Hi Jan, I am also trying to understand it. I was concerned with the fact that my students' names were used as the reporters when in fact they had done an English project in 2009. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Nellie's English Projects: http://www.nelliemuller.com Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com It takes as little as $1.00 to help support and keep the professional development workshops free on IT4ALL https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VW7AMWRVZTJGQ
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jan Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nellie, > > I'm just trying to understand this. > > I read the piece by the students at > http://wikieducator.org/Holocaust/Survivor_Support/Israel/Poverty. > > Whatever its merit, isn't the idea that folks can use material available on > the WE pages provided they attribute source and authorship? If they did so > correctly (which they claim they did), then I don't think you can validly > protest against such use (but you can of course interact with those who > seemingly misinterpret you, if that's the case, which I am not sure of). > > There may be an issue with the age of students who contribute to the > WikiEducator pages. My sense is, if the students felt uncomfortable about > their being republished they should have contacted Salem News themselves, > rather than their teacher. > > My question, to the WE community, is: Should there be a policy (if there > isn't yet) that people should be of legal age to contribute to WE and thus > be expected to be held responsible for what they write? > > It's not a matter that I normally deal with, but I presume we can learn > from > WikiPedia. > > Jan > > -- > Jan Visser, Ph.D. > President & Sr. Researcher, Learning Development Institute > E-mail: [email protected] > Check out: http://www.learndev.org and http://www.facebook.com/learndev > Blog: http://jvisser-ldi.blogspot.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of nelliemuller > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:10 AM > To: WikiEducator > Subject: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator quoted in Salem News > > Hello Fellow WikiEducators, > > I thought you may find this article on two of my students who were > quoted as reporters for Salem News: > http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/israel-survivors.php > > Can WikiEducator be used as a source of news information after a whole > year? Well, it was until I intervened and look where it got me. > > Warm wishes, > Nellie > > -- > 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] > > > -- > 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] -- 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]
