[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

Hi Nellie, Good questions! The target population are all educators who are interested in working towards a sustainable OER ecosystem in achieving the vision of free educational resources in support of all national curricula -- a bold but meaningful task. With the evolution of WikiEducator, over

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

Wayne, I have followed the discussions and suggestions on http://wikieducator.com/Main_Page and I am not clear on the target population. Who are we targeting? Another question I think we may need to consider is why we are having this discussion on google groups and not on WE? Thank you. Warm wishes

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 20:44 -0400, Stephen Downes wrote: > Get a .com domain and use it for fund-raising and sustainability > information. Redirect all .com 404s to the corresponding URL on > the .org site. Hi Stephen, Appreciate the advice --- fortunately we already own the .com domain. Good s

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

Get a .com domain and use it for fund-raising and sustainability information. Redirect all .com 404s to the corresponding URL on the .org site. -- Stephen Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > Hi Valerie -- > > I understand your concerns, particularly with new comers stumbling > across the wikieducator.co

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:29 +1300, Jim Tittsler wrote: > Yes, I'm used to a .com domain being something different than the .org > domain. > > The site is configured to have a noticeably different "look" to reduce > any possible confusion. I think we should temporarily add a big banner on the la

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 13:20, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > For example, Moodle has http://moodle.org/ and http://moodle.com/ and > > Mozilla run http://www.mozilla.org/ and http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ for > their business side of things. Yes, I'm used to a .com domain being something differ

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

Hi Valerie -- I understand your concerns, particularly with new comers stumbling across the wikieducator.com domain. That said, its not unusual for open source projects to have a commercial domain. For example, Moodle has http://moodle.org/ and http://moodle.com/ and Mozilla run http://www.m

[WikiEducator] Re: OER Foundation and sustainability

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 04:12 -0800, simonfj wrote: > Just going through the strategy for wikieducator, Wayne's trying to > find ways to make things sustainable, and encourage the value adders. > So let's not just limit things to just the web stuff. The most > important thing, and the thing which is

[WikiEducator] Re: Looking for comparisons

This might be interesting to you as well. http://www.gnu.org/education/ "A GNU idea, the Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource, became Wikipedia . Learn about why we need such a resource, and why you should care about it

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

If I had inadvertently stumbled on wikieducator.com, I wouldn't be back. That's a big mixed message - there is a commercial entity lurking in the background, so this probably isn't the totally open organization that it is trying to promote. A "real" not-for-profit would have just done the automat

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:30 -0800, valerie wrote: > Consider acquiring and redirecting all .xxx that you can get your > hands on - the great domain name land grab. WikiEducator is a very > valuable domain and it should be protected at all costs. It should be > used for only for this one purpose in

[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator.com?

IMHO wikieducator.com should redirect to wikieducator.org forever. Consider acquiring and redirecting all .xxx that you can get your hands on - the great domain name land grab. WikiEducator is a very valuable domain and it should be protected at all costs. It should be used for only for this one

[WikiEducator] Re: New message notification not working

Popup messages (orange rectangle following me to any WE page) seems not to be working properly. Sometimes I get them, sometimes not. I alwasy do what Alison posted. It's my only way to make shure I have messages. Cheers, Gladys On 17 feb, 12:33, Declan wrote: > Thanks Alison, > > I just did as

[WikiEducator] Re: New message notification not working

Thanks Alison, I just did as you suggested and there were messages! In the past I seem to remember that message notifications popped up when I logged on, and that seems to be the case for my students. Perhaps the difference is related to having a watchlist? Cheers, Declan --~--~-~--~--

[WikiEducator] Re: New message notification not working

Declan, I seem to be getting responses. That is, any post that occurs on a page that I have listed on my watchlist can be accessed via "My Watchlist" page, from a box that says "There are new messages for you." If I respond from that "Newmessages" page, my response shows up on the appropriate "ta

[WikiEducator] Re: Featured Project category; Community Media

Hi Peter and others, Wow ~ a whole lot of work has gone into this ~ many nuances in the featured resource process. What I was thinking is something relatively simple, maybe a parallel, linked and phased track ~ where a community of peers gather to nominate a project, to be featured. Upon reading

[WikiEducator] New message notification not working

Hi folks, Am I correct that in the past I received notifications of new messages when I logged on? I have tried several times to generate this message. I used an alter ego to send messages to myself http://www.wikieducator.org/Thread:Trying_liquid_threads_(1)#lqt_thread_6571 , and this feature

[WikiEducator] Re: Featured Project category; Community Media

I'm really liking this discussion. I'd like to encourage others to throw in their thoughts. I believe having the WE community develop an approach to featured works and quality is a sign of our community maturity... If you have some thoughts on this topic please jump in to this google group thread

[WikiEducator] Re: Looking for comparisons

Hi there, Regarding your comment "Just going through the strategy for wikieducator, Wayne's trying to find ways to make things sustainable, and encourage the value adders. So let's not just limit things to just the web stuff. The most important thing, and the thing which is going to make the prof

[WikiEducator] Re: Featured Project category; Community Media

I like the "meets or exceeds at least n out of the list of x assessment criteria" as the qualification for being featured. We should be encouraging everyone to be "featured" rather than limiting the selections - this should be an aspirational goal for all, not a beauty content where there is only

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education (NFE) Discussion

Hi Phil This is a great opportunity for collaborative writing. I took the liberty of modifying the page http://www.wikieducator.org/Non_Formal_Education_Online_Conference Everyone can add their ideas and suggestions directly into the appropriate sections. Links to other projects or WikiEducato

[WikiEducator] Re: Looking for comparisons

Thanks nadia, That gave me the drection I needed. The site was looking for was http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Citizendium and Larry Sanger was the name of the co-founder of wikipedia I was looking for. It's the comparison between an open approach = wikipedia, and the more structured