Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Prof. Supten Sarbadhikari
I'd prefer WikiEducator Academy. Regards Supten -- *Prof. Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari*, MBBS, PhD Founder and Director, Supten Institute, Coimbatore, India Visiting Professor in Health Informatics, Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh Email: sup...@supten-institute.org

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Ellen . Murphy
Dear All, I like the ideas out forth so far, but would like to suggest that we think of the name as a recruiting tool as well--for example: what terms might an individual, interested in what we offer, use on a search engine that would lead them to us. I suggest that for those who are not

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Don
Great idea Anil I think a name that clarifies the intent, ie a college or academy that exists to further educators skills using wikieducator is a good idea, although this is too verbose. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Anil Prasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Dr. Wayne and all other

[WikiEducator] RE: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Dear friends, Just thinking some more about a suitable name. I have one more suggestion. How about 'WikiEducator Open College. While I like Wayne's suggestion of an 'Academy, I am wondering if people think it is accredited which it is not at this point. Academy has definitely a good ring to it

Re: [WikiEducator] RE: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Don
How about Open Academy or Open College 4 WikiEducators (OA4WE)or(OC4WE) On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Dear friends, ** ** Just thinking some more about a suitable name. I have one more suggestion. How about ‘WikiEducator Open College”.

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Joyce . McKnight
I like both of those Ellen...they are more descriptive, less confusing and define what this is about. :-) JMcK-wikieducator@googlegroups.com wrote: -To: "wikieducator@googlegroups.com" wikieducator@googlegroups.comFrom: ellen.mur...@esc.eduSent by: wikieducator@googlegroups.comDate:

RE: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Patricia Schlicht
I have another thought, how about WikiEducator People's Academy, if this is what the consensus will be? It could be replaced with Institute or College as well. Just brainstorming. Warmest Patricia From: wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com

Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Balqis Thaahaveettil
Dear Friends , I'm new and inexperienced but seeing these brainstorming session as said above ,let me put my suggestion too . How about WikiEducator Open Academy or WikiEducator Open Institute? On 5/2/12, Anil Prasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, Response of the WE

Re:Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread nboris3
Hi All, Dear friends, Response of the WE community in this matter is superb! Let me consolidate the nominations received so far to help those who are planning to add their nominations: 1. Open World College 2. WikiEducator Open College 3. WikiEducator Academy 4. Open Education

Re:Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread nboris3
Hi All, WikiEducator Open Institute Dear friends, Response of the WE community in this matter is superb! Let me consolidate the nominations received so far to help those who are planning to add their nominations: 1. Open World College 2. WikiEducator Open College 3. WikiEducator

[WikiEducator] Cast your vote in a poll: shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Dear All, I loved the exchanges and the community participation in trying to find a suitable name for the new WE activities of establishing a 'WikiEducator Community College. I thought perhaps we could make a bit easier to vote on the many suggestions made, and so I have created a poll,

Re: [WikiEducator] Cast your vote in a poll: shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
Hi Patricia, Great to see international community collaboration in moving this idea forward. I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be better to host the poll on WikiEducator. For two reasons: - We remain true to our community values associated with the free cultural works definition and

RE: [WikiEducator] Cast your vote in a poll: shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Patricia Schlicht
I agree with you, Wayne, just didn't know we had such application. Cheers, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieducator@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:27 PM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Cc:

Re: [WikiEducator] Cast your vote in a poll: shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Wayne Mackintosh
No worries Patricia, The poll widget is relatively new and we have trialed this with a few polls - it should work rather well for this purpose. Let me know where you set up the page in the wiki to keep track of this project and I will help set up the widget. Cheers Wayne On Thu, May 3, 2012

Re: [WikiEducator] Cast your vote in a poll: shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Anil Prasad
Dear Patricia, Excellent work! Thank you very much for moving forward with the preparations for conducting the poll based on the nominations received. I am also in favour of conducting the poll in WikiEducator using the poll widget as Dr. Wayne and you have discussed. As per the tentative

[WikiEducator] Re: Invitation for input from the WikiEducator family -- OERu design process

2012-05-02 Thread simonfj
Hi Wayne, Just a quick note to clarify the idea of a QA answer forum. (which is good and i know is not cast in stone) One thing we are coming down to in a few other places is this idea of having a general space, from which more detailed forums can be linked; a little like a virtual common

Re: [WikiEducator] Cast your vote in a poll: shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Anil Prasad
Hi Patricia, no worries. Community would love to explore all possibilities and values all efforts. Moreover you are an integral part of our community by mentoring it from the very beginning. See you tomorrow in your time zone - here it is tomorrow already :) take care On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:31

Re: [WikiEducator] Cast your vote in a poll: shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-02 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Thank you, Anil. Much appreciate this Patricia On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Anil Prasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Patricia, no worries. Community would love to explore all possibilities and values all efforts. Moreover you are an integral part of our community by mentoring it from the