Alison -- Great suggestions - and smart thinking. -- I really like your suggestion of the the inverse of the Ambassodor/neighbour, ie. instead of taking wikieducator to your neighbours -- bring your neighbourhood to wikiEducator. Nice!
Sure -- we should include a section in Tut 13 about sourcing free content images. Good idea. Also my assistant Patricia has an active interest in matters cultural and is working on a culture node in WE: http://wikieducator.org/Culture So maybe there is a connection opportunity here? eh -- don't stop - keep those good ideas flowing! Cheers Wayne On Mar 5, 9:36 pm, "Alison Ruth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:Mad... > > > > 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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