Dear Patricia,
you are always welcome - as is anyone - to use material from Wikiversity in courses in your university. Wikiversity is part of the Wikimedia Foundation, which releases all of its material under free licences. The one we use is the Gnu Free Documentation Licence (GFDL), details of which can be found at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:GNU_Free_Documentation_License.
However, I cannot find material on the topic you requested - http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topiary does not exist yet. Wikiversity works by allowing anyone to add their own materials, or to edit or discuss others' materials - so I would therefore welcome you or any of your students to develop this page (by clicking the "edit" button, adding your text, and saving it). This goes for any page which you feel would be a good space in which to facilitate your students' learning - you are always welcome to participate.
I am sorry we can't be of any more help to you in providing material in the short term. You may, however, want to try our sister project, Wikipedia, where there is a page on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topiary. You are free to use and/or edit that page in exactly the same way as I've outlined above.
Please feel free to ask any more questions about Wikiversity, or wikis in general. Since you're not subscribed to this mailing list, you could ask me directly at this email address, or you could subscribe to the list at: http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l.
I hope this has been of some help.
Regards,
Cormac Lawler http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Cormaggio
On 11/9/06, Patrica Edwards p.edwards@ballarat.edu.au wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam
I am writing to obtain your permission to use some of your material from the internet for educational purposes for our students at University of Ballarat, TAFE Division, Primary Industries, Horticulture. The article is 6 pages and is titled "Topiary".
Could you please confirm by return email that this is in order and with your agreement. Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely
Kind regards
Patricia Edwards Administration Officer Primary Industries - Horticulture University of Ballarat - TAFE Division Tel: 5327 8223 Fax: 5339 3177 Email: p.edwards@ballarat.edu.au _______________________________________________ Wikiversity-l mailing list Wikiversity-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l