[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for May 2014: Steve Foerster
Congratulations, Steve. You started the idea and deserve the credit and much more on what you do to bring education to all. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch Educational Technology Leadership About Me http://goo.gl/7BgeKM Teach http://www.wiziq.com/nelliedeutsch @ WizIQ http://www.wiziq.com/academic/?gid=100041 Connect with Me http://ml.vu/W6U9Yq [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy] http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Drop by drop the bucket is filled, moment by moment awareness is developed ~ Unknown On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Steve Foerster steve.foers...@newworld.ac wrote: Many thanks to Ramesh, Nellie, and all for your kind words, especially since I think that many people have much cleverer user pages than I do! I'm just happy that you two have kept the conspiracy running so much longer and better than Minhaaj and I ever did! Best wishes to all, -=Steve=- --- Stephen H. Foerster President | New World University steve.foers...@newworld.ac | http://newworld.ac On 2014-06-02 07:04, Ramesh Sharma wrote: Dear Friends, The WikiEducator User Page Expo [1] (UPE to its friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages that are particularly informative, innovative, visually appealing, or otherwise just plain clever. MAY 2014 [2] It was Steve [3] and Minhaaj ur Rehman who started USER PAGE EXPO (UPE) in July 2008 to honour an exemplary WikiEducator every month. UPE is a community award to honour WikiEducator editors. Currently Steve is the President, New World University at Dominica. He is also working as an Education Specialist with MicroStrategy Inc in writing and revising textbooks used for instructor-led and independent study technical training courses. He has performed other roles as well like E-Learning Consultant, IT Instructor, DIrector of Online Education at Virginia International University and Director, E-Learning Services at Marymount University, USA. He is deeply involved with WikiEducator and OERs. He has been fairly active with iCommons [4], the most publicly inclusive of the Creative Commons affiliated organizations. He was part of WikiEducator's interim International Advisory Board [5], and in 2008 was elected to the first Community Council [6]. He does not leave any chance to promote WikiEducator through our Ambassadors program. Here's his personal record [7]. A strong supporter of free culture movement, especially the Open Access/Access to Knowledge movement, he has waived all claim of copyright (economic and moral) for all content by him to WikiEducator and put into the public domain. Pl join us in congratulating and thanking Steve [3] for starting (an ad-hoc conspiracy...lol...) and ever going strong The UPE. with best wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch [8] and Ramesh Sharma [9] Links: -- [1] http://wikieducator.org/UPE [2] http://wikieducator.org/File:Stevefoerster.jpg [3] http://wikieducator.org/User:SteveFoerster [4] http://icommons.org [5] http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Advisory_Board [6] http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Community_Council [7] http://wikieducator.org/Ambassadors/Record_of_promotional-events#Steve_ Foerster [8] http://wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller [9] http://wikieducator.org/User:Rcsharma -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+ unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher- collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher- collaboration-forum. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE) Winner for July 2013: Kamani Samarasinghe
Congratulations, Kamani. You're an inspiration to all of us. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch http://about.me/nelliedeutsch Educational Technology Leadership http://about.me/nelliedeutsch CALL-IS Steering Committee for TESOL Learn to teach with web technologies for freehttp://www.wiziq.com/course/14339-blogging-reflective-learning Teach http://www.wiziq.com/nelliedeutsch @ WizIQhttp://www.wiziq.com/academic/?gid=100041 Blended Learning Book http://www.wiziq.com/events/co12.htm Connecting Online Bookhttp://www.amazon.com/Connecting-Online-Instruction-Learning-International/dp/148103457X Program Coordinator for WAOE http://www.waoe.org/directors.html IT4ALL for Professional Development http://www.integrating-technology.org/ http://www.wiziq.com/course/4264-teaching-online Contact Me http://ml.vu/W6U9Yq [image: Linkedin]http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Drop by drop the bucket is filled, moment by moment awareness is developed ~ Unknown On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:13 AM, R C Sharma rcsharma_guy...@yahoo.comwrote: Hello Kamani Congratulations and keep working on your WikiEducator and OER projects :-) with best wishes R. C. Sharma -- Dear Friends, The WikiEducator User Page Expo http://wikieducator.org/UPE (UPE to its friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages that are particularly informative, innovative, visually appealing, or otherwise just plain clever. We are very happy to announce that Kamani Samarasinghehttp://wikieducator.org/User:Kamani_Samarasinghe is the WikiEducator User Page Expo winner for July 2013. Let's learn more about her. UPE Winner for July 2013 http://wikieducator.org/File:Kamani.jpg Kamani Samarasinghe http://wikieducator.org/User:Kamani_Samarasinghe is a lecturer teaching Information Technology at the University of the Visual Performing Arts in Sri Lanka. In addition, she is a research student at the University of Peradeniya. She joined the Faculty of Music at the University of the Visual Performing Arts in May 2006. Later on she did her Masters at Post-Graduate Institute of Science in 2009. She is a dedicated WikiEducator because she believes it can be used for developing open education courses, as training resources. Please join us in congratulating the very talented, young and first from Sri Lanka, Kamani Samarasinghehttp://wikieducator.org/User:Kamani_Samarasinghefor being the UPE winner for July 2013! with best wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch http://wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller and Ramesh Sharma http://wikieducator.org/User:Rcsharma -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?
Congratulations to everyone who is taking the course and receiving Wikibuddy certifications. I love the idea of a college in India. Please count me in for any help. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch Educational Technology Leadership CALL-IS Steering Committee for TESOL MoodleMoot12 August 17-19 http://moodlemoot.integrating-technology.org Blended Learning Book http://www.wiziq.com/events/co12.htm Passionate about Learning Blog http://nellie-deutsch.com/ IT4ALL for Professional Development http://www.integrating-technology.org/ Teach on WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliedeutsch Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Dr. Nellie Deutsch is the founder of Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning http://www.integrating-technology.org/ (IT4ALL), an online informal network of volunteers that provides free and low-cost professional development workshops for educators around the world. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Anil Prasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends, First of all I would congratulate Harbans ji, Sebastian ji, Balqis, and Jonas for getting WikiBuddy certifications though their proactive participation in the WikiBuddy certification guidance week held from 23-04-2012 to 29-04-2012 ( http://wikieducator.org/Training:WikiBuddy_certification_guidance_week_23.09.2012 ). They were the only participants (excluding a new user as the event was for Wiki Apprentices). I also thank other three colleagues who encouraged the event by offering facilitation support immediately on announcing the event and Dr. Wayne for his moral support. Based on the thoughts and wiki conversations during the past week, I would like to ask the community 'Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College for our WikiEducator members and those who aspire to join the WE community?'. The abstract ideas are given below: 1. The Objectives of the Community College Would be to: 1. conduct L4C as a regular course 2. conduct regular courses on Open Licensing 3. provide regular mentoring and certification services for wiki skills development 4. provide opportunity to the community members to request mentoring of experienced community memebrs 5. provide facility for conducting pedagogical experiments/ run pilot courses for OERu implementation 6. and more. 2. The WE Community members having wiki skill certification of and above the level of WikiBuddy can by option register as a Community College Tutor/Mentor 3. The registered tutors/mentors wold elect an Academic Council for a 2 or three year term 4. The Academic Council will Coordinate the functions of the Community College 5. The Academic Council will prepare Academic Calender for each academic year in consultation with the registered tutors/mentors, WE community and WE Community Council 6. The Academic Council will introduce new WE Community Courses in consultation with the registered tutors/mentors, WE community and WE Community Council 7. ...and more.. Your thoughts? -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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] looking for creative ways to design a teacher education curriclum
Leo, I have been training teachers and providing free online professional development workshops via Moodle since 2006. You may join and create your own courses for free. I will help you design and facilitate your courses. If you have never used Moodle, I provide free Moodle for Teacher 4-week workshops at 4 levels: Orientation, Beginners, Intermediate, and Advanced. Good luck with your initiative. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D. Educational Technology Leadership My New Blended Learning Book https://www.createspace.com/3631157%20 Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present on WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Wong Leo leolao...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all , I will be teaching a teacher education unit for about 400 middle school teachers to help them prepare for their future teaching job for minority people in remote china , i am wondering if anyone who have the similar teaching experience on teacher education program , the name of the course is called curriculum and teaching . i am thinking about trying something in wikieducator like involving each teacher to design a teaching unit , and asking them to put on wikieducator website however , i need the advices from you ! something creative is the best ！！ -- Leo Wong Teacher and teacher trainer -- http://wikieducator.org/User:Leolaoshi http://www.gem-intl.edu.cn 机构博客：http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com 个人博客 http://blog.sina.com.cn/leolaoshi1 （在努力中） Skype:leolaoshi Malaysia number +006 010 2718251 - *There is something very special and powerful about engaging directly with the real teacher and real Kids.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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: [OERU] OERU transforms traditional open learning to Open Education 2.0
Hello Everyone, I can't wait to see these ideas implemented: * * *The conceptual framework for Open Education 2.0 requires us to think not only in terms of the Traditional Model, but in addition to envision a parallel model where we can have Any learner, using Any material, and being supported (taught, instructed, facilitated, mentored, tutored) by Anyone, to achieve learning which is then subjected to Our assessment, in order to receive Our credit.* Will the content be free of charge and will anyone receive payment for the support he or she provides. Thank you. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D. Educational Technology Leadership Learn English Online http://leo4u.org Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: *The conceptual framework for Open Education 2.0 requires us to think not only in terms of the Traditional Model, but in addition to envision a parallel model where we can have Any learner, using Any material, and being supported (taught, instructed, facilitated, mentored, tutored) by Anyone, to achieve learning which is then subjected to Our assessment, in order to receive Our credit, which can be applied towards Our credential. * -- 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: [OERU] SUNY Empire State College leads the way as first OERu anchor partner in the United States
Congratulations to the community at WikiEducator and the OER foundation led by Wayne who is doing an awesome job to make the future happen, today. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D. Educational Technology Leadership Learn English Online http://leo4u.org Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations to SUNY Empire State College who claim the accolade of the first university in the United States to become a founding anchor partner of the OER university network. *By joining OERu, Empire State College will join the global community of learners who contribute to and benefit from open educational resources.* said Alan Davis, President of SUNY Empire State College. *Read more ...http://wikieducator.org/Empire_State_College/SUNY_Empire_State_College_Joins_OERu_and_Establishes_Presence_on_OERu_Wiki * Empire State College continues to build on its heritage as a global leader in opening education. -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh Wikiblog http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups OER university group. To post to this group, send email to oer-univers...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oer-university+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oer-university?hl=en?hl=en Visit the OER univeristy page on http://wikieducator.org/OER_university -- 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 User Page Expo Winner for September 2011: Indira Koneru
Congratulations to Dr. Indira. I would like to make a correction about Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL). IT4ALL has not been officially registered as a non-profit organization, and may be considered an informal volunteer network, but nothing more. I take full responsibility for the error. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May your inner success shine and bring you a lot of success. On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Ramesh Sharma ram...@oerfoundation.orgwrote: Dear Friends, It is our pleasure to announce the WikiEducator User Page Expo winner for September 2011. The WikiEducator User Page Expo (UPE to its friends) is an ongoing event recognising those WikiEducator user pages that are particularly informative, innovative, visually appealing, or otherwise just plain clever. Dr. Indira Koneru http://wikieducator.org/User:Indkon holds Ph.D. degree in Open Distance Education; M.Phil. in Library Information Science; PG degrees in Sociology and Library Information Science; and an UG degree in Biology. Her Doctoral Research A Study of Information Literacy Skills of BRAOU Learners: Designing an Integrated Information Portal” was fundamentally an endeavor to ascertain the information competency level of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University learners. Focus of her study was on investigating learners’ information seeking behavior, information evaluation skills and their fair use practices. Currently she is involved in research in the field of ICT-enabled information and educational services. She is a speaker at conferences and volunteers as a facilitator of online workshops at Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning http://www.integrating-technology.org/(IT4ALL), a non-profit educational organization that offers free or low cost professional development workshops. To make a livelihood, she works as Library Information Science Educator at ICFAI Flexible Education, ICFAI University, Hyderabad. Being an Instructional Designer with over 10 years of experience in Academia Research and 6 years in Instructional Design, she has been designing, developing and evaluating Courseware for UG/PG Courses offered through Distance Mode. In addition, she is a skilled Instructional Designer with sound knowledge of Learning Theories; an experienced Moodler; a successful teaching and learning facilitator; a technophile who works well with ICTs; a team player with collaborative and multitasking skills…Wow..!! Please join us in congratulation the WikiArtisan, Dr.Indira Koneruhttp://wikieducator.org/User:Indkon ! With best wishes Nellie and Ramesh -- 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: [OERU] New York's open university joins forces with the OERu
Great news, Wayne and congratulations to New York's Open University for taking the initiative. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May your inner success shine and bring you a lot of success. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone ... An important update. Empire State College of the State University of New York joins forces with the OER university network. Read more: New York's open university joins forces with the OERuhttp://wikieducator.org/Empire_State_College/New_York%27s_open_university_joins_forces_with_the_OERu I intimated that 2011 will be quantum shift year for the mainstream adoption of OER -- watch this space . Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh Wikiblog http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups OER university group. To post to this group, send email to oer-univers...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to oer-university+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oer-university?hl=en?hl=en Visit the OER univeristy page on http://wikieducator.org/OER_university -- 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: [OERU] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] New York's open university joins forces with the OERu
Wayne, speaking about leadership, Joyce will be a panelist on leadership education and will discuss the merits and challenges of technology for instruction and learning at the upcoming International Leadership Association (ILA) conference in London, UK on October 27, 2011: http://www.ila-net.org/Conferences/2011/Program3.asp?ProgramDBID=287 I will do my best to document the presentation so we can share it with the OER community. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May your inner success shine and bring you a lot of success. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ramesh, Nellie Thanks for your words of encouragement. Wikieducator's vision of providing free learning materials for all students worldwide combined with opportunities to gain credible credentials through the OERu is an ambitious initiative. I now know that this is fundamentally doable judging by the caliber of post-secondary institutions joining the initiative. It's amazing to see how we can collaborate across international boundaries to provide more affordable access to higher education for the millions of learners currently excluded from the formal education sector. That said -- congratulations for this good news should be directed to the leadership of ESC and the team at the Center for Distance Learning at Empire State College, not too mention faculty members and our very own Joyce McKnigh http://wikieducator.org/User:Joyce_McKnightt (a WikiEducator UPE winner). I suspect that organisational leadership in distance education is predestined. ESC pioneered the open curriculum back in the early 1970s. Again, they are at the forefront of leading collaborative OER university networks. You know what they say -- you can't lead from behind. Institutions who want to lead from the front with reference to OER futures should consider joining this winning team! See: 5 Things you should know about the OER university network planhttp://wikieducator.org/images/7/7d/OERu.pdf . Wayne On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:14 PM, R C Sharma rcsharma_guy...@yahoo.comwrote: Hello Wayne, Greetings. Congratulations... Joining of Empire State College of the State University of New York to OERu Network is indeed a good news! Sincerely ramesh sharma -- R. C. Sharma, PhD Regional Director Indira Gandhi National Open University Regional Centre Panaji, Behind Chodankar Hospital, Near PT Staff Quarters, Alto Porvorim - 403 521 Goa (India) Ph. +91-832-2414553 [image: Logo] http:/// -- *From:* Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com *To:* WikiEducator wikieducator@googlegroups.com; wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com; oer-univers...@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:52 AM *Subject:* [WE Teacher Collaboration] New York's open university joins forces with the OERu Hi Everyone ... An important update. Empire State College of the State University of New York joins forces with the OER university network. Read more: New York's open university joins forces with the OERuhttp://wikieducator.org/Empire_State_College/New_York%27s_open_university_joins_forces_with_the_OERu I intimated that 2011 will be quantum shift year for the mainstream adoption of OER -- watch this space . Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh Wikiblog http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Blog -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed
[WikiEducator] Re: [OERU] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] New York's open university joins forces with the OERu
The presentations will be available to the public as soon as they are ready. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May your inner success shine and bring you a lot of success. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Better still, Prepare and release the presentations under open licenses -- that way the community can collaborate and share your leadership experiences in building more sustainable educations futures. Way to go! W On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Dr. Nellie Deutsch Muller nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Wayne, speaking about leadership, Joyce will be a panelist on leadership education and will discuss the merits and challenges of technology for instruction and learning at the upcoming International Leadership Association (ILA) conference in London, UK on October 27, 2011: http://www.ila-net.org/Conferences/2011/Program3.asp?ProgramDBID=287 I will do my best to document the presentation so we can share it with the OER community. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May your inner success shine and bring you a lot of success. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ramesh, Nellie Thanks for your words of encouragement. Wikieducator's vision of providing free learning materials for all students worldwide combined with opportunities to gain credible credentials through the OERu is an ambitious initiative. I now know that this is fundamentally doable judging by the caliber of post-secondary institutions joining the initiative. It's amazing to see how we can collaborate across international boundaries to provide more affordable access to higher education for the millions of learners currently excluded from the formal education sector. That said -- congratulations for this good news should be directed to the leadership of ESC and the team at the Center for Distance Learning at Empire State College, not too mention faculty members and our very own Joyce McKnigh http://wikieducator.org/User:Joyce_McKnightt (a WikiEducator UPE winner). I suspect that organisational leadership in distance education is predestined. ESC pioneered the open curriculum back in the early 1970s. Again, they are at the forefront of leading collaborative OER university networks. You know what they say -- you can't lead from behind. Institutions who want to lead from the front with reference to OER futures should consider joining this winning team! See: 5 Things you should know about the OER university network planhttp://wikieducator.org/images/7/7d/OERu.pdf . Wayne On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:14 PM, R C Sharma rcsharma_guy...@yahoo.comwrote: Hello Wayne, Greetings. Congratulations... Joining of Empire State College of the State University of New York to OERu Network is indeed a good news! Sincerely ramesh sharma -- R. C. Sharma, PhD Regional Director Indira Gandhi National Open University Regional Centre Panaji, Behind Chodankar Hospital, Near PT Staff Quarters, Alto Porvorim - 403 521 Goa (India) Ph. +91-832-2414553 [image: Logo] http:/// -- *From:* Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com *To:* WikiEducator wikieducator@googlegroups.com; wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com; oer-univers...@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:52 AM *Subject:* [WE Teacher Collaboration] New York's open university joins forces with the OERu Hi Everyone ... An important update. Empire State College of the State University of New York joins forces with the OER university network. Read more: New York's open university
[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Free course: Online Learning .. Today and tomorrow
I also registered. I love MOOCs. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May your inner success shine and bring you a lot of success. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Ray Schroeder at The Center for Online Learning, Research and Servicehttp://colrs.uis.edu/at the University of Illinois Springfield http://www.uis.edu/ alerted me to a Massive Open Online Class (MOOC) on “Online Learning Today...and Tomorrow.” (See article in the Chronicle of Higher Educationhttp://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/u-of-illinois-at-springfield-offers-new-massive-open-online-course/31853.) The course is *free*, based on *OERs* and will being on *27 June 2011*. A great opportunity to share thoughts and ideas and contemplate the future of online learning with hundreds of educators worldwide. There is also an impressive line up of panellists. *Register today*: http://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/ I'm off to register now ... Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, WikiEducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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] Let's build an OER university together -- Poster for open planning meeting available
Wayne and everyone, I would love to contribute as a curriculum development and instructional course designer expert. This may be a dream come true for me since my goal is to promote free e-learning. BTW, there is a free university called the University of the People http://www.uopeople.org/ right now that only costs about $100 for registration and uses Moodle for its course management system. However, it has not received accreditation, yet. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May your inner success shine and bring you a lot of success. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, We're pleased to confirm that UNESCO will sponsor a live stream of the open planning meeting scheduled for 23 February 2011 here in Dunedin. This is the first step in building an OER university to provide free learning for all students of the world with pathways for formal academic credit. We need your help in drafting the plans for an ambitious and exciting project. Download a copy of the poster for the planning meeting and email this to your friends and colleagues encouraging them to join our open planning meeting. See: http://wikieducator.org/images/f/f7/OER-uni.pdf Visit the landing page for the OER for assessment and credit for students projecthttp://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students. The aim of the open planning meeting is to develop first drafts of the planning documents for building an OER universityhttp://wikieducator.org/OER_university. 2011 will be a quantum shift year for OER! Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20 Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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] Another milestone for WIkiEducator
WOW, that is awesome, Wayne. Thanks for the updates. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May your inner success shine and bring you a lot of success. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Wow! I just visited our stats page ( http://wikieducator.org/Special:Statistics) and see that we now have 17,002 registered users. This is somewhat ahead of our predicted growth trends based on historical data. Well done WikEducator. I also see that we are on the verge of recording 1 million page views on the WIkiEducator landing page :-) Will be interesting to see which region will be awake to first report the 1 million page view threshold of our landing page on the list! Anyone want to guess which month, or day we will achieve this milestone in 2011? Our next free wiki workshop starts on 2 February 2011. Spread the word -- more participants mean we reach our goals sooner. Here's the registration link to pass on to your friends, post in your blogs and tweet to the world: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C49/Register 2011 will be a quantum shift year for OER. More news tomorrow about the OER University Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20 Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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] Happy New Year -- Did you know?
