[WikiEducator] Re: another text on OER, but not an OER!!

2008-09-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Leigh, >From your perspective -- what are the moral tones which are problematic? I >would like to get a better understanding of the issues you face on the ground. The Free cultural works definition was developed in an attempt to define a free cultural work. Lessig's book on Free Culture:

[WikiEducator] Re: another text on OER, but not an OER!!

2008-09-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
erous and sympathetic understanding for people who believe in All Rights Reserved so as to not put them off side with what can easily be seen as lefty ranting. Removing the moral tones and ranty unreferenced statements would help. Shall I delete the paragraph? On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Wayne

[WikiEducator] Re: another text on OER, but not an OER!!

2008-09-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Thanks Erik, I've posted some feedback on the preamble here: http://freedomdefined.org/Talk:Definition#Preamble_for_1.1 Appreciate your speedy response in opening up the discussion again. A testament to the open approach. Lets hope that the WikiEducator community will be active in helping with

[WikiEducator] Re: another text on OER, but not an OER!!

2008-09-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
When is an OER not an OER?<http://learnonline.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/whens-an-oer-not-an-oer/> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks Erik, > > I've posted some feedback on the preamble here: > > http://freedomdefined.

[WikiEducator] Re: another text on OER, but not an OER!!

2008-09-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
at 5:06 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Leigh, > > My own experience with the open movement is that nothing is cut and dry. > The success and survival of the top open projects depend on community > support, listening and feeling the pulse of the commu

[WikiEducator] Re: Community Communique

2008-09-24 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Leigh -- The conference recorded the presentation -- and I'm sure they will post the video. Cheers Wayne On Sep 24, 1:45 am, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will you audio record the talk Wayne? > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Jibril TOUZI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > > >

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator Discussion Group

2008-10-01 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hey Brent -- That's very funny --- had a good chuckle. You know what they say -- Rome wasn't built in a day --- we'll get there. Cheers Wayne On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 13:02 +1300, Brent wrote: > How about something like ... > > "Because Liquid Threads has killed off discussion and interaction on

[WikiEducator] Re: Internal error?

2008-10-06 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Thanks Leigh -- Erik was able to source the problem pretty quickly and get it working. Cheers Wayne On Oct 6, 4:45 pm, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the RSS extension appears to be working again. Thanks who ever fixed that. > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Leigh Blackall <[EM

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-03 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Leigh, Good question --- Why not use Wikibooks as an established platform? First off -- WikiEducator is not in competition with any of the freedom culture projects, including all the projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Rather, we are working collaboratively with all the OER content d

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-04 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
ed > again.. I seem to bring this question up at least twice a year, and your > answer seems to get more detailed while remaining essentially the same :) > > But you're right, the licenses will solve the first problem between the two, > the next problem is the use of templates

[WikiEducator] Re: user restrictions

2008-12-04 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
No worries -- glad I could help. Feel free to ask any time :-) Cheers Wayne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: What's next for us as wikieducators?

2008-12-04 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Malisa,, These are great ideas ... We definitely -- need a good tutorial on tables. They can be confusing. What do you have in mind regarding the last three points on your suggestions list -- a little more detail will help us in developing the "curriculum" for an intermediate course. Cheers

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-04 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Jim, That's a good point and raises the question of instructional/learning design in the development process. We've been experimenting with a few approaches regarding how best to implement distributed learning design in a wiki environment --- Clearly this is part of the puzzle we must solve.

[WikiEducator] Re: Generate PDF file on WE

2009-01-23 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Nellie, Gladys --- Thanks for alerting us to the pdf problem. I hadn't noticed this :-(. Been hectically busy with preparations for my move back home to NZ :-). Have alerted the techie team and we'll take a look at getting this fixed ASAP. Cheers Wayne -Original Message- From:

[WikiEducator] Re: Editing Course TOC

2009-02-08 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Phil, With apology --- I'm the unnamed party/benefactor who set up these pages as an example for further refinement. I'm not an expert in your discipline and sorry about the transgressions in the title of the page :-). Gee --- I love wiki communities! I see Gladys has already jumped in and h

