Hi, Declan,
Sounds like a great idea for my environmental science students. Unfortunately,
I won't be able to do it until next month as we are on our "summer" break.
But we will still give it a try.
Cheers,
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWShttp://johnsearth.blogspot.com
--- On Fr
Mark and Alison,
I looks to me like Category:Alternative / Renewable Energy is actually a
mistake done by a new member, who probably did not understand the idea of
categories or what the Category namespace was. I agree that material with
specific content is not what a category should be. I wil
Wayne and Patricia,
I completely agree with your position on the COL/UNESCO report.
I would suggest that WE consider an archive for all the important documents
related to OER. It would act as a historical record of the OER movement in
general and WE in particular. It would also make searching d
The problem is the terminology used. Open access in its original meaning meant
that journals were both without price barriers and without permission barriers.
This is the meaning used in both the Budapest and Berlin statements.
However, some in the publishing world are using the term open access
oops, typo
should be ...
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWShttp://johnsearth.blogspot.com
--- On Fri, 9/16/11, john stampe wrote:
From: john stampe
Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Help with creating a "book" in wiki-educator
To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com
Da
nformation
precisely either the web site administrator or the author of the web
document must manually create appropriate anchors within every web
document.”
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Purple_MediaWiki
I am not sure if Wikieducator has this feature?
Thank you,
Jim Kelly
On Sep 15,
Actually, you can bookmark to any point in text by using an anchor point.
Section headings are just a special case of anchors.
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWShttp://johnsearth.blogspot.com
--- On Tue, 9/13/11, jkelly952 wrote:
From: jkelly952
Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Help wit
Hi Fabiana and Declan,
I can give you a couple of tips. First is that you can import most raster
formats into inkscape to convert to svg.
If you do want to use raster format then png is a better format than jpeg. Png
is lossless and a better format for the web.
Regards,
John
http://www.wiki
Hi,Wayne
I have been using the Vector skin as my default skin for at least the last six
months and have not had any problems. I do prefer its look and feel to monobook.
Cheers,
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http://johnsearth.blogspot.com
Fro
Interesting post.
You may be interested in the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which has
been
looking into issues related to voting machines. See
https://www.eff.org/issues/e-voting
Also you might want to read Bruce Schneier's writings on the issue. He is a
security guru who has written
Hi, Wayne
This is indeed exciting news.
Sorry, for not being on the mailing list for a while, I just recently got a new
job teaching environmental science. Trying to use OER as much as possible, but
it is difficult with the course being team taught (with the usual "keep the
status quo" attitud
Hi, all
I just read the article "Online. Indexed. Catalogued. Free. But will users find
it?" (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20100213). The following quote
from the article pretty well sums up the issue: "...making content free will
not guarantee its discovery or usage..."
The article
I also use the text editor approach
see http://wikieducator.org/Help:Editing_using_a_text_editor
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http://johnsearth.blogspot.com
From: Jim Tittsler
To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sun, March 14, 2010 3:44:28 AM
Hi, all
Some random thoughts about the search engine issue.
My personal opinion is closest to Alision as I am somewhat uncomfortable as to
including the Google search box. To be honest I have always been skeptical of
those promoting the greatness of Google, the world's largest
advertising compa
The Free Software Foundation and the Open Rights Group have just announced May
4, 2010 as Day against DRM [Digital Rights Management]. See the announcement in
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/decade-in-drm (the actual announcement is in
the second paragraph)
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/
Hi, Edward
I think that each language instance does not have to be a one-to-one
translation. They could also include original content, including cultural or
language specific terms or definitions.
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http://johnsearth.blogspot.com
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tation to the Environmental Glossary
Hello,
What languages you are targeting?
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:30 AM, john stampe wrote:
Edward,
>
>Of course, I am all for a multilingual glossary.
>
>Anyone wanting to help do this is welcome, it is a wiki after all.
>
Hi all,
Some of you may be interested in this article:
http://anthroinpractice.blogspot.com/2010/02/diminishing-double-digital-divide.html
Cheers,
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http://johnsearth.blogspot.com
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Edward,
Of course, I am all for a multilingual glossary.
Anyone wanting to help do this is welcome, it is a wiki after all.
Volunteers?
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http://johnsearth.blogspot.com
From: Wayne Mackintosh
To: wikieducator@goo
, john stampe wrote:
This invitation is to all those interested in the environment, and especially
to biologists. I have set up an environmental glossary at
http://www.wikieducator.org/EnvGloss, and am now invited anybody to join the
fun by adding terms.
>
>There is no set format for gl
t;adding entries (you don't need to have expertise to adapt existing
>information), making this important WE glossary a real collaborative effort.
