[WikiEducator] Re: Congratulations to WikiMedia Foundation on Licensing Changes
Fantastic, Wayne and Eric. Way to go. It will be great to have this content interoperability between Connexions and Mediawiki installations. Very much in the l'air du temps and in synch with the wave (have you seen http://www.wave.google.com?). 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: Congratulations to WikiMedia Foundation on Licensing Changes
Hi Bee, Thank you for sharing the Google video. Here is the correct url: http://wave.google.com Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Barbara Dieu beeonl...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic, Wayne and Eric. Way to go. It will be great to have this content interoperability between Connexions and Mediawiki installations. Very much in the l'air du temps and in synch with the wave (have you seen http://www.wave.google.com?). 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: Working group: OER Policy Briefing
Thank you, Wayne because some of us did miss this initiative. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Teresa over at the WE Teacher Collaboration Forum list ( http://groups.google.co.nz/group/wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-forum) suggested that we should develop an OER Policy Briefing -- a concise document to inform and assist policy makers with decisions relating to OER. I find it hard to believe that no-one has tackled this yet -- but my admittedly cursory search did not find any OER policy briefings :-(. A couple of folk from the Teacher Collaboration Forum have put up their hands to help out. Apology for the cross posting. In the event that anyone on the main WE list wants to help out on this important task --- please add your names on the relevant wiki page. I've started adding a few thoughts and ideas over here: http://wikieducator.org/OER_Brief_for_policy_makers Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Working group: OER Policy Briefing
Dear Teresa, Together with Carolina Rossini, I am presently working on developing a similar initiative in Portuguese. Would you be interested in joining us in this luso effort? Warm regards, 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] Bring in the Ning
In the spirit of diversity, openness, and continual improvement, I vote for a Ning (or Ning-like) site that manages all groups, forums, etc. that pertain to WE. It would be nice to have one central space that would be all things WE. The idea would be to replace Google Groups entirely. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Bring in the Ning
hmmm ... that might not be such a bad idea. brent. -- http://www.waihekeradio.org.nz http://pedagogyofthecompressed.blogspot.com/ On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Ben bnl...@yahoo.com wrote: In the spirit of diversity, openness, and continual improvement, I vote for a Ning (or Ning-like) site that manages all groups, forums, etc. that pertain to WE. It would be nice to have one central space that would be all things WE. The idea would be to replace Google Groups entirely. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Bring in the Ning
Ben and Brent, I agree that ning is an excellent social network as I have created a few groups of my own. I also use Moodle and google groups and google docs, but I think the forum discussions should be on Wikieducator. Perhaps google wavehttp://wave.google.com/will resolve the current social issues. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Ben bnl...@yahoo.com wrote: In the spirit of diversity, openness, and continual improvement, I vote for a Ning (or Ning-like) site that manages all groups, forums, etc. that pertain to WE. It would be nice to have one central space that would be all things WE. The idea would be to replace Google Groups entirely. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Bring in the Ning
I'm a ning user for other projects, so you will have my support on this idea. I also agree with Nellie that the discussion should be on WikiEducator. Given the Alpha release nature of LQT (the discussion forum software used by WikiEducator) I don't see WE having a discussion forum mature enough to handle and manage the discussion. SO I believe we may want to consider a move to something like the ning. It will provide us social technologies. Sincerely, Peter On May 30, 12:49 pm, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Ben and Brent, I agree that ning is an excellent social network as I have created a few groups of my own. I also use Moodle and google groups and google docs, but I think the forum discussions should be on Wikieducator. Perhaps google wavehttp://wave.google.com/will resolve the current social issues. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Share your teaching experiences:http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world:http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Ben bnl...@yahoo.com wrote: In the spirit of diversity, openness, and continual improvement, I vote for a Ning (or Ning-like) site that manages all groups, forums, etc. that pertain to WE. It would be nice to have one central space that would be all things WE. The idea would be to replace Google Groups entirely. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Bring in the Ning