[WikiEducator] Re: Editing Course TOC

2009-02-09 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
thur > > On Feb 9, 10:21 am, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > > > With apology --- I'm the unnamed party/benefactor who set up these pages > > as an example for further refinement. I'm not an expert in your > > discipline and sorry about

[WikiEducator] Re: Editing Course TOC

2009-02-09 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
ve settled in. And get over > your withdrawal symptoms by going thru all that you have > missed on WE. > > Savithri > > > 2009/2/9 Wayne Mackintosh > > Hi Phil, > > With apology --- I'm the unnamed party/benefactor who set up >

[WikiEducator] Re: Editing Course TOC

2009-02-09 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
e On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 14:44 -0800, Gladys Gahona wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > It's great to see you again. :) > > Gladys Gahona > User:Chela5808 > > On 9 feb, 16:25, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > > Hi Savithri -- > > > > Thanks -- were settling in well and

[WikiEducator] Re: UPE team

2009-02-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Wow, that's a great response from WE volunteers to continue the User Page Exbo initiative! Looks like we have a team to support the monthly UPE award: * Peter Rawsthorne * Nellie Deutsch & * Patricia Schilcht With thanks to Minhaaj and Steve who established this popular WE feature. Cheers Wayne

[WikiEducator] Re: WE (mathematics) efforts need to go beyo nd another “Wikipedia repeat”

2009-02-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Jim, Great post! I too hope that WikiEducator will evolve in ways which support the unique demands and character of educational resources. Already WE is demonstrating organic growth in a variety of pedagogical approaches, for example: * Leigh Blackall's innovative course on Designing for Flex

[WikiEducator] Re: WE (mathematics) efforts need to go beyo nd another “Wikipedia repeat”

2009-02-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Alison, I agree -- nothing supports learning better than a good example! I hope that you released the pie-chart you created under a free content license ;-). I'm observing the development of the Math Glossary with great interest -- I wish I had more time to engage with this development. I was

[WikiEducator] Re: In praise of wikieducator tutorials

2009-02-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hey Declan, Appreciate the feedback on the WE tutorials :-). We designed these tutorials for independent self-study and am very pleased that they have made life a little easier for your course. In hindsight this has been an excellent investment for WE -- these tutorials have helped thousands of e

[WikiEducator] Re: school wikipedia

2009-02-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Leo, I suspect that your dreams for WE supporting Chinese may become a reality in the near future :-). As of 1 July 2009 WE will become an independent project which will provide us with the scope to install a Chinese localisation for WE :-) Watch this space. Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2009-02-11 a

[WikiEducator] Re: Templates and student contributions

2009-02-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hey Declan, Smart thinking! We should also think about developing a tutorial on using images in WE which could include some guidance on attribution, licensing etc. It would be pretty easy to include a link to this tutorial from your template. This is one of the features I love about Mediawiki -

[WikiEducator] Re: WE (mathematics) efforts need to go beyo nd another “Wikipedia repeat”

2009-02-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:40 -0800, Gladys Gahona wrote: > We have some Copyright and CC concerns regarding to sources for > definitions and examples. > Could you please see > http://www.wikieducator.org/Thread:Resource_Use_(Copyright_and_CC_licensing_topics)_(1) Hi Gladys -- sorry I missed this

[WikiEducator] Re: WE (mathematics) efforts need to go beyo nd another “Wikipedia repeat”

2009-02-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:40 -0800, Gladys Gahona wrote: > I've been making some tests for transclusion > Please go to my "testing lab" :-) : > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808/My_sandbox#My_comments_about_transclusion > > I guess this is what you are talking about. Is it? Yip -- those

[WikiEducator] Re: About transclusion

2009-02-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Scott -- Yip -- transclusion is a very powerful feature of the Mediawiki software! I see what you're trying to do with the case study examples. I had a bash transcluding a subsection as in "{{:Foo/Bar#summary}}" -- but this doesn't work --- it pulls in the full page. Perhaps you can find a

