[WikiEducator] Forum for Council discussions

Thank you very much to all who participated in our first WikiEducator Council election, and especially to those who oversaw them. I'd also like to add my personal thanks to those who honoured me with one of their votes. Now that this process is complete, however, we have a lot of work to do. It

[WikiEducator] Group created

I've created the group for the WikiEducator Community Council. Those who are members have been added already, others can see the archives. http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-community-council -=Steve=- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message beca

[WikiEducator] Re: Group created

Brent wrote: << i'd much prefer to use the wiki for a lot of this ... these private groups become liabilities - ask a few wikipedians about private board email lists ... for transparency and openness' sake we should try to use the wiki itself ... I know this would be much easier to do if Liquid

[WikiEducator] Re: Content on Wikipedia and Wikieducator

Victor wrote: << On another note, i am not sure if there exist a page/portal/ category of all "policies" we have been developing so far for WE. While we can discuss this here, perhaps the council should collate our views on this and incorporate into a disccussion agenda somethime. >> I try to ad

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator 3.0 -- Building our future together

Wayne wrote: << This is an open invitation to all WIkiEducators for any questions you may have about WikiEducator 3.0, but more importantly providing us with well-founded advice on our next steps. >> I have a few questions: * Where did we get "WikiEducator 3.0"? I wasn't aware we'd had a 2.0.

[WikiEducator] Re: Planned downtime: Sunday, 4PM PST

Erik wrote: << It will allow us to update our extensions, including the ever- beloved LQT. (The latest LQT fixes include a fix for the issue with highlighting only the first comment in new message notifications, and restore the header page, which was inadvertently removed when the sort feature wa

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator Discussion Group

Randy, I think that's a good idea, and since it seems everyone else does as well I went to change it, but can't see how to do so. Perhaps that's a level of access I don't have? -=Steve=- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed t

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator 3.0 -- Building our future together

Wayne wrote: << WikiEducator 3.0 refers to the phases of our strategic plan: >> Oh, okay, fair enough. << TImeline: Startup of the new International Center for Open Education is scheduled for 1 May 2009. COL has agreed to fund the technical infrastructure of WIkiEducator for the first 3 y

[WikiEducator] Re: job or role description for WikiEd Council Members

Randy wrote: << In a way, I feel like I'm going by the seat of my pants ~ many things seem to be in a state of flux, and in terms of what the expectations regarding my role as WikiEd Council Member, I am unsure. >> I know what you mean. In the absence of something formal, though, I suppose all

[WikiEducator] Re: reaching out to educators; new approach

Randy wrote: << I've just had an experience that is leading me to believe that WE can reach out to educators previously not on our radar (i.e., the Early / Late Majority ~ from Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm). My sense is that, it could really help us accelerate our scalability plans in Wiki

[WikiEducator] Re: reaching out to educators; new approach

Valerie wrote: << Using a WYSIWYG editor was distracting and confusing for my students as well. Just working with text and the easy visible linking was very successful. Any problems encountered were easily resolved. The final product is consistent and attractive, and looked like the work done by

[WikiEducator] Re: GFDL 1.3 released

Erik wrote: << the Free Software Foundation has today released the version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License, the licensed used by Wikipedia. This version of the GFDL allows GFDL-wikis to switch to CC-BY-SA - see section 11, relicensing: >> Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation! Sin

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator goes non-violent?

Günther, I'm surprised your message calling for an examination of what relationship WE could have with nonviolence didn't get more attention. It sounds interesting, but there are aspects to this that I would want to explore further. For example, the four listed guidelines use terms that mean di

[WikiEducator] Re: Award of UPE

Gita, We're happy to recognise you -- it's well deserved! Cheers, -=Steve=- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discu

[WikiEducator] Re: HYN 2009

Happy New Year to Savithri and to all. Your card was very beautiful. For what it's worth, I'm still hopeful that even as the world noisily takes two steps back it also in other ways quietly takes three steps forward. -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://wikieducator.org/steve --~--~-

[WikiEducator] Re: enough with copyleft, fair use/dealings is more important

Leigh wrote: > Fair Use (and Dealings) is the right of educators, as it is for journalists > and documentary makers. Instead of religiously playing into the hands of > copyright fascism with strict adherence to copyleft (and so limiting our > educational opportunities to only content meeting "fre

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator goes non-violent?

