Ever wanted to contribute to the eduCommons project, but don’t write code? No worries! It’s easy to contribute to the eduCommons effort with your language skills! The eduCommons translation files contain a list of English phrases followed by a place for you to type the translated phrase in your language. Here’s an example from the French translation of eduCommons:
msgid “Course Discussion Summary”
msgstr “Résumé de la discussion du cours”
There are five files altogether, and translating them should take a couple of hours. If you have some time you can contribute to the cause, download the eduCommons localization files, have at it, and then email the results back to me at david/dot/wiley/at/gmail/dot/com. If you’re willing, leave a comment letting me know which language you’re working on!
UPDATE: Richard Miller wrote in to tell me about poEdit, software that makes editing the eduCommons (and other Plone) localization files easier. Thanks, Richard!
Published on
March 15, 2007 in
Uncategorized.
Tags: ocw.
Steve Carson writes about a recent survey of Japanese attitudes toward open education projects at universities (like OCWs). I have to agree with his selection of a favorite bit from the survey:
Q9: What should be the scope of the universities that open up their lecture materials? (Sample size=1,050)
- Just well-known public and private universities 17.2%
- As many public universities as possible 14.2%
- As many private universities as possible 3.4%
- As many public and private universities as possible 64.8%
- Other 0.4%
Two out of three surveyed felt that as many schools as possible should open access to their courses. I agre with them. =)
Steve Carson writes about a recent survey of Japanese attitudes toward open education projects at universities (like OCWs). I have to agree with his selection of a favorite bit from the survey:
Q9: What should be the scope of the universities that open up their lecture materials? (Sample size=1,050)
- Just well-known public and private universities 17.2%
- As many public universities as possible 14.2%
- As many private universities as possible 3.4%
- As many public and private universities as possible 64.8%
- Other 0.4%
Two out of three surveyed felt that as many schools as possible should open access to their courses. I agre with them. =)
A few months ago I blogged about a project idea called Send2Wiki, that would let you (via a bookmarklet) send any page you’re viewing in your browser directly into a wiki for instant editing / remixing. Today I’m happy to announce that the first alpha of Send2Wiki is available! You can play with it over at http://send2wiki.com/.
Send2Wiki includes preliminary support for license detection and preservation, automated translation (via Google Language Tools), PDF support, and chrome-stripping for specific sites (some OCWs and wikipedia at this point).
The service is still definitely in alpha, and all the data you put in while you play around is likely to get nuked at some point in the future, but I would love your feedback about the idea generally and about the implementation specifically. What features are missing that we definitely need? Have any logo ideas?
The goal of the project is to make it really, really easy for people to reuse and adapt open content. Does it do that?
Published on
March 12, 2007 in
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Tags: ocw, personal.
Apparently some of the readers of my new OpenCourseWars draft misunderstand. They think that I don’t like MIT OCW, or the opencoursewares in general. Let me set the record straight.
Continue reading ‘Why I Love OCW’
