Congratulations Wayne! Relating to the idea of asking institutions to contribute to the Wiki to Print (and other feature developments) idea..
Perhaps the Institutions could put a dollar value on the "building of Wikieducator skills" that they do. This could add to the over all dollar value of the initiative - not to dillute the significance of the Hewlett Foundation and CoLs committment, but to measure the full scale effort that is going on here. For example: Otago Polytechnic, in terms of building wikieducator skills now has about 45 staff who have gone through the Wikieducator tutorials with support from the staff trainers. Not sure what dollar value that would translate into but it would be something like 45x3hoursxNZ$35p/hr=NZ$4725... so far. I'm sure there would be other Institutions making a similar investment in terms of staff professional development. In terms of content, it is a much bigger number of hours from Otago Polytechnic. So along with the good stats on the recent changes page, the sponsorship money, and the institutional investments.. this project is actually quite large! yay :) On 10/26/07, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Be sure to check out our News on the front page. > > (http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page) > > The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation award WikiEducator $100000 to > build MediaWiki Educator skills for at least 2500 educators in 53 > countries under our Learning4Content initiative: > > http://www.wikieducator.org/Metawikieducator/Learning4Content/Hewlett_bid > > The COL will also be investing an additional $60000 for this project. > > The WikiEducator family is proud of this achievement because it is our > first funding proposal developed as free content on WikiEducator. > > The project will widen the skills base among educators to contribute > to free content projects like WikiEducator and Wikipedia. > > I think I should have a glass of red wine to celebrate. I hope > WIkiEducators all over the world will do the same! > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall http://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