[WikiEducator] Re: school wikipedia

2009-02-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 05:01 -0800, Gladys Gahona wrote: > What about Latin America? Absolutely!!! We already have a WE localistations for Spanish ( http://es.wikieducator.org/ ) and Portuguese ( http://pt.wikieducator.org/ for Brazil ) -- so Latin America can get started :-) Currently WE is fu

[WikiEducator] Re: OER Foundation

2009-02-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
so that we can turn tomorrow's promise for OER into today's reality! On a personal level, I will be continuing with my role in the project with the added advantage that I can now dedicate ALL of my time to the WE community :-) Cheers Wayne Community Communique: Wednesday 24 September, PST

[WikiEducator] Re: Community College Open Textbook Project

2009-02-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Valerie, The Community College Open Textbook Project is a great OER initiative. I'm particularly impressed with the consortium approach and collaboration among North American colleges. We're very keen to emulate national OER initiatives here in New Zealand and have hosted an initial think tank

[WikiEducator] Re: About transclusion

2009-02-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 16:55 -0800, Scott Newson wrote: > Neat, what Rob pointed to is just what I was looking for. It seems to > be an optional extension to MediaWiki, so now the question is: Is it > available on WikiEducator? If it isn't, could we make it available? Scott -- I agree that Rob's s

[WikiEducator] Re: February UPE is Gladys Gahona

2009-02-15 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Glady's --- congratulations on your UPE award! A most deserving nomination and our community is proud of your achievement. Thanks also to Peter, Patricia and Nellie for building on the foundations established my Minhaaj and Steve for this popular community feature. I need to step up my game

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

2009-02-15 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Declan, WikiEducator.org is a free content initiative and will always remain free as in "freedom of speech" --- our project is rooted and informed by the essential freedoms (See: http://www.wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/What_is_free_content/Freedom_as_concept ) WikiEducator.org will

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

2009-02-16 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 14:48 -0800, Steve Foerster wrote: > I'm mindful that we need to find ways for WE to support itself > financially, and as such I'm all for having a directory of third > parties who help others use OERs, including those at WE. But is there > a lot of advantage to it being at

[WikiEducator] Re: Please change your user page photo

2009-02-16 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Leigh As an educator, I'm now blacked out as well. Not unlike digital rights management --- we'll be moving down a slippery slope if we presume guilt before innocence. Copyright must be respected --- however accusations of copyright transgressions --- which could lead to internet connectivit

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

2009-02-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:30 -0800, valerie wrote: > Consider acquiring and redirecting all .xxx that you can get your > hands on - the great domain name land grab. WikiEducator is a very > valuable domain and it should be protected at all costs. It should be > used for only for this one purpose in

[WikiEducator] Re: OER Foundation and sustainability

2009-02-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 04:12 -0800, simonfj wrote: > Just going through the strategy for wikieducator, Wayne's trying to > find ways to make things sustainable, and encourage the value adders. > So let's not just limit things to just the web stuff. The most > important thing, and the thing which is

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

2009-02-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Valerie -- I understand your concerns, particularly with new comers stumbling across the wikieducator.com domain. That said, its not unusual for open source projects to have a commercial domain. For example, Moodle has http://moodle.org/ and http://moodle.com/ and Mozilla run http://www.m

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

2009-02-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:29 +1300, Jim Tittsler wrote: > Yes, I'm used to a .com domain being something different than the .org > domain. > > The site is configured to have a noticeably different "look" to reduce > any possible confusion. I think we should temporarily add a big banner on the la

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

2009-02-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 20:44 -0400, Stephen Downes wrote: > Get a .com domain and use it for fund-raising and sustainability > information. Redirect all .com 404s to the corresponding URL on > the .org site. Hi Stephen, Appreciate the advice --- fortunately we already own the .com domain. Good s

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

2009-02-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
gt; Nellie Deutsch > Doctoral Student > Educational Leadership > Curriculum and Instruction > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller > skype:nelliedeutschmuller > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Wayne Mackintosh >

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

2009-02-18 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
cator.org/User:Nelliemuller > skype:nelliedeutschmuller > > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Wayne Mackintosh > wrote: > > Hi Nellie, > > Good questions! > > The target population are all educators who are interested in

