Re: Class projects

I've noticed this kind of problem with students in other class projects. The 
students tend to view the professor as the only relevant authority figure, 
and disregard messages from other people (or worse, can't understand those 
messages). People who aren't familiar with wiki tend to view online 
communications in terms of email: most of the email messages you receive are 
spam and just need to be ignored or deleted.

First thing that needs to be done is to figure out who the teacher or 
professor is. All professors should be directed to [[Wikibooks:Guidelines 
for class projects]], and they should also likely sign in at 
[[Wikibooks:List of class projects]]. This way we can keep track of the 
projects in a centralized way, and we can list who exactly is the professor 
so future communications towards that book can be addressed appropriately.

We can help teach these groups the correct way to do things, but if they 
continue to upload copyvio images, they need to be blocked like any other 
user. Blocking a student, especially when there is a grade on the line, will 
certainly get people to pay more attention to our warnings. Such action may 
also prompt a professor to step forward and ask "what do we need to do to 
fix this?"

I have some experiance with other group projects like this. I'll try my 
damndest to get in touch with them ASAP and correct the problems.

--Andrew Whitworth (Whiteknight)


>From: Iamunknown <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Textbook-l] Class projects
>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:39:22 -0600
>
>We have three ongoing class projects which most of you probably
>already know about: Social and Cultural Foundations of American
>Education, The Computer Revolution, and Ethnomedicine. I have posted
>notes on the individual contributor's pages repeatedly particularly
>about image use, but I get nothing even such as a reply. How can we
>get in contact with these contributors? Or, how can we get in contact
>with their group leader, professor, or whomever is in charge? They
>need to know about copyrights relating to images. I ended up removing
>all the untagged images I found in Ethnomedicine, left (hopefully)
>kind notes on the uploaders pages referring them to Commons (where I
>found related free images in all but one case), and have gotten no
>reply. I'm flustered right now and cannot really think straight. Any
>ideas about where to go from here?
>
>-Iamunknown
>
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