[WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated
Hi there, This is exactly one of the reasons why we decided to raise the question, if we should look at a working group for the establishment of social network sites for WikiEducator. You want to avoid creating too many of the same clusters. Thank you both very much for helping with this. We have two WikiEducator accounts on Facebook and are looking to combine these two into one account. One was established as Group by Wayne and has 290+ members and the second was established by me recently with 33+ members. Wayne and I were discussing it a while ago and I am yet to find out how to do this. Currently I am maintaining and posting on both http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5373599268ref=mf http://www.facebook.com/pages/WikiEducator/84274419299?ref=ts Wayne liked the second link because it has WikiEducator in its name, which brought up the issue of perhaps moving the first list to the second one. How do people feel about this? Comments appreciated Cheers, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jim Tittsler Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 9:46 PM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 16:37, Chris Harveygnuch...@gmail.com wrote: This may seem odd but a while ago I was looking on twitter/identi.ca and noticed there was no wikieducator account so I registered accounts on both those sites, pretty much to reserve the name. I also created a WikiEducator group on identi.ca about a week ago: http://identi.ca/group/wikieducator --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated
Hi Bee, Great advice, but I believe that's been done by Jim. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Barbara Dieu beeonl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie and Wayne, You can always open an account for Wikieducator at Identica, which is less crowded (so less noise) and open source. It retweets to Twitter. http://identi.ca/ Warm regards from Brazil, Bee -- 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: Community thoughts appreciated
Great suggestion, Gladys Here it is http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Social_Networks Cheers From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gladys Gahona Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:48 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated Hello, I propose to create a WE page cointaining a list of WikiEducator registration info in social networks and other instances; any member or the Council can manage it. Cheers 2009/7/7 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Wayne, I believe Jim Tittsler created a twitter account for WikiEducator. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nellie -- This time I'm not the guilty party ;-) and didn't set up the WikiEducator username on Twitter. Somebody else has registered the account and I don't know who this is. I've written to the Twitter support team asking whether they can follow up on this but obviously a challenge as user accounts are confidential. However -- they must have some protocol in place where users set up accounts using the names legal entities. Cheers Wayne 2009/7/7 NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com Chris, I was going to start a WikiEducator twitter name for the community but found someone had already taken the name. I presumed it was Wayne. Twitter is an excellent way to communicate. I would love to see it activated. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Chris Harvey gnuch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Patricia, I think that this is a good idea and use some of those services to raise awareness of things I'm passionate about and things that I think are important, sometimes it also helps promote my own site. This may seem odd but a while ago I was looking on twitter/identi.ca and noticed there was no wikieducator account so I registered accounts on both those sites, pretty much to reserve the name. To be honest I was surprised that it didn't already exist and worried that account name would get taken by someone else. Some people will stay up all night to get a name they like, just look at downes with facebook. I'm not sure if wikieducator is trademarked or not, that might be another way to get the name you want. In a way Ive been waiting for someone to bring this up so I should probably try to help out. Warm Regards Chris Harvey http://twitter.com/gnuchris On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Patricia Schlichtpschli...@col.org wrote: Good Morning! I would like to add a point to the discussions while we are at it and add another point of for discussion, which is the promotion of WikiEducator offsite 1. How does the community feel about setting up working groups for the discussion of the establishment of social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter etc. 2. Now that we will shortly arrive at a new stage of promoting WikiEducator, how should this be done. 3. Is it necessary and if yes, why or why not 4. Any thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:28 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ Hi everyone -- BIG kudos to Nellie and Gladys who are taking wiki skills development to a new level in WikiEducator! I'm proud to be associated with educators who share the value of sharing knowledge freely and promoting growth in our amazing project :-) Thanks also to Nellie for raising important
[WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated
Maybe I wasnt clear enough. I made accounts using name wikieducator on twitter and identi.ca. As you can imagine they are popular key words. Is Wikieducator trademaked? If the term is trademarked you can force people to give up the username, I think thats what scobilizer did on identi.ca. Warm Regards Chris Harvey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Community thoughts appreciated
