Re: [WikiEducator] Digest for wikieducator@googlegroups.com - 7 Messages in 2 Topics

2009-12-22 Thread Jesse Groppi
a senior (old guy) in the Chicago area, a former college educator. I wish you the best. Keep in toouch. Gene -- With Best Wishes for an Even Better Day Gene-loeb Gene-loeb Aronin, Ph.D. Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro

Re: [WikiEducator] temporary hiatus

2009-12-21 Thread Jesse Groppi
from these things, and I would do very well in an administrative/clerical role. Thanks for anything you can do. Jesse Groppi http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi skype: jesse.groppi On 21/12/2009 11:16, gene aronin wrote: Jesse, Keep in touch. Let me know of your situation so I can see

Re: [WikiEducator] temporary hiatus

2009-12-21 Thread Jesse Groppi
open collaboration. I do look forward to your return. Warm regards, Alison http://www.wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, As a few of you know, I found myself in financial

Re: [WikiEducator] WE blog or newsletter?

2009-12-17 Thread Jesse Groppi
Has anyone taken a look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikilog yet? Seems promising to me, and I might just try it out on my own website. It also involves the wiki collaboration that Wayne suggested recently. Jesse On 03/11/2009 18:18, valerie wrote: Did anything ever come of

[WikiEducator] temporary hiatus

2009-12-17 Thread Jesse Groppi
of facilitating and guiding the efforts of the group. I'll be back, soon, I hope! Love, Jesse Groppi http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi skype: jesse.groppi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http

Re: [WikiEducator] temporary hiatus

2009-12-17 Thread Jesse Groppi
contributions to WikiEducator are recorded for prosperity. Thank you for all you've done so far and what you'll be doing in the future when you return! Cheers Wayne 2009/12/18 Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com Hi all, As a few of you know, I found myself

[WikiEducator] Re: I'm sorry, HOW much?

2009-11-15 Thread Jesse Groppi
Hi all, I'm definitely just as excitable over this topic as everyone else. There's so much to get excited about! The first thing that came to my mind about the cost is that they probably tallied up every microscopically detailed expense; that's what US schools do, afterall. Also, some of

[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?

2009-11-12 Thread Jesse Groppi
Phil, Your rants most surely /are/ a blog. I had always thought that was your intent! :D You were, in fact, the first person I thought of when this discussion began. I think you will get quite a lot of use out of this feature. Jesse Groppi http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi

[WikiEducator] Re: Students paying the copyright tax

2009-11-09 Thread Jesse Groppi
Wow, Steve! Really excellent and well-written article! I'm definitely excited about this bill going through. Do you do writings like this often? (I'm thinking BLOG!) Jesse http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi skype: jesse.groppi On 09/11/2009 10:07, Steve Foerster wrote: I

[WikiEducator] Re: Lead Software Engineer for OERF and WikiEducator

2009-10-27 Thread Jesse Groppi
Big congrats, Jim! On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone The OER Foundation is proud to announce the appointment of Jim Tittsler as Lead Software Engineer. Jim is a well-known member of the WikiEducator family. He has been

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

2009-10-24 Thread Jesse Groppi
A copyright tutorial would be spectactular, but I think it may be essential to the purpose of WE to not only include copyright as it relates to education, but also copyright as it relates to the concept of open. Then perhaps a final tutorial on how the two come together at WE? But, more

[WikiEducator] Style guidelines workgroup update

2009-10-23 Thread Jesse Groppi
affect the readability and usability of categories, and how we might combat that, if it is determined to be an issue. Please follow the links and share your ideas. I pre-emptively thank you for telling us what you think! Seeing you around, Jesse Groppi http://www.wikieducator.org

[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] Re: Using templates...