Günther wrote: << Really sorry that I did not answer to you posts up to this moment, but that didn't mean I ignored your replies. I was so busy the last weeks, that I couldn't start working on that too. Now it's Christmas holidays  and I'll be back on screen midst of January. Then I'll respond. >

[WikiEducator] Re: Up for Grabs

Minhaaj wrote: << Well sorry for missing a month at UPE and probably too late for this one. I would like to announce that UPE is up for grabs. If someone want to volunteer in awarding UPEs, you are most welcome. Steve and I have been too busy in real life stuff that probably won't be as active as

[WikiEducator] Re: February UPE is Gladys Gahona

Peter wrote: > I round of applause for Gladys Gahona. She is this months Featured > User Page.http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE#February_2009 > having her first edit on 6th November 2008, she has done amazing work > and created an exemplary user page. Check out her > page;http://www.wikieducator.o

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

People often make mistakes when typing in web addresses, and the most common is probably to forget that there are other top level domains than .com. For example, there's at least one article I've written out there where the publisher erroneously linked my WE affiliation to http://wikieducator.com

[WikiEducator] Re: Nomination of UPEs

Peter wrote: > This idea seems to be gaining support. Any objections to me adding the > following to the UPE definition? > UPE's can also be nominated (either self nominated or nominated by > another). The only requirements for nomination are; > 1) the name of the nominee > 2) the URL of the nom

[WikiEducator] Re: Featured user, UPE and QA Framework

Wayne wrote: > Thinking out load here ---  Under our emerging QA framework > (http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_Framework/...) > there is a subsection called "other featured items"  Would it make sense to > re-classify the framework to include a sub-section called "Featur

[WikiEducator] Re: TRINIDAD and TOBAGO's PHYSICS Teachers join WIKI

Hollis wrote: << Ten PHYSICS educators from Trinidad and Tobago became wiki educators today as they registered as wikieducators and began a two day workshop hosted by the Curriculum Planning and Development Division {CPDD}, Ministry of Education in collaboration with the National Open School of T

[WikiEducator] Re: Pressure to Integrate Technology in Higher Education

Nellie wrote: > I would like to see more educators collaborating on Wikieducator. Me too, but I continue to believe that this won't happen the way we want until WikiEducator has WYSIWYG editing. My day job is training university faculty members to use technology, and there's no way most of mine

[WikiEducator] Re: April UPE is Rima Al Eryani

Wow Rima, what a great user page! The award is richly deserved! -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://wikieducator.org/steve http://community.elearners.com/blogs/atsu/default.aspx --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[WikiEducator] Re: "I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community..."

Benjamin wrote: > "I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as > long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." – > George Bernard Shaw (http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_community.html) > This quote by George Bernard Shaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Geo

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator needs to keep the focus

Jim wrote: << Secondly, WikiEducator has as one of its missions to help different learning communities to develop courses and materials. >> I've been pretty quiet for a while now, sorry about that everyone! I've been busy with doctoral study and switching from employment to contracting, and it's

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator needs to keep the focus

Randy wrote: > That barrier is set to fall very soon, with Jim Tittsler's work, > community input and NZ Ministry of Education funding. > We have a rich text editing beta up at:http://en1.wikieducator.net > You can log into it, using your WE settings  as usual. Whoa, I didn't know that. I sup

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator needs to keep the focus

Wayne wrote: << Welcome back! They say changing jobs, moving house etc are among the top 10 stress generators. Add a little PhD work into the mix --- that's more than enough to divert attention! That said, we're most appreciative of the time you've volunteered during the recent Community Council

[WikiEducator] Re: November UPE

Halim, Congratulations! I took the liberty of adding the award to your user page. :-) Regards, -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://hiresteve.com http://hiresteve.com/blog http://wikieducator.org/steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?