Wow! That's great news, Wayne. WE Rocks!!! Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May your inner success shine and bring you a lot of success. On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, From all of us at the OER Foundation and the WikiEducator family, we wish you the very best for 2011! Did you know: - WikiEducator served 1,3 million unique visitors this year - The OER Foundation provided free wiki training to 1284 educators this year - We have exceeded our predicted growth for 2010 -- WE now has 16.891 register users welcoming 4567 new WikiEducators to our family this year. With your help, 2011 will be a quantum shift year for open education. - We are planning to establish the foundations for providing free learning to all learners of the world with alternatives for informal OER learners to earn formal credit for their learning. See: http://wikieducator.org/OER_for_Assessment_and_Credit_for_Students - We are also planning to initiative the world's largest training initiative on open content licensing for Educators: See: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Content_Licensing/Home WE look forward to seeing you in the new year! Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation http://www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and elected Community Council Member, Wikieducatorhttp://www.wikieducator.org%20 Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter http://twitter.com/#%21/Mackiwg | identi.cahttp://identi.ca/waynemackintosh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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
Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] RE: [WikiEducator] User Page Expo Award Winners
Hello Everyone, I would like to add that you are invited to suggest users for the UPS awards. Thank you. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Hi Everbody/Dear Savithri, I need to correct a small misperception. User pages are suggestions that come from the community to Nellie and I. While we of course spot them too, mostly they are recommendations from our Wiki friends that reach us for consideration for the Awards. Thanks in any case! Warm wishes, Patricia *From:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Savithri Singh *Sent:* Monday, September 13, 2010 11:42 AM *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Cc:* wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: [WikiEducator] User Page Expo Award Winners Dear Jenni and Cynthia, Congratulations. Your pages are real good and trust Patricia to spot them! :) Savithri On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: Dear Friends, Pease help us congratulate the winners of the WikiEducator User page Expo Awards (http://www.wikieducator.org/UPE) for the month of August and September 2010. They are both well deserved. The winners are: Jenni Parker for August at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:jennip and Cynthia D’Costa for September at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Agnes Congratulations to both of you!! Warm wishes Patricia and Nellie *Patricia Schlicht and Nellie Deutsch* * * * * *http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht* *http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller* * * -- 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 -- Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110019 Ph: 011 26294542, 011 29293224 Res: 25848151, 25843496 Fax: 011 26294540, Res: 25848151 http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article397395.ece http://eduframe.net/andc http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://andc.info http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. -- 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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: Passing of a WikiEducator friend; Chris Babowal
Thank you for sharing the news, Randy. Her son contacted me right away to tell me that she was no longer with us. Chris and I were very close for a number of years. I brought her to WikiEducator because she knew she had little time left and wanted to share her work with the world. She loved WikiEducator but didn't make it. She contacted me a day before her death. I am finding it very hard to let her go. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, EDD/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, It is with deep regret that I am writing to inform you of the passing of Chris Babowal - a friend of WikiEducator. http://wikieducator.org/User:Babceo She was passionate about Open Source for Education - and collaborated with a number of people in our WikiEducator community... I have been in touch with her family, and they have graciously provided some detail about her, her life and interests. A private funeral was held for immediate family on Thursday, August 19, 2010. A Mass in celebration of her life will be held in early September. For more details contact her son, Michael Babowal at mbabo...@me.com. Her bio follows this message (below). On behalf or our WikiEducator community, I wish to say May her memory be a blessing, and may her family know no further sorrow. - Randy On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Chris Babowal bab...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Randy, I know that she was very much into Open Source for Education and online testing. It was a dream of hers to one day have her oral/aural testing available to take online. Here is a short bio and a couple of pictures of her. Born January 14, 1950 in San Francisco, CA - Mary Christine Chris (Nason) Babowal, made her journey home to God on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at her home in San Jose, CA. She leaves behind her husband Roger of 35 year, daughter Miche'al Christine Shelly (34), son Roger Michael II (32), daughter-in-law Crystal (28) and grandson Roger Michael III (10 and 1/2 months). Chris was the founder, president and chairman of Babowal Associates, Inc. Babowal Associates, Inc. provided ARELS American English examinations and certificate programs, since 1992. Chris had been trained to develop listening and speaking tests using the ARELS methods by the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations, a department within the University of Oxford, England and ARELS, the Association of Recognized English Language Schools. The ARELS speaking and listening examinations were among the earliest creators (1962) of semi-direct listening and speaking test in the world. She ventured into the business English testing by developing a needs analysis process call Functional Language Task Analysis based off of Jorie Phillippi Kennedy's Functional Task Analysis. Mrs. Babowal taught individuals from every educational level (preschool to post graduate) and provided training in corporate settings. She was made an esquire of the University of Oxford when she signed a partnership agreement with them in 1994. The Babowal Associates, Inc. and University of Oxford partnership agreement was the first for-profit partnership of the University of Oxford in their 900-year history. She held a BS in Aeronautic Engineering and BA in Early Childhood Development and an MA in Secondary Education. She also had certificates in English as a Second Language (ESL) from San Jose State and held a California teacher's certificate and Adult Education Supervision and Coordination. She was certified by Jorie Phillippi Kennedy to provide Functional Task Analysis, FTA in 1989. By 1992, Mrs. Babowal had added language to the analysis and called it Functional Language Task Analysis. When working in the public school sector, she was responsible for the development of ESL parenting classes, several workplace and family literacy ESL programs that are still in use throughout the San Francisco Bay area. She was a dedicated wife, proud and loving mother and grandmother. Chris enjoyed spending time with her husband, daughter, son, daughter-in-law, grandson and dog. She had a passion for learning about other languages cultures, reading, listening to books on tape, decorating, cooking, health, knitting and travel. A private funeral was held for immediate family on Thursday, August 19, 2010. A Mass in celebration of her life will be held in early September. For more details contact her son, Michael Babowal at mbabo
[WikiEducator] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Athabasca University - international leader in open education is founding member of OERF
This is very exciting news, Wayne. I am looking forward to seeing other Open Universities around the world on WikiEducator. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com/ Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learninghttp://www.integrating-technology.org/ I present at WiZiQ http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: HI Everyone, Canada's premier online university and international leader in open education is a founding member of the OER Foundation. Athabasca University holds the accolade of the first university to join the OER Foundation and is now a Featured Institution of the Foundation. WE are proud to profile a personal interview with Professor Rory McGreal, Associate Vice President (Research) at Athabasca University. This interview is a great read. See: http://wikieducator.org/Athabasca_University/Case_study Well done Canada! WE are inspired by your leadership and have much to learn from your foresight. You can also be the change you want to see in the OER world. Chat with your organisations and join the OER Foundation in co-designing and collaborating on strategic and sustainable futures for education today. You could be the next organisation profiled as a featured institution! Join the OERF as an individual or institutional Donor Partner ( http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Donate) or Bronze, Silver or Gold Contributing Member (https://oerfoundation.org/oerf/). Email i...@oerfoundation.org for further information. Cheers Wayne *Why should you donate to the OER Foundation?* *Access to learning and acquisition of knowledge should be freely available to all humanity. Any and every effort to realise this vision must be welcomed and enthusiastically supported by all. Wikieducator's Open Educational Resource Foundation is one such tremendously clever effort bringing together and distributing freely, learning resources by using new technologies and pedagogies.* Tan Sri Dato’ Emeritus Prof. Gajaraj Dhanarajan, Hon. Director, Institute for Research and Innovation and founding Vice Chancellor of Wawasan Open University http://www.wou.edu.my/, Malaysia -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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] WikiEducator helps our wiki friends
Wayne, This is joyous news for WE. Thank you for sharing. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning http://www.integrating-technology.org Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Wikipedia is planning the launch of the Public Policy Initiative this fall semester in the US whereby faculty will use the wiki as a teaching tool to enhance the quality of Public Policy articles in Wikipedia. The OER Foundation and WikiEducator are helping our friends at Wikipedia, by serving on the Advisory Board for the project which includes representation from from the University of Georgia, American University’s Washington College, the University of Mississippi, George Washington University, Harvard University, Indiana University and the US Consumers Union. WE are proud to be able to help our friends at the Wikimedia Foundation. This demonstrates the power of the free culture --- by collaborating we all achieve more! See: http://blog.wikimedia.org/ Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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
Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Congratulations WIkiEducator -- 15,000 users!
Congratulations to WEducators! Next stage is getting all those 15,000 members to open their pockets and donate money. It's easy to do. Every page on WE now has a donation button. You need to dream to make a dream come true. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com Moodle @ IT4ALL http://www.integrating-technology.org IT4ALL Global Exchange http://www.integrating-technology.com http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/RegistrationWiki @ IT4ALLhttp://wiki.integrating-technology.org MoodleMoot 2011 @ IT4ALL http://moodlemoot.integrating-technology.org Connecting Online @ IT4ALL http://co.integrating-technology.com Nellie's English Projects http://www.nelliemuller.com/ WiZiQ Profile http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller --- @ WiseStamp Signaturehttp://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=pdx5m584v3tv9mr6site=www.wisestamp.com/email-install. Get it nowhttp://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=pdx5m584v3tv9mr6site=www.wisestamp.com/email-install Dr. Nellie Deutsch Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi WikiEriends CHEERS! 15,017 members alreadyvery encouraging progress indeed. Motivates us to work harder ..the world is becoming aware of OER's and it is delightful to see so many educators wanting to get down to developing them. Warm wishes Gita Mathur On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 10:39 +1200, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: Hi Everyone, Wow -- overnight we achieved the 15,000 user threshold! Not bad for the summer / winter break depending on where you reside. On 1 July 2010, we celebrated our milestone of 14,500 users. Three weeks later WE celebrate reaching 15K. Well done WikiEducator! We speculated whether we would achieve 15,000 users by the end of this month -- not too unreasonable given that we're hosting our record breaking WikiEducator Gives Back workshop (currently with 379 registered participants form 50 countries!). Nonetheless a great achievement -- 500 new accounts in 3 weeks. Shall we try another record? 400 registered participants for the WikiEducator Gives Back workshop before the weekend? Perhaps we're pushing our luck? There is still time to enrol as we've only just started. Help spread the word --- this is an amazing workshop demonstrating the power of community collaboration. See: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C41/About OER will change the world for the better! Just watch this space :-) Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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] WE celebrate another milestone!
Congratulations to WE for breaking WE's previous record. Way to go, team!!! Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com Moodle @ IT4ALL http://www.integrating-technology.org IT4ALL Global Exchange http://www.integrating-technology.com http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/RegistrationWiki @ IT4ALLhttp://wiki.integrating-technology.org MoodleMoot 2011 @ IT4ALL http://moodlemoot.integrating-technology.org Connecting Online @ IT4ALL http://co.integrating-technology.com Nellie's English Projects http://www.nelliemuller.com/ WiZiQ Profile http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller --- @ WiseStamp Signaturehttp://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=pdx5m584v3tv9mr6site=www.wisestamp.com/email-install. Get it nowhttp://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=pdx5m584v3tv9mr6site=www.wisestamp.com/email-install Dr. Nellie Deutsch Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, WE have just achieved another milestone. Let's celebrate our achievement and continue making history together! Our WIkiEducator Gives Back workshop has registered 300 participants from 42 different countries. (Previously our record for the most participants registered for a Learning4Content workshop was 284.) Registrations are still open -- we have a week to go before we commence our record breaking WikiEducator Gives Back workshop. See: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C41/About Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director OER Foundation: www.oerfoundation.org Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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: UPE Winners for June and July 2010 - Congratulations!
Congratulations to Rob and Sanjay. Thank you for sharing, Patricia. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com Moodle @ IT4ALL http://www.integrating-technology.org IT4ALL Global Exchange http://www.integrating-technology.com http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/RegistrationWiki @ IT4ALLhttp://wiki.integrating-technology.org MoodleMoot 2011 @ IT4ALL http://moodlemoot.integrating-technology.org Connecting Online @ IT4ALL http://co.integrating-technology.com Nellie's English Projects http://www.nelliemuller.com/ WiZiQ Profile http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller --- @ WiseStamp Signaturehttp://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=pdx5m584v3tv9mr6site=www.wisestamp.com/email-install. Get it nowhttp://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=pdx5m584v3tv9mr6site=www.wisestamp.com/email-install Dr. Nellie Deutsch Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: Dear Friends, As you all know, WikiEducator honors its stellar members and innovative community in different ways. We are proud of our fabulous members from all over the world and the contributions they have made to this project. The User Page Expo Award http://UPE is a monthly feature maintained by Nellie Deutsch and Patricia Schlicht, to honor innovative user pages and exemplary members. A little belated, but please meet June's winner, *Robert Kruhlak http://UPE#June_2010*and July's winner, *Sanjay Kumar Pandagalhttp://UPE#July_2010 * * * July 2010 Sanjay Kumar Pandagale 's first edit was made in early June of 2009. His page is exemplary and shows his creative talents and joy in the task. He is an Assistant Professor at NCERT in India, currently situated at Regional Institute of Education in Bhopal, which is a constituent unit of National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi. In the last 7 years he has been working in different capacities like, State Coordinator of Maharashtra and Goa, in-charge of Computer Resource Center, “co-in charge” of Educational Technology Cell, Coordinator of Working With Community programme, House Adviser and Technical Person for EDUSAT programme. He has co-facilitated Learning4Content workshops on WikiEducator in collaboration with our team. Congratulations Sanjay. This is well deserved. June 2010 Robert Kruhlak is our June UPE winner. Rob is not only an appointed member of the WikiEducator Community Council, he has also been with WikiEducator from the beginning stages and his contributions to WikiEducator unbeknown to many have been invaluable. He is a technical wizzard and recently converted the new WikiEducator Rich Text editing tutorials, so many of our Newbies enjoy. Rob's user page demonstrates the many WikiEducator projects he had his hands in. He is creative and innovative thinker who applies himself to the task at hand with dedication and commitment. Rob also led L4C Newbies in one of our Learning4Content workshops training basic wiki editing skills not too long ago. Congratulations, Rob. This is long overdue. * * Congratulations to both of you Warm wishes, Patricia *Patricia Schlicht* *Learning4Content Coordinator** *** -- 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] Congratulations WIkiEducator -- 14,500 registered users!
