Suggestions for images
For the art appreciation course, we would like to have a standard style for displaying images. Would it be useful to have this as a OERu-wide standard for courses included in WE?
- caption included in image frame
- copyright for image included on image file page, and not repeated with image as displayed on the course page
Are there other standards we should consider?
Alison
Hi Alison,
Yes - -thanks for that.
Created an image section on our style page -- does that cover the important points. Feel free to edit and improve :-)
Great, thanks. And I like the addition of the size standard. If Irwin and I come up with anything else, we'll improve....
hmmm, I wonder if we should add in something about searching the commons first, before uploading a new image. I'll add something; see what you think.
Good suggestion about the wiki commons -- (you could perhaps add that if an open image is sourced elsewhere to consider uploading it on the Commons before embedding in WE as a way "to give back" to the free culture ;-)
Definitely a two-way street. I added a further bit. (In addition to the broader audience, I particularly like encouraging use of WC because of their strict enforcement of documentation/licensing.)
Alison
Thanks Alison,
Yep - -if it were up to me, I would prefer restricting WE image uploads to the Wikimedia commons for the same reason. It would reduce our workloads in auditing the licenses of all images in OERu courses.
Video presents other challenges and we'll need to work through acceptable solutions for embedding video with our partners.
