Talk:Contemporary Educational Psychology/Chapter 1: The Changing Teaching Profession and You

This page has some problems with the links. I thought that I knew how to handle the syntax and logic of the links, but obviously I was not completely correct with some of them. I will get back at fixing them ASAP, but anyone else is welcome to do so if I don't get to it right away.

(Sections of a chapter in a Wikibook are somewhat more "heirarchical" than in a print-version chapter--though possibly some of you may disagree.)

Klseifert 20:19, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

To-Do List for this chapter-page and its subpages: 1. Add citations (mainly to the subpages re the four "New Trends" 2. Add cross-links from each "New Trend" to the others, and possibly also back to the main page. 3. Figure out how, if at all, to use the rest of the End Matter. Probably this will be straightforward, but it needs a bit of thought.

To-Do more generally: 1. Add T of Contents for rest of the chapters--a priority! 2. Think of appropriate cross-links to other Wikibooks or Wikipedia articles (but be sparing).

Cheers! Klseifert 13:10, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Print size too small when Chapter 1 printed out
When I print this chapter, the font size is rather small on my printer (about 8-point). Is that happening on everyone's printer, or just mine? Is there any way within the Wiki to enlarge the print to about 12-point? I can do it manually each time by specifying a larger font on my printer, but this is a nuisance and some readers might not figure out how to do this.

Any suggestions?130.179.184.28 13:40, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

p.s. Sorry--the above note was from me. I forgot to sign in.Klseifert 13:42, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Experiment: Does Length of Wiki page affect size of font when printed?
In a word, "no"--length of page seems to make no difference in font size. As an experiment, I deleted about 2/3s of Chapter 1 temporarily, and printed the shortened version. Result: print size was the same as before. I then restored the earlier, complete version of the chapter.

Some pages seem to print with "tiny" font, but others have larger (12-point) font. I suppose there is some subtle feature about how I have my own printer configured, but I haven't figured it out yet.

I will now try printing a sample of other chapters to see if the problem is widespread (at least for me).

KelvinLeeSeifert 20:39, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Small font size in other chapters.
I sampled Chapter 2 and Chapter 12. Result: Chapter 2 was smallish (about 8-10 point) and Chapter 12 was very small (maybe 6-8 point)--too small to read easily. Chapter 1 was closer to Chapter 12 than to Chapter 2 in size. The opening pages are fine--note that they were the only ones that I typed into the Wiki directly. The others were all copied and pasted from a previous Word document.

Unless I can figure out why this is happening, I can only get a decent-sized printing by copying and pasting the whole works into a word document, "selecting all," and resizing the font. This defeats part of the purpose of using the Wiki.

I realize that this problem may be unique to me (Whiteknight says it does not happen to him), so my best hope is that others are having better luck at printing than I have had.

KelvinLeeSeifert 20:48, 7 September 2007 (UTC)