[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ
Greetings, I would like to invite members to contribute to the success of the workshop by adding to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/PresentationEditor?id=dfhbndjd_233d8g847g8# and speaking at the event. Please feel free to join the initiative. In addition, I would your opinion on how to advertise these workshops and perhaps answers to the following: 1. Should WE publish the workshops on the main page of Wikieducator? 2. Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? 3. Should WE conduct these workshops at all? 4. Should members of the community take initiatives without receiving approval from the community members? 5. Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? 6. Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? 7. How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating stage? Please add your concerns. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie On Jun 28, 5:34 pm, Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.com wrote: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ July 3, 2009 - 6:00 pm GMT Join us Warm wishes Nellie Deutschhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Gladys Gahonahttp://www.wikieducator.org/Chela5808 gladysgah...@gmail.com Live online free wikiskills workshop http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/155189-Wikieducator-Basic-Editing-S... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ
Hi everyone -- BIG kudos to Nellie and Gladys who are taking wiki skills development to a new level in WikiEducator! I'm proud to be associated with educators who share the value of sharing knowledge freely and promoting growth in our amazing project :-) Thanks also to Nellie for raising important questions on the list regarding how we advertise workshops and use our collective space and real estate on the WikiEducator landing page. Herewith my thoughts and ideas to your questions: 1.) Should WE publish workshops on the main page? Yes -- in the spirit of sharing knowledge and opportunities to widen skills in collaborating with the free culture in developing content resources in support of all national curricula -- we should advertise our free training as widely as possible. 2) Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? Yes -- WE should provide links to community wide and inclusive initiatives. That said, we need to recognise that the WikiEducator landing page is the doorway into our community and I have received personal queries from the community regarding the prominence of the rather large animated gif that was placed on the homepage. With compliments to the facilitators of this training event being bold and taking initiative the wiki way :-) (See: http://wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Template:Frontpage_newsdiff=prevoldid=393778) However, historically we've used the news section on the landing page to keep to small thumbnails of images in the range of 100 to 150 pixels and then linking to a subpage to provide more detail. In the past I've taken on the responsibity of keeping the front page current and am very pleased to see more folk from our family taking ownership. This raises the question whether we need guidelines and a community of volunteers to assist with keeping our landing page current. 3) Should WE conduct these workshops at all? Absolutely! The Learning4Content project is the worlds largest wiki training initiative for educators -- Any projects, online sessions which widen access to learning wiki skills must be encouraged :-). 5). Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? Well - decisions which effect the entire community, IMHO should as far as possible and practicble involve as many members of the Wikieducator community as possible --- at least we should provide ample opportunity for wide participation. The advantage of the workgroup approach (which was proposed by a community member) is that any member of the community can participate irrespective of rank or status. I think that we'll be moving into questionable territory if we assigned all operational decisions, for example to the WikiEducator Community Council --- that would demish the democractic prinples on which our community is founded. That said -- WikiEducator is an evolving community and we do not have all the mechanisms, guidelines and procedures in place that will contribute to our future success. The workgroup approach is Work-in-progress for consideration by the next meeting of Council. 6) Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? I think we should distinguish between two major categories of content: - OER content developed by individuals or collaborations between educators. As long as this content aligns with the filters of the core values stated on our home page, I think folk should have the freedom to develop this content. This does not necessarily imply a consensus opinion by the community -- unlike Wikipedia, we are not developing objective encyclopedia content and I think we should encourage a diversity of pedagogical approaches. - Community wide content, like policies and guidelines. As suggested above -- I think that we should strive for community consensus on this category of content including guidelines of how we should manage the consensus process. 7) How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating stage? We collaborate on developing community consensus on how we think workgroups should operate -- as we're doing at the moment (see: http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups ) and then we present this proposal to the Community Council as a policy. I think this is the best way to move from planning to operations. As they say -- Rome wasn't built in a day, but I think we're well on the road to future success! Look forward to hearing thoughts, views and improvements on our current thinking. Cheers Wayne 2009/6/29 nelliemuller nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Greetings, I would like to invite members to contribute to the success of the workshop by adding to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/PresentationEditor?id=dfhbndjd_233d8g847g8# and speaking at the event. Please feel free to join the initiative. In addition, I would your opinion on how to advertise these workshops and perhaps answers to the following: 1. Should WE publish the workshops on the