>
>Alison
>http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus
>
>
>On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:01 AM, john stampe wrote:
>
>This invita
This invitation is to all those interested in the environment, and especially
to biologists. I have set up an environmental glossary at
http://www.wikieducator.org/EnvGloss, and am now invited anybody to join the
fun by adding terms.
There is no set format for glossary entries, as the fields of
ducator.org/EnvironEd , we may also provide sections
> for OERs on Environment Friendly Technologies.
>
>
>
> Count me also in, offer you all support.
>
>
>
> Warm regards
>
> Anil
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:25 PM, john stampe
> wrote
Hello, all - Welcome to the new year.
At the beginning of the year many people were talking about WE and the
environment. So with these thoughts and yesterday's kick-off of the
International Year of Biodiversity, I have set a resource page on WE at
http://www.wikieducator.org/EnvironEd. I have
Hi, Sam
That is an interesting idea. I have one question about the forward blog, how do
you push/pull the blogs to the website.
When I went to your forward blog link initially the blog itself was blank (only
the header and sidebar showed). Once I temporarily allowed javascript the blog
appeare
Hi, all
In addition to concerns about the copyright policy on the UNV site, I am also
concerned about their privacy policy, especially this statement:
"UNV may disclose such information, ..., if requested to do so by UNV’s
internal governing and
oversight bodies, including Member States,..."
For those who use Internet Explorer to print PDF's should note this bug:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/internet_explorer_file_disclosure_bug/.
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http://johnsearth.blogspot.com
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Yo
tors, what about the colleagues
that don't use WE? Am I right or not?
On Nov 20, 11:47 pm, john stampe wrote:
> I am not sure exactly what your question is, but I will attempt a reply
> anyway.
>
> First, I think you are confused a little with some concepts.
>
> A text editor is for
Valerie,
You are correct, the first time TOC is triggered by having three or more
headings. (I know Wayne said four, but both the documentation and my experience
has been three). For a lot of information on TOC see the Wikipedia help page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Section#Table_of
I am not sure exactly what your question is, but I will attempt a reply anyway.
First, I think you are confused a little with some concepts.
A text editor is for typing text. It does not directly give you formatting. The
resulting product is simply a text file. MS Word or OpenOffice on the other
Hi, all
With all the recent discussions on this list, I thought some of you may be
interested in this month's SPARC Open Access Newsletter (SOAN):
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-09.htm. While some of it is
specific to open access, its generally theme is "Knowledge as a Publ
Hi, Mary
Sorry I did not get into the discussion earlier (computer problems :) ).
I would basically agree with most of what already has been said. However, I
will give you one warning on newspaper articles.
Associated Press (AP) has stated that quoting more than four words of an
article or eve
Following on from Phil and his rants and with the recent discuss on the list of
a copyright tutorial, I have put up my own rant at
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS/Thoughts_on_copyright.
Cheers,
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http://johnsearth.blogspot.com
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help (i.e. including part of a document in another by referencing it) --
> see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion.
>
> This is fun figuring out educationally relevant tweaks for our wiki project.
>
> Cheers
> Wayne
>
> 2009/10/21 john stampe
>
> > Hi, all.
protected areas – I am not
> sure the "please don't edit this page" approach will work.
>
> Jim Kellyhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jkelly952
>
> On Oct 20, 4:31 am, john stampe wrote:
>
> > Hi, all. Just some thoughts on this.
>
> > First, I agree
Hi, all. Just some thoughts on this.
First, I agree it is not a collaboration vs. protection agrument. In fact, I'll
remind the list members that WE is under the Creative Commons license,
which specifically does not prevent using and further changing of a document;
but that is not the same as n
>Top 5 Tips To Protect You From A Computer Virus
#1. Do not click on e-mail links unless you trust the website.
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http://johnsearth.blogspot.com
From: Gary Rosse
To: itmk...@googlegroup
I tried the editor and it looks good. Two limitations I did see with it. First
is that formulas require TeX markup, which would be difficult for newbies. And
the second is the ability to insert characters such as Greek letters.
Also I had no problem switching between wiki markup and the rich tex
Congratulations and my continued support to the workings of OER Foundation and
WE.
And applause to Wayne for his work.
Also a congratulations and thanks to all those who signed the Cape Town Open
Education Declaration.
Best regards,
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http://johnse
,
>
>DONE!
