Leigh - I couldn't agree more. If we were to calculate the capitalised value of time and resources that different project nodes have contributed to WikiEducator - we have a multimillion dollar project!
I want to find ways of profiling these stories - perhaps we should develop a case study on Otago Poly's contributions to WikiEd as an example that others could follow. What do you think? I'm toying with the idea of a global FTE4WikiEducator initiative - a global volunteer project where education institutions commit full-time- equivalent (FTE) resources to develop content on WikiEducator and in this way contribute to our community while responding to local needs. A good starting point would be to tell Otago Poly's story - If agreeable, I'll try and find an independent outsider to come and interview key folk and develop a story which we can profile on WikiEd as an example for others to follow. mmm this has got me thinking. Cheers Wayne On Oct 25, 9:13 pm, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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... > > > 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_blackallhttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