Anil wrote: > Steve has consented to be the Convener of the WE Blog WorkGroup. > Now  all those community members interested in framing policy for > WE Blog may be invited to enlist their name at: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Blog One thing I can report is that I briefly

[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?

Wayne wrote: << Agree we need to be very careful with mass-email which can arguably and justifiably be labelled as WE  spam. I would suggest implementing an option for new users to subscribe to a news / letter magazine.  We can consider a once off notification to WE account holders regarding the

[WikiEducator] Students paying the copyright tax

I thought this might interest some here. It's American-centric, but the principle is universal: http://tinyurl.com/yzvw3kb -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://hiresteve.com http://hiresteve.com/blog http://wikieducator.org/steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?

Phil wrote: > I do not really know what a blog is. Is my set of rants a blog? It sure is! The only thing you need is an automated way to post new entries, that facilitates comments from readers, and so forth -- and that's exactly what we're talking about here. You sound like a great candidate

[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?

Jaap wrote: > about blog or newsletter, > Most wiki-groups, like in wikipedia do communicate by > subscribe to the users pages of the wiki. (one receives > a message when something has changed there) this google > group is a newsletter, if you did subscribe to it. So > knowing this, I don't get

[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?

Hi Jaap, I see a newsletter as very different from this Google group. This group is good for casual discussion, and for coordinating our activities in an ongoing fashion. Yes, it's also a good place for announcements, but that's only one of its functions. A newsletter that is published in both

[WikiEducator] Re: copyright and newspaper articles

Mary wrote: << My name is Mary Ziller and I recently joined your wonderful group. I hope to learn a lot with you. I have a question that I would like to ask the group. I searched the group archives on "copyright" and found only one thread that did not answer my question: How much of a newspaper a

[WikiEducator] I'm sorry, HOW much?

Interesting article in the Guardian about OERs: http://tinyurl.com/yhf44oj What got me was the part near the end where it's talking about MIT's OpenCourseWare project and says, "But it costs the university between $10,000 and $15,000 to put the material from each course online because the materi

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

Thanks for all the great responses! Valerie, your observation that your colleagues are unwilling to consider a curricular resource that doesn't cost a ton of money or have a gigantic hype machine behind it struck a chord, because I've seen the same behavior. My work experience has only been supp

[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Taking OER remix to new levels: WikiEducator, Connexions and Mediawiki

Wayne wrote: > With generous funding support from the William and Flora > Hewlett Foundation, the OER Foundation is pleased to > announce that we are able to take OER interoperability > and remix potential to new levels. That's very exciting! I've been thinking about something not unrelated to

[WikiEducator] Re: Knowledge as a Public Good

Wayne wrote: > Is Wikiresearcher.org a viable project? Are there folk interested in > helping to plan, shape and build an open wiki research collaboration? You know from previous correspondence that I am. :-) In addition, there's a user template for people who are interested in research on wiki

[WikiEducator] Re: Knowledge as a Public Good

Randy wrote: > Regarding WikiResearcher - I've put up the following space to get your > comments and feedback > -http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation/WikiResearcher Cool, I signed. As an aside, perhaps we need a separate namespace for the OER Foundation? Since it's a level

[WikiEducator] Any WE academics within shouting distance of Washington, D.C.?

Dear All, This is marginally off topic, but I can't think of a better place to ask this, so I'll risk incurring collective wrath. I am considering switching doctoral programs, in part so that I can have a topic that's more related to my interests in OERs, educational technology, distance learn

[WikiEducator] Re: Any WE academics within shouting distance of Washington, D.C.?

