User talk:Leighblackall

Leigh, couple of things today on Wikieducator I thought you might be interested in.

Eloquence has installed an extension to easily get feeds into WikiEducator, see: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:BrentSimpson/Feeds and http://www.wikieducator.org/IRC_Bulletin (+ talk page) for examples of how to use. Also, i've left a note for Eloquence to take a look at this: http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=WikiArticleFeeds_Extension which would allow content from within WikiEducator to be turned into a feed, thus allowing other aggregators, platforms, etc. to import WikiEd content ... which is one step closer to what we were talking about the other day. brent 00:26, 15 March 2007 (CET)
 * Both of these extensions are installed on the LearnScope Wiki, Heres a page on my Wiki from back in May, you might want to copy it.

Otago Poly branding ...
Hey Leigh

The Otago Poly page node and corresponding content development is coming along rather well.

I think you should brand the Otago Poly Node more prominently, for example adding the Poly's logo etc. You're playing a leadership role in NZ moving free content development forward and it would be good to profile your institution a little more.

Let me have a short sentence ("strap line") about your initiative because I'd like to post a front-page news item on Otago Poly's work.

Cheers --Mackiwg 08:14, 26 May 2007 (CEST)


 * Thanks Mackiwg, will do. Was thinking to wait for wen we have a little more staff buy in. (only a matter of days now), so that when you profile OP, it will have a bigger impact. Currently we have at least 10 staff doing the tutorials, and then we will see more action in each of the projects.


 * Also, I think a resolution to the copyright issue is the structure I have proposed. The unit standards are IP of NZ (Crown), the resource pages will likely be RSS feeds where OP content will be hosted off Wikied therefore retaining its CC BY or other status, and the activity pages will be fairly quick to create and possibly have no issue being CC BY SA... at least that's where my tinking is up to on the issue.--Leighblackall 08:30, 26 May 2007 (CEST)


 * I'll be coming to NZ in August and am planning to hold meetings with NZQA. As holders of the copyright (NZ Crown) they could potentially release Unit Standards as CC-BY-SA or CCy-BY depending on their prefrence. Lets work together on this one. We also have a MOU with the South African Qualifications Authority - so maybe we can progress an international framework for chainsaw operators . --Mackiwg 09:21, 26 May 2007 (CEST)


 * Great! and August is when OP will have its new IP Policy out. Hopefully before then, but that's the deadist dead line. So I hope you can make it down to Dunedin and give us all a CoL pat on the back ;) Actually, by then we should be well under way with Otago Poly OER, many on WikiEd so there could be lots to celebrate in NZ by August. :) --Leighblackall 09:42, 27 May 2007 (CEST)

What happens to a page when content is deleted
Leigh,

It's possible to delete content from a page - but only bureaucrats have priveledges to actually delete pages from the database.

I'm happy to give you bureaucrat status on WikiEducator - assuming you're comfortable with that. Standard protocols associated with the web of trust apply.

Cheers --Mackiwg 01:04, 30 May 2007 (CEST)


 * No worries.. I'm not sure I'd ever delete any page actually, but I'm curious to know what is involved in the Bureacrat status. That test page was to do with a conversation going on here at teh Polytech about when we need to orphan pages in the creation process... I was curious to see what happened myself :)

Collapsible boxes
Module 1 of WikiEducator Tutorial in collapsible form: User:BrentSimpson/Collapsible_Boxes brent 10:59, 30 May 2007 (CEST)

Image attribution
By chance I was checking out one of your pages.

Amazing choice of images -

Do we have more details on the attribution for http://www.wikieducator.org/Image:Access.jpg

I inserted the FA template on one of the earlier images on this page - but got stuck on the next one, not being sure of author, license etc.

Cheers --Mackiwg 08:12, 2 July 2007 (CEST)


 * Hi Wayne, they are images created by a staff member at Otago University, who is working on the Digital Information Literacy project with us. The project content is CC BY (though its not obvious). Personally, I don't think I will continue to use the images.. but I will follow up on these images anyway - if you would like to keep them on wikieducator.--Leighblackall 03:45, 3 July 2007 (CEST)