Hi Nellie, The whole process of using Wiki's is new and in process. It is a new format of writing and collaborating and as such, is still in a flux about hwo to be looked at and used . Gene
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:38 PM, 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] > -- With Best Wishes for an Even Better Day Gene-loeb Gene-loeb Aronin, Ph.D. -- 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]
