Hi Everyone As you know copyright can be a challenge for educators, particularly with regards to proper attribution of images uploaded to WikiEducator.
In the past users where expected to attribute images in WikiEducator using the metadata template. Unfortunately this was not a user-friendly interface for newbies. As a result many images have been uploaded to WikiEducator without proper attribution and in some cases unintentionally uploaded to the site in breach of the original copyright of the images. (Open access, i.e. finding an image on the web using a google image search does NOT mean that the images is licensed for free reuse :-(.) Users uploading these images would be responsible for the breach in copyright. Our WE motto requires us to support the community, so we have made it easier to comply with proper attribution etc. With the help of open source software code and the wizardry of our Lead Software Engineer, Jim has installed a form based solution with pull down menu option for populating the templates required for recording metadata of the file uploads. BIG thanks Jim :-). If you attempted to upload an image or file these past few days -- you will have discovered a more user-friendly interface for recording the required metadata. We don't want our WE users to be exposed to unauthorised use of "all-rights reserved" images. So we have implemented "required" fields for completion before accepting file uploads on WikiEducator. In this way we can help and prevent WikiEducators from breaching copyright on images -- which in the majority of cases has been unintentional. Many educators may not have the time to fill out the proper metadata, so the free software community have a solution that will save you time :-). You can use images from the Wikimedia Commons directly in WikiEducator and this will ensure that the proper attributions are recorded. WE have a few guidelines and tips here: http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_rich_text_editor_tutorials/Images/Use Members of our lists may be aware that I also serve on the International Advisory Board of the WikiMedia Foundation who oversee many of the large public wiki projects like WIkipedia. The OER Foundation and WE subscribe to promoting "collabOERation" among the free culture projects. I hope and encourage our users to consider widening the inventory of free content media files that are available in the Mediawiki commons by uploading images on the Commons which can easily be referenced in WIkiEdcuator. In this way WE can contribute back to the global free culture movement. Together we can achieve far more than working alone. 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 -- 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] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
