Hi Leigh - Yip this is a great idea!
In WIkiEd we already have folk who are interested in designing an assignment for students where they are required to develop content as part of their official course credits. There is a WikiEducator who has actually trialled this approach over at Wikia.com and wants to migrate the project over to WikiEd. My thoughts are to develop free content resources to support educators in integrating this kind of assignment into their formal teaching. It's a fantastic concept. The last 6 months have been extremely demanding for us trying to support WIkiEd requests. Our growth has exceeded our existing capacity to be responsive to community needs. This is a VERY good sign for a wiki community. These are the early signs of a successful and sustainable community. Bottom line is that we need volunteer help - so I guess we need to think about projects and ways to expand capacity to respond to community needs. I'd appreciate thoughts from the community - I've been thinking about a couple of potential projects, for example: 1) FTEs4Wikieducator - where organisations deriving benefit from WIkiEducator commit FTE resources in supporting our collective aims - for example, building in time for supporting WikiEd related work into the performance review contracts of WIkiEducators. 2) Committing funding for technological innovation - there are a number of smart mediawiki software refinements that we can implement to radically advance free content development and reusability of content in a wide variety of contexts. We already have a draft roadmap from the Tectonic Shift Think Tank. All we need is a little funding to pay the software developers <smile>. I'd welcome suggestions as to how we can build our community - but most importantly how do we scale up operations. We're the pioneers - we can make this happen! Cheers Wayne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
