Usernames  followed by a photo or file is an excellent solution, Sarita.
However, I would still encourage members to consider a suitable name since
many of my students write 111111111111111111111 for files.
Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
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Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Sarita Kumar <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Really a big and interesting problem. Even I have come across it so many
> times.
>
> I think they should write their username follwed by the picture name, i.e
>
> username_picture name.....
>
> Sarita
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Randy Fisher <[email protected]>wrote:Hmm, 
> interesting problem....
>
>
> What if, as a workaround, they name the photos: Chile Name_FotoName?
>
> - Randy
>
>  On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:03 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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