[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ
6) Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? Whether we are talking about consensus between two people or the community, the answer to your question is yes. In my mind, consensus doesn´t mean that everyone agrees. It means that everyone has the right to express their opinion and is heard. Reaching a consensus takes all the opinions into consideration and makes a decision accordingly. The question, therefore, becomes How do we reach a consensus (i.e. for OERs or community-wide content)? Whether we are talking about OER content or community-wide content, I believe the essence of developing a wiki is the process of developing an idea. That is, someone starts an idea and others contribute to its development or formation. Any prescriptive guidelines or rules that are established from the start of an idea (i.e., OER content or community-wide content) must facilitate this process and not bog it down. Particularly for community-wide content, we must find that fine line between facilitating and bogging down the process of idea development, which is an issue being discussed in WE. Just thinking out loud here (sort of), what would happen if there were no guidelines (excluding the general rules and values set up by WE) to community-wide content. Would more experts and newbies contributed as a result? What would this process look like? Is there a single process that could be followed that could apply to both OER content and community-wide content development? If we did establish guidelines to community-wide content development, would one set of guidelines apply to all types of community-wide content? Will the individuals that establish these guidelines be the only individuals that participate in the community-wide content initiatives? I´m still trying to get my head around this notion. Just some thoughts on the matter as I see it at the moment. Benjamin http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Bnleez http://groups.diigo.com/groups/wikieducator P.S. The success of the WE network is a result of the success of the participants within the WE network. I think we should distinguish between two major categories of content: - OER content developed by individuals or collaborations between educators. As long as this content aligns with the filters of the core values stated on our home page, I think folk should have the freedom to develop this content. This does not necessarily imply a consensus opinion by the community -- unlike Wikipedia, we are not developing objective encyclopedia content and I think we should encourage a diversity of pedagogical approaches. - Community wide content, like policies and guidelines. As suggested above -- I think that we should strive for community consensus on this category of content including guidelines of how we should manage the consensus process. On Jun 29, 2:00 am, nelliemuller nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I would like to invite members to contribute to the success of the workshop by adding to the presentation:https://docs.google.com/PresentationEditor?id=dfhbndjd_233d8g847g8# and speaking at the event. Please feel free to join the initiative. In addition, I would your opinion on how to advertise these workshops and perhaps answers to the following: 1. Should WE publish the workshops on the main page of Wikieducator? 2. Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? 3. Should WE conduct these workshops at all? 4. Should members of the community take initiatives without receiving approval from the community members? 5. Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? 6. Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? 7. How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating stage? Please add your concerns. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie On Jun 28, 5:34 pm, Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.com wrote: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ July 3, 2009 - 6:00 pm GMT Join us Warm wishes Nellie Deutschhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Gladys Gahonahttp://www.wikieducator.org/Chela5808 gladysgah...@gmail.com Live online free wikiskills workshop http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/155189-Wikieducator-Basic-Editing-S... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ
Ben, You did an excellent job at reading between the lines. Yes, we must facilitate this process and not bog it down. Particularly for community-wide content, we must find that fine line between facilitating and bogging down the process of idea development, which is an issue being discussed in WE. This brings me to a motto from my teenage years: Talk talk no action. Hope I'm being too blunt but Wikieducator (WE) needs content. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Ben bnl...@gmail.com wrote: 6) Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? Whether we are talking about consensus between two people or the community, the answer to your question is yes. In my mind, consensus doesn´t mean that everyone agrees. It means that everyone has the right to express their opinion and is heard. Reaching a consensus takes all the opinions into consideration and makes a decision accordingly. The question, therefore, becomes How do we reach a consensus (i.e. for OERs or community-wide content)? Whether we are talking about OER content or community-wide content, I believe the essence of developing a wiki is the process of developing an idea. That is, someone starts an idea and others contribute to its development or formation. Any prescriptive guidelines or rules that are established from the start of an idea (i.e., OER content or community-wide content) must facilitate this process and not bog it down. Particularly for community-wide content, we must find that fine line between facilitating and bogging down the process of idea development, which is an issue being discussed in WE. Just thinking out loud here (sort of), what would happen if there were no guidelines (excluding