2009-10-18 Thread Jesse Groppi
Anna, The templates used in the main page are found at: * http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Main_Page_headerbox * http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Frontpage_purpose * http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Frontpage_help * http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Frontpage_news

[WikiEducator] Re: Announcing the categories workgroup and inviting new members

2009-10-13 Thread Jesse Groppi
along the way. I am not sure that I really understand everything about categories. Many thanks, Elizabeth --- On *Mon, 10/12/09, Jesse Groppi /jagro...@gmail.com/* wrote: From: Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Announcing the categories workgroup

[WikiEducator] Style guide draft policy update

2009-09-07 Thread Jesse Groppi
has suggested a new guideline that describes how WE use regional spelling choice http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Style_guide/Proposed_guidelines/Spelling. Great suggestion, Nellie! Looking forward to hearing more from all of you! Jesse Groppi http

[WikiEducator] Re: A new logo for WikiEducator -- Your ideas and thoughts

2009-09-05 Thread Jesse Groppi
I just want to clarify some things about the visual identity of the wiki. I'm definitely no expert, but I think that in web design terms this usually includes the logo, colour scheme, structure of the page, and can also include the methods in which a user interacts with the page. Is it this

[WikiEducator] Re: A new logo for WikiEducator -- Your ideas and thoughts

2009-09-05 Thread Jesse Groppi
a separate work group for this purpose? Cheers Wayne 2009/9/6 Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com I just want to clarify some things about the visual identity of the wiki. I'm definitely no expert, but I think that in web design terms this usually

[WikiEducator] Re: A new logo for WikiEducator -- Your ideas and thoughts

2009-09-05 Thread Jesse Groppi
them. How does that sound? Jesse Groppi On 05/09/2009 19:12, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: Hi Jesse, Speaking personally, I don't think that re-skinning the WE site is advisable at this stage and I agree with you -- we would definitely need a very good reason to change the skin and the funding

[WikiEducator] Re: A new logo for WikiEducator -- Your ideas and thoughts

2009-09-05 Thread Jesse Groppi
--- with thanks to funding support from the New Zealand Ministry of Education. Jesse -- sounds like a good plan to me :-) Cheers Wayne 2009/9/6 Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com Wayne, I'm definitely agreeing with you on all that about re-skinning. It's

[WikiEducator] Re: Style guidelines draft policy update

2009-08-24 Thread Jesse Groppi
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I'm back to give you an update on the progress of the style guidelines workgroup http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines and its draft policy http

[WikiEducator] Re: Style guidelines draft policy update

2009-08-24 Thread Jesse Groppi
://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I'm back to give you an update on the progress of the style guidelines workgroup http://www.wikieducator.org

[WikiEducator] Re: Style guidelines draft policy update

2009-08-24 Thread Jesse Groppi
Hehe, I'm not aware of a difference to British English, but I often see them differentiated. Australian as well. On 24/08/2009 14:42, NELLIE DEUTSCH wrote: Hi Stephen, Is there a new Canadian spelling style I missed out on these past 40 years? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch

[WikiEducator] Re: Overwhelmed, but still here with you!

2009-08-23 Thread Jesse Groppi
Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com

[WikiEducator] Style guidelines draft policy update

2009-08-23 Thread Jesse Groppi
Hi all! I'm back to give you an update on the progress of the style guidelines workgroup http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines and its draft policy http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines/Guideline_policy_proposal. First, not much has changed in two weeks.

[WikiEducator] Re: Predefinição:ContentI nfobox

2009-08-22 Thread Jesse Groppi
Phil, It doesn't appear because the template ContentInfoBox doesn't exist in the Portuguese localisation. Jesse http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi Skype: jesse.groppi On 22/08/2009 18:55, Phil Bartle wrote: I am setting up resources in Portuguese, with the help of volunteer

[WikiEducator] Overwhelmed, but still here with you!

2009-08-22 Thread Jesse Groppi
Hi all, I just want to apologise for disappearing for a couple weeks. I had to deal with some very serious financial issues that kept me rather overwhelmed. I'm not really out of the weeds, yet, but I think that tomorrow I will be able to get back to the guidelines project, to get the

[WikiEducator] Re: Predefinição:ContentI nfobox

2009-08-22 Thread Jesse Groppi
Phil, I think my response may have been rather unhelpful, actually, and now I'm rereading your email, I also seemed to have misread what you said. (It's past my bedtime!) All you need to do is take the content of http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:ContentInfoBox and have your volunteer

[WikiEducator] Guideline policy proposal

2009-07-30 Thread Jesse Groppi
! Jesse Groppi Skype: jesse.groppi http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit

[WikiEducator] Re: Style guide workgroup

2009-07-23 Thread Jesse Groppi
Thanks, Peter! Having adherence to the style guidelines as a qualification for featured content is a great incentive. Thanks for pointing it out! Jesse On 23/07/2009 19:49, Peter wrote: Jesse, This is awesome! Good on you for taking this on. I saw the style guidelines being promoted or

