[WikiEducator] Re: Thoughts about WE Workgroups / Working groups
Hi Simon -- Responses in text below ... 2009/6/1 simonfj simo...@cols.com.au I'm all in favour of this one. Could we have a WG to set up WGs, which might include a WG for 'Tools and Network'? and could we include this WG in the conversation? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group Absolutely -- we're setting up a WG to set up processes and support mechanisms for WG's -- with your skills and experience, I'm hoping that you'll put up your hand in joining this WG to helps us get this process right. See: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups So far we have, let's see, a wiki as our mainstay, a google group and a bit of kaltura on the side. Our cousins prefer the old ways of email lists and IRC. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo I would have thought the banished wife's channels of communication would appeal to WE inhabitants. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Citizendium (under 'Communicate') Now I'm not too old to get into a brand like ning (and its tools) and the old ways are just too exhausting (with their high noise to signal ratio). But regardless of our preference for web based tools, could we give some thought to the 'real time' stuff? One of the sticking points for global communities, in coming up with useful I, and C,Technology is getting their hands on some really useful real time tools, like Skype or http://www.accessgrid.org/home and making them part of a cross domainal web space. Hey -- with recent post in the WE list we realised that we need to have a WG to address WE's needs for communication, but realised we didn't have an appropriate policy or mechnasim to respond to the challenge :) Would be great if you could join our WG to set up WG policies and procedures so that we can tackle our communication challenges using our WG polcies (to be drafted). This is a little confusing -- but hope that you get the drift :-). I have suggested to Brianna (in the Oz wikipedia chapter) that we might also try to link up between BA and other spots around the globe for Wikimania this year. It's probably a good time as many ISPs and NREN's are trying to get their Quality of Service up, so they can start kicking telcos' toll charges out of the way. NB There are about 20,000 global students at my alma mater ( http://sae.edu/en-gb/news_overview/726/News ) who are just starting to use this kind of tool. http://www.hobnox.com/index.1018.en.html?blg[project_handle]=livetool-projecthttp://www.hobnox.com/index.1018.en.html?blg%5Bproject_handle%5D=livetool-project They could use a mature community like WE to get their chops up. Their community's toolkit isn't very good, (it's newish) but they can move fast, especially if you can spaek german. Lastly, this may be of some use. http://www.internet2.edu/wg/ regards, simon On May 31, 2:22 pm, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone -- The concept of instituting work groups in WE has been around for some time, as suggested, for example by User:Leutha, User:Kakamora and others. However, we don't have processes or guidelines to assist WikiEducator's in forming groups that will contribute towards the collective objective of improving how we work. When WikiEducator was much smaller -- it was relatively easy to post a query, idea or suggestion on the main list and take a collective decision. With considerable growth since January 2008 our project needs are growing rapidly and I wonder whether WE should consider formalising a work group approach? In other words, should we set up a work group to develop guidelines on implementing work groups to be tabled at the first WCC meeting? We already have a few work groups that have formed organically. *Existing work groups: * - A usability work group iniated by User:Kakamora -- good ideas and intentions, but hasn't gone further (see: http://www.wikieducator.org/Usability_Working_Group) - A work group to talk about Learning Design (Pedagogical templates) -- (see:http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Learning_design) - Another work group is looking at the development of an OER Policy Briefing intended to assist with advocacy of OER among policy makers -- (see:http://wikieducator.org/OER_Brief_for_policy_makers) Are there any other workgroups which I may have missed? Peter wouldn't the volunteer group who have signed up for helping out on the Quality Assurance and Review framework also constitute a workgroup of sorts? (See:http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_and_Review ). Recent posts on the list by Nellie, Ben, Peter, Brent, Randy and Patricia on the topic of communication alternatives in WE, ning.com etc suggest that the work group model is possibly a good vehicle for researching these kinds of questions and proposing alternatives for consideration. Two
[WikiEducator] Blocked access
I am trying to put resources for community empowerment onto WikiEd in four languages. I only speak one of them and depend upon volunteers from my Community Empowerment Collective to translate. I set up four user pages, one in English, and the others in French, Portuguese and Spanish. Although I can still log onto my English user page, my access to my user pages in the other three languages has been blocked. Please can someone help me? If the coach does the pushups, The athlete will not get stronger Community Empowerment: www.scn.org/cmp/ WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle Join our discusssion forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Vandalism?
I agree Wayne, We should develop some guidelines applicable to everyone on how to deal with vandalism as well as unintentional editings done by newbies. Nellie and I found this one: http://www.wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Wikieducator_tutorial/Basic_Text_Formatting/Summary_and_FAQsoldid=373321 Cheers 2009/5/31 Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Hi Declan, Well spotted and thanks for stepping in a blocking these users :-). I've gone in and reverted the pages to their original versions. WikiEducator has not had a major SPAM problem to date -- and we've been able to manage to deal with the odd spammer rather well. In fact I went to the individual pages myself to block the users concerned -- and saw that you've already done the honours. Thanks :-). I've also checked the offenders contribution history and see that these were the only pages affected. Given recent discussion on constituting work groups -- it may not be a bad idea to get a work group to draft a policy on dealing with SPAM, covering the process how it works, basis for deciding on the level of blocking etc. Thanks again Declan. Cheers Wayne 2009/6/1 Declan declanjmcc...@gmail.com OK then, I blocked 4 user names. If any are in error,please let me know. I did not fix the sites; I'll leave that to the site authors. Cheers, Declan -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary Tertiary grades. http://storytelling-cultures.ning.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 Skype:chela5808 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Blocked access
Hi Phil, I am so glad to see you back online =) Are you still experiencing problems on your account? 2009/6/1 Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com I am trying to put resources for community empowerment onto WikiEd in four languages. I only speak one of them and depend upon volunteers from my Community Empowerment Collective to translate. I set up four user pages, one in English, and the others in French, Portuguese and Spanish. Although I can still log onto my English user page, my access to my user pages in the other three languages has been blocked. Please can someone help me? If the coach does the pushups, The athlete will not get stronger Community Empowerment: www.scn.org/cmp/ WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle Join our discusssion forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary Tertiary grades. http://storytelling-cultures.ning.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Chela5808 http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25 Skype:chela5808 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