Joyce wrote: << I live in the Adirondacks in New York State so I am not sure it fills your bill.  I have a doctorate in Adult Education an interest in the subjects you are interested in and am a graduate of Pennsylvania State University where Dr. Michael Moore who is well known in distance educati

Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)

The use of the word "denialism" to describe climate change skeptics is the most obnoxious tactic in political discourse today, and I would like to think that in a community like ours it would be entirely unwelcome. In the highly charged environment we have when it comes to this issue, where there

Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)

Edward wrote: > Only if you are willfully ignorant, as I propose to demonstrate > to you that you are. Very few people would be inclined to continue a conversation with someone so obnoxious, and frankly, I'm not one of them. The irony here is that I'm not a climate change skeptic. I'm an intell

[WikiEducator] New Year's Resolutions

Anil, Interesting post! I agree that New Year's resolutions are in order, but that we shouldn't lose sight of our mission, even if it's to acknowledge other important issues. So given that our mission is to develop open educational resources, what might be great to hear is what content each o

[WikiEducator] CIDER: Invitation to present your research

Hello all, I thought this might interest some here. Best, -=Steve=- Original Message Subject: CIDER: Invitation to present your research Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:03:12 -0600 From: CIDER To: cider-webmas...@athabascau.ca Dear CIDER member: We are looking for distance educa

[WikiEducator] Re: info box

Robert Kruhlak wrote: > I have added > |state=collapsed > to the parameter list in your user box. > Please revert if this is not what you prefer. Cool, I didn't even know this was possible. Pretty neat! -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://hiresteve.com http://hiresteve.com/blog http://wiki

[WikiEducator] Re: Meet Jim Tittsler from OERF on EdTalks

Wayne wrote: > Thanks Google Alerts.  My daily alert service pointed me to the recent > upload of a video interview with Jim Tittsler talking about the OER > Foundation and WIkiEducator. > See:http://blip.tv/file/4305424 That was a really good introductory presenta

[WikiEducator] Re: OpenClipart Images

Wayne wrote: > Ethically -- you should not apply any license to the original public > domain image -- (because all materials dedicated to the public > domain should remain in the public domain. Indeed you cannot apply a license to works in the public domain. Even if someone says they've done so

[WikiEducator] Re: Thoughts about 2011

Anil wrote: > As the New Year waits at the threshold of 2011, shall we plan more > online courses on a variety of subjects? I think the time has come! Sounds good to me -- what course will you be offering? ;-) -=Steve=- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou

[WikiEducator] Re: Happy New Year -- Did you know?

Wayne, What a great way to start the new year for WE -- I'm particularly excited about the training initiative on open content licensing for educators! Happy new year to all, -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://hiresteve.com http://wikieducator.org/steve -- You received this message becau

[WikiEducator] New U.S. federal grant program requires CC-BY license

I thought this might be of some interest to people here. Basically, there's a new grant program for two-year colleges that requires that any curricular materials produced with the grant money be released as CC-BY. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/21/u_s_releases_guidelines_for_new_commu

[WikiEducator] Canvas LMS Goes Open Source

This is mildly offtopic, but I demoed and reviewed "Canvas LMS" today and I thought it might be of interest to some here since the company that makes it, Instructure, announced today that they were opening its source. I'm used to teaching through Moodle, which I like, but I have to say that I *rea

[WikiEducator] Khan Academy Videos + BitTorrent = Awesomeness

It seems that Khan Academy, the makers of those awesome (if insufficiently freely licensed) educational videos, has teamed up with BitTorrent as a distribution mechanism: http://blog.bittorrent.com/2011/02/10/khan-academy-education-videos-arrive-in-the-app-studio/ In a practical sense, the big de

[WikiEducator] Re: Khan Academy Videos + BitTorrent = Awesomeness

Hi Jim, All I meant was that it's cool to see two things I like -- Khan Academy and BitTorrent -- working together in a way I wouldn't necessarily have expected. I wasn't really trying to liken either project to either of those specific characters. (Besides, if I were I'd probably have gone with

[WikiEducator] Important: Unesco Replaces OER Acronym

Unesco has announced that they are discontinuing the "OER" acronym in favor of a longer but more inclusive term! More information is available here: http://hiresteve.com/2011/04/01/important-unesco-replaces-oer-acronym/ Cheers, -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://hiresteve.com http://wikie