Wow, WE is growing at a really fast pace. Let's see if WE can reach 15,000 by getting 500 more participants for the upcoming L4C workshop led by Wayne and other facilitators from around the globe. Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch, Ed/CI Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com Moodle @ IT4ALL http://www.integrating-technology.org IT4ALL Global Exchange http://www.integrating-technology.com http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/RegistrationWiki @ IT4ALLhttp://wiki.integrating-technology.org MoodleMoot 2011 @ IT4ALL http://moodlemoot.integrating-technology.org Connecting Online @ IT4ALL http://co.integrating-technology.com Nellie's English Projects http://www.nelliemuller.com/ WiZiQ Profile http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller --- @ WiseStamp Signaturehttp://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=pdx5m584v3tv9mr6site=www.wisestamp.com/email-install. Get it nowhttp://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=pdx5m584v3tv9mr6site=www.wisestamp.com/email-install Warm wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Wow -- we're on the verge of reaching 15.000 registered users on WikiEducator and WE're growing by the day :-) This is an amazing accomplishment made possible by the gifting culture of educators living out their vocation. We are collaborating with thousands of teachers, lecturers and trainers around the world who are committed to achieving a meaningful educational mission: the belief that learning materials should be freely available for all students of the world. With the magic of the open web and digital networks, we *will* achieve our goals without infringing on the basic human rights of creators and distributors of knowledge to earn a living. That's sustainable education for all! Cheers Wayne -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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] WIkiEducator Gives Back free online workshop - please share our poster
Thank you, Gita for the initiative. The poster is beautiful. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Apology for the duplicate post -- just want to make sure you have the correct version with the typo fixed (with thanks to everyone who reported my poor spelling / typing ;-) ) We're on track to achieve a new milestone for WikiEducator: The highest number of enrolments for a Learning4Content workshop in celebration of providing free training opportunities to more than 4,000 educators! We have already received 70 registrations from 18 different countries after our first week of registrations! We growing by the day :-) You can help WikiEducator by spreading the word among your networks. Please point prospective participants to: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C41/About Wow - -we've already recorded 1,300 page views on the participant page :-) * A free poster to share with your neighbours* Many WikiEducators do not have 24/7 Internet connectivity and they may not have the advantage of receiving our social networking announcements for this celebratory workshop (e.g. blogs, twitter, identi.ca, facebook etc.). You can help to spread the word by printing out the poster attached and posting this on your institutions noticeboard, or distributing in the pigeonhole message boxes at your instituion. Feel free to email the poster as an attachment to your colleagues and friends. (With thanks and acknowledgement to Gita Mathur ( http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur) in India for this smart recruitment idea.). You can also view and download the poster online: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C41/Poster Anybody want to predict the number of participants for the WIkiEducator Gives Back workshop? How many countries will we reach with this celebratory workshop? We could institution a community Kudos prize for the best prediction :-). Exciting times -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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] Improved messaging that wiki edits are public :-)
This is excellent initiative, Wayne. Thank you for showing sensitivity to personal and cultural differences. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch, ED/CI (c) Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Passionate about Learning http://nellie-deutsch.com Moodle @ IT4ALL http://www.integrating-technology.org IT4ALL Global Exchange http://www.integrating-technology.com WikiEducator L4C Workshopshttp://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration Nellie's English Projects http://www.nelliemuller.com/ WiZiQ Profile http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Contact Me [image: Linkedin] http://ca.linkedin.com/in/nelliemuller[image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/#%21/nelliemuller[image: Etsy]http://www.etsy.com/listing/48873500/bell-flower-earrings[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/nelliemuller --- @ WiseStamp Signaturehttp://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=pdx5m584v3tv9mr6site=www.wisestamp.com/email-install. Get it nowhttp://my.wisestamp.com/link?u=pdx5m584v3tv9mr6site=www.wisestamp.com/email-install On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, As you know, WikiEducator is a wiki which subscribes to the values of the free culture --- and we don't want to be anything else when we grow up :-) However, WikiEducator is the first wiki account created by the majority of our new users and some educators may not be aware that their edits are published transparently on the Internet. I've clarified the copyright notice which is displayed for every edit before clicking the save button as follows: All edits are published to the Internet and you are *personally responsible* for your contributions which may be reused, revised, remixed and redistributed. In this way we maintain and respect the freedom of our contributors. Cheers Wayne -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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] New User Page Award Winner
Congratulations, Mary. Your userpage is amazing!!! Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch, ED/CI (c) Sharing is Caring! Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Register for WikiEducator L4C workshop: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration Nellie's English Projects: http://www.nelliemuller.com http://www.wiziq.com/nelliemuller Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.org Ning has stopped their free services and may soon shut down altogether, so we decided to create our own social network http://www.integrating-technology.com On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Dear All A little delayed but with pleasure we would like to announce May’s User page Award winner, Mary Ziller. http://wikieducator.org/User:Redcamarocruiser Mary won for the demonstration of creative skills and talents which makes her page stand out. Congratulations, Mary. This is well-deserved. At the same time we would like to thank Peter Rawsthorne for his dedicated efforts and time given to the Awards, which WikiEducator appreciated very much. Consequently, we have room for a new volunteer to come in, to help us out on this level. Warm wishes, The UPE Awards Team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator quoted in Salem News
Hi Jan, I am also trying to understand it. I was concerned with the fact that my students' names were used as the reporters when in fact they had done an English project in 2009. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Nellie's English Projects: http://www.nelliemuller.com Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com It takes as little as $1.00 to help support and keep the professional development workshops free on IT4ALL https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclickhosted_button_id=VW7AMWRVZTJGQ On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jan Visser jvis...@learndev.org wrote: Hi Nellie, I'm just trying to understand this. I read the piece by the students at http://wikieducator.org/Holocaust/Survivor_Support/Israel/Poverty. Whatever its merit, isn't the idea that folks can use material available on the WE pages provided they attribute source and authorship? If they did so correctly (which they claim they did), then I don't think you can validly protest against such use (but you can of course interact with those who seemingly misinterpret you, if that's the case, which I am not sure of). There may be an issue with the age of students who contribute to the WikiEducator pages. My sense is, if the students felt uncomfortable about their being republished they should have contacted Salem News themselves, rather than their teacher. My question, to the WE community, is: Should there be a policy (if there isn't yet) that people should be of legal age to contribute to WE and thus be expected to be held responsible for what they write? It's not a matter that I normally deal with, but I presume we can learn from WikiPedia. Jan -- Jan Visser, Ph.D. President Sr. Researcher, Learning Development Institute E-mail: jvis...@learndev.org Check out: http://www.learndev.org and http://www.facebook.com/learndev Blog: http://jvisser-ldi.blogspot.com/ -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of nelliemuller Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:10 AM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] WikiEducator quoted in Salem News Hello Fellow WikiEducators, I thought you may find this article on two of my students who were quoted as reporters for Salem News: http://salem-news.com/articles/march102010/israel-survivors.php Can WikiEducator be used as a source of news information after a whole year? Well, it was until I intervened and look where it got me. Warm wishes, Nellie -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] Digital StoryTelling Resources
Thank you, Alison. For those interested, David is also going to facilitate a workshop at http://www.integrating-technology.com/course/view.php?id=8 You may register now. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com View the recordings and join the discussions on CO10: http://www.integrating-technology.com/course/view.php?id=140 On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Alison Snieckus alison.sniec...@gmail.comwrote: Hi David, Great information, wonderful presentation. Thanks for sharing. There is a group of wikieducators who participate in a regular storytelling event, storytelling and cultures, and have organized a workshop on storytelling. Check out their storytelling pages: http://wikieducator.org/Storytelling_workshop Other pages to checkout: Digital storytelling page: http://wikieducator.org/Digital_storytelling Storytelling category (list of related pages): http://wikieducator.org/Category:Storytelling WE'd love to have you share your expertise by enhancing our learning resources. Hope your presentation was a success. Alison http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:47 PM, David Brear dkbr...@gmail.com wrote: I am presenting the following later today. Here is the Slideshow and the corresponding Web site http://www.slideshare.net/dbrear/digital-storytelling-vsb http://sites.google.com/site/digitalstorytelling2/ StoryTelling is amazing. I hope you find the slideshow and the resources site helpful. Enjoy !! Dave -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] Tables cell aliagnment
Hi Wayne,
Great to have you back on the forum. I must say I missed you very much. I am
sure many are looking forward to the using the rich editor in two weeks.
Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
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Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
The Facilitators
Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL)
http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd
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Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Wayne Mackintosh
mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi David,
Within the next fortnight we'll be implementing the WYSIWYG editor on WE.
So in the near future you won't need to mess around with wiki syntax for
tables :-).
However, if you're in a hurry you can add XHTML attributes to Mediawiki
tables -
See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables
Assume this simple 2-cell table:
{| class=prettytable
|-
| Cell 1
| Cell 2
|-
|}
You can, for instance specify the background color, alignment and width of
Cell 1 as follows:
{| class=wikitable
|-
| width=60% bgcolor=#cc align=left | Cell 1
| Cell 2
|-
|}
(Note the insertion of the additional pipe | after the attributes for
Cell 1. )
Cheers
Wayne
2010/1/24 David Leeming leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sb
Hi, a techie question
I have been using Open Office to create tables and export as MediaWiki
code to the Wikieducator. I would like to know how to force cell alignment
(i.e. top, left justified). Appreciate any advice.
David Leeming, Solomon Islands
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Re: [WikiEducator] Tables cell aliagnment
Hi David,
That's a good point. What are the L4C going to include now that the rich
editor will be implemented?
Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
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On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David Leeming
leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sbwrote:
Thanks Wayne, that was what I wanted to know, where to put the
attributes. Looking forwards to the new editor! I will be out of a job for
my “tricks up my sleeve” will be made redundant!
David
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wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Wayne Mackintosh
*Sent:* Monday, 25 January 2010 10:00 a.m.
*To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [WikiEducator] Tables cell aliagnment
Hi David,
Within the next fortnight we'll be implementing the WYSIWYG editor on WE.
So in the near future you won't need to mess around with wiki syntax for
tables :-).
However, if you're in a hurry you can add XHTML attributes to Mediawiki
tables -
See: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables
Assume this simple 2-cell table:
{| class=prettytable
|-
| Cell 1
| Cell 2
|-
|}
You can, for instance specify the background color, alignment and width of
Cell 1 as follows:
{| class=wikitable
|-
| width=60% bgcolor=#cc align=left | Cell 1
| Cell 2
|-
|}
(Note the insertion of the additional pipe | after the attributes for
Cell 1. )
Cheers
Wayne
2010/1/24 David Leeming
leem...@pipolfastaem.gov.sbleem...@pipolfastaem..gov.sb
Hi, a techie question
I have been using Open Office to create tables and export as MediaWiki code
to the Wikieducator. I would like to know how to force cell alignment (i.e.
top, left justified). Appreciate any advice.
David Leeming, Solomon Islands
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Re: [WikiEducator] Referencing Software - Harvard
Thank you, but why the download :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Wong Leo leolao...@gmail.com wrote: I use Mendeley , http://www.mendeley.com/ It is very easy to use 2010/1/18 Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com Hi Peter, would Zotero do the trick? http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=citationtoolspageid=icb.page146102 - Randy On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Peter McCrory petemccr...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know of a reliable software package that supports Harvard referencing, that is downloadable from the web for free and is supported by IE8? Many thanks *Peter McCrory* * * T. +44 1522 514422 M. +44 7812 080853 E. petemccr...@btinternet.com Skype. peter.mccrory Twitter: @Peter_RAFUltra www.wikieducator.org/User:Wikipeedy *Follow our progress in preparing for the World's Toughest Bike Race at* www.raf-ultra.co.uk -- 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 -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant, Organization Development, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com -- 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 -- Leo Wong -- http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/ HELP There is something very special and powerful about engaging directly with the real teacher and real Kids -- 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 -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] How wikieudcator make money ?
Very inspirational, Wayne. So, let's get those signatures, from the membership institutions to contribute a small sum to our mission, coming in. Where do WE start? :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie, WE commend your example of sharing -- without this culture of gifting, humanity looses its reason for existence. Much of our work in general and that of WikiEducator in particular has been inspired by Mahatma Gandhi -- as Gandhi said: Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away. The OER Foundation is committed to finding ways of realising Gandhi's vision through open education -- with the help of all WikiEducators, we can! For example we can encourage our institutions to contribute a small sum to our mission (less than an average business lunch in the industrial world for a standard membership). In the real world -- without money coming in (through grant funding, institutional membership contributions, government contracts etc) -- we will not have the funding to make you lead facilitator to pay those who join you as co-facilitators :-). You (and many others) in our family exemplify sharing and gifting to help WE's mission -- Thank you! Cheers Wayne 2009/12/17 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Wayne, I have been a lead facilitator for quite a few workshops and have volunteered to many more as co-facilitator in the last year. In addition, I have seen others volunteer as co-facilitators but the numbers are small and it's harder to find more than a name on the list of co-facilitators because it appears people do not have the incentive to actively engage in helping for free. To encourage others to co-facilitate, I am now sharing my pay with the co-facilitators so that I can contribute to Article 23(3) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So, Wayne, I encourage you to make me a lead facilitator so I can share my pay with those who joins me as co-facilitators. I hope to encourage other members of WikiEducator to do the same. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie, I agree -- Article 23(3) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. This is one of the prime reasons the OER Foundation subscribes to the free cultural works definition to respect the rights and freedom of individuals to earn a living from OER. Since the inception of WikiEducator and the Learning4Content project -- to date with generous funding support from the Hewlett Foundation the Commonwealth of Learning we have paid a facilitators fee for the lead facilitator of each workshop. We are also very fortunate because many WikiEducators have volunteered and gifted their time as co-facilitators (which we do not remunerate due to funding constraints.) I am proud to see so many of our L4C facilitators who volunteer their time to support other workshops as co-facilitators when they're not being paid as lead facilitator. As Wikieducator grows and prepares for scaling-up and building a sustainable OER ecosystem there will be more opportunities for us to honour Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights :-). Working together we will achieve these aims and every WikiEducator will be able to contribute to our future success in a variety of roles. Lets make the future happen! Cheers Wayne 2009/12/17 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Wayne, WE volunteers are passionate about the cause but need to make a living. Money is not a dirty word and everyone who spends hours
Re: [WikiEducator] How wikieudcator make money ?
Wayne, This is very doable so let's get started as a team because as a team WE can make a difference to all its members. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie Good question! A good place to start is by reading the planing documents for the OER Foundation: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Planning (and supporting FAQ's etc.) - and hey -- if these are not up to scratch, we can improve them through discussions and multiple iterations. This is our project. Let's cultivate a shared vision for the future -- the wiki way. With this knowledge -- as individuals we can inform our institutions about what we are doing and why we're doing it. We can show our institutions how to become more productive and effective using OER. For those of us working in the formal education sector, we can encourage our institutions to consider memberships --- WE are the marketing team for our WE futures! If there are questions, ideas or requests for guidance and support -- post them on this list. Remember our community motto -- Just try it, our community will support you! I don't know how our future path will evolve -- but I do know that working together, we can make the future happen. Think about the future as an asset -- rather than an unknown entity. With this knowledge -- we can do the magic :-) Gee -- we live in exciting times. Cheers Wayne 2009/12/17 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Very inspirational, Wayne. So, let's get those signatures, from the membership institutions to contribute a small sum to our mission, coming in. Where do WE start? :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie, WE commend your example of sharing -- without this culture of gifting, humanity looses its reason for existence. Much of our work in general and that of WikiEducator in particular has been inspired by Mahatma Gandhi -- as Gandhi said: Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away. The OER Foundation is committed to finding ways of realising Gandhi's vision through open education -- with the help of all WikiEducators, we can! For example we can encourage our institutions to contribute a small sum to our mission (less than an average business lunch in the industrial world for a standard membership). In the real world -- without money coming in (through grant funding, institutional membership contributions, government contracts etc) -- we will not have the funding to make you lead facilitator to pay those who join you as co-facilitators :-). You (and many others) in our family exemplify sharing and gifting to help WE's mission -- Thank you! Cheers Wayne 2009/12/17 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Wayne, I have been a lead facilitator for quite a few workshops and have volunteered to many more as co-facilitator in the last year. In addition, I have seen others volunteer as co-facilitators but the numbers are small and it's harder to find more than a name on the list of co-facilitators because it appears people do not have the incentive to actively engage in helping for free. To encourage others to co-facilitate, I am now sharing my pay with the co-facilitators so that I can contribute to Article 23(3) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So, Wayne, I encourage you to make me a lead facilitator so I can share my pay with those who joins me as co-facilitators. I hope to encourage other members of WikiEducator to do the same. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http
Re: [WikiEducator] How wikieudcator make money ?
Thank you, Randy. I added the OER Nav. It was a question of caps on the N. I hope that's what you wanted. If not, you can always delete it. Do you want to add financial sustainability to the template? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I think this is important stuff - and we need it on the wiki - so, I've posted it in this namespace: http://www.wikieducator.org/OERF:Financial_Sustainability Wayne, I'm still having trouble with the OERF_nav templatewhy's that? - Randy On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Leo, that's a good question. Apology for the long email -- but lots of information to cover in answering your question. The OER Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation responsible for raising the funds to run WikiEducator.org and very soon we will also launch WikiResearcher.org :-). We need money to pay for our infrastructure, for example: hosting the servers, technical support, software development and honoraria for our facilitators so we can continue to provide free training for thousands of educators in more than 115 countries around the world. As a non-profit all surplus funds we generate will be reinvested back into the development of OER courses, open text books etc. For example we will pay authors, learning designers and multi-media experts to create OER courses and open text books which we will be free to reuse, adapt and modify. The OER Foundation will ensure that WikiEducator.org, WikiResearcher.org will not carry advertising -- so we can't raise funding through advertising revenue on our OER sites. The OER Foundation will generate income and support from multiple sources, including: - Grant funding (from international donor agencies and international development agencies). For example, strategic projects currently funded by the Hewlett Foundation and the financial contribution from the Commonwealth of Learning to help pay for the hosting of our servers. - Institutional membership contributions from tertiary education institutions. We have a range of different membership categories ranging from a base line membership - to bronze, silver, gold and platinum membership levels. ( http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Join#Table_of_OERF_membership_benefits_-_Detailed_Comparison) . Each membership category provides a range of benefits and services. As a global project it is possible for the OER Foundation to design a model whereby the dollar value of services exceeds the cost of voluntary membership contributions :-) - Voluntary public donations -- WE will implement a donation button on our site for people who would like to support our international work. Every year we will run a global donation campaign with the first campaign scheduled for February / March 2010. - Government and corporate contracts, for example the work we are doing for the Ministry of Education in New Zealand to establish a national OER commons for New Zealand teachers. (see: http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ_News ) WikiEducator has extensive reach in the developing world and we recognise that many organisations may not have the money to become contributing members. Therefore we have a special category of membership called FTE4WikiEducator Members. These organisations will allocate dedicated staff time and the OER Foundation will seek to find sponsorship from platinum members and the international donor community to assist in covering the costs of membership. As you know, the OER Foundation subscribes to open philanthropy which means that all our planning documents are developed openly and transparently in the wiki :-). If you're interested you can review our strategic plans here: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Planning OER is a sustainable and renewable resource -- and working together on an international scale we can achieve more than working alone! WE are about to start our recruitment drive for founding members. Any organisation who becomes a contributing member before 30 June 2009 will be recognised as a founding member. This is an opportunity for organisations to make the future happen and be recorded in history of transforming education for the better. So spread the word, blog about what we're doing and we will be able to tell our grandchildren how WE nurtured and succeeded in building a sustainable OER ecosystem. Cheers Wayne 2009/12/17 Wong Leo leolao...@gmail.com http://www.hudong.com/ is a wiki software
Re: [WikiEducator] temporary hiatus
Jesse, Thank you for the explanation. I am sure 2010 will bring lots of great things your way. Stay in touch. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, As a few of you know, I found myself in financial trouble in the autumn, and was unable to move to England, as I had been planning for two years. The situation has left me unemployed and with the way the economy in the US has been, things have got fairly bad. I've been putting it off, but it's time to admit that I just don't have the time or energy for keeping up with the projects I've started at WE, in the capacity that I feel is expected of me. I'll still keep up on the mailing list, and I'll answer any direct questions you send to my talk page or email, but the projects are just too much. I can also be found idling in the IRC channel. The good news is that because WE are collaborative, neither projects really *need* me, and I can think of at least one very capable person in both the guidelines and the categories workgroups that are more than capable of facilitating and guiding the efforts of the group. I'll be back, soon, I hope! Love, Jesse Groppi http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi skype: jesse.groppi -- 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 -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] How wikieudcator make money ?
Wayne, WE volunteers are passionate about the cause but need to make a living. Money is not a dirty word and everyone who spends hours upon hours contributing to WE should get paid. I believe an incentive for teachers to contribute to WikiEducator and the development of OERs is monetary rewards. An example of this is today is the system whereby facilitators get paid for the L4C workshops. As it stands, all members would like to facilitate and get paid. I believe this was mentioned by other WE members who would also like a piece of the pie. I believe there should be a reward system for all WE members so that everyone is given the opportunity to serve the community as a facilitator of the L4C worshops and get paid. Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Leo, that's a good question. Apology for the long email -- but lots of information to cover in answering your question. The OER Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation responsible for raising the funds to run WikiEducator.org and very soon we will also launch WikiResearcher.org :-). We need money to pay for our infrastructure, for example: hosting the servers, technical support, software development and honoraria for our facilitators so we can continue to provide free training for thousands of educators in more than 115 countries around the world. As a non-profit all surplus funds we generate will be reinvested back into the development of OER courses, open text books etc. For example we will pay authors, learning designers and multi-media experts to create OER courses and open text books which we will be free to reuse, adapt and modify. The OER Foundation will ensure that WikiEducator.org, WikiResearcher.org will not carry advertising -- so we can't raise funding through advertising revenue on our OER sites. The OER Foundation will generate income and support from multiple sources, including: - Grant funding (from international donor agencies and international development agencies). For example, strategic projects currently funded by the Hewlett Foundation and the financial contribution from the Commonwealth of Learning to help pay for the hosting of our servers. - Institutional membership contributions from tertiary education institutions. We have a range of different membership categories ranging from a base line membership - to bronze, silver, gold and platinum membership levels. ( http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Join#Table_of_OERF_membership_benefits_-_Detailed_Comparison) . Each membership category provides a range of benefits and services. As a global project it is possible for the OER Foundation to design a model whereby the dollar value of services exceeds the cost of voluntary membership contributions :-) - Voluntary public donations -- WE will implement a donation button on our site for people who would like to support our international work. Every year we will run a global donation campaign with the first campaign scheduled for February / March 2010. - Government and corporate contracts, for example the work we are doing for the Ministry of Education in New Zealand to establish a national OER commons for New Zealand teachers. (see: http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ_News ) WikiEducator has extensive reach in the developing world and we recognise that many organisations may not have the money to become contributing members. Therefore we have a special category of membership called FTE4WikiEducator Members. These organisations will allocate dedicated staff time and the OER Foundation will seek to find sponsorship from platinum members and the international donor community to assist in covering the costs of membership. As you know, the OER Foundation subscribes to open philanthropy which means that all our planning documents are developed openly and transparently in the wiki :-). If you're interested you can review our strategic plans here: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Planning OER is a sustainable and renewable resource -- and working together on an international scale we can achieve more than working alone! WE are about to start our recruitment drive for founding members. Any organisation who becomes a contributing member before 30 June 2009 will be recognised as a founding member. This is an opportunity for organisations to make the future happen and be recorded in history of transforming education for the better. So spread the word, blog about what we're doing and we will be able to tell our grandchildren how WE nurtured
Re: [WikiEducator] How wikieudcator make money ?
