[WikiEducator] Fw: [WE Teacher Collaboration] WE believe in education - So where is all the free content?

2009-11-13 Thread Dr. Srinivasan Ramakrishnan
Namaste, All WikiEducators. I am forwarding a forwarded message to the Google Group titled "Foundation for Indian Scientific Heritage". Indian Teachers may consider in particular and Teachers across the world in general about creating OER on Indian Scientific Heritage. I welcome all to join the G

[WikiEducator] WE believe in education - So where is all the free content?

2009-11-13 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Everyone, A brief moment to reflect. Education is an act of sharing knowledge freely. So where are all the free education materials that we can adapt, modify and reuse without restriction? Why has humanity taken so long in achieving a free knowledge base for us to share for the common good of

[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?

2009-11-13 Thread kirby urner
Example of an organization using a blog to connect to blogosphere would be PSF on the right hand margin of this recent post re Wikieducator content: http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-curriculum-writing.html PSF has a board, voting membership, charged with protecting trademark, language au

[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?

2009-11-13 Thread Jaapb
about blog or newsletter, Most wiki-groups, like in wikipedia do communicate by subscribe to the users pages of the wiki. (one receives a message when something has changed there) this google group is a newsletter, if you did subscribe to it. So knowing this, I don't get the point of another news