[WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-10 Thread Wayne Mackintosh 
Fantastic Job.

Kudos to Anil and the team of volunteers taking open education forward to
new levels!

I've cast my consensus poll votes at:

http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator_Community_College/Community_poll/Poll.12.5.12

All WikiEducators should do the same :-)

Looking forward to seeing the outcome of our community consultation.

W

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Anil Prasad  wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> First of all I convey my hearty gratitude to all the WE community members
> who expressed genuine interest in setting up a WikiEducator community
> college (a community-driven initiative to provide and support training
> including: wiki skills, creation and use of OER, open licensing, online
> learning, teaching, mentoring as well as promoting research on related
> topics) and submitted their choices for a name to it.  The response of
> the community was amazing - WE got 30 nominations!
>
> The time for nominations was closed officially by the end of business on
> 10 May 2012. Now it is the time to choose one name for the proposed
> community college from the 30 wonderful nominations we have received. For
> this purpose a rough consensus poll 
> pagehas
>  been setup in WikiEducator. The poll is designed in three parts to gauge
> opinion on the scope of the proposed initiative and preferred name for the
> initiative based on submissions made by the community.
>
> Section:1 Cast your vote regarding the proposed scope of the initiative
> Section 2 Your opinion regarding specific reference to "WikiEducator" in
> the proposed name for the initiative
>
> Section 3 Your preferences for naming this initiative - this is the
> section for casting your vote for a name.
>
> The first two section will help the voters to revisit and review  the
> draft Overview and Objectives of the 
> project and
> arrive at a logical conclusion while selecting the name.
>
> *Technology related instructions*:
>
>- You will need a WikiEducator 
> account
>  and
>you must be logged in to cast your votes.
>- You must check the relevant options and click on the "Vote" or
>"Change my vote" button displayed below each option to record or change
>your vote.
>- If your login session has expired (*e.g.* no activity after a long
>period), you will not be able to vote or change your vote. Login to
>WikiEducator again.
>- You can change your vote at any time till the close of the poll.
>
>
> *Please cast your votes by the close of business on 19 May, 2012 in your
> time zone*
> *
> *
> *Visit the poll page and cast your votes*
> *
> *
>
> http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator_Community_College/Community_poll/Poll.12.5.12
>
> ''WE ARE OFF TO ANOTHER MILESTONE IN OPEN EDUCATION!"
> --
> Warm regards
>
> Anil
> http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad
> http://www.apletters.blogspot.com
>
>
>


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[WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-10 Thread Anil Prasad 
Dear friends,

First of all I convey my hearty gratitude to all the WE community members
who expressed genuine interest in setting up a WikiEducator community
college (a community-driven initiative to provide and support training
including: wiki skills, creation and use of OER, open licensing, online
learning, teaching, mentoring as well as promoting research on related
topics) and submitted their choices for a name to it.  The response of the
community was amazing - WE got 30 nominations!

The time for nominations was closed officially by the end of business on 10
May 2012. Now it is the time to choose one name for the proposed community
college from the 30 wonderful nominations we have received. For this
purpose a rough consensus poll
pagehas
been setup in WikiEducator. The poll is designed in three parts to
gauge
opinion on the scope of the proposed initiative and preferred name for the
initiative based on submissions made by the community.

Section:1 Cast your vote regarding the proposed scope of the initiative
Section 2 Your opinion regarding specific reference to "WikiEducator" in
the proposed name for the initiative

Section 3 Your preferences for naming this initiative - this is the section
for casting your vote for a name.

The first two section will help the voters to revisit and review  the
draft Overview
and Objectives of the
project and
arrive at a logical conclusion while selecting the name.

*Technology related instructions*:

   - You will need a WikiEducator
account
and
   you must be logged in to cast your votes.
   - You must check the relevant options and click on the "Vote" or "Change
   my vote" button displayed below each option to record or change your vote.
   - If your login session has expired (*e.g.* no activity after a long
   period), you will not be able to vote or change your vote. Login to
   WikiEducator again.
   - You can change your vote at any time till the close of the poll.


*Please cast your votes by the close of business on 19 May, 2012 in your
time zone*
*
*
*Visit the poll page and cast your votes*
*
*
http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator_Community_College/Community_poll/Poll.12.5.12

''WE ARE OFF TO ANOTHER MILESTONE IN OPEN EDUCATION!"
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Anil
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad
http://www.apletters.blogspot.com

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[WikiEducator] Re: Book Chapters on Reserve/On-line

2012-05-10 Thread Ivan K. 
Wayne Mackintosh  writes:
>
> Register for the next Open Content Licensing for Educators
> workshop :-).
>
> This is a free professional development opportunity on OER, Copyright and

Thank you for the tip;


> In short you will need to consult your national copyright act to identify
> whether there are any specific educational exceptions which would cover the
> practice you suggest.

Ok; I am in the USA.  I should have written that up-front.

> However, in most countries,  restricting access to students for scanned
> copies of all-rights reserved texts would not qualify as fair dealing --
> format shifting is not permitted under "standard" copyright.   Your
> institution may participate in a licensing arrangement, which in return for
> a fee, may permit these activities (But this is not a fair dealing / fair
> usage practice.)

So in this digital age, for me to assign my students to read ten pages
from a book, they would have to physically check out the book on
reserve in the library rather than read a PDF on the web?

That seems rather draconian.

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[WikiEducator] Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies... many "Open" chapters ;)

2012-05-10 Thread Cable Green 
New Educause book: "Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies"

http://www.educause.edu/game-changers

Note all of the chapters on "Open" topics ;)

Please share, tweet, post

Thank you,

Cable

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Creative Commons
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Re: [WikiEducator] Can you test drive an idea for me?

2012-05-10 Thread Don 
sounds cool declan, i'll try to give it a go


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Declan  wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have a coyote skull project shaping up.  If anyone would be willing
> to try measuring some skulls online I'd appreciate it.  Just follow
> the instruction here:
> http://wikieducator.org/Coyote/Project_tools#Measuring_from_photographs
>
> Pick a skull from here: http://wikieducator.org/Category:Skull and
> measure total length or width.  Post your results and comment on the
> discussion page for the skull in question.
>
> I'd like to see if the instructions make sense.
>
> I'm also open to ideas for ways to use the data set.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Declan
>
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