Re: Establishing conventions for publishing reports

I agree with Yishay.

Probably not everyone knows that all reports are visible from the
author's home page. The kids I work with understand that publishing
means showing something "to the whole world" and have only done it once.
But they each have made several reports to share amongst themselves. To
read or comment on another's report they just go to the home page of the
author and click on "reports" and there is the listing of all the
reports (whether published or not) of that user.

Best,

-ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yishay Mor" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:12 PM
Subject: [weblabs-general] Establishing conventions for publishing
reports


> All,
>
> Last time I counted, we had 203 published web reports. This is
> absolutely amazing! Even more amazing is the breakdown by months:
> Dec: 38
> Jan: 126
> Feb: 39 in the first 10 days!
>
> However, prosperity has its downside. We will soon start experiencing
> "information overload". If you receive a report notification every few
> days, you are likely to check it, and maybe even respond. If you get
one
> every 10 minutes, you're more likely to turn notifications off.
>
> To avoid erosion of our medium, we must concentrate on quality vs.
> quantity. Now, that doesn't mean students and researchers should
> hesitate before WRITING a report - only that we should all think
> carefully before PUBLISHING one. I have probably been guilty of a
slight
> finger on the "publish" button more than anyone else. Its perfectly OK
> to use a report to jot down some musings, and share them with your
> friends. You don't need to publish for that - just leave them a msg
with
> a link to the report. However, publishing means you think this would
be
> of interest to ANY project member registered with the report's topic.
> Before you do that, make sure that the report is well thought and well
> written.
>
> Please bring these issues to your students' awareness. Again, do not
> discourage them from writing reports and sharing them with friends -
> just note that publishing is not an automatic part of the process.
Also,
> next time your students are engaged in writing or reading reports, try
> to get them to go through their old reports and retract those which
were
> not intended to be widely read.
>
> Another issue is language. Should we enforce a common language for all
> published reports? I'm not sure. I think having multiple languages on
> the system is a virtue. Yet, we should strive to have all published
> GROUP reports translated to English, and I think we can request that
all
> published personal reports have at least a summary / abstract in
English.
>
> One more thing about group reports: please note in the report
> description that it is a group report, and link in the body to all the
> personal reports used in its preparation.
>
>
> best,
>
> - Yishay
>
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