com wrote:
Thinking about this issue further, I went ahead and wrote a blog-post
that
captures my perspectives on markup languages for educational assessment,
here is a link
I have been following this project for some time now, as I had the fortune
of getting an presentation on this work from the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity
Foundation. I should say that I think what they are doing is wonderful, and
truly the quality of the multimedia they can produce are breathtaking.