Hi Brent, Ben, Peter and Nellie In the spirit of getting better at what we're doing and helping WikiEducators to connect with each other -- I think we should take a careful look at how we communicate as a social network. Shall we set up a small working group and ask for volunteers to look at communication alternatives for WE? This way we can look at all the advantages, disadvantages and implications of the different alternatives, building on the wealth of experience from members of the WE family. As a community which encourages and supports the principles of self-organisation, nothing prevents anyone from setting up a social networking hub contributing to the aims of WE and I think that's a good thing. Personally -- I rather like the features of ning, but I also see Nellie's point about a central hub within the wiki which keeps things together. My sense is that collectively we can come up with a creative solution if we put our minds to the challenge. Anybody interested in pooling our energies and experience by setting up a volunteer work group to come up with a proposed solution? Cheers Wayne 2009/5/31 Peter prawstho...@gmail.com I'm a ning user for other projects, so you will have my support on this idea. I also agree with Nellie that the discussion should be on WikiEducator. Given the Alpha release nature of LQT (the discussion forum software used by WikiEducator) I don't see WE having a discussion forum mature enough to handle and manage the discussion. SO I believe we may want to consider a move to something like the ning. It will provide us social technologies. Sincerely, Peter On May 30, 12:49 pm, NELLIE DEUTSCH nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com wrote: Ben and Brent, I agree that ning is an excellent social network as I have created a few groups of my own. I also use Moodle and google groups and google docs, but I think the forum discussions should be on Wikieducator. Perhaps google wavehttp://wave.google.com/will resolve the current social issues. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world:http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Ben bnl...@yahoo.com wrote: In the spirit of diversity, openness, and continual improvement, I vote for a Ning (or Ning-like) site that manages all groups, forums, etc. that pertain to WE. It would be nice to have one central space that would be all things WE. The idea would be to replace Google Groups entirely. -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Bring in the Ning
Were it not for the problems with liquid threads, I'd be for discussing WE on WE. Never heard of Ning; but willing to try. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Bring in the Ning
I support the points expressed. I am not sure about the advantages and/or disadvantages of using Ning versus Google Groups or Google Docs are. I am happy to explore this. I agree with Wayne, let us get together, so we can make the best possible decision at this time Cheers, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com on behalf of Declan Sent: Sat 5/30/2009 5:14 PM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Bring in the Ning Were it not for the problems with liquid threads, I'd be for discussing WE on WE. Never heard of Ning; but willing to try. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- inline: winmail.dat
[WikiEducator] Re: Bring in the Ning
Hi All, I think Patricia makes an excellent point -- at this time. A solution proposed by the working group, ought to focus on a tool, for say 6-12 months. After, other options may emerge... - Randy On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: I support the points expressed. I am not sure about the advantages and/or disadvantages of using Ning versus Google Groups or Google Docs are. I am happy to explore this. I agree with Wayne, let us get together, so we can make the best possible decision at this time Cheers, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com on behalf of Declan Sent: Sat 5/30/2009 5:14 PM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Bring in the Ning Were it not for the problems with liquid threads, I'd be for discussing WE on WE. Never heard of Ning; but willing to try. -- Randy Fisher MA, OMD * Change Management, Learning Performance * Stakeholder Engagement Community-Building * Organization Design Development * Coaching Facilitation * Open Education/E-Learning + 1 604.684.2275 (Pacific Time) wikira...@gmail.com http://www.wikieducator.org - Member, WikiEducator Community Council http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher * Can You Do the Wiki-Wiki? http://www.wikieducator.org/Wiki_Wiki 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: Bring in the Ning
Excellent point Randy about Patricia's at this time as nothing on the Internet is permanent. :) However, there are many options, including facebook and the soon to come out, google wave. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I think Patricia makes an excellent point -- at this time. A solution proposed by the working group, ought to focus on a tool, for say 6-12 months. After, other options may emerge... - Randy On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: I support the points expressed. I am not sure about the advantages and/or disadvantages of using Ning versus Google Groups or Google Docs are. I am happy to explore this. I agree with Wayne, let us get together, so we can make the best possible decision at this time Cheers, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com on behalf of Declan Sent: Sat 5/30/2009 5:14 PM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Bring in the Ning Were it not for the problems with liquid threads, I'd be for discussing WE on WE. Never heard of Ning; but willing to try. -- Randy Fisher MA, OMD * Change Management, Learning Performance * Stakeholder Engagement Community-Building * Organization Design Development * Coaching Facilitation * Open Education/E-Learning + 1 604.684.2275 (Pacific Time) wikira...@gmail.com http://www.wikieducator.org - Member, WikiEducator Community Council http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher * Can You Do the Wiki-Wiki? http://www.wikieducator.org/Wiki_Wiki 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] Thoughts about WE Workgroups / Working groups
