Hi David, I know exactly what you mean -- tweaking the layout so that it looks presentable. With me, I spend too much time trying to get that perfect look and feel -- then I pop over to a colleague who one of the newer wide screen displays -- and then things don't quite look the same :-).
It comes with the territory of social networking. The upside is that faculty and lecturers who struggle a little with the syntax and layout acquire a new life skill to participate more fully in our connected world. That said, its a tall ask for educators who are already overloaded. In addition to some of the solutions and ideas we've already discussed, I wondering whether it would be possible to trial a division of labour strategy for the layout and tidying up of content. This is something DE institutions have done very successfully. The idea is to assign the visual layout and fixing of syntax to someone who has better skills in this area, saving time for lecturers to focus on their content expertise. Would it be possible to trial using student help for the layout etc on a small pilot to assess whether this is a cost effective strategy? Any solutions Otago come up with will be solutions of the rest of the world starting out on this bold path. Just a thought ... Wayne On Apr 30, 1:06 am, "David McQuillan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't it your job to "live in a dream world"? > And also most of ours I guess. > The trick is to make the dreams concrete. :-) > > I like the idea of offline editing mainly because of lag-times. The NZ > network is not the fastest. > > One of the other reasons I'm keen on a WYSIWYG interface is that I find that > when I'm editing a page in WikiEd, I commonly think that I've got the editing > all sorted out in wiki-media-text, but then when I have a look at how it > displays it's clear that I need to make some changes. It usually takes me a > few saves before it's formatted in the way that I'd like it to be. Maybe > that's just me? > > D > > >>> mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/30/08 4:59 PM >>> > > Hi David -- > > I agree the current OO implementation is not perfect, and whatever > improvements we can figure out will still need some training support > at the local level. > > What I have in mind is a more of a future solution -- that is adapting > and refining OO so that we don't need much tweaking after the copy & > paste. WE have a unique advantage -- first hand experience in working > with lecturers who may not be well versed in these emerging > technologies. In many respects we are global pioneers -- so I'm > relying on your experiences -- good and bad to help us build the > future. > > I would love to see an offline editing solution for WE -- perhaps we > can kill two birds with one stone ... > > I suppose I'm living in a dream world --- but always willing to try > and make the future happen :-) > > So I'd like to test and pilot alternatives the OO route and the FCK > editor route. Lets take an informed decision on what we learn from our > action research approach. > > Cheers > Wayne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
