[WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator Community brainstorm

2009-09-28 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Valerie & Nellie, Excellent and very timely suggestions! As we speak, we're planning a national co-ordinated community effort to develop reusable and portable content for New Zealand schools ( http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ ) we think carefully through the steps to save time in getting resource

[WikiEducator] Re: WYSIWYG Editor for WikiEducator

2009-09-28 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi John, Thanks for your feedback. Much appreciated. Yes -- it is possible to enable the rich text editor through a user preference setting. So users who prefer standard wiki editing will be able to continue in the usual way. I've not researched formula yet and we'll need to look into this. Che

[WikiEducator] WikiEducator Community brainstorm

2009-09-28 Thread valerie
Hi Nellie Thanks for suggesting a brainstorming. WE need to do this regularly about lots of topics, including community engagement. Engagement through contributing - I looked through the WE community portal to see if there was a home for this sort of thing. http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEduca

[WikiEducator] Re: WYSIWYG Editor for WikiEducator

2009-09-28 Thread john stampe
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