Hi everyone -- The concept of instituting work groups in WE has been around for some time, as suggested, for example by User:Leutha, User:Kakamora and others. However, we don't have processes or guidelines to assist WikiEducator's in forming groups that will contribute towards the collective objective of improving how we work. When WikiEducator was much smaller -- it was relatively easy to post a query, idea or suggestion on the main list and take a collective decision. With considerable growth since January 2008 our project needs are growing rapidly and I wonder whether WE should consider formalising a work group approach? In other words, should we set up a work group to develop guidelines on implementing work groups to be tabled at the first WCC meeting? We already have a few work groups that have formed organically. *Existing work groups: * - A usability work group iniated by User:Kakamora -- good ideas and intentions, but hasn't gone further (see: http://www.wikieducator.org/Usability_Working_Group ) - A work group to talk about Learning Design (Pedagogical templates) -- (see: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Learning_design ) - Another work group is looking at the development of an OER Policy Briefing intended to assist with advocacy of OER among policy makers -- (see: http://wikieducator.org/OER_Brief_for_policy_makers ) Are there any other workgroups which I may have missed? Peter wouldn't the volunteer group who have signed up for helping out on the Quality Assurance and Review framework also constitute a workgroup of sorts? (See: http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_and_Review ). Recent posts on the list by Nellie, Ben, Peter, Brent, Randy and Patricia on the topic of communication alternatives in WE, ning.com etc suggest that the work group model is possibly a good vehicle for researching these kinds of questions and proposing alternatives for consideration. Two questions: 1. Should WE implement a work group approach? 2. If so, should we initiate a work group to develop a draft set of guidelines on work groups, utimately leading to a policy on work groups for consideration by the WCC for approval. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Bring in the Ning
That's right, in these times, the way we integrate technologies in our work is changing rapidly and nothing is here to stay, which is why we are exploring the best possible fit for us. You and Gladys have been using Facebook to promote our L4C workshops with splendid results. I recently created a WikiEducator dedicated page on Facebook. Still need to do some more work. If anyone is interested, here is the link. Feel free to join us there. http://www.facebook.com/pages/WikiEducator/84274419299?ref=nf Apologies for cross-posting. Cheers, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com on behalf of NELLIE DEUTSCH Sent: Sat 5/30/2009 9:01 PM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Bring in the Ning Excellent point Randy about Patricia's at this time as nothing on the Internet is permanent. :) However, there are many options, including facebook and the soon to come out, google wave. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Randy Fisher wikira...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I think Patricia makes an excellent point -- at this time. A solution proposed by the working group, ought to focus on a tool, for say 6-12 months. After, other options may emerge... - Randy On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: I support the points expressed. I am not sure about the advantages and/or disadvantages of using Ning versus Google Groups or Google Docs are. I am happy to explore this. I agree with Wayne, let us get together, so we can make the best possible decision at this time Cheers, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com on behalf of Declan Sent: Sat 5/30/2009 5:14 PM To: WikiEducator Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Bring in the Ning Were it not for the problems with liquid threads, I'd be for discussing WE on WE. Never heard of Ning; but willing to try. -- Randy Fisher MA, OMD * Change Management, Learning Performance * Stakeholder Engagement Community-Building * Organization Design Development * Coaching Facilitation * Open Education/E-Learning + 1 604.684.2275 (Pacific Time) wikira...@gmail.com http://www.wikieducator.org - Member, WikiEducator Community Council http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher * Can You Do the Wiki-Wiki? http://www.wikieducator.org/Wiki_Wiki 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~--- inline: winmail.dat
