Hi Patricia, Hmm, actually Dave has been using Wikieducator since March 2007 with a large amount of work since then: http://wikieducator.org/Special:Contributions/David_McQuillan
Knowing Dave, I suspect he may be worrying about how he is going to get his staff and other's in his subject area to engage.. In my view, the easiest way would be to send out Word of Open Office Templates that people can fill out and then he/we could wiki text them from there... Regards Leigh On Dec 17, 2007 2:39 PM, Patricia Schlicht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear David, > > Many thanks for your great comments! You are right, wiki editing is > significantly dfferent from the type of text-editing that most people > do. When I personally got start quite some time ago, I initially felt > the same and was thinking how can I manage this process, I am not a > programmer or coder but as it turned out, the tasks were not as > difficult to master as I had envisioned. > > Dr. Wayne Mackintosh, the founder of Wikieducator, and I have been > facilitating free Wiki Editing online training on a frequent basis. I > encourage you to express your interest and I am sure to include you in > the next round of trainings, mostly likely at the end of January/early > February 2008. > > You could of course also start on your own. I encourage you to go ahead > as many have done already before you and you will see how much more > potential you will discover. It is a great tool to have. > > Please refer to the Wiki Newbie Tutorials at > http://www.wikieducator.org/Help:Contents > > Please may also listen to the presentation on the Wikieducator given by > Dr. Mackintosh at > http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Multimedia/Our_project > > Looking forward to receiving your comments. > > Warm regards, > Patricia (Schlicht) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David McQuillan > Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 5:06 PM > To: WikiEducator > Subject: [WikiEducator] Wiki interface > > > Hi all, > > I've been lurking on the periphery of the WikiEd conversation for a > while, but haven't really had much to contribute so far. I'll start > with a query. > > Are there any plans to change the way in which wiki-editing occurs? > > It seems to me that the major barrier to wiki-editing is the need to > learn how to write using media-wiki text. Writing in media-wiki text > is is significantly different from the type of text-editing that most > people are used to. If the interface was changed to something more > akin to the google-docs interface I imagine that the participation > would go through the roof. > > I realise that the open-office media-wiki text add-on has made this > process significantly easier, but it's still a jump for the general > populace. > > Kind regards, > > David McQuillan > > > > > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