Wong, Thank you for sharing the information. That's sounds like a fair deal. When I wrote WE, I meant WikiEducator. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Wong Leo leolao...@gmail.com wrote: Hey ,welll , Nellie , I doubt that we could pay for teachers to blog or to write on wiki , so I would invite us to think aloud on this topic What we do here in China is we have a teacher wiki project going on now , the link is here http://xinzhishe.hudong.com/jiaoshi/ YOu can view teacher picture Hudong pay for abt 1000 yuan per teacher ,however on the condition that the teacher need to contribute a certain amount of content in the wiki like 5000 less plans or traning 50 teachers in his or her school to use wiki ( however Hdwiki is not based on Mediawiki , as far as I know , Jim Wels ( Founder of Wikipedia ? ) have paid a visit to HD wiki and talking abt working together to create a Chinese content based Wikipedia . Leo 2009/12/17 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Wayne, WE volunteers are passionate about the cause but need to make a living. Money is not a dirty word and everyone who spends hours upon hours contributing to WE should get paid. I believe an incentive for teachers to contribute to WikiEducator and the development of OERs is monetary rewards. An example of this is today is the system whereby facilitators get paid for the L4C workshops. As it stands, all members would like to facilitate and get paid. I believe this was mentioned by other WE members who would also like a piece of the pie. I believe there should be a reward system for all WE members so that everyone is given the opportunity to serve the community as a facilitator of the L4C worshops and get paid. Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Leo, that's a good question. Apology for the long email -- but lots of information to cover in answering your question. The OER Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation responsible for raising the funds to run WikiEducator.org and very soon we will also launch WikiResearcher.org :-). We need money to pay for our infrastructure, for example: hosting the servers, technical support, software development and honoraria for our facilitators so we can continue to provide free training for thousands of educators in more than 115 countries around the world. As a non-profit all surplus funds we generate will be reinvested back into the development of OER courses, open text books etc. For example we will pay authors, learning designers and multi-media experts to create OER courses and open text books which we will be free to reuse, adapt and modify. The OER Foundation will ensure that WikiEducator.org, WikiResearcher.org will not carry advertising -- so we can't raise funding through advertising revenue on our OER sites. The OER Foundation will generate income and support from multiple sources, including: - Grant funding (from international donor agencies and international development agencies). For example, strategic projects currently funded by the Hewlett Foundation and the financial contribution from the Commonwealth of Learning to help pay for the hosting of our servers. - Institutional membership contributions from tertiary education institutions. We have a range of different membership categories ranging from a base line membership - to bronze, silver, gold and platinum membership levels. ( http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Join#Table_of_OERF_membership_benefits_-_Detailed_Comparison) . Each membership category provides a range of benefits and services. As a global project it is possible for the OER Foundation to design a model whereby the dollar value of services exceeds the cost of voluntary membership contributions :-) - Voluntary public donations -- WE will implement a donation button on our site for people who would like to support our international work. Every year we will run a global donation campaign with the first campaign scheduled for February / March 2010. - Government and corporate contracts, for example the work we are doing for the Ministry of Education in New Zealand to establish a national OER
Re: [WikiEducator] How wikieudcator make money ?
Wayne, I have been a lead facilitator for quite a few workshops and have volunteered to many more as co-facilitator in the last year. In addition, I have seen others volunteer as co-facilitators but the numbers are small and it's harder to find more than a name on the list of co-facilitators because it appears people do not have the incentive to actively engage in helping for free. To encourage others to co-facilitate, I am now sharing my pay with the co-facilitators so that I can contribute to Article 23(3) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So, Wayne, I encourage you to make me a lead facilitator so I can share my pay with those who joins me as co-facilitators. I hope to encourage other members of WikiEducator to do the same. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie, I agree -- Article 23(3) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. This is one of the prime reasons the OER Foundation subscribes to the free cultural works definition to respect the rights and freedom of individuals to earn a living from OER. Since the inception of WikiEducator and the Learning4Content project -- to date with generous funding support from the Hewlett Foundation the Commonwealth of Learning we have paid a facilitators fee for the lead facilitator of each workshop. We are also very fortunate because many WikiEducators have volunteered and gifted their time as co-facilitators (which we do not remunerate due to funding constraints.) I am proud to see so many of our L4C facilitators who volunteer their time to support other workshops as co-facilitators when they're not being paid as lead facilitator. As Wikieducator grows and prepares for scaling-up and building a sustainable OER ecosystem there will be more opportunities for us to honour Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights :-). Working together we will achieve these aims and every WikiEducator will be able to contribute to our future success in a variety of roles. Lets make the future happen! Cheers Wayne 2009/12/17 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Wayne, WE volunteers are passionate about the cause but need to make a living. Money is not a dirty word and everyone who spends hours upon hours contributing to WE should get paid. I believe an incentive for teachers to contribute to WikiEducator and the development of OERs is monetary rewards. An example of this is today is the system whereby facilitators get paid for the L4C workshops. As it stands, all members would like to facilitate and get paid. I believe this was mentioned by other WE members who would also like a piece of the pie. I believe there should be a reward system for all WE members so that everyone is given the opportunity to serve the community as a facilitator of the L4C worshops and get paid. Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Leo, that's a good question. Apology for the long email -- but lots of information to cover in answering your question. The OER Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation responsible for raising the funds to run WikiEducator.org and very soon we will also launch WikiResearcher.org :-). We need money to pay for our infrastructure, for example: hosting the servers, technical support, software development and honoraria for our facilitators so we can continue to provide free training for thousands of educators in more than 115 countries around the world. As a non-profit all surplus funds we generate will be reinvested back into the development of OER courses, open text books etc. For example we will pay authors, learning designers and multi-media experts to create OER courses and open text books which we will be free to reuse, adapt and modify. The OER Foundation will ensure that WikiEducator.org, WikiResearcher.org will not carry advertising -- so we can't raise funding through advertising revenue on our OER
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: December UPE
Hi Gita and congratulations on your son's wedding. Thank you for your kind words. I miss our collaborative work on WikiEducator. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Friends I am back here at WikiEducator after a break for my son's wedding. It is a pleasure to see December 2009 UPE is Nellie. Congratulations dear Nellie for the well deserved UPE. Interestingly I was December UPE last year. You have inspired not just me but many-many Wikieducators. I see a lot has happened herehelp me catch-up the latest at WikiEducator. Warm wishes to all Gita http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/ On Dec 2, 8:59 am, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, CONGRATULATIONS NELLIE! On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Peter prawstho...@gmail.com wrote: With great honour I announce Nellie Deutsch as the December UPE! Nellie is an exemplary WikiEducator. I believe that compliment doesn't go far enough in describing Nellies international works in many different capacities. I know her to facilitate many L4C workshops, be very active in the WE council, to add tremendous energy to high school education, online curriculum development and English as a second language. I know what I have described here only touches the surface of Nellies work as an educator. I often wonder if Nellie every sleeps. It has been a pleasure to work with Nellie on a number of initiatives. With great honour I announce Nellie Deutsch as the December UPE. Congratulations, Nellie!!! And the best of the season to you and your Family. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller -- 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 -- Warm regards Anil -- 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 -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: December UPE
Mary, UPE stands for User Page Expo: http://wikieducator.org/UPE Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Mary lightst...@gmail.com wrote: What is the UPE.? I have been waiting since Dec. 2nd for the answer to this question when I first sent in my congratulations and first pose this question. I asked again this morning, but my question was overlooked again, although a response was sent to a message that appeared after my question. lol If anyone would be so kind as to inform me what it is, my web research turned up a site http://upe.acm.org/ but I am not sure it it is teh award that you all are talking about. It's a big group and it is easy to get lost in all the traffic, but I reallly would like to know what everyone has been talking about. lol On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:31 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gita and congratulations on your son's wedding. Thank you for your kind words. I miss our collaborative work on WikiEducator. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Friends I am back here at WikiEducator after a break for my son's wedding. It is a pleasure to see December 2009 UPE is Nellie. Congratulations dear Nellie for the well deserved UPE. Interestingly I was December UPE last year. You have inspired not just me but many-many Wikieducators. I see a lot has happened herehelp me catch-up the latest at WikiEducator. Warm wishes to all Gita http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/ On Dec 2, 8:59 am, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, CONGRATULATIONS NELLIE! On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Peter prawstho...@gmail.com wrote: With great honour I announce Nellie Deutsch as the December UPE! Nellie is an exemplary WikiEducator. I believe that compliment doesn't go far enough in describing Nellies international works in many different capacities. I know her to facilitate many L4C workshops, be very active in the WE council, to add tremendous energy to high school education, online curriculum development and English as a second language. I know what I have described here only touches the surface of Nellies work as an educator. I often wonder if Nellie every sleeps. It has been a pleasure to work with Nellie on a number of initiatives. With great honour I announce Nellie Deutsch as the December UPE. Congratulations, Nellie!!! And the best of the season to you and your Family. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller -- 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 -- Warm regards Anil -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: December UPE
Thank you,, Mary and sorry about not responding earlier. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Mary lightst...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Nellie. You're the best! On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Mary, UPE stands for User Page Expo: http://wikieducator.org/UPE Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Mary lightst...@gmail.com wrote: What is the UPE.? -- 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 -- 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
Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)
Hi Thank you for sharing that, Steven. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Steven Parker sparke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie You may enjoy this skit from John Stewart of the Daily Show. Takes the mickey out of both the climategate scientists, warmists and deniers without the “polar” outlook :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgPUpIBWGp8 On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:45 PM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Steven, As an educator, I would like to make a difference they only way I know how and that is by educating people to become aware and perhaps change their habits to that we can save what we can. I would love to move this to WikiEducator the best platform I know and begin the process. Steven, you are welcome to begin adding the information that you have and I will be more than happy to create workshops so we can engage participants in the process of learning. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Steven Parker sparke...@gmail.comwrote: Alot of passionate opinion here, alot has been shared, to get back to the point I was originally making that contentious issues need a platform with 'Climategate' as an example for those who are still interested in what's happening. The Telegraph and Times have published this article on the University of East Anglia destroying the climate data for the past 150 years upon being pressed under the Freedom of Information act. Pretty shocking to me that this has occurred preventing other scientists to verify the results. Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html Climate change data dumped http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece “The CRU is basically saying, ‘Trust us’. So much for settling questions and resolving debates with science,” he said. (Jones) He and his colleagues say this temperature rise is “unequivocally” linked to greenhouse gas emissions generated by humans. Their findings are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity. Also other IPCC scientists are turning on each other. Dr. Eduardo Zorita writes: “CRU files: Why I think that Michael Mann (Of Hockey Stick debacle fame), Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process.” These words do not mean that I think anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. On the contrary, it is a question which we have to be very well aware of. But I am also aware that in this thick atmosphere -and I am not speaking of greenhouse gases now- editors, reviewers and authors of alternative studies, analysis, interpretations,even based on the same data we have at our disposal, have been bullied and subtly blackmailed. In this atmosphere, Ph D students are often tempted to tweak their data so as to fit the 'politically correct picture'. Some, or many issues, about climate change are still not well known. Policy makers should be aware of the attempts to hide these uncertainties under a unified picture. I had the 'pleasure' to experience all this in my area of research. http://coast.gkss.de/staff/zorita/myview.html Doesn't surprise me. Lots more revelations to come, great resources to talk around the science and politics of climate change with students. Cheers -- 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 -- 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
Re: [WikiEducator] Re: December UPE
Thank you for your kind words. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, elizabeth mbasu emb...@yahoo.com wrote: Nelie, I really miss the opportunities I missed to interact with you directly through wizq.. and others. But I have interacted with your resources and waauuu.. I have found them very inspiring! Keep the flame burning. Congratulations for this excellent award. You deserved it yesterday! Mbasu --- On *Wed, 12/2/09, Amihai Bannett buildingjewishwo...@gmail.com*wrote: From: Amihai Bannett buildingjewishwo...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Re: December UPE To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 11:30 AM Nellie, I thought you received this long ago! Congrats, Amihai Bannett Educational Director Israel Connect www.israelconnect.org -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)
Steven, As an educator, I would like to make a difference they only way I know how and that is by educating people to become aware and perhaps change their habits to that we can save what we can. I would love to move this to WikiEducator the best platform I know and begin the process. Steven, you are welcome to begin adding the information that you have and I will be more than happy to create workshops so we can engage participants in the process of learning. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Steven Parker sparke...@gmail.com wrote: Alot of passionate opinion here, alot has been shared, to get back to the point I was originally making that contentious issues need a platform with 'Climategate' as an example for those who are still interested in what's happening. The Telegraph and Times have published this article on the University of East Anglia destroying the climate data for the past 150 years upon being pressed under the Freedom of Information act. Pretty shocking to me that this has occurred preventing other scientists to verify the results. Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html Climate change data dumped http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece “The CRU is basically saying, ‘Trust us’. So much for settling questions and resolving debates with science,” he said. (Jones) He and his colleagues say this temperature rise is “unequivocally” linked to greenhouse gas emissions generated by humans. Their findings are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity. Also other IPCC scientists are turning on each other. Dr. Eduardo Zorita writes: “CRU files: Why I think that Michael Mann (Of Hockey Stick debacle fame), Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process.” These words do not mean that I think anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. On the contrary, it is a question which we have to be very well aware of. But I am also aware that in this thick atmosphere -and I am not speaking of greenhouse gases now- editors, reviewers and authors of alternative studies, analysis, interpretations,even based on the same data we have at our disposal, have been bullied and subtly blackmailed. In this atmosphere, Ph D students are often tempted to tweak their data so as to fit the 'politically correct picture'. Some, or many issues, about climate change are still not well known. Policy makers should be aware of the attempts to hide these uncertainties under a unified picture. I had the 'pleasure' to experience all this in my area of research. http://coast.gkss.de/staff/zorita/myview.html Doesn't surprise me. Lots more revelations to come, great resources to talk around the science and politics of climate change with students. Cheers -- 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 -- 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
Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)
Edward, Let's stop speculating and let's start moving. We can always edit and make changes; after all that's the wiki way on WikiEducator. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:31, Steven Parker sparke...@gmail.com wrote: Alot of passionate opinion here, alot has been shared, to get back to the point I was originally making that contentious issues need a platform with 'Climategate' as an example for those who are still interested in what's happening. Every element of this story is contradicted by other stories. I think we can agree that at least one side is lying or deluded. Now we have to determine which. How would you suggest we go about it? We could set up a set of Wiki pages for the facts, the charges and countercharges, and how we might teach this controversy. The Telegraph and Times have published this article on the University of East Anglia destroying the climate data for the past 150 years upon being pressed under the Freedom of Information act. Pretty shocking to me that this has occurred preventing other scientists to verify the results. Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the Climategate whitewash, says Christopher Booker. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html Climate change data dumped http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building. Do you think they are lying? “The CRU is basically saying, ‘Trust us’. So much for settling questions and resolving debates with science,” he said. (Jones) He and his colleagues say this temperature rise is “unequivocally” linked to greenhouse gas emissions generated by humans. Their findings are one of the main pieces of evidence used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says global warming is a threat to humanity. Also other IPCC scientists are turning on each other. Dr. Eduardo Zorita writes: “CRU files: Why I think that Michael Mann (Of Hockey Stick debacle fame), Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process.” These words do not mean that I think anthropogenic climate change is a hoax. On the contrary, it is a question which we have to be very well aware of. But I am also aware that in this thick atmosphere -and I am not speaking of greenhouse gases now- editors, reviewers and authors of alternative studies, analysis, interpretations,even based on the same data we have at our disposal, have been bullied and subtly blackmailed. In this atmosphere, Ph D students are often tempted to tweak their data so as to fit the 'politically correct picture'. Some, or many issues, about climate change are still not well known. Policy makers should be aware of the attempts to hide these uncertainties under a unified picture. I had the 'pleasure' to experience all this in my area of research. So you reckon he' http://coast.gkss.de/staff/zorita/myview.html Doesn't surprise me. Lots more revelations to come, great resources to talk around the science and politics of climate change with students. Cheers -- 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 -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ -- 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
Re: Denialism (was Re: [WikiEducator] Phil's Rants)
Just wanted to add that Jerome Bruner takes Wayne's statement that Education is humanity and will always be contextually and culturally bounded a bit further when he claims that human beings deliberately teach each other in settings outside in which the knowledge being taught will be used. The information that we learn and believe to be true may be offensive to other cultures and nations. The knowledge that we acquired at home or school is coming up in online in discussions such as here and in other online arenas. I would like to imagine what it would be like if we were all able to listen openly to words that may negate our pasts so that those who speak against our traditions may listen to us in return. Sharing our knowledge and histories openly may be the first step to peaceful coexistence. Stopping people from using loaded words as denial may not be the way. I don't know, but I feel that fearing to listen may do more damage than good. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Steve, Well said and excellent post! We have the age of enlightenment to thank for the marvels of nuclear fission and the atom bomb :-(. Sadly, in a post enlightenment age we are still struggling between the age old tensions between science and humanity. What have we learned? WikiEducator is a project which spans multiple cultures and perspectives of beliefs. We are not an encyclopaedia striving for an objective view of an article. I trust that our community will not succumb to the traps of value judgements. I for one don't have the knowledge or experience to exercise these kinds of judgements but have observed that these are informed by contexts -- very often contexts that the opposing side will have difficulty to grasp and understand real meaning :-(. However, by being open -- I have the opportunity to learn how different perspectives can manifest themselves in educational contexts -- becoming a richer person for the experience. I would like to see WikiEducator resources evolve and develop from a foundation of respect for humanity and an openness to listen and learn. A community that respects freedom of speech. Education is humanity and will always be contextually and culturally bounded --- hence the objective truth is of itself an elusive construct. Cheers Wayne 2009/11/29 Steve Foerster st...@hiresteve.com The use of the word denialism to describe climate change skeptics is the most obnoxious tactic in political discourse today, and I would like to think that in a community like ours it would be entirely unwelcome. In the highly charged environment we have when it comes to this issue, where there is so much noise and the truth is so often hidden by melodramatic rhetoric on both sides, it is not only fools and liars who are skeptical of global warming, it is entirely possible to hold that position in good faith. Edward, if you want to point out how the science behind this works, and explain why those who are skeptical (1) that climate change is occurring, and (2) that it's human caused, and (3) that it will be a very bad thing for humanity, then that's great -- I for one admit that I could use a better understanding of it. But to repeatedly use such a term in a transparent attempt to morally equate climate change skeptics with holocaust deniers is hateful and divisive. Please stop it. Sincerely, -=Steve=- -- Stephen H. Foerster http://wikieducator.org/steve -- 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 -- 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 User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg 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 -- You
Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] RE: [WikiEducator] Open philanthropy is the way to go!