[WikiEducator] Re: html to WikiEd source

2009-02-18 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Phil, I found two online HTML ==> wiki syntax converters: See: http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/ or http://www.ebruni.it/en/software/os/i_love_wiki/index.mpl I haven't used these myself yet -- so can't comment on how well they work. Give it a try and let us know. Cheers Wa

[WikiEducator] Re: html to WikiEd source

2009-02-18 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Glady's, We also have a basic how-to guide in using OO for exporting Mediawiki text here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Editing_using_open_office Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:47 -0600, Gladys Gahona wrote: > I downloaded Open Office 3.0. > > * Click on the OO i

[WikiEducator] Re: school wikipedia

2009-02-19 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
ols to build a really exciting but surely no-easy task in China , > to make WE really International and really Free in education ! > > anyone want to agree or disagree ,please leave your comments thank > you !! > > Leo > > http://wikieducator.org/user:leolaoshi > &g

[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator traffic ranking

2009-02-28 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi, And an average below 100K last week! A great achievement for our community. Cheers Wayne On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 16:22 -0800, Patricia Schlicht wrote: > Dear Friends, > > > > Just to say, I just had a look at the Alexa stats. We are making > progress. We are now in 123,414th place. Wel

[WikiEducator] Re: Nomination of UPEs

2009-03-05 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Peter and UPE fans, I like the idea of widening the nomination process for UPE as you have suggested. Great suggestion! Go for it and set up the page -- if folk want to refine or add value to the suggestions they can help refine the relevant wiki page. Cheers Wayne On Thu, 2009-03-05 at

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

2009-03-05 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Peter & WE friends Thinking out load here --- Under our emerging QA framework ( http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_Framework/Featured_Works ) there is a subsection called "other featured items" Would it make sense to re-classify the framework to include a sub-sectio

[WikiEducator] Volunteers: Working group for Website redesign?

2009-03-05 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi everyone Open questions: 1) Should WE redesign its homepage and important landing pages? 2) Will improved information design of the WE main page and important landing pages improve retention? 3) Should WE form a working group to consider proposals for Website redesign? 4) If so -- do we have

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

2009-03-05 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Hollis, WE're very proud to see the leadership and foresight demonstrated by the National Open School in Trinidad and Tobago. The committment by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to fund training workshops is a testament to the scalability of open models. WE commend your efforts! Please ex

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

2009-03-05 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Wayne Mackintosh > wrote: > > Hi Peter & WE friends > > Thinking out load here --- Under our emerging QA framework >

[WikiEducator] Re: Volunteers: Working group for Website redesign?

2009-03-05 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
onal Leadership > Curriculum and Instruction > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller > skype:nelliedeutschmuller > > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Wayne Mackintosh > wrote: > > > Hi everyone &g

[WikiEducator] Re: Volunteers: Working group for Website redesign?

2009-03-05 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
ducation. > > These are just off the top of my head thoughts. > > Cheers, > Patricia > > -Original Message- > From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com > [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 8:29 PM >

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

2009-03-06 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 07:23 -0800, Steve Foerster wrote: > For what it's worth, the original vision for UPE was that it would be > just a fun thing that wasn't constrained by frameworks. Is there > really no room for the unofficial in WikiEducator? Does everything > have to be part of The Plan?

[WikiEducator] Re: Volunteers: Working group for Website redesign?

2009-03-06 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
't decided on any steps -- lets get this right. Are we saying that use case scenarios are the first step? > > Sorry if I have taken a simple main page redesign idea into something > bigger. > > Sincerely, Peter > > On Mar 5, 8:28 pm, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > > Hi

[WikiEducator] Re: Performance slow?

2009-03-09 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Leigh, I've been connecting locally from NZ the past couple of weeks -- and haven't noticed major differences in response times from my url location when compared to Canada. That said --- our traffic rankings and corresponding demands on the server have increased considerably over the last mon

[WikiEducator] WE case study for Open Education Course

2009-03-21 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Everyone -- Writing from a very warm Samoa and flaky internet connection. First an apology for my silence on the list --- the withdrawal symptoms are unbearable! Have been hectically busy preparing for my international mission to Samoa and a talk at the NZ Ministry of Education conference w

[WikiEducator] Re: Performance slow?

