Prescriptive is no good in a wiki environment, you're right there. More thinking aloud: A cultural node and/or a new level of wiki mastery that people can opt into, not a compulsory level but a kind of cultural ambassador to wikeducator, almost the opposite of the wiki ambassador/neighbour - instead of taking wikieducator to your neighbours, bring your neighbourhood to wikieducator ...
Definitely give permission for the expression of cultural identity which I think seems a bit constrained/restrained at the moment, we don't have to be grown up all the time, do we? Perhaps as part of tutorial 13 - sourcing and using free images - the challenge could be to find or bring in images representing your cultural identity, oh and create a new subpage of your user page to do it, then link that page from the cultural node! Just a thought. ... I should have stopped earlier, eh? Alison On 06/03/2008, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah I see what you mean -- > > mmm thinking out loud here .... would a "tutorial" on tips and ideas > to express cultural identity be the way to go? > > Not so sure that I like the "tutorial" concept in this context because > it seems a little too prescriptive and "paint-by-numbers" -- if you > know what a mean. But rather to give folk the tools to express their > cutural identity. > > I really like the concept -- one of the most rewarding aspects of my > job at COL is the amazing exposure to culture in many nuanced ways. It > would be very powerful if we could find was of capturing some of this > dynamic in WE. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > On Mar 5, 9:00 pm, "Alison Ruth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey again people > > > > Wayne: From what I remember, there are some people who have used their > > userpages to show where they come from and special parts/aspects of > their > > > countries. A couple of examples are: > http://wikieducator.org/User:Gabrielahttp://wikieducator.org/User:Madomkwehttp://wikieducator.org/User:Joao > > > There seems to be a more personal touch to these userpages while many of > us > > go for more formal identities (like we're playing grown-ups in > > WikiEducator). > > > > What happened in my course was that many international students took the > > opportunity of their userpage to include an almost complete history (or > > seemingly so) of their country. It was totally unexpected within the > > course, but maybe shouldn't have been given their distance from home. > > > > One of the outcomes of what happened in my course was more recognition > that > > we need to provide space for cultural identity somewhere. This is also > > being taken up at my colleague's university. > > > > How we could implement something like this beyond individually created > > userpages would require some thinking (lots of cc licensed images from > all > > over the world would be a start - cultural icons eg our opera house, > > kangaroos etc). It's an interesting leap you made there. > > > > Just a random thought: perhaps a part of the tutorial could be to > include or > > start a page about individual perceptions of their home country with a > link > > to the formal country page. It's almost another aspect of educational > > information - providing personal insights into different cultures, > > perspectives etc. This alone would provide a great resource for and > about > > cross and inter-cultural learning. > > > > Leigh: You have my sympathies but I'm sure we will welcome you back ;) > *runs > > away laughing maniacally* > > > > Alison > > > > > On 06/03/2008, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Alison, > > > > > Do you have any pointers to tips from what you remember from the > > > WikiEd pages regarding cultural identity? > > > I may be able to help some of these. > > > > > I do like the idea of a visualisation or some kind of association with > > > cultural identity -- we could certainly think about developing > > > specific User boxes for different identities? > > > > > Suggestions most welcome and we'll do our best to get these > > > implemented. > > > > > Cheers > > > Wayne > > > > > On Mar 5, 6:15 pm, "Alison Ruth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey All > > > > > > A few years ago, I used a wiki for teaching a course of culturally > > > diverse > > > > students. One of the (unexpected) outcomes was wonderful displays > of > > > > cultural identity on userpages. Due to policies at my university, > these > > > are > > > > no longer available (a huge tragedy). I know I've seen similar > pages in > > > > WikiEducator, but I cannot seem to find them today. > > > > > > A colleague from another university here in Aus is asking about > these > > > types > > > > of pages, and I was wondering if anyone can point me to some in > > > WikiEducator > > > > I can show her? > > > > > > I'm slowly trolling through userpages (usually looking for other > Aussies > > > to > > > > get our country page going), but am not being very successful. > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > Alison > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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