Congratulations is in order to Patricia, Wayne and Randy for leading WikiEducator to great heights. Keep up the excellent leadership you are providing and modeling for WE members. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi to all, The link for Open Philanthropy is: www.wikieducator.org/Open_Philanthropy Cheers, - Randy On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Congratulations, Wayne, this is quite an accomplishment in such a short time. Onward and upwards! Cheers, Patricia *From:* Wayne Mackintosh [mailto:mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, November 26, 2009 2:47 PM *To:* WikiEducator; wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com; wikieducator-community-coun...@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Open philanthropy is the way to go! Hi everyone, Apology for any cross postings -- but good news for all WikiEducators! The OER Foundation is the non-profit entity which funds WikiEducator and our activities. As you know, these past few months we have been working on the open and transparent development of the strategy and 3-year operational plan for the OER Foundation. A personal note of thanks to all the WikiEducators around the world who have provided inputs to help develop and refine our plans through various channels including the wiki, our discussion lists and the hundreds of personal emails sent through to my desk. Thank you! The Board of Directors of the OER Foundation met today and have approved the strategy and 3 year operational plan for the OER Foundation -- without any changes! The Board has complemented our open approach and the quality of our planning. This bodes very well for the ongoing success of the WikiEducator project --- we have a solid foundation on which to build -- with thanks to all the educators around the world who are committed to creating, remixing and reusing OER for the social good of education. Open philanthropy is the way to go! Today I scanned the page documenting our early history (see: http://tinyurl.com/yase8m9 ) -- It's great to reflect on the fact that we were celebrating 2.3 million cumulative hits on the WE website after one year's operation. During October 2009, we recorded over 10.5 million hits to the site in one month! WE have come a long way. Now, with your help, lets make the future happen! Cheers Wayne *Links* Planning: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Planning Strategy: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Strategy Operational plan - (2009 - 2011) http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Operational_plan -- 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Forum group. To post to this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comwikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum?hl=en . -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant, Organization Development, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com -- You received
Re: [WE Council] Re: [WE Teacher Collaboration] RE: [WikiEducator] Open philanthropy is the way to go!
Wayne, You are very modest but in my opinion, leadership is the key. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Nellie (and to all the folk who have responded to this post so far). None of what we do would be possible without the hundreds / thousands of educators who work tirelessly every day in contributing to our compelling vision of developing OER in support of all national curricula by 2015. I've said this on many occasions: My faith in education has been restored watching, experiencing and sharing what WikiEducators are doing all around the world. I trained as a teacher and am proud to be a member of this amazing family. Collectively, we are part of an amazing project which will make a substantial difference to the future of education on our planet. We still have lots of work to do --- but I know that we are going to achieve more than we could have dreamed possible. I have the experience from the WE community to vouch and justify the magic we are going to create around open education. Watch this space!!! Cheers Wayne 2009/11/27 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Congratulations is in order to Patricia, Wayne and Randy for leading WikiEducator to great heights. Keep up the excellent leadership you are providing and modeling for WE members. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.comwrote: Hi to all, The link for Open Philanthropy is: www.wikieducator.org/Open_Philanthropy Cheers, - Randy On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Congratulations, Wayne, this is quite an accomplishment in such a short time. Onward and upwards! Cheers, Patricia *From:* Wayne Mackintosh [mailto:mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, November 26, 2009 2:47 PM *To:* WikiEducator; wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com; wikieducator-community-coun...@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Open philanthropy is the way to go! Hi everyone, Apology for any cross postings -- but good news for all WikiEducators! The OER Foundation is the non-profit entity which funds WikiEducator and our activities. As you know, these past few months we have been working on the open and transparent development of the strategy and 3-year operational plan for the OER Foundation. A personal note of thanks to all the WikiEducators around the world who have provided inputs to help develop and refine our plans through various channels including the wiki, our discussion lists and the hundreds of personal emails sent through to my desk. Thank you! The Board of Directors of the OER Foundation met today and have approved the strategy and 3 year operational plan for the OER Foundation -- without any changes! The Board has complemented our open approach and the quality of our planning. This bodes very well for the ongoing success of the WikiEducator project --- we have a solid foundation on which to build -- with thanks to all the educators around the world who are committed to creating, remixing and reusing OER for the social good of education. Open philanthropy is the way to go! Today I scanned the page documenting our early history (see: http://tinyurl.com/yase8m9 ) -- It's great to reflect on the fact that we were celebrating 2.3 million cumulative hits on the WE website after one year's operation. During October 2009, we recorded over 10.5 million hits to the site in one month! WE have come a long way. Now, with your help, lets make the future happen! Cheers Wayne *Links* Planning: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Planning Strategy: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Strategy Operational plan - (2009 - 2011) http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Operational_plan -- 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
[WikiEducator] Re: copyright and newspaper articles
Hi Bee, Thank you for sharing this and I am anxiously waiting to see your work on WikiEducator. Let me know how I can be of help. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Barbara Dieu beeonl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mary, Some time ago I used an article from the Times for a reading comprehension exercise and in order to have it online I had to ask for a special permission and stick it on the page (or else pay $ 2000 to have it. See: http://beespace.net/resources/hotpot/wtc1.html Some published content can be easily downloaded and worked upon like for instance http://beespace.net/resources/logo/index.html In some cases, however, especially for articles placed under a password, this permission was denied or I'd have to buy it (for a single use). Linking directly to the article poses problems because of link rot - if we have no access to the source, the whole exercise is lost. For foreign language teachers, topical articles in newspapers are a bonus and so are some of the photographs. Maybe Wikieducator, as an institution, could try to dialogue with the main press publishers to allows us to copy them into the wiki and link back, mentioning and crediting the source so as to have them more available. I am sure they realize this would be a way to diffuse and give an added value to their content as well. Warm regards from Brazil, Bee BTW, I am planning to shift most of this material from my website to Wikieducator (time permitting). -- Barbara Dieu http://barbaradieu.com http://beespace.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: copyright and newspaper articles
Mary and others, Dr. Robert Diotalevi has publicly offered to help any educator with copyrighs issues. Please email him at and say you are a Wikieducator: bdiot...@fgcu He has also given permission to use his slides as long as he gets credit: http://wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller/My_Blog#Dr._Diotalevi.27s_Presentation Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Mary lightst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, My name is Mary Ziller and I recently joined your wonderful group. I hope to learn a lot with you. I have a question that I would like to ask the group. I searched the group archives on copyright and found only one thread that did not answer my question: *How much of a newspaper article can we use for online teaching and face to face teaching? * How does a site like http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/ get the copyrights to publish its excellent materials which are based on real news articles? And the admirable works by Susan Heyer *True stories in the news *series. How does the copyright law work allowing her to produce ESL books based on actual articles? I would like to write materials using published news articles, but don't know how to get the copyrights permissions. Do they have to be purchased? Thanks for your help. Mary Ziller --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 believe in education - So where is all the free content?
Wayne, Eliza and others, Here is what we are doing on WikiEducator to facilitate the process of introducing educators to the use of technology one step at a time: http://wikieducator.org/Integrating_Technology_for_Active_Learning Everyone is invited to join. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Eliza, That's a good point. Self-organising, peer production communities are very different from the traditional model, hence the fear of organisations to try it out. Administrators and decision-makers who don't have experience of the effectiveness and agility of self-organising systems find it hard to take decisions committing time and resources to this kind of approach. In some respects, its like learning to swim -- you have got to get your feet wet. One way that has worked well for us is the pilot project approach. We encourage and support organisations to test the waters with a small but focused project. Once members of the project team see and experience the benefits of the self-organising approach -- they're sold. It takes time -- but authentic experience is a powerful approach in supporting organisations with incremental transformation. Cheers Wayne 2009/11/15 eliza papajanis eliza.papaja...@gmail.com Hi, there is one point to be added to the list;it`s to protect the victims ( teachers or educators) from the bad guys stiil conjacted to the old ways and the archaic view of the education; some of them they do it for money and/or security and they think there is not a better way. They should be encouraged to think differently and it can not be done with the old board of authorities hidden in the rooms of all sorts of administration bureau.You know what I am speaking about - it is world wilde spret malady.My question is: HOW IS IT TO BE DONE.? 2009/11/14 Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Hi Everyone, A brief moment to reflect. Education is an act of sharing knowledge freely. So where are all the free education materials that we can adapt, modify and reuse without restriction? Why has humanity taken so long in achieving a free knowledge base for us to share for the common good of education and society? Why are the majority of our global population under served when it comes to education? To paraphrase Bob Dylan: How many years [can the closed copyright] mountain exist Before it's washed to the sea? Yes, 'n' how many years can some [educators] exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, 'n' how many times can [we] turn our [heads], Pretending [we] just don't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. The value proposition of sharing digital teaching materials is a no-brainer. Getting back to Dylan's refrain The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind has been described as impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin%27_in_the_Wind) I started WikiEducator as a project to collaborate with the free culture movement to develop digital teaching materials in support of every national curriculum by 2015. (If we're a little late, 2017 will be just fine :-) ). - Yesterday, WE were a top 59K site (Alexa). - During October, WE generated more than 10.5 million hits on our site with a full-time staff of two people. - WE train and build wiki skills for thousands of teachers in more than 110 countries -- thanks to a dedicated team of facilitators who share knowledge freely. - WE have developed more content pages than Wikiversity (with only 6% of the number of the registered users compared to WV) - WE can now work internationally, freed from the geographical constraints of the Commonwealth. WE should take a moment and reflect on what WE have achieved -- this is an amazing story and you are making it happen! However, we shouldn't gloat for too long. 2015 is a little more than 5 years away, but I sense an energy that WE have a fighting chance in achieving our goal of free digital resources in support of all national curricula. - WE need to become more effective supporting new WikiEducators in becoming active contributors to our common goal - WE need our technology to become transparent (i.e. significantly easier to use) - WE need to continue our commitment to provide free training to any warm-blooded (as in mammal) educator in the world who wants to learn wiki skills - WE need to connect educators
[WikiEducator] Re: when registered for eL4C32 course does one receive email or any reaction?
Hello Everyone, The registration works just fine, but only after you create an account on WikiEducator. Here's a tutorial on how to create an account: http://www.wikieducator.org/Quickstart_guide/creating_an_account Please let me know if this helped. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:00 AM, gene aronin genel...@gmail.com wrote: I had the same question. I guess we need to wait a while? Gene On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Jaapb jaap.bos...@gmail.com wrote: sorry for asking when registered for eL4C32 wiki course does one receive email or any reaction?. I did register and don't know if anybody will respond. I am not in http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Online_schedule/eL4C32/Participants and did register on http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Online_schedule/eL4C32/Register I did not find any clue in the wiki so I try to get an answer here. -- With Best Wishes for an Even Better Day Gene-loeb Gene-loeb Aronin, Ph.D. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Wikipedia model
Hello Everyone, Yes, that was very interesting, Valerie. I believe that we can learn so much by raising questions so here goes. I came across Wikiversity as a result of following a council member of WikiEducator who had created an incredible course called Facilitating Online Communities: http://wikieducator.org/Facilitating_online_communities . I took the course last year. This year FOC09 left WikiEducator for Wikiversity: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Facilitating_Online My question is: Are WikiEdcator and Wikiversity connected somehow? If not, should they be? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:43 PM, simonfj simo...@cols.com.au wrote: That was so interesting valerie, Thanks for the comparison. Wikipedia was entirely collaborative development from the outset. Whether intended or not, WikiEducator has been much more about the practice of open publishing. I've always been interested in how the two domains would complement one another, especially as they use the same engine; and wayne's mention of a static version of course materials in Connexions: and an educational adaption of the Flagged Revisions extension for Mediawiki for implementing peer review gives me a better idea of how three domains might. Wikipedia as the the top layer (of chaos and promotion), wikieducator (and others) as the peers, and a fixed archive (in Connexions as one). I can't add anything terrible useful here. My interest is more in working through the real time tools that might be shared between members of edu networks and domains, and lobbying governments to put a cc license on every one of their GLAMs. But can I point you at this page in the wikipedia strategy process. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Questions_that_need_answers The main areas are at Point 5. Alliances and partnerships and technology infrastructure. Some interesting questions which collaboration between domains might answer better than any one by itself. Any answers from wikieducators will certainly be welcomed. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: November UPE
Congratulations Abdul Halim. WikiEducator and the UPE team have unanimously agreed that Abdul Halim is very worthy of the award. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology and WiZiQ: http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Peter prawstho...@gmail.com wrote: During a recent discussion (six weeks back) the UPE team was reviewing candidates for the coming award. Abdul Halim was suggested as one of the candidates for the November UPE. I took the time to review his user page and was most impressed. I greatly appreciate his use of colors, fonts and graphics, I found myself drawn into who Abdul Halim is and all the wonderful work he does. I found his interest in community radio inspiring as I know how effective a medium it can be at a community level. It is with great pleasure that I announce Abdul Halim as the November UPE. Congratulations, Abdul Halim!!! http://www.wikieducator.org/User:M._A._Halim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Copyright rant
Hi John, It would be great to add all the links to one portal. In the meantime, you may wish to add your thoughts here: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Online_schedule/eL4C31/Copyright Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology: http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:21 AM, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com wrote: Following on from Phil and his rants and with the recent discuss on the list of a copyright tutorial, I have put up my own rant at http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS/Thoughts_on_copyright. Cheers, John http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Wikipedia model
You have my vote on that, Valerie. I have always invited others to join the BOL, BL and and fully synchronous and asynchronous workshops as developers, students and facilitators. I consider myself fortunate in having had some response, but I would welcome many more. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology @ http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:19 AM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any interest in developing OERs using the Wikipedia model? Although someone starts a page, there is always an implicit open invitation to add and update. I'd start with middle school science and math activities but I'm open to suggestions. It seems that most WE contributors - myself included, haven't been working this way. Partly because there isn't anything that is explicitly designated for this wide community collaboration. Partly because most contributors are working on personal teaching resources. To me, the Wikipedia model is about creating open learning resources. I would really like to get some collaborative content development going that extends beyond the needs of an individual teacher, or school. We are seeing expanding participation as learners in FOC08, CCK09, L4C, M4T which is great. Now let's get that going in the development side. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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-tech] Lead Software Engineer for OERF and WikiEducator
Congratulations, Jim. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology @ http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone The OER Foundation is proud to announce the appointment of Jim Tittsler as Lead Software Engineer. Jim is a well-known member of the WikiEducator family. He has been providing WikiEducator with sterling technical support as a community volunteer. Jim has over 30 years experience in computer hardware and software design, and his technical leadership of the eXeLearning project will be invaluable as we move forward with the technical refinements and innovations required of a dedicated educational wiki. With generous funding support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the OER Foundation is now able to support WikiEducator with an exciting project to improve OER content interoperability between the MediaWiki and the Connexions technology platforms. With thanks to open source software and open content licensing WE will demonstrate that in open education t*he whole is greater than the sum of its parts*. Jim -- from all of us at OERF and WikEducator -- congratulations on this new position and a heartfelt welcome We look forward in joining you on this exciting journey to make the future happen :-) (With apology for duplicate postings) -- 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: [MLE] Re: [WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator visits Antarctica
Hi Wayne, Yes, it was bought by an American officer (woman). Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology @ http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Wow Nellie That's a serendipitous connection --- open networked communities never cease to amaze me!! Do you know which base the picture is hanging? Cheers Wayne 2009/10/27 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Wow, this is absolutely incredible. My daughter sold one of her paintings on a wall in someone's office over there. I wonder if Trish can take a photo of it hanging there and I could send it to her as a birthday present (November 24). Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology @ http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:20 AM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: CONGRATULATIONS TRISHA ... and eagerly awaiting to read your experience and findings related to your Antarctica exploration on WikiEducator On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.com wrote: Great !! It'll be real COOL to read a first-hand report about Trisha's stay at Antartica. Savithri 2009/10/27 Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Hi Everyone, Trisha Korth (http://wikieducator.org/User:Tkorth), a primary school teacher from Warrington School has been granted a Primary Science Teacher Fellowship with the Royal Society. Trish has joined a team of marine ecologists from NIWA to study the coastal organisms living below the frozen sea ice of the Ross Sea in Antarctica., As we speak trish is connecting from Antarctica with students and WikiEducators around the world! Trish signed up for a Learning4Content workshop and has established an OER portal page to document her journey. See: http://wikieducator.org/Antarctica Trish is connecting with students back home from Antarctica and is taking WikiEducator with her on this amazing discovery. For example, students from Waikouaiti School are asking: - How did it feel landing on the 2m thick ice? - What other types of animals have you seen? - How did it feel going in the dinosaur? - What did it feel like on the Dc17? - Have you done a cart-wheel on the ice yet? (Which will make sense when you visit Trish's portal page: http://wikieducator.org/Antarctica) - Where there any baby emperor penguins? Trish is an inspiration showing us what a motivated teacher can do with OER and open source technologies. Trish is posting a video and photo log of her experiences on WikiEducator. WE look forward to the next installment (see: http://wikieducator.org/Trisha%27s_photos_and_video_clips) . Trish -- WikiEducator say's thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world! Cheers Wayne 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 -- डॉक्टर सावित्री सिंह प्रधानाचार्य आचार्य नरेन्द्र देव कॉलेज ( दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय ) गोविन्दपुरी, कालकाजी नयी दिल्ली 110019 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 -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- 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
Re: [MLE] Re: [WikiEducator] Re: WikiEducator visits Antarctica
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:00 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wayne, Yes, it was bought by an American officer (woman). Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology @ http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Wow Nellie That's a serendipitous connection --- open networked communities never cease to amaze me!! Do you know which base the picture is hanging? Cheers Wayne 2009/10/27 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Wow, this is absolutely incredible. My daughter sold one of her paintings on a wall in someone's office over there. I wonder if Trish can take a photo of it hanging there and I could send it to her as a birthday present (November 24). Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology @ http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:20 AM, aprasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: CONGRATULATIONS TRISHA ... and eagerly awaiting to read your experience and findings related to your Antarctica exploration on WikiEducator On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.com wrote: Great !! It'll be real COOL to read a first-hand report about Trisha's stay at Antartica. Savithri 2009/10/27 Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Hi Everyone, Trisha Korth (http://wikieducator.org/User:Tkorth), a primary school teacher from Warrington School has been granted a Primary Science Teacher Fellowship with the Royal Society. Trish has joined a team of marine ecologists from NIWA to study the coastal organisms living below the frozen sea ice of the Ross Sea in Antarctica., As we speak trish is connecting from Antarctica with students and WikiEducators around the world! Trish signed up for a Learning4Content workshop and has established an OER portal page to document her journey. See: http://wikieducator.org/Antarctica Trish is connecting with students back home from Antarctica and is taking WikiEducator with her on this amazing discovery. For example, students from Waikouaiti School are asking: - How did it feel landing on the 2m thick ice? - What other types of animals have you seen? - How did it feel going in the dinosaur? - What did it feel like on the Dc17? - Have you done a cart-wheel on the ice yet? (Which will make sense when you visit Trish's portal page: http://wikieducator.org/Antarctica) - Where there any baby emperor penguins? Trish is an inspiration showing us what a motivated teacher can do with OER and open source technologies. Trish is posting a video and photo log of her experiences on WikiEducator. WE look forward to the next installment (see: http://wikieducator.org/Trisha%27s_photos_and_video_clips) . Trish -- WikiEducator say's thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world! Cheers Wayne 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 -- डॉक्टर सावित्री सिंह प्रधानाचार्य आचार्य नरेन्द्र देव कॉलेज ( दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय ) गोविन्दपुरी, कालकाजी नयी दिल्ली 110019 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 -- Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://www.apletters.blogspot.com -- 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
[WikiEducator] Re: Should we develop an additional tutorial to the Learning4Content tutorials for the purpose of teaching Copyrights
Hi Patricia, I think it is a super idea and commend Gladys and you for taking the initiative and moving things along. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Dear Friends, I had a few recent discussions regarding the need to inform about copyrights and I was wondering if it was a good idea to expand the WikiEducator Learning4Content Tutorials and add a ‘’Copyright’ Tutorials that addresses the need for more information, options and enhances open questions of how deal with certain scenarios that are being brought forward. Some information on WE can be found here, but I think it is time that we formally developed a tutorial that works to educate about options. What do you think?: http://www.wikieducator.org/Copyrights Cheers, Patricia *Patricia Schlicht*** *Programme Assistant * COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING COL is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. Learning for development. Suite 1200 - 1055 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC V6E 2E9 Canada PH: +1.604.775.8227 | FAX: +1.604.775.8210 | WEB: www.col.org | E-MAIL: pschli...@col.org *The 'Green' reminder: **P** **Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. Thank you. *** --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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're making history again
WE Rocks! Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, We've just received notification from Jim that he has installed a Hebrew localisation for WE :-) On behalf of OERF and the WikiEducator family I'd like to express our thanks and gratitude to Jim's tireless commitment and technical support. This is an important prototype for WikiEducator being our first language install for a right-to-left language. http://he.WikiEducator.org/ http://he.wikieducator.org/ We're very fortunate to have a dedicated team in Israel under the trusted leadership of Nellie, one of our Community Council members who will guide us through this process. We should take a moment to reflect on the power of the open source software model. None of this would have been possible without the language localisations available using the best wiki software engine in the world -- Mediawiki! Some extensions used by the WikiEducator installation may not be translated yet -- I hope that our WikiEducator colleagues in Israel will help in translating these extensions as our contribution back to the Mediawiki community. Gee -- you gotta love the open source software model. Cheers Wayne -- 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: Using templates...