2009-03-22 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Simon, Posting from Samoa on a flaky internet connection @ the hotel. Again -- huge apology for the delay in getting back to you on the NREN and other great ideas. I've just had too much on my plate with my move back to NZ, speaking committments, getting the OER Foundation established etc.

[WikiEducator] Re: CCNC

2009-03-22 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Anil, Alison -- Just a quick note from Samoa --- I'm very excited about the community involvement in taking the CCNC forward. Our experiences in developing the OER Handbook collaboratively provided a couple of useful lessons: 1) Set up a style guide page for discussion and agreeing on style co

[WikiEducator] Samoa plans to establish a WE Chapter

2009-03-31 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi everyone, Have just returned from Samoa where I had the privilege of facilitating two L4C workshops and welcoming new educators to our family. BIG thanks to all the WikiEducators who left personal messages on the relevant user pages. It's amazing to see the WikiNeighbour concept in action with

[WikiEducator] L4C is making history! - We need your help

2009-03-31 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi everyone, I've just updated our latest statistics for the Learning4Content initiative. WikiEducator is making history. WE have launched and implemented (to the best of my knowledge) the largest wiki training project for educators in the world! 2360 participants have registered for 73 L4C

Re: Fwd: [WikiEducator] L4C is making history! - We need your help

2009-03-31 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
----- Forwarded message -- > From: Wayne Mackintosh > Date: 2009/4/1 > Subject: [WikiEducator] L4C is making history! - We need your help > To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com > > > > Hi everyone, > > I've just updated our latest statistics for the

Re: Fwd: [WikiEducator] L4C is making history! - We need your help

2009-03-31 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
tinos grow and grow and grow... > We are close > Cheers for that !!! > > > > 2009/3/31 Wayne Mackintosh > > Hey Leo, > > Believe me -- we're getting close to being able to launch a > Chinese Mandarin WE :-) &g

Re: Fwd: [WikiEducator] L4C is making history! - We need your help

2009-03-31 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
ample! Cheers Wayne On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:33 -0700, Gita Mathur wrote: > Hi Wayne > This is wonderful. It further strengthens my commitment towards > WikiEducator and our lovely Community. Great progress... > Warm regards > Gita Mathur > > > On Apr 1, 9:14 am, Way

Re: Fwd: [WikiEducator] L4C is making history! - We need your help

2009-04-01 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
lly a good news > > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Wayne Mackintosh > wrote: > > Hey Gita, > > Much of our achievement in widening access to L4C is >

Re: Fwd: [WikiEducator] L4C is making history! - We need your help

2009-04-01 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
ommittment -- I know that we'll grow from strength to strength. 2009 will be an amazing year for WikiEducator's future! Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 10:51 +0530, aprasad wrote: > > Hi Dr. Wayne, it is really a good news > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:07 AM

Re: Fwd: [WikiEducator] L4C is making history! - We need your help

2009-04-01 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
> Hi Wayne > > This is wonderful. It further strengthens my commitment > towards > > WikiEducator and our lovely Community. Great progress... > > Warm regards > > Gita Mathur > >

[WikiEducator] Re: L4C is making history! - We need your help

2009-04-01 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
educator.org/EL4C21 > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C24 > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller > skype:nelliedeutschmuller > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Wayne Mackintosh > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've

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

2009-04-02 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 06:49 -0700, Steve Foerster wrote: > 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 will learn wiki co

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

2009-04-02 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
f. > > brent. > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Wayne Mackintosh > wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 06:49 -0700, Steve Foerster wrote: > > > Me too, but I continue to believe that this won't happen the > > way we

[WikiEducator] Re: wikieducator - 14 new messages in 4 topics - digest

2009-04-02 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Gladys -- As an open community --- WE has encouraged and supported educators to initiate and join multiple communication avenues. There are a number of WE regional lists, the group on Face book and our main WE list. WE also have an IRC channel (which hasn't been too popular). The point being t