[WikiEducator] Re: Important: Unesco Replaces OER Acronym

Chris wrote: > That was a good one, I laughed pretty hard. > The link to your own article was a nice touch. I'm glad you liked it -- it was meant all in good fun, of course. :-) I'd say the joke's really on Unesco, though, since so many people thought this was eminently believable! Cheers, -=S

[WikiEducator] Nightmare scenario for higher education

Bad news of the day: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/05/13/a-nightmare-scenario-for-higher-education/ It's past time for universities to devote more of their considerable resources toward developing OERs to prevent this sort of foolishness. Commercial publishers need universities, no

[WikiEducator] Bangladeshi teachers to lead content development

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/databases/ict-in-education-database/item/article/bangladeshi-teachers-to-lead-content-development/ I thought this was interesting. Does anyone know whether these materials will be openly available? -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://h

[WikiEducator] Open Questions on Open Courseware

InsideHigherEd, an American news and commentary site that tracks higher education, has an interesting commentary today called "Open Questions on Open Courseware" by Eric Jansson, an affiliated fellow with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and member of its advisory

[WikiEducator] Why Aren't Open Educational Resources Organizations Supporting Related Movements?

Why Aren't Open Educational Resources Organizations Supporting Related Movements? http://community.elearners.com/all_blogs/the_elearners_news_blog/b/elearnersnews/archive/2011/07/14/why-aren-t-open-educational-resources-organizations-supporting-related-movements.aspx As you can see, this annoyed

[WikiEducator] Re: Join WikiEducator also on Facebook

Simon wrote: > Well, looking at their next get together, where CIO still play the high > priests, it hasn't changed that much. But you know how it works. One > can't change an institution from the outside. Perhaps not directly, but you can set up a competing institution that is too successful to

[WikiEducator] Competing against poorly performing HE systems

Simon wrote: > That's good. > I'm with you here. But it's s different on the other side of the > Atlantic, and the developing world of course. Don't find many for-profits, > unless it's the big brands. It's very 'user pays' at your/my end. It's > 'public right' elsewhere, including the OE worl

[WikiEducator] Re: US-India Higher Education Summit at Washington DC

Anil Prasad wrote: > See another crucial -perhaps the most important- area : various reports say, > more than 10 Indian students study in US. This means, it’s high time the > two nations thought about a Transnational Qualification Framework for better > mobility of students and hassle free cro

[WikiEducator] Re: Launch of UNESCO Open Educational Resources Platform

Anil Prasad wrote: << I hope the message from Abel Caine, UNESCO OER Programme, as added below, regarding the launch of the UNESCO Open Educational Resources Platform and UNESCO/COL Guidelines for OER in Higher Education on Tuesday 1 Nov, will be of grater interest to most of you. The event will

[WikiEducator] Re: What should be the ideal pathway for establishment of virtual institute

Hi Ravi, Can you tell more about what the project's goals are? That might affect the answers. Regards, -=Steve=- -- 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

[WikiEducator] A superior OER logo already exists in the public domain

Stephen Downes wrote: Personally, I probably won't use the logo - I don't understand why it was created or what it is supposed to signify, exactly. I agree, it seems like a solution in search of a problem. This is all the more so because there's already an existing logo that not only actually

[WikiEducator] Re: Creative Commons reports on the OERu launch

Wayne wrote: Stephen is correct in highlighting the risks of enclosure where corporate > interests may restrict access to CC licensed materials by placing them > behind a pay wall or using technological means to control and restrict > access or by adding more restrictions over time. Two example

[WikiEducator] Re: Featured WikiEducator UPE (January 2014): Wayne Mackintosh

Nellie, Ramesh, and all, What a great choice, and what a great way for us all to start off 2014! -=Steve=- -- -- 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

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for May 2014: Steve Foerster

Many thanks to Ramesh, Nellie, and all for your kind words, especially since I think that many people have much cleverer user pages than I do! I'm just happy that you two have kept the "conspiracy" running so much longer and better than Minhaaj and I ever did! Best wishes to all, -=Steve=-

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for July 2014: Alison Snieckus

