It's great to see that I've broadcasted in the right channels! Stefan, Randy, a pleasure e-meet like-minded people!
I just wanted to add that my personal wish is to be co-director of a non-profit whose mission is to utilize online collaborative tools that faciliate dialogue and reconciliation between people who need it most. I very much intend to not only pursue funding for this project, but to partner with other people interested in developing curriculum for and/or operationalizing collaborative writing/research projects. It's application is virtually limitless given the surplus of the miseducated and the misunderstood! Another idea is to have kids collaboratively propose different solutions to political gridlock in a way that has them doing research on conflict resolution strategies. The formula, in my head, always involves an equal measure of collaborative research and Wikipedia-style deliberation. As far as the collaborative playscript document in a wiki -- just imagine that everyone gets a turn to improvise a line of dialogue as it would fit within the constraints of a reasonable storyline. Each utterance which is inserted by one participant allows the community to evaluate its appropriateness within the unfolding storyline. A different participant might do some cross-checking to find out that what someone else said could never happen since it would contradict how things were done in that historical time period. The participant that contributed the scrutinized line of dialogue would then be engaged in a process of refining the utterance. There would be rules put in place to allow for a certain degree of creative control that each participant would have to insert there own "twist," to the plot, thus allowing for enough improvisation. A lot of fun could a plot line which has several viable continuations... any thoughts thus far? On Dec 31, 2007 1:28 PM, Randy Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Stefan & Said, > > I've heard very good things about the Gulf Island school ~ as I recall, > they may have had a showing at the Ridge Theatre in Vancouver. In my view, > any project that breaks down 'walls' between people - Jewish/Palestinian; > aboriginal / white folks, or just about anyone else...is a good thing...I've > heard of it being done with sports, and it's really neat when it comes to > arts and entertainment. > > Regarding a wiki as a collaboration space, I think it is very useful. > However, beyond the technical functionality of the wiki itself, I think it's > critical to consider the Community of Support within and around the > wiki.....thus, I'd like to make a case for you to conduct said (no pun > intended!) activities on WikiEducator.... > > Our community is growing, and we'd like to hook up like-minded people, to > form clusters that are geographic and interest-based....It sounds like there > are already two-like-minded people here! > > Imagine using collaborative scriptwriting as you suggest - for developing > curricula for high school kids, or even primary school kids....That is right > up WikiEd's alley...and from my experience in the business and nonprofit > world, it seems to me that a well thought out curricula might be a great > candidate for some kind of funding... > > What do you think about these ideas? > > - Randy > > On Dec 30, 2007 1:59 AM, Rasporich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello Said, > > > > I thought you might be interested in the Gulf Islands Film and > > Television School in Canada, who have had students from Israel and > > Palestine work together on collaborative filmmaking. > > > > http://www.gulfislands.net/news.asp?ID=1636 > > > > Also, I have had some experience doing playwriting collaboratively > > online, and used google docs, but I really like the idea of the wiki > > - it would seem to be a natural way to explore historical context > > linked to from the play, all embedded in the wiki. (As for 3rd > > party widgets I have no idea, but am interested to see what comes up - > > how exactly do you envision the learner using the social networking, > > play collaboration and wiki to interact?) > > > > Regards, > > Stefan Rasporich > > > > On Dec 30, 10:05am, Said <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > check out the learning community I am launching today. It involves > > > ethinic reconciliation through collaborative historical research and > > > improvisational playwriting: > > > > > > http://performing4peace.ning.com/ > > > > > > It makes sense that a playscript would be written in a wiki rather > > > than through a discussion forum. So far I have yet to find any 3rd > > > party widgets that have wiki functionality for social networking > > > sites. Does anyone know of a wiki widget? > > > > > > Cordially, > > > > > > Said > > > > > > > > > -- > ________________ > Randy Fisher > iCentro Networks > + 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. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
