Many thanks Wayne,
I am convinced the categories are the most elegant way to do it, and less error prone. Yes, it is a great project, with so many spin offs: - The core objective is to scale up an energise a non-ICT local language resource for schools - Creating a wiki version with wiki-based lesson planning tool, reinforces the local ownership, so that this becomes a dynamic and living resource managed by the owners of the indigenous knowledge themselves - It is generally demonstrating the potential of ICT in a way that is very firmly linked to official education strategy and curriculum, in this case science, culture, vernacular education policy, and the now official standard that all teachers should have ICT skills and know how to apply them in teaching and learning - It also helps to legitimise / mainstream the OLPC pilot (Patukae school is one of the Solomon's 3 schools) - The ICT allows the resource to be accessible to many schools and even Diaspora, students overseas etc, (ref. Kupainen, <http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_3.asp#2> 2006). - The lesson planning tool is creating a lot of interest. One question the Director of Secondary asked me immediately when seeing the lesson planning tool and realising that this demonstrated potentials much wider than just the Marovo wiki project, was "can this be made available in schools with no Internet". The Ministry is beginning to look at ways of providing electronic resources more widely to schools, and only a few percent have Internet access. Mobile coverage will increasingly help but even for a few years, the cost of mobile web is extraordinary in these countries - in PNG Digicel charge 2 kina per MB (USD 70c per MB!!!! - when salary and budgets are factored in, the affordability is 1000s of times less than in Australia). So the idea of small, low power (solar powered) offline caches, running services such as wikis, Moodle, LAMP-based repositories is now seriously being investigated. Of course, that is exactly what the OLPC XS server does. But it can be done with a simple Ubuntu installation running a wiki and serving html based resources. I have set up one such server as a "wireless broadcast" system running Wordpress with a mobile extension so that even mobile phones with wi-fi access can easily be used to download (and upload) content. So the question is, would it be possible to export a section of the WE (i.e. my Patukae pages - for example) containing the required templates and WE-specific files, and then install them on a standard mediawiki installation running offline? David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 1:36 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest Hi David, Yes you can use the parameter "default=Patukae/" to load the default text for the input box. See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox Some newbies may find this confusing and they will be able to delete and or change the default text. Its your call. I would still auto nstert a category in your pre-load text so you can monitor new pages created and check that they were created properly -- then you can remove the category. Easier to monitor this way saving time and energy. Cheers Wayne On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:12 PM, David Leeming <[email protected]> wrote: OK, thanks Wayne Is it possible then to have a prefix appear in the text area of the input box i.e. Patukae/ So that users can then just add their lesson plan name to it without worry of mistakes David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Tuesday, 26 October 2010 3:39 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest Hi David, Not sure we can achieve this -- A page is created using the name specified in the text area of the input box. You may want to think about adding a category into your preload text to assist in finding resources. Cheers Wayne On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:01 PM, David Leeming <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Wayne, One final touch... can I add something to the input box code so it creates the page under a specified page? Currently it saves it in the "root". I'd prefer the long prefix not to be visible in the input window. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language/Lesson_Plan_template David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link P.O.Box 652 Honiara, Solomon Islands +677 7476396 (m) +677 24419 (h) www.leeming-consulting.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 1:54 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Lesson plans for Reef and Rainforest Hi David, Looks like an exciting project and great to see that you are reusing ideas and templates from the OERNZ project. Wow -- we're impressed you've basically got all the setup working nicely. Well done! On this page: http://wikieducator.org/Template:Inputbox_Reef_Rainforest_Lesson_Plan Go into edit view, and you will see the following syntax: <inputbox> type=comment bgcolor=#F7F9EE width=70 preload=Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Marovo_Language/Less on_Plan_template/preload_page buttonlabel=Create a new Reef and Rainforest lesson plan break=yes </inputbox> The page containing the text for the preload is: http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language/Lesson_Plan_template/preload_page If you edit the preload text page above -- it will change the default text which the input box will preload. (Make sure that you only change the text on your preload page -- and not the preload pages for other input boxes in the wiki.) For more info on the Input box feature see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:InputBox You're almost there -- well done! Cheers Wayne On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:22 PM, David Leeming <[email protected]> wrote: Hi All, A technical question but it gives me the opportunity to share with you about an interesting project; I am working with UNESCO on an exciting project in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, to create an environmental wiki OER version of an environmental encyclopaedia in local Marovo language "Reef and Rainforest" (by Professor Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen, 2005). They'll use a special wiki of their own for the actual content, and there will be a mediation (QA) process, but to maximise the participation we'll for instance be creating lesson plans for teachers to use in the networked schools in Marovo, including a few "OLPC pilot schools", to access and create content. I created a portal page for the school at which the project is based, Patukae, and am working on pages on the WE to help us collaborate to develop such lesson plans and procedures. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College I came across this spiffing resource (what a wonderful tool the WE is!) and realised that it is exactly what we want, a tool to create standard lesson plans using an agreed template. http://wikieducator.org/New_Zealand_Schools_OER_Portal/Resources/Standard_le sson_plan_template What I need is to make a version of the above for the project. It is specific to the Reef and Rainforest project so ideally would be located below here. http://wikieducator.org/Patukae_College/OER_Reef_and_Rainforest_wiki_in_Maro vo_Language I have managed to do most of this by copying and editing the WikiEducator template http://wikieducator.org/Template:Inputbox_Standard_lesson_plan All is working, but one last task, how can I edit (including the location) of the preload and created pages? 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