Hi Everyone, David Leeming who facilitated the first official, face-to-face Learning4Content workshop in the Solomon Islands has visited COL on route after an OLPC meeting in Boston.
I was showing David a bunch of stuff in our Wiki -- and taking the advantage of a face-to-face discussion it became clear that we need to thing about how to provide the next level of support for the early adopters in getting the most out of WikiEducator. For example, we were chatting today about WikiEducator, Learning4Content etc. While sitting in my office I was showing David a couple of our new COOL features in the wiki thanks to WikiEducators like Jim Tittsler, Brent Simpson, Rob Kruhlak. Randy (aka WikiEducator Community Builder) was with us highlighting community achievements and how WE can promote effective community development for the future. While chatting with David, we were pointing out examples of phenomenal development in our community, including for example (in no order of preference): * The prolific content development at Otago Polytechnic; http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic * The successes of the FLOSS4Edu intiative; http://wikieducator.org/FLOSS4Edu * The OER initiative at the University of Education Winneba in Ghana http://wikieducator.org/UEW * India's leadership in building a national WE community: http://wikieducator.org/India * The University of Mauritius involving Masters students in a WE project who are developing a wiki reflection on their experiences of an online L4C workshop: http://www.wikieducator.org/Wikiflexion * The work in Sri Lanka developing OERs for the farming and agriculture community: http://wikieducator.org/Sri_Lanka/L3_Farmers and http://wikieducator.org/Sri_Lanka/L3_Farmers/University_of_Colombo * The budding community media node: http://www.wikieducator.org/Community_Media To list only a few initiatives -- there are many, many more! The challenge -- How do WE continue to support these pioneers and innovators? Has our community reached the maturity where we need to thing about helping the early adopters move forward into a "2nd life" -- perhaps an L4C equivalent for our next generation of Wikieducators to be introduced to new tools and thoughts about getting the most out of WE. What do you think? Should we develop the next tier of tutorials? Start a "2nd life" online workshop series using the L4C model? Please let us know what your think --- our community is growing faster than our ability to keep up ... Cheers Wayne. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator, go to: http://www.wikieducator.org To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