Congratulations! I love your use of boxes! :-) -=Steve=- On Sunday, August 10, 2014 9:48:29 AM UTC-4, Ramesh Sharma wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > The WikiEducator User Page Expo ("UPE" to > its friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages >

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for August 2014: Kim Thomas

Congratulations Kim! :-D -=Steve=- On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:29:33 AM UTC-4, Ramesh Sharma wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > The WikiEducator User Page Expo ("UPE" to > its friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages > that are particul

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for September 2015: Adum Joseph

Good use of images and lots of information! -=Steve=- --- Stephen H. Foerster President | New World University steve.foers...@newworld.ac | http://newworld.ac On Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 9:49:16 AM UTC-4, Ramesh Sharma wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > The WikiEducator User Page Expo

[WikiEducator] New World University seeks an entry level, part time OER Coordinator

New World University has need for a part time *OER Coordinator* to assist with the university’s open educational resources initiatives. Our institution is based in the Caribbean regional his position will be remote, and applications are welcome from anyone with reliable Internet access regard

[WikiEducator] Good presentation on OERu by Marc Singer

I just wanted to say nice job to Marc Singer, who presented on OERu yesterday at the ongoing OpenEd conference in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. -=Steve=- -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducat

[WikiEducator] Re: New CC-BY book about Open Practices

Many thanks, Rajiv, and congratulations on the book! -=Steve=- -- Steve Foerster President | New World University steve.foers...@newworld.ac | http://newworld.ac On Monday, April 3, 2017 at 11:44:10 AM UTC-4, Rajiv Jhangiani wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > I wanted to share ne

[WikiEducator] Delay on New WikiEducator Accounts?

, -- Steve Foerster President | New World University steve.foers...@newworld.ac <mailto:steve.foers...@newworld.ac> | http://newworld.ac <http://newworld.ac/> -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To vi

[WikiEducator] Re: Mastodon social network instance set up for OERu

s rather than forcing > learners to join, services like Twitter. Most conversations on our instance > will be focused on OERu and OER related topics, however as open technology, > WikiEducator users are free and most welcome to create accounts on our > instance (thanks Steve Foerster for s

Re: [WikiEducator] Delay on New WikiEducator Accounts?

oved and I > apologise for the delay in approving your colleague's account. > > Best wishes > Wayne > > Wayne Mackintosh > Director OER Foundation and OERu facilitator > UNESCO - ICDE Chair in OER > Mastodon: @mack...@mastodon.oeru.org > > > On Sun, Feb 2

[WikiEducator] Re: Million Pillars Economy Theory Development Project

Hi Anil, Do you have a sense of what you would specifically like participants to do? -=Steve=- On Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 11:36:20 AM UTC-4, Anil wrote: > > Friends, > > Million Pillars Economy theory development project on WikiEducator is > getting enriched every day at > https://wikie

[WikiEducator] Re: Donation Drive; Customizeable Letter for obtaining donated Learning Materials for WikiEducator

Randy, The page says that one of the benefits to donating a resource is that the donor receives attribution. Is that really so? My understanding is that that attribution part of the default license calls for downstream users to attribute to WikiEducator, not to the list of contributors to any g

[WikiEducator] Re: Liquid Threads ... a couple of months on: thoughts?

For what it's worth, I feel neutrally about LQT. I actually prefer formats where new messages are always at the bottom. It makes it easier for me to keep track of what's new. I suppose I'd be interested in a before and after usage comparison as well. -=Steve=- --~--~-~--~~-

[WikiEducator] Re: Discussion on what-is-open-learning

Kim wrote: << Personally, I prefer to talk about "libre learning" - we need to liberate education and learning. See http://wikieducator.org/Say_Libre >> It's funny you should say that; I wrote about using "gratis" and "libre". http://hiresteve.com/2007/08/excuse-my-french.html -=Steve=- --~--~

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiMaster concept - We need your feedback ..

