[WikiEducator] Re: free wiki skills training for Community Media / Radio practitioners, Nov. 3-7, 2008

2008-10-31 Thread Nicholas Kimolo
Hello Randy, Thanks for this information. I am pleasantly surprised to note that my local community radio - Mang'elete is already in WE. It may interest you to note that they transmit from my home area and in my local language. Its a radio station that I listen to most of the times.Funny how it t

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2008-10-31 Thread Derek Chirnside
Well well. Saturday, 6.01am here, just off to the Coast with two bands, one classic rock and one progressive rock to play 7 hours at the Empire Hotel during the 6,000 people Ross Fireworks Festival, hay fever disenhanced (severely today), and very very tired after the decision this week in the Moo

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2008-10-31 Thread nelliemuller
Leigh said: In my experience there has in fact been very very little actual collaborative editing on Wikieducator - and this is a good thing in many ways. ..It is kind of the opposite to software development, and so far it is opposite to Wikieducator. I myself have been following the collaborative

[WikiEducator] Open knowledge events in London on 1st, 6th, 8th November

2008-10-31 Thread Jonathan Gray
Hi all, We're hosting three open knowledge events in London this November that may be of interest to people on this list: * Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information - Saturday 1st November 2008, London Knowledge Lab - http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicInformation * Open Everything Lon

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2008-10-31 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Minhaaj, > > I'd be very interested in your detailed definition of "profiteering". > I think I may be getting a sense of what you mean, but I think I may > be missing even what should be considered profit... or why taken in a >

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2008-10-31 Thread Peter
Minhaaj, I'd be very interested in your detailed definition of "profiteering". I think I may be getting a sense of what you mean, but I think I may be missing even what should be considered profit... or why taken in a different context (yours) why what is going on should be considered profiteerin

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2008-10-31 Thread Peter
Leigh, I believe I get what you are saying... Does the centrallizing nature of a COL influenced WE end up creating a wiki environment different to what we aspire? Is there a dissonence of localized and disparate learning modules with a controlled and centrallized management approach. As you say w

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2008-10-31 Thread Peter
I agree, let's collaborate! Let's create a storytelling portal and see where it goes... If you agree with the storytelling theme, let me know and I will get started... Don't get me wrong, during my Masters there was a lot of collaboration. We collaborated on a lot of projects as small teams. I gu

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2008-10-31 Thread Maria Droujkova
Well, I should have probably said "a network of goals" implying openness, lack of bounds, non-hierarchical structure, and impossibility to know exactly how many there are. Here is why I am asking this question, though. If Wikispaces' network of goals mostly contains Wikieducator's network of goals,

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-31 Thread Leigh Blackall
But Maria! There we go again! Is there one single goal (or list of goals) for Wikieducator? Clearly there is, and that's what I'm challenging in some respects. I have my goals, you have yours.. what we share is an interest in education and the ability to share resources. Wikispaces focuses on provi

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2008-10-31 Thread Maria Droujkova
Leigh, and others, What are the main differences in goals (and, as a result, "software-as-law") of Wikispaces and Wikieducator? On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Leigh Blackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Nellie, I'm reflecting on the reality that not a lot of collaboration > happens the way we s

[WikiEducator] Re: !!RE: [WikiEducator] Re: Another Milestone

2008-10-31 Thread Leigh Blackall
In many ways it was Minhaaj who started me questioning. His confrontational postings are all too easy to dismiss. Instead, I thought about what he was saying, and that thinking lead me to other issues, and that gave voice to these long held quiet concerns I've had all along. Thanks Alex for the en

[WikiEducator] Re: Free materials for primary education in physics available

2008-10-31 Thread Maria Droujkova
Gunther, Thank you for your warm welcome, and the link! My German is very limited, but I poked around the site, with some help from the silly Babel Fish. I think the materials I saw so far were a bit too formal for my target audience. Homeschool coops are homeschooling parents getting together to

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2008-10-31 Thread Minhaaj ur Rehman
Dear Alex, If you haven't nosed out profiteering in WikiEducator you probably have a lot to catch up on. Read, read, read :) On Oct 30, 5:31 pm, "Alex P. Real" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Leigh, Minhaaj & All, > > Thanks for the clarification Leigh, thought you were referring t

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2008-10-31 Thread Alex P. Real
Hi Leigh, Beautiful response, I really appreciate it . The scenario product/maintainer/tradeoff is recurrent in many realms, not just software. I can only agree to your reading on collaborative editing, the main reason why I've refrained from contributing contents, to see how things work and a