[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education *NFE discussion

2009-03-22 Thread valerie
Hi Phil Seems to me that there is an opportunity provide support to community mobilizers by offering the training and providing a community of practice - a group of people with similar interests or activities who connect to share ideas, ask questions and provide moral support. Which brings us

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education *NFE discussion

2009-03-19 Thread Maria Droujkova
Phil, when people are done with the technical discussion, and if you are still interested, I am a radical unschooler in real life and I can probably play this ball with you. I have connections in unschoolers' circles. My pedagogical interest is in mathematics. -- Cheers, MariaD Make math your

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education *NFE discussion

2009-03-19 Thread Declan
Hi Phil, Personally I work here only in Spring semesters when I'm teaching my wiki-related course. Much of the technical discussion sails over my head innocuously. You have contributed content as I expect many teachers will do. There are others who are better versed in the technowizardry and I

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education *NFE discussion

2009-03-19 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi All, Phil raises an important concern: As our community grows, the list of technical inquiries and comments are likely to grow, as is the demand for inquiry and comment about pedagogical issues. At what point do we decide to have different mailing lists? - Randy On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education *NFE discussion

2009-03-19 Thread Gladys Gahona
Hi Phil, Honestly I've been waiting for the Functional Literacy content come alive. This is of particular interest to me, I'm also involved in the NFE loop, even I'm not enroled yet to your endeavour (wish day had 48 hrs), but if you decide to continue it I'd gladly assist you on sorting tech

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education (NFE) Discussion

2009-03-15 Thread valerie
Hi Phil How about a question of the week here? Do you have specific topics to get some interaction and feedback? Do you want to ask specific questions to help populate sections of your outline? http://www.wikieducator.org/Non_Formal_Education_Online_Conference Reading through the information

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education (NFE) Discussion

2009-02-24 Thread valerie
Thanks Nellie I'm getting tired of having to sign-up for yet-another-special forum in order to participate in these learning opportunities. I really liked that FOC08 and CCK08 materials were just sitting there. The only sign up was to subscribe to the newsletter. I could subscribe to other

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education (NFE) Discussion

2009-02-23 Thread valerie
I would like to see more un-courses. I like to learn in a group. It doesn't have to be taught or even highly organized. Someone has to get it started, and maybe do a re-cap. The topic has to be interesting or specific enough to attract a critical mass. But other than that, that is plenty to

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education (NFE) Discussion

2009-02-23 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Valerie, There are other such courses. In fact, I just completed co-moderating such a course that I believe you joined near the end called digifolios at http://digifolios.ning.com Electronic Village Online (EVO): http://www.wikieducator.org/Electronic_Village_Online and EVO09 had 18 such courses.

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education (NFE) Discussion

2009-02-18 Thread Maria Droujkova
Some models and communities you probably don't want to miss: Communities of practice, apprenticeships Massively Multiplayer Games and the huge amount of learning happening within them Homeschoolers, especially unschoolers On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Phil Bartle cmpbar...@gmail.com wrote:

[WikiEducator] Re: Non Formal Education (NFE) Discussion

2009-02-17 Thread valerie
Hi Phil This is a great opportunity for collaborative writing. I took the liberty of modifying the page http://www.wikieducator.org/Non_Formal_Education_Online_Conference Everyone can add their ideas and suggestions directly into the appropriate sections. Links to other projects or