>
>
>On 8/31/09, john stampe wrote:
>As discussed in this thread:
>http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/0e3d599bb19e7bd8#,
> the Open Education Foundation would like to have a mass sign-up of the Cape
>Town Open Education Declaration by
As discussed in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/0e3d599bb19e7bd8#,
the Open Education Foundation would like to have a mass sign-up of the Cape
Town Open Education Declaration by WE members on 17 September, 2009 as part of
the official launch of the
I agree it is exciting to see people using fonts colors meaningfully. However,
I please be aware that some people (like yours truly) are red-green color
blind. About 5 percent of the population has it (in varying amounts). So do not
use colors which are close to each other and avoid using color
>However, should we choose between American and British spelling or let
>everyone do as they wish?
Sounds, like flamebait to me ;-). Seriously, I think this is best left to let
everyone do as the wish (the exception may be in the case of a formal name).
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
27;t thing of this before!
Would you like to help us co-ordinate an international activity encouraging
WkiEducators and affiliated insitutions to sign the Cape Town Open Declaration
on SFD?
Pretty neat idea?
Cheers
Wayne
2009/8/21 john stampe
Wayne, sorry to rain on your parade ;-(.
>I d
lie Deutsch
http://www.nelliemuller.com
Doctoral Student
Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/
Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:22 AM, john stampe wrote:
Wayne, so
ty.
Perhaps we need an informal workgroup to plan activities around SFD coinciding
with the official launch of the OERF.
Thoughts?
Cheers
Wayne
2009/8/21 john stampe
The Wikieducator website home page has a link to the Cape Town Open Eduacation
Declaration (even though indirectly throu
The Wikieducator website home page has a link to the Cape Town Open Eduacation
Declaration (even though indirectly through the featured institution section).
But looking through the list of signatories, I noticed that the OER Foundation
is not a signatory to the declaration.
Not sure if such a
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:19 PM, john stampe wrote:
Done!
>
>One thought did appear to me as I wrote this. You can export Google Docs
>directly as an OpenOffice document. That saves one source of error (doc to
>odt).
>
>
>John
>
>
>http://www.wikieducat
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=673817f9f1e15b7e&hl=en
Can you post your support under this thread?
- Randy
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:01 AM, john stampe wrote:
>Does anyone have ideas about how to go about this - pitching to Google that
>it's in their i
>Does anyone have ideas about how to go about this - pitching to Google that
>it's in their interest to do enable this functionality?
I would suggest you post a request on the Google Docs forum:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs?hl=en
Cheers,
John
http://www.wikieducator.org/Use
I was thinking that a possible idea for the current events or a WE news page
would be to use tags such as Digg or Connotea. That way a WE user could simply
tag a page and it would show up on in the events. I am not sure how to
implement it, however.
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http
I'm not sure how to go about it - should we create a basic toolkit
first, using content experts, or should we do it as Wiki, and build a
community around it?
I think it depends on what level your researchers are at. If your researchers
have some experience, then I think a wiki is probably the best
Jim,
I understand your concern. One advantage of using open source software is that
you have some flexibility in what you chose. For example, instead of OpenOffice
you could use Abiword (http://www.abisource.com), a much lighter word
processor. Many people run open source software, including Li
Valerie,
As I have mentioned in another thread, I have been interested in
working on a project on environmental education. However, I have not
had the time to work on it.
I would be interested in having your students work on it. I have
started a page here: http://www.wikieducator.org/EnvironEd
Gita,
I cannot find a link for this SPORE prize.
The announcement states that "This prize will
recognize outstanding projects from across the world that bring freely
available online resources to bear on science education". This is from a
journal which is not freely available online.
Ironical
Welcome everyone to PLoS (I have followed them since their inception and am a
registered user).
PLoS is one of the very first open access journals. One of the co-founders is
Harold Varmus, now the co-chairman of Obama's science advisory committee. They
now have seven journals (see http://www.pl
WE members may be interested in a new collaborative project recently launched
on keeping track of open access (OA) news (including open education) called the
open access tracking project (OATP). As Peter Suber describes it
The idea is to tag new OA developments and recruit others to do the same.
Hi, Leo
I am an environmental engineer, who has also been involved previously with some
environmental organizations (such as the Audubon Society). I would
be interested in collaborating with you on environmental or conservation issues.
In fact I have considered setting up a environmental educat
I would note that there actually is a third group of users (in addition to
programmers and non-programmers) and that is what is often called power users
(I would include myself in that group). By that I mean people who are not
programmers (with the exception of shell scripts), but you like to ge
it.