I think the idea of recognizing participants for their involvement is a good one. The number of levels seems a bit daunting, though. I can imagine being a newbie and on seeing that thinking, "Wow, that's a lot to learn!" I also have to ask how much of this system would be obviated by deploying

[WikiEducator] Re: attribution templates and book covers

Wayne wrote: > The fair usage doctrine applies to the US. In other parts of the world > this is typically dealt with under the "fair dealing" concept. The > problem is that WIkiEducator is an international project, and > interpretations of fair dealing within national legislation differ. The fir

[WikiEducator] Re: Donation Drive; Customizeable Letter for obtaining donated Learning Materials for WikiEducator

Wayne wrote: << The version of the CC license WE uses as default requires attribution of the author -- which means: "in the case of a literary or artistic work, the individual, individuals, entity or entities who created the Work". In cases where the number of edits is such that it's not pract

[WikiEducator] Great news about Wikimedia Foundation licensing?

Colleagues: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/ Resolution:License_update" target="_blank">http:// wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:License_update Does this mean that we'll soon be able to use material from Wikipedia and other Mekimedia Foundation sites here on WikiEducator? Or is it st

[WikiEducator] Re: Great news about Wikimedia Foundation licensing?

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:License_update Sorry, I thought Google Groups might be smart enough to handle a little HTML -=Steve=- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator"

[WikiEducator] Re: Liquid Threads ... a couple of months on: thoughts?

Interestingly, I just added a comment to http://www.wikieducator.org/Talk:Libre_License and it changed almost all of the dates on the other comments to be the present. Weirdly, though, there are a few that didn't change. -=Steve=- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receiv

[WikiEducator] Re: Fwd: Wikis Go Printable: Wikimedia/PediaPress/COL/OSI partnership

Erik wrote: > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikis_Go_Printable Especially for someone like me who wants to see more collaborative textbook development on WikiEducator, this is a profoundly welcome development! -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://hiresteve.com http://wikieducator.org

[WikiEducator] Re: Wiki interface

Hi David, I too work with faculty members who are knowledgeable in their fields but not with technology. I believe that WYSIWYG editing would be the single most effective thing we could do to increase participation in content development. I don't think that most of my faculty see learning about

[WikiEducator] Hey everyone!

Whew! I had an incredibly packed semester last term, with the day job and three courses and a few side commitments that ended up being a lot bigger than they first appeared. Basically, I foolishly fell into the labyrinth of poor planning and only now do I believe I've escaped. I have no intenti

[WikiEducator] Re: SPAM on WE

Randy wrote: > if we have folks in every time zone, then we'll have this thing covered... I don't add anything in the way of time zone coverage, but I'll help. -=Steve=- --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou

[WikiEducator] Re: How wikieducator keep the cultural identity of the students

To expand on Randy's point, WikiEducator doesn't actually do anything independently of those who contribute to it; it is simply the sum of its contributions. The strength of an open system like WE is that those who are concerned about maintaining cultural diversity in educational materials are fr

[WikiEducator] Re: Hey everyone!

Nellie Deutsch wrote: > Randy what do you mean by: Can't wait 'til the day that we have Master's > level content on WikiEd! The stated goal of WikiEducator is to have developed materials for all disciplines at the primary, secondary, and tertiary level by 2015. That includes the materials necess

[WikiEducator] Expo for User pages?

I happened across Patricia Schlicht's user page today: http://wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht When I told her how nice it was she suggested I look at Dennis Doe's: http://wikieducator.org/User:Dennis Wow! So it made me wonder, could we have some sort of User page expo with awards in categorie

[WikiEducator] Re: Expo for User pages?

Minhaaj wrote: << Ok, this is my start for the community. I invite everyone to design rules for the competition, procedures and selection for the best page. Feel free to edit it the way you want. I better run and get my user page tweaked. >> You know, I like what Leigh said about recognition be

[WikiEducator] Re: How wikieducator keep the cultural identity of the students

Leo wrote: << It is even much harder for me to participate in the discussion here , coz I sooo much want to speak out for China students , but there are not much platform like WE ( I like WE best personally ) however , WE is not supporting Chinese so far now . >> For what it's worth, I t

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