Hi,

www.peripatetics.co.uk

It's finally up and running. The forums now work but just need content and the community to make the site have a life. As had been advised before by 'earplugs' content is king. What would people find most useful at the moment? If anyone would like to contribute ideas to the main site please let me know.

I see all these questions in the forum and know that most of the answers will be useful for many years to come. What I would like to do is take some of the replies in this forum and form them into articles - would anyone object (if I credit them)?

Thanks,

Richard

I've had a quick look, it should be a useful place for teachers to go.

One comment, though, could recorders be added to the list of woodwind?

No problem - done.

I've now put some articles in (see left hand menu) which I've compiled from some of the posts in this forum - I'll keep plugging away at them but if anyone has any other ideas or would like to remove comments I've taken from here let me know. I'll stop plugging the site now...

Richard
www.peripatetics.co.uk

Yay for putting Recorders into the list!



Good luck with the website, it looks great and it's high time that Peri's got their own resource, it's really much needed.

Hi,

OK, I've put some of my teaching ideas into the site and invite comments from people who may have other tips or advice.

http://www.peripatetics.co.uk/phpBB3/viewt...p?f=33&t=14

Thanks,

RP

David, did you happen to notice whether other posts had been reproduced?

Thanks D, better have a look when I'm more awake.

Hmmm,
there is a complete (I think) four-paragraph post of mine from June this year reproduced.
Granted it's in the public domain here, and we all understand that - however it's not properly referenced, and does not include quote- indications.

There are three quotes making up this "article", one from me, and two others from the forums. It does not make it clear how much of the article is made up of quotes (which is all of it) - it could be misconstrued as one sentence in each case, with other text interspersed, which is not correct.

I certainly have not been asked if I minded - and in a previous thread I indicated that I did not wish to be quoted out of context - which is what has been done here and I consider it unacceptable.

The following forum members may be interested in this ...
Daisy Chain
LR
Susiejean
Neil Clarinet
Dulciana
Mezzo1974
earplugs
jo.clarinet
John S
Ann C

Hi all,

In this particular instance, I was just asking for people's opinions on the article I'd written myself - none of which has been taken from other people's ideas.

Just out of interest 'dcmbarton', rather than being constantly negative perhaps suggest content that you would find useful and please see this post which includes people who do think what I'm doing is worthwhile

http://forums.abrsm.org/index.php?showtopic=25230&hl=

Very well then - I'll just clear all of the above articles and try something else. I'm really sorry I've been so generous with my time in creating this site. Just out of interest, have any of you spent time to create a similar resource or do you just put down other people's ideas in your own time?

I don't especially want to get into a heated arguement about this so I'll not be posting here again.


RP

It may be useful for future reference to post some advice on using other people's written work ... with no criticism implied of RP, who I'm sure was doing his best at the time. It's brought wider issues into focus.

For general background on what is plagiarism, see a handout on plagiarism by a university teacher at http://science.widener.edu/svb/essay/plagiar.html. Note particularly the advice under ‘What to do’. This is really helpful for those of us who prepare material for publication to parents, prospective students, etc, and online websites too.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism for a useful article which additionally addresses the issue of web plagiarism (also known as ‘online plagiarism’).

Note the section on online plagiarism from that article, and actions that can be taken:


[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism, 9 October 2007]

(DMCA refers to the US btw). In the EU the equivalent law is the EU Copyright Directive.

I hope this is useful.

Fair enough - I've adjusted it accordingly. No hard feelings I hope.