[WikiEducator] Re: Well done WE! - NZ Ministry of Education project
That's great congratulations !! On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, Good news for our community. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has signed off on a project to establish a national OER collaboration for New Zealand schools using WikiEducator. The project aims to: 1. Build capability and support community development for NZ teachers working on OER. 2. Make the wiki easier to use for all teachers for authoring, searching, and reusing OER content. 3. Seed the development of OER exemplars mapped to the NZ curriculum. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has agreed to fund the first year of the project outlined in this proposal: http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools. I'd like to encourage all WikiEducator teachers to take a look at the proposal and see how we may be able to replicate national OER collaborations in your respective countries. All our planning documentation and resources will naturally be licensed under free content licenses, which you can reuse and adpat for your local context :-). Similarly all tools developed will be freely available for adoption and use by all WikiEducators. Well done WikiEducator --- another natioinal OER initiave for our community! Cheers Wayne (Note there are a few minor tweaks on the budget allocations which must still be updated in the wiki.) -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg -- Rima Aleryani nada200...@gmail.com skype(nada2002ye) http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Rima --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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
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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
