Hi Bee - I know exactly what you mean. Finding time to contribute to collaborative projects like WikiEd, taking into account with the unreasonable workloads of the education profession is not easy!
I'm continually searching for ways to make it easier for teachers to contribute. For example, the Handouts4Teachers project is a new idea for small doable projects. See: http://www.wikieducator.org/Handouts4Teachers Imagine if every teacher in the world were to develop just one handout per year - pretty soon we would have an impressive collection of resources that could be used in the classroom. This would demonstrate the value of free content to education institutions. What we really need is for education institutions to commit FTE (Full- time-equivalent) resources and to officially recognise contributions to WikiEducator as an official part of their work. I'm hoping to start an advocacy campaign called FTEs4WikiEducator to document the benefits of working collaboratively and to call on education institutions to assist in achieving free content resources in support of all national curricula by 2015. Can you image the impact if every education institution in the world were to donate 1 FTE to work full-time on content development in WikiEducator! Otago Polytechnic is a leading example - and I'm planning to develop a case study for WikiEducator to tell their story. Hopefully this will encourage other institutions to follow their example. Chat to you soon, Wayne On Oct 27, 1:15 pm, "Barbara Dieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Wayne, > Contributing has been on my mind for some time. However, as a teacher of > English all my material is in this language - even my keyboard :-). I am > overwhelmed with work presently but when I quieten down a bit, will give it > a go. > Warm regards from Brazil, > Bee > > > > -- > Barbara Dieuhttp://dekita.orghttp://beewebhead.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