the general rules and values set up by WE) to community-wide content. Would more experts and newbies contributed as a result? What would this process look like? Is there a single process that could be followed that could apply to both OER content and community-wide content development? If we did establish guidelines to community-wide content development, would one set of guidelines apply to all types of community-wide content? Will the individuals that establish these guidelines be the only individuals that participate in the community-wide content initiatives? I´m still trying to get my head around this notion. Just some thoughts on the matter as I see it at the moment. Benjamin http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Bnleez http://groups.diigo.com/groups/wikieducator P.S. The success of the WE network is a result of the success of the participants within the WE network. I think we should distinguish between two major categories of content: - OER content developed by individuals or collaborations between educators. As long as this content aligns with the filters of the core values stated on our home page, I think folk should have the freedom to develop this content. This does not necessarily imply a consensus opinion by the community -- unlike Wikipedia, we are not developing objective encyclopedia content and I think we should encourage a diversity of pedagogical approaches. - Community wide content, like policies and guidelines. As suggested above -- I think that we should strive for community consensus on this category of content including guidelines of how we should manage the consensus process. On Jun 29, 2:00 am, nelliemuller nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I would like to invite members to contribute to the success of the workshop by adding to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/PresentationEditor?id=dfhbndjd_233d8g847g8# and speaking at the event. Please feel free to join the initiative. In addition, I would your opinion on how to advertise these workshops and perhaps answers to the following: 1. Should WE publish the workshops on the main page of Wikieducator? 2. Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? 3. Should WE conduct these workshops at all? 4. Should members of the community take initiatives without receiving approval from the community members? 5. Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? 6. Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? 7. How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating stage? Please add your concerns. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie On Jun 28, 5:34 pm, Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.com wrote: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ July 3, 2009 - 6:00 pm GMT Join us Warm wishes Nellie Deutschhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Gladys
[WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated
Good Morning! I would like to add a point to the discussions while we are at it and add another point of for discussion, which is the promotion of WikiEducator offsite 1. How does the community feel about setting up working groups for the discussion of the establishment of social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter etc. 2. Now that we will shortly arrive at a new stage of promoting WikiEducator, how should this be done. 3. Is it necessary and if yes, why or why not 4. Any thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:28 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ Hi everyone -- BIG kudos to Nellie and Gladys who are taking wiki skills development to a new level in WikiEducator! I'm proud to be associated with educators who share the value of sharing knowledge freely and promoting growth in our amazing project :-) Thanks also to Nellie for raising important questions on the list regarding how we advertise workshops and use our collective space and real estate on the WikiEducator landing page. Herewith my thoughts and ideas to your questions: 1.) Should WE publish workshops on the main page? Yes -- in the spirit of sharing knowledge and opportunities to widen skills in collaborating with the free culture in developing content resources in support of all national curricula -- we should advertise our free training as widely as possible. 2) Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? Yes -- WE should provide links to community wide and inclusive initiatives. That said, we need to recognise that the WikiEducator landing page is the doorway into our community and I have received personal queries from the community regarding the prominence of the rather large animated gif that was placed on the homepage. With compliments to the facilitators of this training event being bold and taking initiative the wiki way :-) (See: http://wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Template:Frontpage_newsdiff=pre voldid=393778 ) However, historically we've used the news section on the landing page to keep to small thumbnails of images in the range of 100 to 150 pixels and then linking to a subpage to provide more detail. In the past I've taken on the responsibity of keeping the front page current and am very pleased to see more folk from our family taking ownership. This raises the question whether we need guidelines and a community of volunteers to assist with keeping our landing page current. 3) Should WE conduct these workshops at all? Absolutely! The Learning4Content project is the worlds largest wiki training initiative for educators -- Any projects, online sessions which widen access to learning wiki skills must be encouraged :-). 5). Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? Well - decisions which effect the entire community, IMHO should as far as possible and practicble involve as many members of the Wikieducator community as possible --- at least we should provide ample opportunity for wide participation. The advantage of the workgroup approach (which was proposed by a community member) is that any member of the community can participate irrespective of rank or status. I think that we'll be moving into questionable territory if we assigned all operational decisions, for example to the WikiEducator Community Council --- that would demish the democractic prinples on which our community is founded. That said -- WikiEducator is an evolving community and we do not have all the mechanisms, guidelines and procedures in place that will contribute to our future success. The workgroup approach is Work-in-progress for consideration by the next meeting of Council. 6) Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? I think we should distinguish between two major categories of content: * OER content developed by individuals or collaborations between educators. As long as this content aligns with the filters of the core values stated on our home page, I think folk should have the freedom to develop this content. This does not necessarily imply a consensus opinion by the community -- unlike Wikipedia, we are not developing objective encyclopedia content and I think we should encourage a diversity of pedagogical approaches. * Community wide content, like policies and guidelines. As suggested above -- I think that we should strive for community consensus on this category of content including guidelines of how we should manage the consensus process. 7) How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating stage? We collaborate on developing community consensus on how we think workgroups should operate -- as we're doing at the moment (see:
[WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ
Hello everyone, Our landing page should reflect the dynamism and wide participation our evolving community is experiencing according to the last statitstics. I'd love to see a vibrant landing page (particulartly in the News section), animated banners, more frecuent updates, renewing general layout on a regular basis. I invite folks to suggest, but most imortant, make things happen =) Warm wishes On 29 jun, 03:28, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone -- BIG kudos to Nellie and Gladys who are taking wiki skills development to a new level in WikiEducator! I'm proud to be associated with educators who share the value of sharing knowledge freely and promoting growth in our amazing project :-) Thanks also to Nellie for raising important questions on the list regarding how we advertise workshops and use our collective space and real estate on the WikiEducator landing page. Herewith my thoughts and ideas to your questions: 1.) Should WE publish workshops on the main page? Yes -- in the spirit of sharing knowledge and opportunities to widen skills in collaborating with the free culture in developing content resources in support of all national curricula -- we should advertise our free training as widely as possible. 2) Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? Yes -- WE should provide links to community wide and inclusive initiatives. That said, we need to recognise that the WikiEducator landing page is the doorway into our community and I have received personal queries from the community regarding the prominence of the rather large animated gif that was placed on the homepage. With compliments to the facilitators of this training event being bold and taking initiative the wiki way :-) (See:http://wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Template:Frontpage_newsdiff=...) However, historically we've used the news section on the landing page to keep to small thumbnails of images in the range of 100 to 150 pixels and then linking to a subpage to provide more detail. In the past I've taken on the responsibity of keeping the front page current and am very pleased to see more folk from our family taking ownership. This raises the question whether we need guidelines and a community of volunteers to assist with keeping our landing page current. 3) Should WE conduct these workshops at all? Absolutely! The Learning4Content project is the worlds largest wiki training initiative for educators -- Any projects, online sessions which widen access to learning wiki skills must be encouraged :-). 5). Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? Well - decisions which effect the entire community, IMHO should as far as possible and practicble involve as many members of the Wikieducator community as possible --- at least we should provide ample opportunity for wide participation. The advantage of the workgroup approach (which was proposed by a community member) is that any member of the community can participate irrespective of rank or status. I think that we'll be moving into questionable territory if we assigned all operational decisions, for example to the WikiEducator Community Council --- that would demish the democractic prinples on which our community is founded. That said -- WikiEducator is an evolving community and we do not have all the mechanisms, guidelines and procedures in place that will contribute to our future success. The workgroup approach is Work-in-progress for consideration by the next meeting of Council. 6) Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? I think we should distinguish between two major categories of content: - OER content developed by individuals or collaborations between educators. As long as this content aligns with the filters of the core values stated on our home page, I think folk should have the freedom to develop this content. This does not necessarily imply a consensus opinion by the community -- unlike Wikipedia, we are not developing objective encyclopedia content and I think we should encourage a diversity of pedagogical approaches. - Community wide content, like policies and guidelines. As suggested above -- I think that we should strive for community consensus on this category of content including guidelines of how we should manage the consensus process. 7) How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating stage? We collaborate on developing community consensus on how we think workgroups should operate -- as we're doing at the moment (see:http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups) and then we present this proposal to the Community Council as a policy. I think this is the best way to move from planning to operations. As they say -- Rome wasn't built in a day, but I think we're well on the road to future success! Look forward to hearing thoughts, views and
[WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated
How does the community feel about setting up working groups for the discussion of the establishment of social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter etc. Now that we will shortly arrive at a new stage of promoting WikiEducator, how should this be done? Is it necessary and if yes, why or why not? Here's one opinion, which happens to be mine (smile). For those who wish to communicate to all the participants in WE, either try to find a way to do it within the WE site or create a blog (or Facebook, Ning, possibly Google wave, etc. - not Google Groups) that is linked to the WE main page. People who wish to collaborate on OERs and community-wide content should create simple group (i.e., workgroups) charters that state who are members, how they are to work together, expectations, etc. Group charters should be completely open and decided upon by the group. If there's anything standard that I´m proposing here, it would be having the group charter appear on the main page of the OER or community-wide content. The technology to be used to achieve the group objectives can be anything (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but the group itself decides. Working this way means that groups start right away on working on their OERs or community- wide content and the overall goal of WE thus becomes how to connect people with similar interests, needs, and competencies. I propose this option in lieu of establishing a formalized workgroup initiative with general guidelines and rules. I believe that once groups get started, group charters get written, and WE finds a space and manner in which to connect people, projects, etc., workgroups will become more effective and efficient has they gain more experience and are exposed to how other groups are conducting business. Forgive my ignorance, but I´m not sure what new stage of promoting WE is referring to unless it has something to do with changing technologies that facilitate communication flow among WEducators. This idea addresses Nellie's 7th question... How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating stage? My answer is that each group (i.e., workgroup) just begins with their respective charter. Any other thoughts? Benjamin http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Bnleez http://groups.diigo.com/groups/wikieducator --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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] Well done WE! - NZ Ministry of Education project
Hi Everyone, Good news for our community. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has signed off on a project to establish a national OER collaboration for New Zealand schools using WikiEducator. The project aims to: 1. Build capability and support community development for NZ teachers working on OER. 2. Make the wiki easier to use for all teachers for authoring, searching, and reusing OER content. 3. Seed the development of OER exemplars mapped to the NZ curriculum. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has agreed to fund the first year of the project outlined in this proposal: http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools. I'd like to encourage all WikiEducator teachers to take a look at the proposal and see how we may be able to replicate national OER collaborations in your respective countries. All our planning documentation and resources will naturally be licensed under free content licenses, which you can reuse and adpat for your local context :-). Similarly all tools developed will be freely available for adoption and use by all WikiEducators. Well done WikiEducator --- another natioinal OER initiave for our community! Cheers Wayne (Note there are a few minor tweaks on the budget allocations which must still be updated in the wiki.) -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Well done WE! - NZ Ministry of Education project
Hi Wayne, Great news for WE and New Zealand's public educational system. Thank you for sharing. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Good news for our community. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has signed off on a project to establish a national OER collaboration for New Zealand schools using WikiEducator. The project aims to: 1. Build capability and support community development for NZ teachers working on OER. 2. Make the wiki easier to use for all teachers for authoring, searching, and reusing OER content. 3. Seed the development of OER exemplars mapped to the NZ curriculum. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has agreed to fund the first year of the project outlined in this proposal: http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools. I'd like to encourage all WikiEducator teachers to take a look at the proposal and see how we may be able to replicate national OER collaborations in your respective countries. All our planning documentation and resources will naturally be licensed under free content licenses, which you can reuse and adpat for your local context :-). Similarly all tools developed will be freely available for adoption and use by all WikiEducators. Well done WikiEducator --- another natioinal OER initiave for our community! Cheers Wayne (Note there are a few minor tweaks on the budget allocations which must still be updated in the wiki.) -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Well done WE! - NZ Ministry of Education project
