Hi Alan, good questions and great post. Thanks also for your support for the BlipTV trial.
The issues you raise in your post refer to a real projects in the real world. As a community we need to think creatively about how we can support future OER authors without compromising the WE community values. WE respect the freedom of users to use the software of their choice while at the same time ensuring that we adhere to the free cultural works definition as a core baseline value. A few thoughts and reflections: - I'm not an expert on the specialist software used in music education etc, however there may be a few useful open source equivalents for example Lily Pond (http://lilypond.org/switch/tour), NoteEdit ( http://noteedit.berlios.de/), NtEd ( http://vsr.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/staff/jan/nted/nted.xhtml ) -- so their may be alternatives for students who choose to use free software. - If students will be developing audio files as part of their project -- we have an excellent set of training materials on using Audacity (the free software audio editing package) -- see http://wikieducator.org/Using_Audacity - WikiEducator has no problems or issues with developing OERs on how to use non-free software products, for example, tutorials on using MS Word, Microsoft's Media Manager and Macs Preview -- the only issue for us is that open teaching materials must be available in open file formats. - The difficult issue with screen casts is the question of registered trademarks (eg software logo of the software you are teaching). Typically the logo and software interface is trademarked and this will be captured in the screen cast. I think there are reasonable grounds to argue fair dealing in this case, and I feel that we should argue fair dealing / fair usage . I suspect that most companies would not have an issue with the development training materials to support their products. But nonetheless something to be aware of -- note that I'm not a qualified legal professional, but I believe this to be reasonable and fair use. - Developing screen casts can get complicated when dealing with the free and non-free software issues. In WikiEucator our approach has been "ethically pragmatic" -- for example, we have created a series of screen casts for our tutorials (e.g. http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_rich_text_editor_tutorials/Editing_basics/Show_me_how). These were created using Wink ( http://www.debugmode.com/wink/) -- this is freeware, but not open source software. It exports flash file format (.swf) which is a closed file format :-(. Our practical workaround is to allow the use of swf files on condition that the content is released under an open content license on the basis that we can reverse engineer the source files with open source software. Hope this helps with your planning. Cheers Wayne On 4 March 2010 13:24, Alan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Wayne, > A very interesting issue and one that will impact on a couple of > projects we are starting here at the DE Hub. One is to produce a Music > OER and we were considering using the software program Sibelius for > students to compose with its available on a 30 day trial and has a > free reader for viewing the compositions etc. It sound like this will > not be possible given the WE values, which I also endorse. More > thinking on my part as how we proceed with the project. A second issue > and question for us is how do we situation producing a screen capture > video using 'Jing' on resizing images for the web, which demonstrate > how to use Microsoft's Media Manager and Macs Preview. I guess we run > into the similar problems. We discovered that many of our students > using images in their assignments were not savy about file size and > images phsical size. We produced one here to provide to our students > and thought this could be a useful as an OER on WE. > On the broader issue I concur with the Bliptv trial and will be > looking to see if it provides a solution for the Music ORE. > Cheers, > Alan. > > > On Mar 4, 8:40 am, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks Sam, > > > > Look forward to hearing back on the security issues of wikitex. > > > > Cheers > > Wayne > > > > On Mar 4, 4:22 am, Samuel Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Wayne Mackintosh > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The Lilypond example @http://wikisophia.org/wiki/Wikitex is very > COOL. > > > > > > What are your thoughts on the security issues of Wikitext -- > i.e.would you > > > > install this on your wiki ;-). Also any thoughts on issues or what we > might > > > > do to deal produce consistent output with the collections extension? > > > > > Going to be looking into wikitex myself soon, and will report back > > > here what I find re: security. > > > > > > 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 > > > > User Page:http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg > > > > Skype: WGMNZ1 > > > > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > Sam Rose > > > Forward Foundation > > > Social Synergy > > > Tel:+1(517) 639-1552 > > > Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451 > > > skype: samuelrose > > > email: samuel.r... > @gmail.comhttp://socialsynergyweb.comhttp://forwardfound.orghttp://socialsynerg... > > > > > "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human > > > ambition." - Carl Sagan > > -- > 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] > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. 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