Wayne and Maria, I would to be able to edit in both ways, if WE decides to add WYSIWYG. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum 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 Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Maria, > > I'm very excited about the new prospects for WE. We have a solid foundations > to take our project to new levels -- and you're right, WE is an amazing > community! > > I'm glad you found our open proposal useful for your own grant writing > process --- by sharing we reduce duplication of effort and make a small > contribution to sustainability and more effective utilisation of scarce > resources in education. > > Pioneered by the Shuttleworth foundation and the compelling insights of Mark > Surman -- Open Philanthropy makes a lot of sense -- the concept of "open > sourcing" philanthropy is very powerful. Take a look at how the Shuttleworth > foundation have implemented the concepts (See: http://tinyurl.com/p3pvft ). > I'm keen for us at WE to build on these experiences. > > Always interested in collobarting -- thanks for the offer re WYSIWYG > editing. Let's explore this further. The FCKeditor extension for Mediawiki > has matured over the last couple of months --- particularly with the > activity and contributions from Wikia. Once we've migrated to our Phase 2 > hosting solution, the next step is to seriously research the implementation > of a rich text editing solution for WE -- along with the development and > refinement in our policy guidelines for new technologies. > > I think WYSIWYG will potentially lower the barriers of entry for many > educators -- there have been numerous requests for WYSIWYG editing from our > community -- let's see if we can respond appropriately :-). > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > 2009/5/11 Maria Droujkova <[email protected]> >> >> Wayne, >> >> These are all great news. I am so happy for you and WE! It's a great >> community. >> >> I would like to thank you for opening your proposal building process. >> 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. >> >> Speaking of which, our wiki parts have a WYSIWYG editor that works >> pretty 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 >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > At last -- a long overdue update. >> > >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> MariaD >> >> Make math your own, to make your own math. >> >> http://www.naturalmath.com social math site >> http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath math authoring for kids email >> group >> http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations >> >> > > > > -- > 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 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