Hi Patricia, I think that this is a good idea and use some of those services to raise awareness of things I'm passionate about and things that I think are important, sometimes it also helps promote my own site. This may seem odd but a while ago I was looking on twitter/identi.ca and noticed there was no wikieducator account so I registered accounts on both those sites, pretty much to reserve the name. To be honest I was surprised that it didn't already exist and worried that account name would get taken by someone else. Some people will stay up all night to get a name they like, just look at downes with facebook. I'm not sure if wikieducator is trademarked or not, that might be another way to get the name you want. In a way Ive been waiting for someone to bring this up so I should probably try to help out. Warm Regards Chris Harvey http://twitter.com/gnuchris On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Patricia Schlichtpschli...@col.org wrote: Good Morning! I would like to add a point to the discussions while we are at it and add another point of for discussion, which is the promotion of WikiEducator offsite 1. How does the community feel about setting up working groups for the discussion of the establishment of social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter etc. 2. Now that we will shortly arrive at a new stage of promoting WikiEducator, how should this be done. 3. Is it necessary and if yes, why or why not 4. Any thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:28 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ Hi everyone -- BIG kudos to Nellie and Gladys who are taking wiki skills development to a new level in WikiEducator! I'm proud to be associated with educators who share the value of sharing knowledge freely and promoting growth in our amazing project :-) Thanks also to Nellie for raising important questions on the list regarding how we advertise workshops and use our collective space and real estate on the WikiEducator landing page. Herewith my thoughts and ideas to your questions: 1.) Should WE publish workshops on the main page? Yes -- in the spirit of sharing knowledge and opportunities to widen skills in collaborating with the free culture in developing content resources in support of all national curricula -- we should advertise our free training as widely as possible. 2) Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? Yes -- WE should provide links to community wide and inclusive initiatives. That said, we need to recognise that the WikiEducator landing page is the doorway into our community and I have received personal queries from the community regarding the prominence of the rather large animated gif that was placed on the homepage. With compliments to the facilitators of this training event being bold and taking initiative the wiki way :-) (See: http://wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Template:Frontpage_newsdiff=prevoldid=393778 ) However, historically we've used the news section on the landing page to keep to small thumbnails of images in the range of 100 to 150 pixels and then linking to a subpage to provide more detail. In the past I've taken on the responsibity of keeping the front page current and am very pleased to see more folk from our family taking ownership. This raises the question whether we need guidelines and a community of volunteers to assist with keeping our landing page current. 3) Should WE conduct these workshops at all? Absolutely! The Learning4Content project is the worlds largest wiki training initiative for educators -- Any projects, online sessions which widen access to learning wiki skills must be encouraged :-). 5). Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? Well - decisions which effect the entire community, IMHO should as far as possible and practicble involve as many members of the Wikieducator community as possible --- at least we should provide ample opportunity for wide participation. The advantage of the workgroup approach (which was proposed by a community member) is that any member of the community can participate irrespective of rank or status. I think that we'll be moving into questionable territory if we assigned all operational decisions, for example to the WikiEducator Community Council --- that would demish the democractic prinples on which our community is founded. That said -- WikiEducator is an evolving community and we do not have all the mechanisms, guidelines and procedures in place that will contribute to our future success. The workgroup approach is Work-in-progress for consideration by the next meeting of Council. 6) Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to
[WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 16:37, Chris Harveygnuch...@gmail.com wrote: This may seem odd but a while ago I was looking on twitter/identi.ca and noticed there was no wikieducator account so I registered accounts on both those sites, pretty much to reserve the name. I also created a WikiEducator group on identi.ca about a week ago: http://identi.ca/group/wikieducator --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated
Chris, I was going to start a WikiEducator twitter name for the community but found someone had already taken the name. I presumed it was Wayne. Twitter is an excellent way to communicate. I would love to see it activated. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Chris Harvey gnuch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Patricia, I think that this is a good idea and use some of those services to raise awareness of things I'm passionate about and things that I think are important, sometimes it also helps promote my own site. This may seem odd but a while ago I was looking on twitter/identi.ca and noticed there was no wikieducator account so I registered accounts on both those sites, pretty much to reserve the name. To be honest I was surprised that it didn't already exist and worried that account name would get taken by someone else. Some people will stay up all night to get a name they like, just look at downes with facebook. I'm not sure if wikieducator is trademarked or not, that might be another way to get the name you want. In a way Ive been waiting for someone to bring this up so I should probably try to help out. Warm Regards Chris Harvey http://twitter.com/gnuchris On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Patricia Schlichtpschli...@col.org wrote: Good Morning! I would like to add a point to the discussions while we are at it and add another point of for discussion, which is the promotion of WikiEducator offsite 1. How does the community feel about setting up working groups for the discussion of the establishment of social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter etc. 2. Now that we will shortly arrive at a new stage of promoting WikiEducator, how should this be done. 3. Is it necessary and if yes, why or why not 4. Any thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:28 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ Hi everyone -- BIG kudos to Nellie and Gladys who are taking wiki skills development to a new level in WikiEducator! I'm proud to be associated with educators who share the value of sharing knowledge freely and promoting growth in our amazing project :-) Thanks also to Nellie for raising important questions on the list regarding how we advertise workshops and use our collective space and real estate on the WikiEducator landing page. Herewith my thoughts and ideas to your questions: 1.) Should WE publish workshops on the main page? Yes -- in the spirit of sharing knowledge and opportunities to widen skills in collaborating with the free culture in developing content resources in support of all national curricula -- we should advertise our free training as widely as possible. 2) Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? Yes -- WE should provide links to community wide and inclusive initiatives. That said, we need to recognise that the WikiEducator landing page is the doorway into our community and I have received personal queries from the community regarding the prominence of the rather large animated gif that was placed on the homepage. With compliments to the facilitators of this training event being bold and taking initiative the wiki way :-) (See: http://wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Template:Frontpage_newsdiff=prevoldid=393778 ) However, historically we've used the news section on the landing page to keep to small thumbnails of images in the range of 100 to 150 pixels and then linking to a subpage to provide more detail. In the past I've taken on the responsibity of keeping the front page current and am very pleased to see more folk from our family taking ownership. This raises the question whether we need guidelines and a community of volunteers to assist with keeping our landing page current. 3) Should WE conduct these workshops at all? Absolutely! The Learning4Content project is the worlds largest wiki training initiative for educators -- Any projects, online sessions which widen access to learning wiki skills must be encouraged :-). 5). Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? Well - decisions which effect the entire community, IMHO should as far as possible and practicble involve as many members of the Wikieducator community as possible --- at least we should provide ample opportunity for wide participation. The advantage of the workgroup
[WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated
On Jun 30, 2:04 am, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: Good Morning! I would like to add a point to the discussions while we are at it and add another point of for discussion, which is the promotion of WikiEducator offsite 1. How does the community feel about setting up working groups for the discussion of the establishment of social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter etc. Patricia, could we hold of for just a little longer on setting up a social network site. In no way am I trying to hold anyone back from doing what they feel must be done. It's just that there is a lot of discussion coming to a head in various NREN's now and I'm hoping WE can, as one of the most progressive global communities, lend our passions and skills to helping their National centric engineers understand how a global peer commons environment might look and operate, so they can reconfigure their networks to support us.edu (or us.ac.uk or us.edu.nz, etc) and other communities who use a different tool as a starting point (i,e, not a wiki) There's a little conference over in Australia next week which has a virtual version.http://www.questnet.net.au/questnet2009/ If anyone would like to participate, it would really help give some direction to that 'experiment' I mentioned before. That said, I always promote WE as example of where teachers/facilitators with a forward looking disposition are congregating (as quietly as possible). If you log in over at questnet, you'll see what i mean. This is all to do with (from an engineering perspective) trying to figure out the difference between clouds and grids and how they be made sustainable, which I don't want to bore WE's community members with. But the aim of it is moving to a new (global) institution for learning, as wayne writes about so well. For that to be acheivable we just need to share a little understanding of each profession's perspective, and find out what their communities have in common. 2. Now that we will shortly arrive at a new stage of promoting WikiEducator, how should this be done. I'd really be interested in what other communties WE members are registered with, and which initiatives give them the greatest hope. For me its edna as an australian.edu community, 'taking it global' as one for my younger global soul and me.edu.au as the initiative where i can see some sense being made of things. Promotion is something which communities used to do before the web was invented and we all became overloaded with info and tools. Inclusion is the description I'd use. 3. Is it necessary and if yes, why or why not 4. Any thoughts appreciated. I think you're wonderful. simon Cheers, Patricia --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Community thoughts appreciated
