[WikiEducator] Re: Teachers Should Be Trained for Free (South Africa news article)

2008-12-08 Thread Alex P. Real
Para: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Asunto: [WikiEducator] Re: Teachers Should Be Trained for Free (South Africa news article) Dear Dr. Wayne, Randy and other friends, Connecting to an earlier thread about the urgent requirement of teacher education in ZA, we have to offer support officially

[WikiEducator] Re: Teachers Should Be Trained for Free (South Africa news article)

2008-12-07 Thread Randy Fisher
Hi Everyone, Great dialogue.I've been sleeping on this thread here, reflecting on conversations that I've had with Nellie, Maria and several L4C students, and what's becoming clear, is that Professional Development is an essential 'branding opportunity' for WikiEducator. On WE, we have so

[WikiEducator] Re: Teachers Should Be Trained for Free (South Africa news article)

2008-12-07 Thread Wayne
Hi Randy, Good thinking Randy --- there are many strategic elements in your post, which I think we need to incorporate into our evolving strategy for the future: http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:WikiEducator_3.0 Thinking about Professional Development, clearly this is an important node

[WikiEducator] Re: Teachers Should Be Trained for Free (South Africa news article)

2008-12-07 Thread aprasad
Dear Dr. Wayne, Randy and other friends, Connecting to an earlier thread about the urgent requirement of teacher education in ZA, we have to offer support officially. Before that we require some urgent and very basic preparations. For example, WE has now a very good repository of learning

[WikiEducator] Re: Teachers Should Be Trained for Free (South Africa news article)

2008-12-06 Thread Wayne
Hi Randy, Teacher education is a huge challenge -- particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. I think there are ways in which the WikiEducator community can help. A couple of thoughts - 1. With considerable surprise and celebration :-) -- I now see that the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa