Just tried it out, wow, this is fantastic. Thank you, Jim!! Cheers,
Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:15 AM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] A sneak preview of WYSIWYG editing in WikiEducator :-) Hi Everyone, With BIG thanks to Jim Tittsler and his tireless WikiEducator dedication -- we are able to offer WikiEducators a sneak preview and experience of WYSIWYG editing planned for the near future. A health warning -- this is hosted on our beta-test server install in preparation for our upcoming migration to the Athabasca University installation :-). DO NOT spend copious hours editing pages on this site --- every time we update newer snapshots of the real WE database, the edits on the test servers will be erased. However -- we can't hold our excitement back and want to give WikiEducators a sneak preview of this exciting future. Also - don't complain if the server is down -- we're still testing, tweaking and getting things right. 1. Go to: http://we1.wikieducator.net/Main_Page 2. Login with your Wikieducator username and password 3. Select a page in the wiki for editing -- try your user page. 4. Click on the [Rich Editor] link which appears on top of the screen 5. Start having fun with a WYSIWYG editor. Note: * We will implement a more elegant solution for selecting the default editor (eg in user preferences) * We will implement the advancement of rich text editing in Phases (for example, currently editing templates is still not ideal for newbies. We will address this in Phase 2 of the implementation.) * There are still various features and services which are still not operational on the test servers -- these will be migrated before going live on the new install. Looking forward to hearing your feedback, thoughts and suggestions for moving forward. I think this is going to make a big difference to participation from educators around the world. We've waited a long time for this opportunity and its great to see WYSIWYG editing becoming a reality for WE. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
