Hi Leo, just back from a little trip to the mountains... now climbing a mountain of email!
Your question about: *it prevents by way of stating a principle, oganisations cashing in on the hard work of OER campaigners. * "it" is the Free Cultural Works Definition (FCWD). It is perhaps the only document at the moment that is useful for distnguishing what IS free and open and what is not. MIT's Open Courseware are not free cultural works under that definition. So, the FCWD is a statement of principle, that you and I will find increasingly useful in exposing what is not actually free and open.* * On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > offtopic slightly ... but there's an inspirational interview with Leo and > Alexander Hayes that you can check out here for a bit of context: > > http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=flnw08 > > brent. > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Wong Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >> 2008/9/19 Alex P. Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> Hi Leo >>> >>>> OER translates differently across languages and cultures so you can't >>>> really expect that Chinese educators adopt a "pure" form. Many worldwide >>>> (most?) cut & paste from others as if in a race to "own" and don't give >>>> back for selfishness ("good these fools do, but I´m too witty to >>>> share"),fear of plagiarism and else, the original-copy dilemma. At the same >>>> time these are the people making "open" increase visibility. >>>> >>> Hey AP >> >> First first of all , Happy Birthday !! in China , if you are having >> birthday , you need to eat noodles which means you can live longer so try to >> eat some :) but I am sure you are healthy >> >> First of all , the WE , if you put The W upside down , you will get ME :) >> >> When I go to eat my lunch everyday I will see the sign WE infront of the >> cafe near the dorm in my school area in Suzhou where I am :) >> >> my questions is What is Pure form of OER ? I have come across a educator >> here are really advocating OER , she has a wiki , and I registed on her wiki >> , and doing something for my own class on my User page , something to do >> with my major ( Psychology ) and she send me a message and told me to stop >> messing around there ,and told me I am not welcomed there , I was asking >> Leigh this also , he told me although she own the wiki( pay for the domain >> etc ) but she doesnot own the content . >> >> and then some of other so called Open projects here in China , when I said >> something from my own perspecitive , if it doesnot fit into their "value " , >> and then I will soon kicked out .or noone pay attention to my voice there . >> >> Instead I feel connected and being respected in TALO or WE , people like >> you and Leigh respect who I am , where I come from , they support the WE to >> support Chinese and any other languages in the world , those are maybe >> nothing to them ,but I feel like this is the real "Openess " and free soul >> to me . >> >> In Chinese there is a story about Dragon , which said , there was a man >> who told everyone he really like Dragon , and want to be friend with drgaon >> , but one day The dragon came to his house ,and he was so afraid that he >> hided himself and don't want to meet the dragon . >> >> I think many of people like this man , Open is not what you say , but what >> you do >> >> tks again Happy B day >> >> Leo >> >>> >>> >>> It's the sum of nobodies that makes this work, Leo. >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> >>> >>> Alex >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > -------------------------------------- > http://digitalsynapse.co.nz > -------------------------------------- > > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