[WikiEducator] Re: Plan to Move the Current CCNC Pages

2009-04-09 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Alison, Just a quick note --- Am a little snowed under at the moment with a bunch of activities, and have not been able to give this new community initiative the attention it deserves :-(. A few reflections for consideration: * I'm very supportive and excited to see new life and energy

[WikiEducator] Re: Keep the architecture open for bells and whistles

2009-04-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Scott, Jim, Maria et al. The notion of a "content checker" to assist with recontextualisation of OER for reuse or as a support guide for authoring new materials is a great concept! About a year ago David Wiley shared with me some ideas and use cases that would analyse the readability of a wi

[WikiEducator] Re: Plan to Move the Current CCNC Pages

2009-04-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Alison (& Anil) Due to my travels I may have missed an earlier post on the list -- Do we have a "home-page" in the wiki where we are planing and discussing the redevelopment? If not -- maybe a good idea to copy and past all the points and thoughts over to a wiki page for the planning and devel

[WikiEducator] Re: April UPE is Rima Al Eryani

2009-04-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Congratulations Rima! You're are an inspiration and testament to what individuals and open communities can achieve. WE're very excited by your plans and committment to foster the development of a thriving WikiEducator community in the Middle East (Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman). We'r

[WikiEducator] Re: Keep the architecture open for bells and whistles

2009-04-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
tent_storage_01/019b/80/1b/bf/46.pdf) On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 09:29 +1200, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > Hi Scott, Jim, Maria et al. > > The notion of a "content checker" to assist with recontextualisation > of OER for reuse or as a support guide for authoring new materia

[WikiEducator] OER Awards - Nominations

2009-04-17 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Everyone, Moustapha Diak, Director of the MERLOT Africa Network (MAN) has asked our community to think and help with nominations for the 2nd International m...@ela Awards for Exemplary Open Education Resources (OER) Practices for Development. Nominations close on 30 April 2009 for 3 Different

[WikiEducator] Re: Launching WikiEducator Mexico

2009-05-04 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
rdo > > -- > Gladys Gahona > Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary & Tertiary grades. > http://chela5808.wordpress.com > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 > Skype:chela5808 > > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh

[WikiEducator] Re: Launching WikiEducator Germany

2009-05-04 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
tp://wikieducator.org/Mexico > > Meet the pioneering team at: > http://wikieducator.org/Mexico/WEMEX > > Cheers > Jorge,Gladys,Ben and Ricardo > > -- > Gladys Gahona > Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary & Tertiary grades. > http://chela58

[WikiEducator] Re: Reflections

2009-05-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
> reflections from their students and workshop participants! This > information may be useful for other group leaders, and those seeking > funding for WE. > > Thanks to all for the ongoing help and patience. I'll see you all in > January! Happy WEediting > > Ch

[WikiEducator] Re: Reflections

2009-05-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
m and Instruction > > You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on > how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with > educators around the world: > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register > > > > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM

[WikiEducator] Community update - WikiEducator, OER Foundation etc.

2009-05-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
as we go along and if you have the time --- I'd welcome your help and support in moving this process forward. Bookmark the OER_Foundation planning page or add this to your watch lists if you want to keep up to speed with what's happening: http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Found

[WikiEducator] Re: Community update - WikiEducator, OER Foundation etc.

2009-05-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
tty well, including picture upload and inserting widgets (e.g. > youtube video). If it would help your efforts to collaborate on this > or other parts of your endeavors, please let me know. > > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Wayne Mackintosh > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > >

[WikiEducator] Re: Community update - WikiEducator, OER Foundation etc.

2009-05-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
5-day online workshop on > how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with > educators around the world: > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register > > > > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Wayne Mackintosh > wrote: > > Hi Maria, > > > >

[WikiEducator] Re: May UPE is Declan McCabe

2009-05-11 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
lan!!! > > http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE#May_2009 > > Sincerely, > > Patricia, Nellie & Peter > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.

[WikiEducator] Re: Community update - WikiEducator, OER Foundation etc.