Keep up the great attitude, Anna. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, annak akra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody and many thanks for your help. Jesse thank you, these are the links I was looking for! ;-) Nellie, yes I have joined a WE workshop last year. It was really really helpful! Wayne, thanks a lot for making this clear. I have to admit that during the workshop I hadn't work on templates... well I'll do it now! Jorge, even though I love Spanish I haven't study them yet. But I am sure that -thanks to my French and English- I'll be able to get the point. Thank you all, I'll probably come again with new questions... :-) anna On Oct 19, 5:50 pm, Jorge Vidals j_vid...@yahoo.com.mx wrote: Anna, Follow Wayne, Nellie and Jesse's advice. Start to translate from English WikiEducator is more than only translate or copy templates. You need to know how templates work. You can find more information about this topic on this pagehttp:// www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates. If you are going to translate tutorials you need to download pictures from English WE and upload to Greek instance. Maybe you need to create a few templates too. If you are getting new links (in red color) it means you need to create them. Translate from English instance is a wonderful experience if you are patient you will learn more about wiki edition. If you know some of Spanish language you can find what Spanish translation team are doing onhttp://es.wikieducator.org/Equipo_de_traduccionand onhttp:// es.wikieducator.org/Usuario:J_vidals/My_Sandbox. If you have any questions or comments about this do not hetitate to e- mail me. Warm regards Jorgehttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:J_vidals On Oct 18, 3:14 pm, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Anna You will need to copy over the tempates from the English WikiEducator and create the equivalent version in el.wikieducator. So for example: For example, you will need to create a Greek equivalent for Template:Font_page_news in the Greek version. Here is a tutorial explaining how templates work: http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Navigation_templates We're very excited about seeing el.wikieducator evolve :-) Cheers Wayne 2009/10/19 annak akra...@gmail.com Hello everybody, I am trying to built the new el.wikieducator.org I want to copy the front page and the help files and translate them. But when I copy these pages instead of the templates I get a new link... Has anyone any idea to overcome this obstacle? Thank you in advance, :-) anna -- 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: Using templates...
Hi Anna, Have you taken a workshop on how to use the wiki? If not, there is one coming up very soon: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Online_schedule/eL4C31 You may find the l4C workshops very helpful and you will get ongoing support.. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:18 AM, annak akra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, I am trying to built the new el.wikieducator.org I want to copy the front page and the help files and translate them. But when I copy these pages instead of the templates I get a new link... Has anyone any idea to overcome this obstacle? Thank you in advance, :-) anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: A sneak preview of WYSIWYG editing in WikiEducator :-)
Wow, thank you, Jim.It works like a charm. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, With BIG thanks to Jim Tittsler and his tireless WikiEducator dedication -- we are able to offer WikiEducators a sneak preview and experience of WYSIWYG editing planned for the near future. A health warning -- this is hosted on our beta-test server install in preparation for our upcoming migration to the Athabasca University installation :-). DO NOT spend copious hours editing pages on this site --- every time we update newer snapshots of the real WE database, the edits on the test servers will be erased. However -- we can't hold our excitement back and want to give WikiEducators a sneak preview of this exciting future. Also - don't complain if the server is down -- we're still testing, tweaking and getting things right. 1. Go to: http://we1.wikieducator.net/Main_Page 2. Login with your Wikieducator username and password 3. Select a page in the wiki for editing -- try your user page. 4. Click on the [Rich Editor] link which appears on top of the screen 5. Start having fun with a WYSIWYG editor. Note: - We will implement a more elegant solution for selecting the default editor (eg in user preferences) - We will implement the advancement of rich text editing in Phases (for example, currently editing templates is still not ideal for newbies. We will address this in Phase 2 of the implementation.) - There are still various features and services which are still not operational on the test servers -- these will be migrated before going live on the new install. Looking forward to hearing your feedback, thoughts and suggestions for moving forward. I think this is going to make a big difference to participation from educators around the world. We've waited a long time for this opportunity and its great to see WYSIWYG editing becoming a reality for WE. Cheers Wayne -- 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: Announcing the categories workgroup and inviting new members
Jesse, You can always count on me, too. :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Nellie: Thanks for your confidence, but it won't just be the two of us accomplishing this big task. I'm confident that WE will do it together. Wayne: I am very equally glad there are people like that, here. Gita Valerie: Good to hear others are on the same page. Thank you both for offering to help! Jesse On 12/10/2009 23:50, elizabeth mbasu wrote: Dear Jesse, I know about web pages in terms of pages and sub-pages i.e parent, children, grandchildren etc. and can generate a structure for this. I have read your write up and am signing in hoping to learn more about categories along the way. I am not sure that I really understand everything about categories. Many thanks, Elizabeth --- On *Mon, 10/12/09, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.comjagro...@gmail.com * wrote: From: Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com jagro...@gmail.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Announcing the categories workgroup and inviting new members To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 2:49 PM Hi all! There's another workgroup a-brewin' down on the wiki! This one is about categories; yes, dreadful fun, I know. Before I talk about the workgroup, I'd like to introduce you to the concept, and the rationale behind their use. *What are categories?* A category is just what it sounds like: a method of grouping pages according to their content. Categories also work with parent-child connections in the same way that subpages do. The category you put a page in will actually be a subcategory of another. A category system will have many levels within it. Where the category system gets even more useful than the subpage system is in the number of relationships that can be defined by it. While a subpage can only have one parent page, any page or category can be in as many categories as we like. This is where the mediawiki software becomes genius in its use of virtual reality; even though there exists only one document, at a single url, it can be found and related to other documents in any number of ways. This creates a powerful browseability that is trumped only by the searchability of the SemanticWiki extension, which involves a steep learning curve. *Why categories?* The category system is a built-in method of organising content far better than the subpage system method. It creates relationships between content that cannot be defined by subpages, making it easier for members to move from page to page and between related information. Want to know what other projects there are on astrophysics? The category system will tell you that. Want to be able to find all the resources from Otago Poly-Tech easily? Curious about what 10 year old children are learning elsewhere in the world? The category system allows for these. Using the category system is preferred over contents pages because it requires far less effort from members to keep current. To add a page to a category, one never has to leave the page, itself! The other key factor for categorising pages is a concept called search engine optimisation (SEO). You may have heard of this if you are in any way involved with web publishing. I'm not going to explain SEO, but I will tell you the point of it is to increase readership organically (they come to us, we don't market directly to them). This is done by appealing to the formulas Google and other search engines use to determine who goes at the top of any search list. The thing is, if there aren't any links to your page, Google never sees it! Categories create a link-based map of the website, allowing Google's programs to see each page that has a category. *The workgroup* Sounds great, right? Well, WE's category structure is a bit out of shape at the moment. For example, about 30% of the categories used don't actually exist, yet; there are a handful of central/root/contents categories, none of which go deeper than a few levels; there are (as I write this) 12,200 uncategorised pages out of 68,992 total, or about 15%; and most of the existing categories aren't connected to any other category. So, Alison Snieckus and I have seeded a workgroup to get WE's category system in tip-top shape, as well as working to educate WE members on categories and advise the style guidelines workgroup on guidelines that affect category usage. We're still organising the group, and there are some tasks to be done, and we could use your help with both! WE would really benefit from your opinions and ideas, so please stop by ( http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Categories ) and sign up
[WikiEducator] Re: WE in Greek...
Hi Randy, My goal is to reach the members of the Ministry of Education so I can interest them in WikiEducator. I would appreciate any help you or anyone else can provide in contacting them. I have tried sending emails but received no response. Perhaps you know someone who knows someone etc. So if any one knows anyone involved in the Ministry of Education, please send me their electronic contact information. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie, Can you pls. be more specific about the type of help you need? Thanks, - Randy On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:55 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Randy and Others, I need your help in your social skills in contacting Israeli educators and perhaps the Ministry of Education in Israel to interest them in OER for Schools in Israel: http://wikieducator.org/Israel_Schools_OER_Portal Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: HI All, While we're at it, let's keep an eye open for Greek educational institutions (and Greek educators) which might want to join the OER Foundation, as a member. http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation/FAQs Thanks, - Randy On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:28 AM, annak akra...@gmail.com wrote: Great news!!! Thank you Wayne! :-) anna On Oct 6, 8:07 am, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Anna, As soon as we have our migration of the WikiEducator servers to Athabasca University sorted --- happening as we speak, we will install a Greek language localisation for WikiEducator :-) So start gathering your friends and colleagues to help turn the Greek WikiEducator into a global success! Cheers Wayne 2009/10/3 annak akra...@gmail.com Hello everyone, with some colleagues we are thinking that it's about time to release our e-content through the WikiEducator. But our content is in Greek and as far as I know there is no greek section in WE yet. Could someone give some ideas on how should I start? I feel quite lost... Thank you in advance, annak -- 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 -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 in Greek...
I have tried the phone as well as emails but I keep getting passed on from one to the next. In short, no one seems to care. Here are the people involved: http://cms.education.gov.il/educationcms/units/owl/english/about/ministry+structure.htm I have been doing it for over a year. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: How about using the telephone to call someone, anyone directly. Also, who have you sent these emails to? Name, title, contact info - and when have you done so You can send me a list offline if you wish - Randy On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:16 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Randy, My goal is to reach the members of the Ministry of Education so I can interest them in WikiEducator. I would appreciate any help you or anyone else can provide in contacting them. I have tried sending emails but received no response. Perhaps you know someone who knows someone etc. So if any one knows anyone involved in the Ministry of Education, please send me their electronic contact information. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Nellie, Can you pls. be more specific about the type of help you need? Thanks, - Randy On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:55 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Randy and Others, I need your help in your social skills in contacting Israeli educators and perhaps the Ministry of Education in Israel to interest them in OER for Schools in Israel: http://wikieducator.org/Israel_Schools_OER_Portal Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.comwrote: HI All, While we're at it, let's keep an eye open for Greek educational institutions (and Greek educators) which might want to join the OER Foundation, as a member. http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation/FAQs Thanks, - Randy On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:28 AM, annak akra...@gmail.com wrote: Great news!!! Thank you Wayne! :-) anna On Oct 6, 8:07 am, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Anna, As soon as we have our migration of the WikiEducator servers to Athabasca University sorted --- happening as we speak, we will install a Greek language localisation for WikiEducator :-) So start gathering your friends and colleagues to help turn the Greek WikiEducator into a global success! Cheers Wayne 2009/10/3 annak akra...@gmail.com Hello everyone, with some colleagues we are thinking that it's about time to release our e-content through the WikiEducator. But our content is in Greek and as far as I know there is no greek section in WE yet. Could someone give some ideas on how should I start? I feel quite lost... Thank you in advance, annak -- 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 -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community
[WikiEducator] Re: WE in Greek...
Randy, Thank your for all your probing questions, but I wouldn't ask for help if I hadn't tried all the options. Until next time... Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried connecting with folks in middle management positions, such as Director, Manager? Also, I know that you've been active with other educators - do they have any contacts that could help? - Randy On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:15 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried the phone as well as emails but I keep getting passed on from one to the next. In short, no one seems to care. Here are the people involved: http://cms.education.gov.il/educationcms/units/owl/english/about/ministry+structure.htm I have been doing it for over a year. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: How about using the telephone to call someone, anyone directly. Also, who have you sent these emails to? Name, title, contact info - and when have you done so You can send me a list offline if you wish - Randy On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:16 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Randy, My goal is to reach the members of the Ministry of Education so I can interest them in WikiEducator. I would appreciate any help you or anyone else can provide in contacting them. I have tried sending emails but received no response. Perhaps you know someone who knows someone etc. So if any one knows anyone involved in the Ministry of Education, please send me their electronic contact information. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Nellie, Can you pls. be more specific about the type of help you need? Thanks, - Randy On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:55 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Randy and Others, I need your help in your social skills in contacting Israeli educators and perhaps the Ministry of Education in Israel to interest them in OER for Schools in Israel: http://wikieducator.org/Israel_Schools_OER_Portal Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.comwrote: HI All, While we're at it, let's keep an eye open for Greek educational institutions (and Greek educators) which might want to join the OER Foundation, as a member. http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation/FAQs Thanks, - Randy On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:28 AM, annak akra...@gmail.com wrote: Great news!!! Thank you Wayne! :-) anna On Oct 6, 8:07 am, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Anna, As soon as we have our migration of the WikiEducator servers to Athabasca University sorted --- happening as we speak, we will install a Greek language localisation for WikiEducator :-) So start gathering your friends and colleagues to help turn the Greek WikiEducator into a global success! Cheers Wayne 2009/10/3 annak akra...@gmail.com Hello everyone, with some colleagues we are thinking that it's about time to release our e-content through the WikiEducator. But our content is in Greek and as far as I know there is no greek section in WE yet. Could someone give some ideas on how should I start? I feel quite lost... Thank you in advance, annak -- 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 -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand
[WikiEducator] Re: WE in Greek...