[WikiEducator] Re: Minor Problems

2009-07-17 Thread Jesse Groppi
Phil, I /can/ tell you that you need to close off the table you start for your links to the other language user pages. I'm not sure why that would have the effect you're describing, but it would definitely cause issues. As far as the flag not showing up, on the Spanish page, you use

[WikiEducator] Re: Style guidelines workgroup

2009-07-15 Thread Jesse Groppi
for internal links. Cheers Wayne 2009/7/16 Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com Wayne, Rob, Here is the template I've designed for the potentially unknown words we were talking about, yesterday: http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:Whatis

[WikiEducator] Re: Style guidelines workgroup

2009-07-14 Thread Jesse Groppi
on the workgroup guidelines. Please let me know what you think about that! The primary activity of the workgroup should take place at the Guide-point discussion. Let's get this collaboration started! Let's make WikiEducator a better place to contribute to! In utter excitement, Jesse Groppi

[WikiEducator] Re: Category restructuring

2009-07-13 Thread Jesse Groppi
Wayne, and all, You seem anxious to see this as an active project, but hesitant to participate whilst it remains in my user space. So, I've gone ahead at moved it to an official workgroup page. Please have a look and contribute anything you have on your mind. Jesse On 13/07/2009 17:46,

[WikiEducator] Re: Category restructuring

2009-07-13 Thread Jesse Groppi
Oh! My apologies! It's at http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Style_guidelines On 13/07/2009 20:57, Robert Kruhlak wrote: Hi Jesse, Great and many thanks! Could you tell us the official link? Cheers Rob On Mon, Jul 13, 2009

[WikiEducator] Re: Category restructuring

2009-07-13 Thread Jesse Groppi
project -- and very excited to see its development. BIG thanks for all your trouble so far. Cheers Wayne 2009/7/14 Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com Wayne, and all, You seem anxious to see this as an active project, but hesitant to participate whilst

[WikiEducator] Re: Ethics for executing user rights

2009-07-10 Thread Jesse Groppi
/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Amihai, In fact, Nellie and Patricia /are/ sysops: see the special page http

[WikiEducator] New style guide discussion point

2009-07-10 Thread Jesse Groppi
Hi all! I've hit upon a new topic within my style guide draft that needs discussion. Please pop over to the talk page http://www.wikieducator.org/User_talk:Jesse_Groppi/dev03#lqt_thread_10221 to voice your opinion! (We really want to know!) Jesse

[WikiEducator] Re: Ethics for executing user rights

2009-07-09 Thread Jesse Groppi
Anil, I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Could you supply some examples of where this sort of policy has already been implemented? And I could just be out of the loop because I'm new to WE, but what is the reasoning behind needing such a thing? Jesse

[WikiEducator] Re: Ethics for executing user rights

2009-07-09 Thread Jesse Groppi
Anil, I'm sorry, I'm just not finding this policy you're talking about from Wikipedia. Could you link it to me? Thanks, Jesse http://www.wikieducator.org/Jesse_Groppi --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[WikiEducator] Re: Ethics for executing user rights

2009-07-09 Thread Jesse Groppi
, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com mailto:jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Anil, I'm sorry, I'm just not finding this policy you're talking about from Wikipedia. Could you link it to me? Thanks, Jesse http://www.wikieducator.org/Jesse_Groppi -- Warm regards Anil

[WikiEducator] Category restructuring

2009-07-09 Thread Jesse Groppi
Hi all, I'm working on a couple wiki maintenance projects where help and input would be very valuable. You can find the details and plan at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse Groppi http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse%20Groppi . The first project is to restructure categories.

[WikiEducator] Style guide

2009-07-09 Thread Jesse Groppi
Hi all! I'm working on a couple wiki maintenance projects where help and input would be very valuable. You can find the details and plan at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi . This particular project, the style guide, is one I will be doing simultaneous to the others, so it is

[WikiEducator] Re: Ethics for executing user rights

2009-07-09 Thread Jesse Groppi
Amihai, In fact, Nellie and Patricia /are/ sysops: see the special page http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Special%3AListUsersusername=group=sysoplimit=50. I can already tell it's much deserved, as well! Jesse --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received