2009-05-14 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
networks to comment and provide feedback on improving what you're trying to do. In time -- the magic will happen! Hope this helps and I look forward to seeing how OER grows in your area. Feel free to ask for thoughts and ideas at any time. Our advice is Free -- and you're free to reject

[WikiEducator] Re: Options for Activity Template

2009-05-20 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
gt; >> > >> >> >> > I'd like to create an activity (using Template:Activity or >> >> >> > Template:Activity2) that provides a set of instructions and the >> >> >> > results for each instruction (either in words or a screenshot >> image) >> >> >> > if completed accu

[WikiEducator] Re: Hugely important fossil description published under CCA License

2009-05-20 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
biologists on college modules based on the > paper. Any takers? > > Cheers, > > Declan > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org --~--~--

[WikiEducator] Re: Options for Activity Template

2009-05-20 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
e -- see: http://www.wikieducator.org/Template:User_Learning_Designer Cheers Wayne 2009/5/21 Gladys Gahona > My hand is up > > Cheers > > 2009/5/20 Wayne Mackintosh > >> Hi Alison, >> >> Great that you've connected with Rob! Rob is WikiEducator&#x

[WikiEducator] Re: Options for Activity Template

2009-05-20 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
timely group and privilege to have this calibre of experience on board! Cheers W > > -- > > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > > Director, > > International Centre for Open Education, > > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > > Found

[WikiEducator] Re: Options for Activity Template

2009-05-20 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
ource authoring tool) --- download this and have a play. There are good examples of iDevices which we could wikify and generate new ideas for pedagogical templates as well. You can get a copy from: www.exelearning.org Cheers Wayne 2009/5/21 Wayne Mackintosh > > hey Ben, Maria, Glady's Jim -

[WikiEducator] Re: Options for Activity Template

2009-05-21 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
. > > Alison > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus > > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < > mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> hey Ben, Maria, Glady's Jim -- >> >> Looks like we have the nexus of a great team --- I'

[WikiEducator] Re: Community update - WikiEducator, OER Foundation etc.

2009-05-23 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
> > I am working on an SBIR grant for Natural Math for the Family Studies > > > supporting software I discussed on the list earlier, and your proposal > > > is quite helpful. I will be happy to share ours if you think it would > > > be of use to others. > &

[WikiEducator] Congratulations to WikiMedia Foundation on Licensing Changes

2009-05-24 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
eases/Dual_license_vote_May_2009 Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me

[WikiEducator] Re: Congratulations to WikiMedia Foundation on Licensing Changes

2009-05-24 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
> Warm Regards > Chris Harvey > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Wayne Mackintosh > wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I've been meaning to post a word of congratulations to the WikiMedia > > Foundation on our list, who recently announced exiting changes

[WikiEducator] Re: Congratulations to WikiMedia Foundation on Licensing Changes

2009-05-25 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Savithri - and to WikiEducator India who have showed the way in building national OER collaborations! Cheers Wayne 2009/5/25 Savithri Singh > Congratulations and is it not great that Wikieducator showed the way?!!! > Savithri > > 2009/5/25 Wayne Mackintosh > > Hi Chr

[WikiEducator] Working group: OER Policy Briefing

2009-05-29 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
wants to help out on this important task --- please add your names on the relevant wiki page. I've started adding a few thoughts and ideas over here: http://wikieducator.org/OER_Brief_for_policy_makers Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for

[WikiEducator] Re: Congratulations to WikiMedia Foundation on Licensing Changes

2009-05-29 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
e we switch (by June 15 at the latest). :-) > > > > -- > > Erik Möller > > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > > > Support Free Knowledge:http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for O

[WikiEducator] Re: Bring in the Ning

2009-05-30 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
spirit of diversity, openness, and continual improvement, I > > > vote for a Ning (or Ning-like) site that manages all groups, forums, > > > etc. that pertain to WE. It would be nice to have one central space > > > that would be all things WE. The idea would be to replac

[WikiEducator] Thoughts about WE Workgroups / Working groups

2009-05-30 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
work group to develop a draft set of guidelines on work groups, utimately leading to a policy on work groups for consideration by the WCC for approval. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.

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