Randy and Others, I need your help in your social skills in contacting Israeli educators and perhaps the Ministry of Education in Israel to interest them in OER for Schools in Israel: http://wikieducator.org/Israel_Schools_OER_Portal Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: HI All, While we're at it, let's keep an eye open for Greek educational institutions (and Greek educators) which might want to join the OER Foundation, as a member. http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:OER_Foundation/FAQs Thanks, - Randy On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:28 AM, annak akra...@gmail.com wrote: Great news!!! Thank you Wayne! :-) anna On Oct 6, 8:07 am, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Anna, As soon as we have our migration of the WikiEducator servers to Athabasca University sorted --- happening as we speak, we will install a Greek language localisation for WikiEducator :-) So start gathering your friends and colleagues to help turn the Greek WikiEducator into a global success! Cheers Wayne 2009/10/3 annak akra...@gmail.com Hello everyone, with some colleagues we are thinking that it's about time to release our e-content through the WikiEducator. But our content is in Greek and as far as I know there is no greek section in WE yet. Could someone give some ideas on how should I start? I feel quite lost... Thank you in advance, annak -- 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 -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 Community job jar
Yes, I would like to create a register feature on a page for that so we can list it on the main page Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:13 AM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote: How about adopt a new member initiative where older members mentor new ones? Yes, that's the idea. If someone specifically asks for help on a project, there is implicit adoption - but, definitely that should be stated. Do you want to have a go at some wording? ..Valerie On Oct 4, 7:15 am, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Valerie, How about adopt a new member initiative where older members mentor new ones? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 Community job jar
Valerie, How about adopt a new member initiative where older members mentor new ones? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:48 AM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote: I added a new section to http://wikieducator.org/Initiatives - which links from the Community Portal http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Community_Portal http://wikieducator.org/Initiatives#Help_wanted List projects where WikiEducators volunteers can contribute to project work. Be sure to include specific instructions for the help you need. Some ways volunteers can help - web research finding references, finding pictures, review and comment... Please think about projects where you could use some help to get this tradition of WikiEducator community service established. It will take time and effort to get it going, but it is an important part of being a community. It will be an opportunity for new people to participate in a meaningful way once they take Learning4content course and before they embark on a major development project of their own. ..Valerie On Oct 2, 3:31 am, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Alison, Ben, and Wayne,Thank you for sharing your thoughts on workgroups. I agree with everything you have said. Now, where and when do we start those informal groups? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 in Greek...; generous support
Hi Phil and Randy,Yes, collaboration is the way and taking people by the hand is a neighbourly way of doing things in my neck of the woods. :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Phil Bartle has responded -- please see his comments below. (read on) Thanks - and thanks Phil! - Randy -- Forwarded message -- From: Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 6:49 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Re: WE in Greek... To: Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com Our Community empowerment site has a Greek version, and we have a few volunteer translators. We are more than willing to set up a Greek section on WikiEdcuator. There is no Greek URL on WikiEducator, but we can do as we have done for German and Polish, set up a pseudo URL, until the techies can create a Greek URL for WikiEd. We are more than willing to work with others on this; after all collaboration is the theme of WikiEd, isn't it? Cheers, Phil 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 2009/10/3 Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com: Hi, Is this a Greek OER School Portal in English, or in Greek. If it's in the Greek language, then perhaps Wayne and Phil Bartle might want to have some input here. Thanks, - Randy On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:26 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Annak, Great question! I invited you via gmail so I can help guide you with the development of a Greek OER School Portal. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:08 AM, annak akra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, with some colleagues we are thinking that it's about time to release our e-content through the WikiEducator. But our content is in Greek and as far as I know there is no greek section in WE yet. Could someone give some ideas on how should I start? I feel quite lost... Thank you in advance, annak -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 Community job jar
Alison, Ben, and Wayne,Thank you for sharing your thoughts on workgroups. I agree with everything you have said. Now, where and when do we start those informal groups? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Alison Snieckus alison.sniec...@gmail.comwrote: Nellie, Interesting reading on how informal and formal interaction patterns are thought to effect outcomes. The informal social/work setting is much more appealing, no argument from me on that. Certainly we should be striving for open, spontaneous, loose (as opposed to tight) and fun places to be. We're volunteers donating our precious free time :-) -- WE deserve some fun. I think Ben's right that it's possible to achieve the benefits of behavioral and situational informality within a structured situation. Speaking personally, I'm looking to be part of groups that have (or could have if we worked on it) a bit of structure so I can be productive, but fun along the way will be essential to keep me going. I agree with you that simplicity is also one of these cornerstones to encouraging community volunteers and keeping them engaged. In my post promoting the idea of a community workgroup, I was hoping to advertise how easy it is to get started. Go ahead. Make a workgroup. Use the Workgroup: namespace. Invite people to join. It's fun! (OK, looking back at my post, it seems much too stodgy to be implying these ideas, but I'll continue anyway.) Yes, the official policy for community workgroups is full of required steps and lots of musts, and maybe what we're hearing here and in other discussions is that it's a demotivator...it's too much, at least right now. One way to deal with that is to just put it all off. I saw the following on Wikipedia in my on-going search to understand how wiki's work: If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, *ignore it*. (It's in the wikipedia policy article Ignore_all_ruleshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules .) I think community workgroups are a good idea, and they can work to the betterment of the WE community. But, in my opinion, the promotion of these formal groups, should not in any way discount Informal groups that arise out of a shared vision or need. WE need both tools in our toolkit. Alison --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 Community job jar
Hello Fellow WEs, I believe that simplicity would be an strategy to encourage community involvement. Personally, I am rather intimidated by formality and work better in informal environments. ** The following summarizes some of my thoughts on the subject of formality and informality in working groups in communities:* * *Modes of social activity in organizations are frequently described using the terms formal and informal. Behavioral and situational informality entails loose, spontaneous, more casual social intercourse and comportment. Formality, in contrast, designates tighter, more deliberate, impersonal modes of conduct, as well as settings that occasion such conduct. A study outlines a number of specific behavioral and contextual codes of formality and informality and explores how these categories of social activity may be related to organizational effectiveness. Specifically, it explores how behavioral informality may be instrumental in the social construction of innovative, organic work organizations and how formality is implicated in the social construction of bureaucratic, impersonal work organizations. * For further readinghttp://www.personal.psu.edu/dam9/Behavioral%20Formality.doc ... Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: This is a GREAT idea! - Randy On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Alison Snieckus alison.sniec...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote: snip I would like to see more, easy to participate projects, so that if someone has a couple of hours, they can contribute something meaningful to the WE community. This might be a dynamic job jar with instructions for each item, rated by WE knowledge level / skills and time commitment. snip I agree, a community job jar would be a wonderful way to get to know our neighbors while getting some work done! I think we discussed this idea not too long ago (here? on the wiki?) One suggestion at that time, I think, was to add one or more fields to a content infobox that would populate a category listing. Implementing and maintaining a system like this would probably need some dedicated volunteers helping in the background, certainly to get it started. Maybe we should set up a Community Workgroup to figure out a reasonable process and get the necessary tools in place. (See procedure and policy for starting a community workgroup at http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups/Guidelines ). Anyone interested in getting this started? The first step is to announce the idea on this list, get feedback and determine interest -- seems like there's interest. Next step is to set up a Workgroup page in the Workgroup namespace on WE and then invite volunteers to join. Looking forward to making those small contributions! Alison -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: WYSIWYG Editor for WikiEducator
Wayne, You are very modest about the amount of work you put into making things happen on WE. I would like to invite the over 11,000 members of WikiEducator to become active participants. There is a great deal each of us can do to share the load and show the world that WE is an active community that is bringing education and learning to everyone on the planet. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie, Thanks for the kind words :-) -- but it's not just me. We have a sterling team of volunteer techies with folk like Jim and Wen-Chen watching over smooth operations of our web sites and future technology deployments, we also have a team of WikiEDTech advisers plus the folk over at Athabasca University preparing for the migration of the servers. We have funders like the NZ Ministry of Education and Hewlett who are helping us spread the reach of OER across the planet. We shouldn't forget our committment to transparent and democractic governance models with a team of 25 international open education professionals who volunteer time ensuring the stewardship of good governance. Above all -- the thousands of educators who spend hours working on OER in WikiEducator. That said -- the independance we now have with the OER Foundation (see: http://tinyurl.com/nnqg9e) gives us greater flexibility and agility than was possible working under an intergovernmental agency. We still have lots of work to do -- but have a very solid foundation for scalable growth. Our next step is to figure out the best way to implement the embedding of third party media (like video, slideshows etc) and this is high on our list of priorities. The question of embedding third party media is not so much a technical barrier, but more a question of free content licensing and open file formats. Increasingly, video hosting sites now provide functionality to tag user rights -- for example Creative Commons Licenses. In an ideal world, we would want the capabilities for WikiEducators to have access to editable versions of the video files in open file formats. We're certainly a lot closer to achieving this goal today than we were a year ago. Watch this spaces -- pretty soon we will be able to embedd video from third party sites in ways which align with our community values! Cheers Wayne 2009/9/27 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Excellent progress, Wayne. I am very impressed by the amount of work and progress you are making to make things happen on WikiEducator and implementing WYSIWYG. I wonder if adding the editor would also allow publishers to embed html codes for videos. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, For sometime our Community has requested that we implement a WYSIWYG editor in WikiEducator. Many teachers and educators say that wiki text is a barrier to participation. WikiEducator is keen to respond to these requests. To date, we've been holding back on implementing rich text editing for two reasons: - Maturity of the WYSIWYG technology (Most notably issues with templates and large content pages) - A reliable funding source to implement the refinements that will be necessary for an educational wiki The MediaWiki+FCKeditor project has matured considerably over the last 2 years and we believe that it is now feasible to install WYSIWYG editing for WikiEducator. Also, with funding support from the New Zealand Ministry of Education we are now in a position to start work on the implementation of refinements that will be required for educators (for example, pull down menus for our pedagogical templates incorporating text boxes for the different parameters for these templates). We need to cater for two kinds of users: 1) Those (like myself ;-) ) who prefer wiki syntax to rich text editing and (2) those users who would prefer using a WYSIWYG environment. Fortunately -- the FCKeditor enables users to make the choice. Even within the FCKeditor -- there is an option to edit using wiki text. NOTE: Experienced WikiEducators can continue to edit in the usual way -- They will NOT be required to switch over to Rich Text Editing. I propose that we use a phased approach: - *Phase 1*: Install the FCKeditor WYSIWYG editor as an optional user preference. The editor works well for the majority of editing functions, however
[WikiEducator] Re: WYSIWYG Editor for WikiEducator
Hello Everyone, Well, since my interest lies in active learning and engaging learners, I would like invite those with common interests to join me in brainstorming to find ways to engage members of the community. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie Would always welcome another 11,000 active members :-) Cheers Wayne 2009/9/27 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Wayne, You are very modest about the amount of work you put into making things happen on WE. I would like to invite the over 11,000 members of WikiEducator to become active participants. There is a great deal each of us can do to share the load and show the world that WE is an active community that is bringing education and learning to everyone on the planet. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie, Thanks for the kind words :-) -- but it's not just me. We have a sterling team of volunteer techies with folk like Jim and Wen-Chen watching over smooth operations of our web sites and future technology deployments, we also have a team of WikiEDTech advisers plus the folk over at Athabasca University preparing for the migration of the servers. We have funders like the NZ Ministry of Education and Hewlett who are helping us spread the reach of OER across the planet. We shouldn't forget our committment to transparent and democractic governance models with a team of 25 international open education professionals who volunteer time ensuring the stewardship of good governance. Above all -- the thousands of educators who spend hours working on OER in WikiEducator. That said -- the independance we now have with the OER Foundation (see: http://tinyurl.com/nnqg9e) gives us greater flexibility and agility than was possible working under an intergovernmental agency. We still have lots of work to do -- but have a very solid foundation for scalable growth. Our next step is to figure out the best way to implement the embedding of third party media (like video, slideshows etc) and this is high on our list of priorities. The question of embedding third party media is not so much a technical barrier, but more a question of free content licensing and open file formats. Increasingly, video hosting sites now provide functionality to tag user rights -- for example Creative Commons Licenses. In an ideal world, we would want the capabilities for WikiEducators to have access to editable versions of the video files in open file formats. We're certainly a lot closer to achieving this goal today than we were a year ago. Watch this spaces -- pretty soon we will be able to embedd video from third party sites in ways which align with our community values! Cheers Wayne 2009/9/27 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Excellent progress, Wayne. I am very impressed by the amount of work and progress you are making to make things happen on WikiEducator and implementing WYSIWYG. I wonder if adding the editor would also allow publishers to embed html codes for videos. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, For sometime our Community has requested that we implement a WYSIWYG editor in WikiEducator. Many teachers and educators say that wiki text is a barrier to participation. WikiEducator is keen to respond to these requests. To date, we've been holding back on implementing rich text editing for two reasons: - Maturity of the WYSIWYG technology (Most notably issues with templates and large content pages) - A reliable funding source to implement the refinements that will be necessary for an educational wiki The MediaWiki+FCKeditor project has matured considerably over the last 2 years and we believe that it is now feasible to install WYSIWYG editing for WikiEducator. Also, with funding support from the New Zealand Ministry of Education we are now in a position to start work on the implementation of refinements that will be required for educators (for example, pull down menus for our pedagogical templates incorporating text boxes
[WikiEducator] Re: Media release: OERF poised to become an international leader in open education
Why don't you add your photo, Randy, as you look at your signature in Ottawa. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, What a great achievement -- congrats to all! I'm thinking I signed the declaration some time ago I'm also thinking that WE / OERF can help education institutions translate those signatures into tangible outcomes, and reality! smile - Randy On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:25 AM, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com wrote: Congratulations and my continued support to the workings of OER Foundation and WE. And applause to Wayne for his work. Also a congratulations and thanks to all those who signed the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. Best regards, John http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com -- *From:* Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com *To:* WikiEducator wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Friday, September 18, 2009 8:58:25 AM *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Media release: OERF poised to become an international leader in open education Hi Everyone - An important date in the history of our evolution. Read on http://wikieducator.org/Launch_of_the_OER_foundation Lets celebrate another milestone! Cheers Wayne -- 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 -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. Randy Fisher, MA Senior Consultant Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +1 613 899 0475 Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management Performance * Organization Design Development * Sustainable Project Implementation Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration Communities of Practice * Coaching Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Award for teaching
Congratulations, Gita. That is great news. Thank you for sharing. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Research_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes 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/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer
Paul, I have been working with K-12 teachers for over 30 years. I am always amazed by the ability of the Ministry of Education (Israel) to enforce innovations (including technology) irrespective of teachers' resistance, unions and other political groups. Educational policies and mandates seem to work. You may ask if this is a democratic way of doing things, but even the NCLB policy of 2001 was mandated in the US and is enforced in very undemocratic means. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Paul Seiler paul.sei...@minedu.govt.nzwrote: Randy, I have found your views to be true and I ask NZ teachers about WE, both those involved in L4C29 and those not yet trained. I do not think we will reach a critical mass of teachers contributing/modifying OER without a FCK (or the like), as they will always say they are too busy learning other new things (like our new curriculum, for example http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/). There will always be those willing to learn wiki syntax or who already know it, but my experience shows that this is a very minority of NZ teachers. Paul. On Sep 6, 1:28 am, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Gurmit, You build it, and they will come. I suggest you start a page on WikiEducator and I for one will definitely join. I started the mentoring project you were interested in way back and would love to see your input. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring!http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10:http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Gurmit Singh gurmit.si...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, As I compare and assess various approaches and frameworks for using learning technologies effectively and efficiently, I wanted to ask if anyone is interested in discussing how developing OER ca optimize knowledge transfer at a distance. This is a big emerging question in my field, which is organizing HIV AIDS workshops, conferences and e-learning, as we try and assess which will be the path to success for the next 5 years, bringing technology strategically into our work. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas, Thanks Gurmit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Math 2.0 event
Hi Maria, Thank you for your interest in collaborating on WikiEducator. For those interested Maria will be presenting on September 25 on Math eb 2.0: http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/174521-Math-with-Web-2-0-Tools Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I started a page about the upcoming Math 2.0 event here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Math20Workshop#A_workshop_to_present_WikiEducator_to_the_Math_2.0_interest_group Gladys, Nellie, Randy, Sylvia, Patricia and Alison said they may be interested in hosting, organizing or attending it. Let's try and schedule it on a Saturday in October, some time when it's morning in the Americas and evening in Europe. I suggest 1pm Eastern US time. Cheers, Maria Droujkova http://www.naturalmath.com Make math your own, to make your own math. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer
Wayne, I am very glad you mentioned that Wikis are first and foremost about community --- our growth and success is the result of a committed and dedicated community of educators, taking the strengths (and weaknesses) of our technology into account. Remove the technology -- we still have a community. We try to show the nature of the closely-knit community in the Learning 4 Content workshops. WE members are always ready to help others. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, Randy Great discussion --- and very important contribution in building sustainable OER futures :-). A couple of thoughts -- Rich Text Editing is always a topical issue in Mediawiki circles: - Wikis are first and foremost about community --- our growth and success is the result of a committed and dedicated community of educators, taking the strengths (and weaknesses) of our technology into account. Remove the technology -- we still have a community :-). - To date, we have been reluctant to implement Rich Text Editing (RTE) in the absence of a committed funding source to ensure a successful implementation. That barrier has now been removed with the NZ Ministry of Education project to support proper integration and implementation of RTE in WikiEducator :-). Kudos to the NZ MOE! - We should always provide freedom of choice -- our intention is to implement the RTE as an optional skin -- this way experienced WikiEducator editors will have the choice of continuing with standard wiki editing -- which is faster and provides more control. However, at the same time we will be able to provide Newbies an easy to use alternative to contributing to the project. A classic win-win scenario. - A big issue with RTE is the challenge associated with high use templates (eg our pedagogical templates and navigation templates.) With thanks to a solid research paper commissioned by the NZ MOE, we have now specified a workable solution for these templates with the added advantage of combining the experience of the eXe project's work on iDevices. This will make WikiEducator rock! Now that WikiEducator is an independant project under the OER Foundation -- we have more scope to integrate technology innovation. Previously working under the auspices of an international agency -- we did not have the remit to engage in major software development initiatives. This is one of the reasons why it was important to set up WikiEducator as an independant project. We are now in a very strong position to focus on a core WikiEducator value, namely a *forward-looking disposition* working together to find appropriate and sustainable solutions for e-learning futures. Lets make the future happen! Cheers Wayne 2009/9/6 Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com Hi Paul, When the 'late majority' (Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm model, - which Wayne isn't too crazy about! smile) come to the party (via Rich Text Editing), they will join the Innovators and Early Adopters (who know wiki syntax), and will find a thriving community of peers. I think this is critically important for folks who are technically savvy, and those who are not.that they are joining and participating with a group of folks who have 'experienced a different experience', and are ready to share and learn from, and with each other. It will be most interesting to see how things evolve in the not too distant future! smile - Randy On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Paul Seiler paul.sei...@minedu.govt.nzwrote: Randy, I have found your views to be true and I ask NZ teachers about WE, both those involved in L4C29 and those not yet trained. I do not think we will reach a critical mass of teachers contributing/modifying OER without a FCK (or the like), as they will always say they are too busy learning other new things (like our new curriculum, for example http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/). There will always be those willing to learn wiki syntax or who already know it, but my experience shows that this is a very minority of NZ teachers. Paul. On Sep 6, 1:28 am, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Gurmit, You build it, and they will come. I suggest you start a page on WikiEducator and I for one will definitely join. I started the mentoring project you were interested in way back and would love to see your input. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring!http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10:http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free
[WikiEducator] Re: September 2009 UPE
Congratulations, Randy. You make WE shine. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I am humbled to be chosen by my peers for this honour ~ thank you! To be honest, I've often wondered whether I'd make the grade, because my User Page is not as polished or sophisticated as others :-) I've wondered if we might create an Honourable Mention category for those WikiEducator who might not achieve the UPE level, but are significant contributors nonetheless. I believe these types of honours / peer recognition are an important element in building our community, and in attracting and retaining high calibre WikiEducators, from around the globe... Thanks again! - Randy On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Well done Randy! You've been with us since the Tectonic Shift Think Tank gathering. You've been instrumental in building community, training and supporting WikiEducators. Your talent to innovate and bring high productive members to our family continues to inspire us all. Kudos to becoming our top editor as well! That's a lot of work -- believe me I know :-) Congratulations 2009/9/3 Peter prawstho...@gmail.com A few months back it was suggested Randy Fisher (http:// wikieducator.org/User:Wikirandy) be the September UPE. Randy is one of the most deserving (and hard working) members of our community. He has a very comprehensive user page with considerable information about his skills, knowledge and abilities. In the last few months Randy has taken over as the most active WikiEducator in terms of wiki edits (http://wikieducator.org/stats/reports/ TablesWikipediaEN.htm#wikipedianshttp://wikieducator.org/stats/reports/%0ATablesWikipediaEN.htm#wikipedians). I believe Randy should be considered one of the exemplary WikiEducators! http://wikieducator.org/UPE#September_2009 Congratulations, Randy!!! -- 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 -- PS. Here's a link to some info about me: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher Randy Fisher MA, OMD Senior Consultant, Intersol Ottawa, Canada * Change Management, Learning Performance * Stakeholder Engagement, Virtual Collaboration Communities of Practice * Organization Design Development * Coaching Facilitation * E-Learning + 1 604.684.2275 (Pacific Time) wikira...@gmail.com http://www.wikieducator.org - Member, WikiEducator Community Council Skype: wikirandy Open Education is a Sustainable Renewable Resource. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Training on OER to RIE, Mysore M.Ed. students
Phil, I enjoyed reading the information provided on how to set up a face-to-face workshop. I wonder if you would consider setting up and facilitating a f2f L4C workshop with me in Victoria next summer. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, every body reading this knows how to set up a workshop. But f you want the students themselves to set up and run the workshop, here is some guidance for them. See: http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/tm-wksh.htm Cheers, Phil Date: Tues, Sep 1 2009 1:42 am From: G Viswanathappa We are interested to provide a training programme on OER by using Wikieducator for M.Ed. students of RIE, Mysore. Inform the possible ways to caonduct the same for the benifit of the students. With regards Dr.G.Viswanathappa Reader in Education Regional Institute of Education-NCERT Manasagangothri MYSORE-570 006 Ph:+91-821-2410995 (Res.) +91-821-2512153 (Off.) +91-821-2515665 (Fax-Off) +91-9448239716 (Mob.) e-Mail: gvr...@gmail.com gvr...@yahoo.co.in --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Local time
Phil, I tried the code on one of my websites http://www.nelliemuller.com and it didn't work, either. Maybe there is something missing in the code. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: On our Community Empowerment web site, we have it set up to read the user's computer and tell the local time that way See: http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/index.htm It is run by a very short java script. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Cape Town Open Education Sign-Up
Thank you, John. Here is a facebook group you may wish to join and pass on to your friends and colleagues: http://www.facebook.com/search/?init=srpsfxp=o=q=Capetown+Open+Education+Declaration#/group.php?gid=7812589110 Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:35 AM, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com wrote: As discussed in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/0e3d599bb19e7bd8#, the Open Education Foundation would like to have a mass sign-up of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration by WE members on 17 September, 2009 as part of the official launch of the Open Education Resources Foundation. As part of that I have created two pages; first is a short fact sheet on the Cape Town declaration here: http://www.wikieducator.org/CapeTown. Of course, feel free to add additional material Secondly, I created a page for people to list their names either if they have already sign the declaration or if they have not and wish to do so on 17 September: http://www.wikieducator.org/CapeTown/WE_Sign_Up. So, please add you name if you have already signed or wish to. Best regards, John http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Cape Town Open Education Sign-Up
I am sorry; here is the url for facebook again: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7812589110 Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:56 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, John. Here is a facebook group you may wish to join and pass on to your friends and colleagues: http://www.facebook.com/search/?init=srpsfxp=o=q=Capetown+Open+Education+Declaration#/group.php?gid=7812589110 Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:35 AM, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com wrote: As discussed in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/0e3d599bb19e7bd8#, the Open Education Foundation would like to have a mass sign-up of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration by WE members on 17 September, 2009 as part of the official launch of the Open Education Resources Foundation. As part of that I have created two pages; first is a short fact sheet on the Cape Town declaration here: http://www.wikieducator.org/CapeTown. Of course, feel free to add additional material Secondly, I created a page for people to list their names either if they have already sign the declaration or if they have not and wish to do so on 17 September: http://www.wikieducator.org/CapeTown/WE_Sign_Up. So, please add you name if you have already signed or wish to. Best regards, John http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Local time
Hi,
For the live online event on August 30/31, please check your time here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8day=31year=2009hour=20min=0sec=0p1=676and
join the class here:
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/173142-WikiEducator-Just-Try-It-Our-community-will-support-you
Thank you.
Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
Sharing is Caring!
http://www.nelliemuller.com
Doctoral Student
Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/
Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote:
The {{Current time}} gives Greenwich Mean Time or UTC (sometimes called
Zulu)
But the {{Local time}} gives the time in Israel
See: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle#Utilities
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[WikiEducator] Re: embedded content
Jo, I use an RSS to add my bliptv videos. You are welcome to copy and paste the codes: http://wikieducator.org/Storytelling/course#Video_Recordings_of_Live_Online_Sessions_on_Storytelling Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:14 AM, dragonsinger57 dragonsinge...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all - I'm wondering where to find a guide on how to embed audio and video on WE. I understand that kaltura is used for video but can't see where the 'widget' code is to insert the video. I also know how to embed an audio file using playmp3 but where are the instructions for this found? many thanks Jo --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Regarding How to delete archived files uploaded by mistake - Very Urgent
Sorry, but I was unable to find the pdf file. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Hitesh K. Sachdeva hiteshksachd...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir, I am working as Assistant Professor in SGTB Khalsa College. I had attended L4C workshop conducted by Acharya Narendra Dev College on 17.04.2009. Sir during workshop while learning how to upload a file, I had uploaded college directory (in pdf format) on my user page. After that I had deleted that file from my user page on the same day. But somebody yesterday told me that it is still on web in the archive section of wikieducator. Sir, I need your kind help to get that file removed from the net. The link to the file is http://www.wikieducator.org/images/archive/c/c8/20090417054528!Hitesh1.pdfhttp://www.wikieducator.org/images/archive/c/c8/20090417054528%21Hitesh1.pdf Kindly help me in removing that file from the Net. Early response will be highly appreciated. Sir kindly send your reply to hiteshksachd...@gmail.com -- Thanks Regards Hitesh K Sachdeva -- Thanks Regards Hitesh K Sachdeva --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Be careful - could be a virus
Yes, I am wondering about this myself. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: I have seen and received the same emails several times today in different location. I don’t know if it is related but some of my icons changed on my desktop after responding to this, in an attempt to help since it came through the list server I alerted our IT Department about this who didn’t think this to be serious, but I am not convinced, so here is the text again, this coming from a Raju. Can an administration for WikiEducator please doublecheck this. Thank you Quote Dear Sir, I am working as Assistant Professor in SGTB Khalsa College. I had attended L4C workshop conducted by Acharya Narendra Dev College on 17.04.2009. Sir during workshop while learning how to upload a file, I had uploaded college directory (in pdf format) on my user page. After that I had deleted that file from my user page on the same day. But somebody yesterday told me that it is still on web in the archive section of wikieducator. Sir, I need your kind help to get that file removed from the net. The link to the file is http://www.wikieducator.org/images/archive/c/c8/20090417054528!Hitesh1.pdfhttp://www.wikieducator.org/images/archive/c/c8/20090417054528%21Hitesh1.pdf Kindly help me in removing that file from the Net. Early response will be highly appreciated. Sir kindly send your reply to hiteshksachd...@gmail.com -- Thanks Regards Hitesh K Sachdeva Unquote *Patricia Schlicht*** *Programme Assistant * COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING *LEARNING FOR DEVELOPMENT*. COL is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. Suite 1200 - 1055 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC V6E 2E9 Canada PH: +1.604.775.8227 | FAX: +1.604.775.8210 | WEB: www.col.org | E-MAIL: pschli...@col.org * * *The **Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open and Distance Learninghttp://www.col.org/pcf6 ** will take place in Cochin, **India, in November 2010 (exact date to be announced later). It will be hosted in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).*** *A 'Green' reminder: **P** **Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. Thank you. * --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Font Colours
Thank you for your comments, Gita. I guess you are referring to me since I like the color purple and blue and have been using these colors . . Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: May I add my support to Gita's call for meaningful use of colour for fonts. Random and intrusive colours can be too noisy. I also support the use of meaningful background colours. For the community empowerment resources on WikiEd, each language has its own background colour and border colour, which helps us with our navigating. Cheers, Phil Date: Wed, Aug 26 2009 10:56 pm From: Gita Mathur Dear WikiFriends It is nice to see the Note template font colour changed from red to green. Thanks. It is really exciting to see everyone has taken to colouring fonts meaningfully on their user pages. However, please do not colour the fonts to blue or purple as these are automatic colours for linked pages. Colourful warm wishes Gita Mathur WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: September UPE
Excellent choice, Gita. The page is incredible. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with the committee. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Friends I would like to recommend User:M._A._Halim of Bangladesh for the September UPE. The page is very unique in style and very informative. Here is the link http://wikieducator.org/User:M._A._Halim Warm wishes Gita Mathur - 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/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Editing Content
Raj, Please make sure you click on edit after you log into your WikiEducator account and save when you finish editing a page. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Raj 127p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I wanted to add a FAQ to Tutorial 2 but it did not allow me to do that. I am registered because my user ID shows it. Here is the message listed: You do not have permission to edit pages, for the following reason: This page has been locked to prevent editing. What needs to be done? Help! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Editing Content
Hi Raj, So, I guess it was a protected page, after all. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Raj 127p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Nelli I had done that but apprently page has been locked. Raj On Aug 25, 11:55 am, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Raj, Please make sure you click on edit after you log into your WikiEducator account and save when you finish editing a page. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutschhttp://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10:http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Raj 127p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I wanted to add a FAQ to Tutorial 2 but it did not allow me to do that. I am registered because my user ID shows it. Here is the message listed: You do not have permission to edit pages, for the following reason: This page has been locked to prevent editing. What needs to be done? Help!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Style guidelines draft policy update
That's cute, Phil. Can you join us on the workgroup? We need you! Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote: West African Pidgin English I will be back soon. becomes, I go come small. :-) Nellie, Microsoft introduced a Canadian spelling speller in its Word programme, and it is as phony as a wedding ring on a hooker. Most of us in Canada, as you might remember, learned British spelling. We remember that in 1776 we declined the invitation of the Terrorists from Virginia to rebel against the Motherland, and our insistence on using proper English English is a residual of that sentiment. WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Style guidelines draft policy update
Thank you for your dedication. I agree that we should get involved and and contribute to this very important workgroup. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I'm back to give you an update on the progress of the style guidelines workgroup http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines and its draft policyhttp://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines/Guideline_policy_proposal. First, not much has changed in two weeks. The current suggested guidelines listhttp://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Style_guide/Proposed_guidelines#Proposed_guidelinesappears to be at a general consensus, however we can't progress with the suggestions until a policy for ratification is decided upon by the council. All the same, new suggestions are always welcome, as are comments on current suggestions! Through the week, I'll be doing some research and trying to add new ones, so keep checking the list. On the status of the draft policy: I think it's safe to say what we have is a complete draft, thanks to the help of Wayne and others. We're still late on a final draft, and have only seven days to the submission deadline of 1 September. I believe that will be plenty of time to make sure we have a solid draft for proposal to the council at the 7 September meeting, but it still requires that we hear the opinions of others! Remember that even if you had never heard of a wiki before you came to Wikieducator, you can still make a valuable contribution to this project and others! Looking forward to seeing you on the wiki, Jesse http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi Skype: jesse.groppi --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Style guidelines draft policy update
Jesse, I tried to add spelling as a suggested guideline and made a mess in the template. I apologize. However, should we choose between American and British spelling or let everyone do as they wish? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I'm back to give you an update on the progress of the style guidelines workgroup http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines and its draft policyhttp://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines/Guideline_policy_proposal. First, not much has changed in two weeks. The current suggested guidelines listhttp://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Style_guide/Proposed_guidelines#Proposed_guidelinesappears to be at a general consensus, however we can't progress with the suggestions until a policy for ratification is decided upon by the council. All the same, new suggestions are always welcome, as are comments on current suggestions! Through the week, I'll be doing some research and trying to add new ones, so keep checking the list. On the status of the draft policy: I think it's safe to say what we have is a complete draft, thanks to the help of Wayne and others. We're still late on a final draft, and have only seven days to the submission deadline of 1 September. I believe that will be plenty of time to make sure we have a solid draft for proposal to the council at the 7 September meeting, but it still requires that we hear the opinions of others! Remember that even if you had never heard of a wiki before you came to Wikieducator, you can still make a valuable contribution to this project and others! Looking forward to seeing you on the wiki, Jesse http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi Skype: jesse.groppi --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration
Hi John, Thank you for sharing your wiki user and blog. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:41 AM, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks Nellie for the link. The last entry was in December of 2007, before I joined WE, so I had not noticed it before. I wonder if some of the members changed their minds since 2007? First, there were not many members at that time. And I think many members, especially those joining since 2007, did not know of the Cape Town declaration. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com -- *From:* NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Friday, August 21, 2009 6:35:14 PM *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration Thank you for bringing up the topic. I signed the declaration as an individual but have you seen the discussions on WikiEducator: http://wikieducator.org/Talk:Open_Education_Declaration I wonder if some of the members changed their minds since 2007? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:22 AM, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com wrote: Wayne, sorry to rain on your parade ;-(. I do not doubt that OERF is very much committed to the goals of the Cape Town declaration, I actually thought is was more of an oversite, since as you say OERF is a new non-profit. Anyway, I am glad to see that we will have a big launch of OERF, I like the idea of having a Wikieducator signing initiative on Software Freedom Day. An informal workgroup might be a good idea. I was also an early signatory to the declaration, long before I had even heard of WE. :-) http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com -- *From:* Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Friday, August 21, 2009 5:32:48 PM *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration Hi John that's a very astute observation :-) You will see that I'm personally one of the early signatories of the declaration -- see the bottom of this page: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration :-) Also, Otago Polytechnic (the host institution of the OER Foundation) is also a signatory of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration) -- I can assure you that we're 150% behind the document. WikiEducator committed to the Free cultural works definition ( http://freedomdefined.org/Definition) before the inception of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. I've been holding my breath that no one would notice the absense of the OERF signature - we're a new non profit -- Now the cat is out of the bag ;-) -- We're planning the official launch of the OER Foundation to coincide with Software Freedom Day which is celebrated on 17 September around the world. We've been holding back on the official launch of the OER Foundation for this important day. See: http://softwarefreedomday.org/ One of our planned activities will be the OERF's official signing of the Cape Town Open Content Declaration. Now that our launch secret is now public -- perhaps we should plan a global WikiEducator initiative invloving individuals signing the Open Content Declaration and having a page dedicated to all WikiEducators who sign the declaration on SFD. No need for a WE council decision on this -- we adopted free content licensing as a core value of WE from the start of the project :-). Is a non-negotiable value of the community. Perhaps we need an informal workgroup to plan activities around SFD coinciding with the official launch of the OERF. Thoughts? Cheers Wayne 2009/8/21 john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com The Wikieducator website home page has a link to the Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration (even though indirectly through the featured institution section). But looking through the list of signatories, I noticed that the OER Foundation is not a signatory to the declaration. Not sure if such a decision would need to be approved by the Council. P.S. All wikieducators should also sign the declaration if you have not already. You can sign here: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/sign-the-declaration http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder
[WikiEducator] Re: Style guidelines draft policy update
Good points, Jan. Thank you for sharing. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Jan Visser jvis...@learndev.org wrote: I hope we let everyone do as they wish, as long as texts remain internally consistent, i.e., no mixing of UK and US spelling conventions in a single document. Similar rules should apply to e.g. Portuguese as written in Portugal and basically also in the so-called PALOP countries (the African countries that have Portuguese as an official language) and the Brazilian variety of Portuguese. Jan --- Check out *Learners in a Changing Learning Landscape*http://www.learndev.org/learnland2008.html ** at http://www.learndev.org/learnland2008.html Jan Visser, Ph.D. President Sr. Researcher, Learning Development Institute E-mail: jvis...@learndev.org Fax (France): +33-9-505-97347 Fax and voice messages via Internet: +1-928-569-7978 Phone: North America: +1-904-425-1625 France: +33-4-902-49275 France Mobile: +33-6-869-86300 (new since April 12, 2009)) Netherlands: +31-344-605243 Netherlands Mobile: +31-6-429-05944 Check out: http://www.learndev.org Blog: http://jvisser-ldi.blogspot.com/ -- *From:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *NELLIE DEUTSCH *Sent:* Monday, August 24, 2009 10:39 AM *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Style guidelines draft policy update Jesse, I tried to add spelling as a suggested guideline and made a mess in the template. I apologize. However, should we choose between American and British spelling or let everyone do as they wish? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Jesse Groppi jagro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I'm back to give you an update on the progress of the style guidelines workgroup http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines and its draft policyhttp://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:style_guidelines/Guideline_policy_proposal. First, not much has changed in two weeks. The current suggested guidelines listhttp://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Style_guide/Proposed_guidelines#Proposed_guidelinesappears to be at a general consensus, however we can't progress with the suggestions until a policy for ratification is decided upon by the council. All the same, new suggestions are always welcome, as are comments on current suggestions! Through the week, I'll be doing some research and trying to add new ones, so keep checking the list. On the status of the draft policy: I think it's safe to say what we have is a complete draft, thanks to the help of Wayne and others. We're still late on a final draft, and have only seven days to the submission deadline of 1 September. I believe that will be plenty of time to make sure we have a solid draft for proposal to the council at the 7 September meeting, but it still requires that we hear the opinions of others! Remember that even if you had never heard of a wiki before you came to Wikieducator, you can still make a valuable contribution to this project and others! Looking forward to seeing you on the wiki, Jesse http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jesse_Groppi Skype: jesse.groppi --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration
It will be an honor, John. Thank you for the invitation. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:06 AM, john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com wrote: Would you like to help us co-ordinate an international activity encouraging WkiEducators and affiliated insitutions to sign the Cape Town Open Declaration on SFD? Yes. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com -- *From:* Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Friday, August 21, 2009 6:35:20 PM *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration Hi John, No need for apology -- This gives us a greater opportunity to share the official launch of OERF globally! Don't know why I didn't thing of this before! Would you like to help us co-ordinate an international activity encouraging WkiEducators and affiliated insitutions to sign the Cape Town Open Declaration on SFD? Pretty neat idea? Cheers Wayne 2009/8/21 john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com Wayne, sorry to rain on your parade ;-(. I do not doubt that OERF is very much committed to the goals of the Cape Town declaration, I actually thought is was more of an oversite, since as you say OERF is a new non-profit. Anyway, I am glad to see that we will have a big launch of OERF, I like the idea of having a Wikieducator signing initiative on Software Freedom Day. An informal workgroup might be a good idea. I was also an early signatory to the declaration, long before I had even heard of WE. :-) http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com -- *From:* Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com *To:* wikieducator@googlegroups.com *Sent:* Friday, August 21, 2009 5:32:48 PM *Subject:* [WikiEducator] Re: Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration Hi John that's a very astute observation :-) You will see that I'm personally one of the early signatories of the declaration -- see the bottom of this page: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration :-) Also, Otago Polytechnic (the host institution of the OER Foundation) is also a signatory of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration) -- I can assure you that we're 150% behind the document. WikiEducator committed to the Free cultural works definition ( http://freedomdefined.org/Definition) before the inception of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. I've been holding my breath that no one would notice the absense of the OERF signature - we're a new non profit -- Now the cat is out of the bag ;-) -- We're planning the official launch of the OER Foundation to coincide with Software Freedom Day which is celebrated on 17 September around the world. We've been holding back on the official launch of the OER Foundation for this important day. See: http://softwarefreedomday.org/ One of our planned activities will be the OERF's official signing of the Cape Town Open Content Declaration. Now that our launch secret is now public -- perhaps we should plan a global WikiEducator initiative invloving individuals signing the Open Content Declaration and having a page dedicated to all WikiEducators who sign the declaration on SFD. No need for a WE council decision on this -- we adopted free content licensing as a core value of WE from the start of the project :-). Is a non-negotiable value of the community. Perhaps we need an informal workgroup to plan activities around SFD coinciding with the official launch of the OERF. Thoughts? Cheers Wayne 2009/8/21 john stampe jwsta...@yahoo.com The Wikieducator website home page has a link to the Cape Town Open Eduacation Declaration (even though indirectly through the featured institution section). But looking through the list of signatories, I noticed that the OER Foundation is not a signatory to the declaration. Not sure if such a decision would need to be approved by the Council. P.S. All wikieducators should also sign the declaration if you have not already. You can sign here: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/sign-the-declaration http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com -- 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 -- 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
[WikiEducator] Re: Style guidelines draft policy update
Hi Stephen, Is there a new Canadian spelling style I missed out on these past 40 years? Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Stephen Downes step...@downes.ca wrote: john stampe wrote: However, should we choose between American and British spelling or let everyone do as they wish? Require everyone to use Canadian spelling. ;) -- Stephen -- Stephen Downes ~ Research Officer ~ National Research Council Canada http://www.downes.ca ~ step...@downes.ca __\|/__ Free Learning --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
