Hi Leigh and Peter, Let's create lemon out of lemonade - and use the collaborative power of the wiki to effect some perceptual change. (It's also in line with some of the community-building / messaging activities).
I think it all depends on "how" we use WikiEd to bring people in, and collaborate with them - which will create immediacy, relevance and demonstrate the value of WikiEd. Of course, there will always be other alternatives - but I'd like to create an 'experience' that we can refer to, and use in 'recruiting' teacher participation, and bringing them onboard. In the future, this could become a case study.... I have some other thoughts, but first - would you be open to doing this.... This is what I propose: * a collaborative mini-project (1 hour of time)to identify the benefits and utility of WikiEducator over other alternatives (and the challenges - from a teacher's point of view). We could collaborate on a single page, and create the experience of 'collaboration' on the wiki that we all know so well. * Participants: Leigh, Peter, Randy & a teacher or two. * Requirements: - find a teacher(s) who wishes to work with us on this mini-project (secondary, tertiary levels) Can you identify a teacher - who might wish to participate? - Randy On 10/10/07, Leigh Blackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Peter, Randy.. I agree. At this stage I suppose Wikieducator continue > to focus on free content which can easily be loaded into things like > Ecto or the next thing to come along. My initial concern was that the > appeal of things like Ecto will make it more difficult to draw > teachers from the "developed world" into content creation in > Wikieducator. I am already finding it hard explaining to teachers here > why Wikieducator is better than Wikispaces.. :( no worries though, I > agree with your points and thank you for your responses. > > On 10/10/07, Randy Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Leigh and Peter, > > > > I had a chance to review this website, and certainly the marketing piece > has > > a warmth and sex appeal to it. > > > > However, I think there are a significant distinctions worth noting: > > > > > > It will be quite a long time before most of the developed world has > > affordable, broadband access > > the courses themselves have to be free and open education - which has an > > added impact on affordability and access > > the connection to The Commonwealth of Learning - there are significant > > 'marketing', outreach and influence advantages associated with this > > WikiEd as culture and community - for technical and outreach activities > > It's great to see innovation in other circles, and like the Tour de > France > > peleton, one day someone leads and the others catch up, and another day, > > someone else leads. > > > > Ecto has a perceived leading edge in the North American market (or it > might > > seem so), but in a remote Pacific country, I don't think so - broadband > or > > no broadband. I gather they are a for-profit concern, so their business > > model may also preclude offerings that may further the cause of open and > > accessible education. > > > > Certainly, we can learn from them!... as we are. > > > > - Randy > > > > > > > > On 10/8/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > Leigh, > > > > > > Ecto looks to be a very well thought out LMS / PLE. It certainly has > > > many of the elements of an e-learning 2.0 environment... In the > > > context of wikieducator and the main page statement "We're turning the > > > digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open > > > networks." I wonder if something like ecto would broaden the divide? I > > > say this cause I believe wikieducator needs to create low bandwidth > > > content as the developing world gets access. Once a large % of the > > > commonwealth countries have broadband... Then (I believe) wikieducator > > > should morph itself into something more like ecto.. > > > > > > My $0.02... > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > On Oct 7, 3:37 pm, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ecto - another well marketed buz thing that competes with > > Wikied:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y8nj6jI93s > > > > Where are we up to with embedding 3rd party media into Wikied? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -- > > > > Leigh Blackall > > > > +64(0)21736539 > > > > sk > > > > > > ype - leigh_blackallhttp://learnonline.wordpress.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ________________ > > Randy Fisher > > + 1 604.684.2275 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.hirerandy.com > > > > Skype: wikirandy > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Leigh Blackall > +64(0)21736539 > skype - leigh_blackall > http://learnonline.wordpress.com > > > > -- ________________ Randy Fisher + 1 604.684.2275 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.hirerandy.com Skype: wikirandy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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