thanks, I am very interested in this project. I am very familiar with Ghanaian Culture. I am a Ghanaian and an ashanti by birth. I am also a linguist and can contribute to this project. Keep in inform on the various topic and i will start now.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Randy Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm all for a cultural node - and yes, Patricia has a good start with > Culture Wiki - what's needed is a few folks to rally 'round it, with some > ideas and energy, and who knows where it can go and develop. Ahh, the twin > themes of complexity and self-organization! > > I am particularly interested in this - first introduced by Wayne, and now > building on it with two courses in my Masters Program in Organization > Development (Fielding Graduate University). One of them is about Culture and > Intercultural Processes in, and among diverse groups, and the other is > Self-Organization and Complexity Theory. I am particularly interested in how > both converge.... > > Here's one of the topics we've been talking about in the course: > > We're wondering what is required for self-organizing behaviour to manifest > among people of different cultures, or if it simply dependes on the purpose > or a given project's rationale. Prof. Gary Fontaine points to a raging > discussion about the cultural diversity of perceptions (values, norms, > expectations etc.) and the impact of cultural diversity in communication > (verbal, nonverbal, level of context, etc.) on both self-organization and > particle swarm optimization. (his area of research interest). > > As well, this is a neat area to twin the Culture Node with the Research > Node in WikiEducator, and see what's possible in terms of facilitating > dialogue and the creation of open educational content resources. > > Thoughts, feedback? > > - Randy > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:09 PM, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > ________________ > Randy Fisher aka "Wikirandy for WikiEducator" > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Wikirandy > > + 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. 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