--
Cheers,
MariaD
Make math your own, to make your own math.
http://www.naturalmath.com social math site
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:25 AM, john stampe wrote:
> Hi, folks. I just put on wikieducator a help article on editing wik
Hi, folks. I just put on wikieducator a help article on editing wiki doing it
my favourite way - with a text editor. Its here
http://www.wikieducator.org/Help:Editing_using_a_text_editor
However, it could use your help in three ways:
1. I run Linux and therefore am not familiar with text edi
The problem that I have with people who talk about the "power of less" or
WYSIWYG is how ironic the statements are if you look at real life. In another
thread somebody mentioned that they had problems getting unversity lecturers to
learn wiki syntax. Yet I have seen the same type of people going
Phil,
The traditional model of academic journals is that the author signs over the
copyright to the journals publisher.
However, today there is the growing field of "open access" journals. In these
the author maintains the copyright, usually through Creative Commons (the same
as wikieducator).
I am confused somewhat here whether we are talking about a presentation PDF
(which supports some slideshow options) or standard PDF.
John
From: Jim Tittsler
To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:57:34 AM
Subject: [WikiEducator] Re:
I just read an interesting article on the use of active learning for teaching
natural hazard management using a web-GIS application. It is a very interesting
use of collaborative workshops, study groups, and GIS applied to a case study
to teach students skills in assessing and managing hazards a
Two thoughts:
1) Is there anyway of making mediawiki say something like "this image file
already exists, do you wish to overwrite it" or alternatively, "this image file
already exists, please use a different name" when there is a name conflict?
2) One way I have used is to enter the photo name
I agree with you Nellie, looking around on the web including the website and at
the founders history, it looks as though he is in it as money making venture,
rather than a serious educational effort.
I am also bothered by the page on costs. First it says "The University does not
charge students
Valerie and Maria,
I agree Expertiza looks interesting. However, on doing a web search, all I can
find is research reports, presentations, etc. and pages to log in to the system
at NC State Univ. It does not appear to be publicly available, nor is the
source code available.
Cheers,
John
___
Belated Happy New Year to all.
As many of you are interested in using video, I'll share this article I just
ran across about doing screen video capture in Linux:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9124180
Especially note the program WinFF (an open
To all those who are science types here is a open source chemistry dictionary
for use with either Microsoft Word or OpenOffice:
http://www.chemistry-blog.com/chem-dic.zip
It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
Regards,
John
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I would agree with Chris here.
It looks like she wants to convert from one video format to another. In
addition to Chris's recommendation I would recommend ffmpeg. It is known for
being able to convert between a large number of formats.
http://ffmpeg.org
It is a command line tool and has a larg
question approach
hey! Has got me interested in it :)
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:15 AM, john stampe wrote:
Hi, all.
A couple of comments and suggestions on the newsletter.
First, the newsletter should be sent out as e-mail in text-only. Many people,
including myself, do not like html e
Hi, all.
A couple of comments and suggestions on the newsletter.
First, the newsletter should be sent out as e-mail in text-only. Many people,
including myself, do not like html e-mail (an often thread on many forums).
Personally, I do not have an internet connection at home and usually read su
Oops, a slight typo in the last message the boot option should be
fbcon=font:
John
From: john stampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 6:11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot messages; vga; vesa
Not sure if this will answer your question, but you can adjust which font is
used by the kernel framebuffer either in the kernel:
Device Drivers -->
Graphics Support -->
Console Display Driver Support -->
[] Select compiled-in fonts
or by adding fbcon=font as a boot option
Norman,
Most of the projectors I have worked with can simply be plugged into the
computer the same as with a monitor. The only thing I have ever had to
configure is sometimes the monitor section in xorg.conf, but that is usually
not necessary. If possible try the projector before hand.
Regards
ber 17, 2008 4:29:00 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to install ghhhostscript ?
2008/11/17 john stampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The point here is that there is more than one version of ghostscript. I use
> ghostscript-esp (emerge -av ghostscript-esp). There is also ghostscript-gpl
>
The point here is that there is more than one version of ghostscript. I use
ghostscript-esp (emerge -av ghostscript-esp). There is also ghostscript-gpl and
ghostscript-gnu available in portage. This is due to licensing issues.
Ghostscript is a commercial company, the Linux versions are relicense
r] Re: Wiki servers
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 22:05, john stampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -Who has access to those servers?
Erik set up the server at a data centre in Germany. Wen-Chen and I
help with some administrative tasks.
> -Are the backup servers physically separate f
I just discovered a major problem with a wiki I occasionally visit.
The details can be found here (http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/
outage-10-08.html), but I will give a short synopsis. The servers used
by the wiki were operated by an ISP, but were housed in a building
owned by another company. After a
This is an interesting discussion, and I would like to add my two cents. I am
quite new to wikieducator, however, this discussion, in general terms, is not
really new. I spend some time on Linux forums and you often see the same
issues. For example, on the Gentoo forum (my Linux distro) there is
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