Dear Simon, Thank you for your comments. I would like to clarify something. I wasn't asking the community if we should establish a working group for promoting WikiEducator. What I asked was if we should create a working group for the establishment of social network accounts. There is a difference. In the freedom movement, anybody can go and create an account using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, to name only two and the purpose is again to share and exchange information, be this for a specific purpose or just as friends. The choice is up to each one of us. If you meant our online workshop that is forthcoming on July 3, at 6 pm, GMT (link on the main WE page) by asking to hold on than the answer unfortunately is that we cannot put the event on hold but there will be more opportunities for your group to see the WikiEducator community in action on several levels in the future. If we can help you locally in any way, let me know by writing to Wayne or me directly. Warmest, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of simonfj Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:57 PM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated On Jun 30, 2:04 am, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.org wrote: Good Morning! I would like to add a point to the discussions while we are at it and add another point of for discussion, which is the promotion of WikiEducator offsite 1. How does the community feel about setting up working groups for the discussion of the establishment of social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter etc. Patricia, could we hold of for just a little longer on setting up a social network site. In no way am I trying to hold anyone back from doing what they feel must be done. It's just that there is a lot of discussion coming to a head in various NREN's now and I'm hoping WE can, as one of the most progressive global communities, lend our passions and skills to helping their National centric engineers understand how a global peer commons environment might look and operate, so they can reconfigure their networks to support us.edu (or us.ac.uk or us.edu.nz, etc) and other communities who use a different tool as a starting point (i,e, not a wiki) There's a little conference over in Australia next week which has a virtual version.http://www.questnet.net.au/questnet2009/ If anyone would like to participate, it would really help give some direction to that 'experiment' I mentioned before. That said, I always promote WE as example of where teachers/facilitators with a forward looking disposition are congregating (as quietly as possible). If you log in over at questnet, you'll see what i mean. This is all to do with (from an engineering perspective) trying to figure out the difference between clouds and grids and how they be made sustainable, which I don't want to bore WE's community members with. But the aim of it is moving to a new (global) institution for learning, as wayne writes about so well. For that to be acheivable we just need to share a little understanding of each profession's perspective, and find out what their communities have in common. 2. Now that we will shortly arrive at a new stage of promoting WikiEducator, how should this be done. I'd really be interested in what other communties WE members are registered with, and which initiatives give them the greatest hope. For me its edna as an australian.edu community, 'taking it global' as one for my younger global soul and me.edu.au as the initiative where i can see some sense being made of things. Promotion is something which communities used to do before the web was invented and we all became overloaded with info and tools. Inclusion is the description I'd use. 3. Is it necessary and if yes, why or why not 4. Any thoughts appreciated. I think you're wonderful. simon Cheers, Patricia --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Community thoughts appreciated
Good Morning! I would like to add a point to the discussions while we are at it and add another point of for discussion, which is the promotion of WikiEducator offsite 1. How does the community feel about setting up working groups for the discussion of the establishment of social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter etc. 2. Now that we will shortly arrive at a new stage of promoting WikiEducator, how should this be done. 3. Is it necessary and if yes, why or why not 4. Any thoughts appreciated. Cheers, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:28 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ Hi everyone -- BIG kudos to Nellie and Gladys who are taking wiki skills development to a new level in WikiEducator! I'm proud to be associated with educators who share the value of sharing knowledge freely and promoting growth in our amazing project :-) Thanks also to Nellie for raising important questions on the list regarding how we advertise workshops and use our collective space and real estate on the WikiEducator landing page. Herewith my thoughts and ideas to your questions: 1.) Should WE publish workshops on the main page? Yes -- in the spirit of sharing knowledge and opportunities to widen skills in collaborating with the free culture in developing content resources in support of all national curricula -- we should advertise our free training as widely as possible. 2) Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? Yes -- WE should provide links to community wide and inclusive initiatives. That said, we need to recognise that the WikiEducator landing page is the doorway into our community and I have received personal queries from the community regarding the prominence of the rather large animated gif that was placed on the homepage. With compliments to the facilitators of this training event being bold and taking initiative the wiki way :-) (See: http://wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Template:Frontpage_newsdiff=pre voldid=393778 ) However, historically we've used the news section on the landing page to keep to small thumbnails of images in the range of 100 to 150 pixels and then linking to a subpage to provide more detail. In the past I've taken on the responsibity of keeping the front page current and am very pleased to see more folk from our family taking ownership. This raises the question whether we need guidelines and a community of volunteers to assist with keeping our landing page current. 3) Should WE conduct these workshops at all? Absolutely! The Learning4Content project is the worlds largest wiki training initiative for educators -- Any projects, online sessions which widen access to learning wiki skills must be encouraged :-). 5). Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? Well - decisions which effect the entire community, IMHO should as far as possible and practicble involve as many members of the Wikieducator community as possible --- at least we should provide ample opportunity for wide participation. The advantage of the workgroup approach (which was proposed by a community member) is that any member of the community can participate irrespective of rank or status. I think that we'll be moving into questionable territory if we assigned all operational decisions, for example to the WikiEducator Community Council --- that would demish the democractic prinples on which our community is founded. That said -- WikiEducator is an evolving community and we do not have all the mechanisms, guidelines and procedures in place that will contribute to our future success. The workgroup approach is Work-in-progress for consideration by the next meeting of Council. 6) Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? I think we should distinguish between two major categories of content: * OER content developed by individuals or collaborations between educators. As long as this content aligns with the filters of the core values stated on our home page, I think folk should have the freedom to develop this content. This does not necessarily imply a consensus opinion by the community -- unlike Wikipedia, we are not developing objective encyclopedia content and I think we should encourage a diversity of pedagogical approaches. * Community wide content, like policies and guidelines. As suggested above -- I think that we should strive for community consensus on this category of content including guidelines of how we should manage the consensus process. 7) How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating stage? We collaborate on developing community consensus on how we think workgroups should operate -- as we're doing at the moment (see:
[WikiEducator] Re: Community thoughts appreciated
How does the community feel about setting up working groups for the discussion of the establishment of social network accounts such as Facebook, Twitter etc. Now that we will shortly arrive at a new stage of promoting WikiEducator, how should this be done? Is it necessary and if yes, why or why not? Here's one opinion, which happens to be mine (smile). For those who wish to communicate to all the participants in WE, either try to find a way to do it within the WE site or create a blog (or Facebook, Ning, possibly Google wave, etc. - not Google Groups) that is linked to the WE main page. People who wish to collaborate on OERs and community-wide content should create simple group (i.e., workgroups) charters that state who are members, how they are to work together, expectations, etc. Group charters should be completely open and decided upon by the group. If there's anything standard that I´m proposing here, it would be having the group charter appear on the main page of the OER or community-wide content. The technology to be used to achieve the group objectives can be anything (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but the group itself decides. Working this way means that groups start right away on working on their OERs or community- wide content and the overall goal of WE thus becomes how to connect people with similar interests, needs, and competencies. I propose this option in lieu of establishing a formalized workgroup initiative with general guidelines and rules. I believe that once groups get started, group charters get written, and WE finds a space and manner in which to connect people, projects, etc., workgroups will become more effective and efficient has they gain more experience and are exposed to how other groups are conducting business. Forgive my ignorance, but I´m not sure what new stage of promoting WE is referring to unless it has something to do with changing technologies that facilitate communication flow among WEducators. This idea addresses Nellie's 7th question... How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating stage? My answer is that each group (i.e., workgroup) just begins with their respective charter. Any other thoughts? Benjamin http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Bnleez http://groups.diigo.com/groups/wikieducator --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