Wow, Wayne, this is fantastic news and the MoE in NZ is setting an example of how this could be done. Very impressive and what a wonderful development for WE at the current time. I think we need to get going on that WE advocacy document soon (smile!) Congratulations, Wayne Cheers, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 2:02 PM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Well done WE! - NZ Ministry of Education project Hi Everyone, Good news for our community. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has signed off on a project to establish a national OER collaboration for New Zealand schools using WikiEducator. The project aims to: 1. Build capability and support community development for NZ teachers working on OER. 2. Make the wiki easier to use for all teachers for authoring, searching, and reusing OER content. 3. Seed the development of OER exemplars mapped to the NZ curriculum. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has agreed to fund the first year of the project outlined in this proposal: http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_ for_New_Zealand_schools. I'd like to encourage all WikiEducator teachers to take a look at the proposal and see how we may be able to replicate national OER collaborations in your respective countries. All our planning documentation and resources will naturally be licensed under free content licenses, which you can reuse and adpat for your local context :-). Similarly all tools developed will be freely available for adoption and use by all WikiEducators. Well done WikiEducator --- another natioinal OER initiave for our community! Cheers Wayne (Note there are a few minor tweaks on the budget allocations which must still be updated in the wiki.) -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Well done WE! - NZ Ministry of Education project
Congratulations Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath subscribe now to discuss future math culture with parents, researchers and techies http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Wayne Mackintoshmackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Good news for our community. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has signed off on a project to establish a national OER collaboration for New Zealand schools using WikiEducator. The project aims to: Build capability and support community development for NZ teachers working on OER. Make the wiki easier to use for all teachers for authoring, searching, and reusing OER content. Seed the development of OER exemplars mapped to the NZ curriculum. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has agreed to fund the first year of the project outlined in this proposal: http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools. I'd like to encourage all WikiEducator teachers to take a look at the proposal and see how we may be able to replicate national OER collaborations in your respective countries. All our planning documentation and resources will naturally be licensed under free content licenses, which you can reuse and adpat for your local context :-). Similarly all tools developed will be freely available for adoption and use by all WikiEducators. Well done WikiEducator --- another natioinal OER initiave for our community! Cheers Wayne (Note there are a few minor tweaks on the budget allocations which must still be updated in the wiki.) -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Well done WE! - NZ Ministry of Education project
CONGRATULATIONS Wayne and the whole community of dedicated WikiEducators. Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 09:02 +1200, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: Hi Everyone, Good news for our community. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has signed off on a project to establish a national OER collaboration for New Zealand schools using WikiEducator. The project aims to: 1. Build capability and support community development for NZ teachers working on OER. 2. Make the wiki easier to use for all teachers for authoring, searching, and reusing OER content. 3. Seed the development of OER exemplars mapped to the NZ curriculum. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has agreed to fund the first year of the project outlined in this proposal: http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools. I'd like to encourage all WikiEducator teachers to take a look at the proposal and see how we may be able to replicate national OER collaborations in your respective countries. All our planning documentation and resources will naturally be licensed under free content licenses, which you can reuse and adpat for your local context :-). Similarly all tools developed will be freely available for adoption and use by all WikiEducators. Well done WikiEducator --- another natioinal OER initiave for our community! Cheers Wayne (Note there are a few minor tweaks on the budget allocations which must still be updated in the wiki.) -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Well done WE! - NZ Ministry of Education project
CONGRATS... AND YEA MANY MORE SUCH TIE-UPS!! Savithri 2009/6/30 aprasad aplett...@gmail.com Dear Dr. Wayne and all other friends, THIS IS DEFINITELY A GREAT NEWS!!! Responsibilities like these will help us to concentrate more...let us try together...and WE will WIN On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Good news for our community. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has signed off on a project to establish a national OER collaboration for New Zealand schools using WikiEducator. The project aims to: 1. Build capability and support community development for NZ teachers working on OER. 2. Make the wiki easier to use for all teachers for authoring, searching, and reusing OER content. 3. Seed the development of OER exemplars mapped to the NZ curriculum. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has agreed to fund the first year of the project outlined in this proposal: http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools. I'd like to encourage all WikiEducator teachers to take a look at the proposal and see how we may be able to replicate national OER collaborations in your respective countries. All our planning documentation and resources will naturally be licensed under free content licenses, which you can reuse and adpat for your local context :-). Similarly all tools developed will be freely available for adoption and use by all WikiEducators. Well done WikiEducator --- another natioinal OER initiave for our community! Cheers Wayne (Note there are a few minor tweaks on the budget allocations which must still be updated in the wiki.) -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- Warm regards Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron Skype: apletters -- Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 97862584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
