Declan, I share your concerns. I think facilitators should stress the importance of name giving as they would a child. Facilitators should perhaps suggest participants collaborate when deciding on the best names for their images and files. Any suggestions on how to teach students on best practices in naming their images and files? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller skype:nelliedeutschmuller
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Declan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I don't know how big this problem is, but students of mine have used > fairly simple names for files such as 'me.jpg' and 'handout.png' and > saved them to the root directory. In some cases they have > inadvertently overwritten other files; their files have have been over > written by others. A look at the history of this file(not one of my > students) illustrates the problem: > > http://www.wikieducator.org/Image:Picture.jpg > > It was actually rather amusing to see someone's profile picture gazing > fondly at us from the middle of a lesson plan, but probably something > we could have avoided if the uploader had heeded the message on the > upload screen (my students have been guilty of ignoring that message > also). > > Suggestions: > **I suggest that workshop and classroom facilitators (like myself) > emphasize using unique and specific names for files. > **Perhaps we should consider having images as sub pages of wiki pages > rather than using the typical flat structure of the wiki; is there a > way to modify the upload page such that file names default to being > sub pages of the page from which the upload option was launched? > > Finally, perhaps this is a sufficiently rare problem that it can be > ignored? > > Cheers, > > Declan > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
