Good points, Jan. Thank you for sharing. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Jan Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope we let everyone do as they wish, as long as texts remain > internally consistent, i.e., no mixing of UK and US spelling conventions in > a single document. Similar rules should apply to e.g. Portuguese as written > in Portugal and basically also in the so-called PALOP countries (the African > countries that have Portuguese as an official language) and the Brazilian > variety of Portuguese. > > > > Jan > > > > --- > > Check out *Learners in a Changing Learning > Landscape*<http://www.learndev.org/learnland2008.html> > ** > > at http://www.learndev.org/learnland2008.html > > > > Jan Visser, Ph.D. > > President & Sr. Researcher, Learning Development Institute > > E-mail: [email protected] > > Fax (France): +33-9-505-97347 > > Fax and voice messages via Internet: > > +1-928-569-7978 > > Phone: > > North America: +1-904-425-1625 > > France: +33-4-902-49275 > > France Mobile: +33-6-869-86300 (new since April 12, 2009)) > > Netherlands: +31-344-605243 > > Netherlands Mobile: +31-6-429-05944 > > Check out: http://www.learndev.org > > Blog: http://jvisser-ldi.blogspot.com/ > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *NELLIE DEUTSCH > *Sent:* Monday, August 24, 2009 10:39 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Style guidelines draft policy update > > > > Jesse, > I tried to add spelling as a suggested guideline and made a mess in the > template. I apologize. > However, should we choose between American and British spelling or let > everyone do as they wish? > Warm wishes, > Nellie Deutsch > http://www.nelliemuller.com > Doctoral Student > Educational Leadership > Curriculum and Instruction > Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ > Free online workshops on WikiEducator: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Jesse Groppi <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm back to give you an update on the progress of the style guidelines > workgroup <http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines> and its > draft > policy<http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines/Guideline_policy_proposal>. > First, not much has changed in two weeks. The current suggested > guidelines > list<http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Style_guide/Proposed_guidelines#Proposed_guidelines>appears > to be at a general consensus, however we can't progress with the > suggestions until a policy for ratification is decided upon by the council. > All the same, new suggestions are always welcome, as are comments on current > suggestions! Through the week, I'll be doing some research and trying to > add new ones, so keep checking the list. > > On the status of the draft policy: I think it's safe to say what we have is > a "complete" draft, thanks to the help of Wayne and others. We're still > late on a final draft, and have only seven days to the submission deadline > of 1 September. I believe that will be plenty of time to make sure we have > a solid draft for proposal to the council at the 7 September meeting, but it > still requires that we hear the opinions of others! Remember that even if > you had never heard of a wiki before you came to Wikieducator, you can still > make a valuable contribution to this project and others! > > Looking forward to seeing you on the wiki, > > Jesse > > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi > Skype: jesse.groppi > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
