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.plos.org/journals/) To those interested in this article should check out their Palaeontology Collection (http://www.plosone.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fissue.pone.c01.i02). There is lots of materials for biology teachers on PLoS, explore their website. If you register, you can comment and rate this (and any other) article. You can also get e-mail alerts or RSS feeds. Also check out the everyONE blog http://everyone.plos.org/ . John http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com ________________________________ From: Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 4:47:11 AM Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Hugely important fossil description published under CCA License Hi Declan --- You're not over reacting --- this is an excellent example of the scalability of OER. The site uses a CC-BY license which effectively empowers educators to take ownership of their teaching :-) and reconfigure and remix the resources in innovate ways. Sharing knowledge and resources is what education is all about! I also see that the site has a feature to export the articles in XML format --- which raises interesting possibilities for import <==> export between the platforms. As our fund raising for the OER Foundation kicks in -- we should be able to get more technical capacity on board to make this kind of magic happen! Cheers Wayne 2009/5/20 Declan <declanjmcc...@gmail.com> On May 19, 9:35 pm, aprasad <aplett...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Declan, > > I followed the link you have provided. It is Great. Shall WE community > wikify it? > Anil We certainly should! I suspect this will be in the next edition of a great many Biology text books and will be the basis for exploring evolution with upcoming biology students. This platform can potentially move faster than textbook publishers and provide the resource that others would use, thus putting us out in front and raising the WE profile among biologists. Perhaps I'm over reacting, but I see this paper as an enormous finding. I want to develop it for my own course and would be interested in collaborating with other WE biologists on college modules based on the paper. Any takers? Cheers, Declan -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
