Wayne, I think receiving support after the initial tutorials is very important in order to sustain the enthusiasm of using WE. I would gladly offer my services to help new members apply what they learn. I think I have previously suggested providing new participants with a mentor to guide them as they learn the tutorials.
Warm wishes, Nellie On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > David Leeming who facilitated the first official, face-to-face > Learning4Content workshop in the Solomon Islands has visited COL on > route after an OLPC meeting in Boston. > > I was showing David a bunch of stuff in our Wiki -- and taking the > advantage of a face-to-face discussion it became clear that we need to > thing about how to provide the next level of support for the early > adopters in getting the most out of WikiEducator. > > For example, we were chatting today about WikiEducator, > Learning4Content etc. While sitting in my office I was showing David a > couple of our new COOL features in the wiki thanks to WikiEducators > like Jim Tittsler, Brent Simpson, Rob Kruhlak. Randy (aka WikiEducator > Community Builder) was with us highlighting community achievements and > how WE can promote effective community development for the future. > > While chatting with David, we were pointing out examples of phenomenal > development in our community, including for example (in no order of > preference): > > * The prolific content development at Otago Polytechnic; > http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic > * The successes of the FLOSS4Edu intiative; > http://wikieducator.org/FLOSS4Edu > * The OER initiative at the University of Education Winneba in Ghana > http://wikieducator.org/UEW > * India's leadership in building a national WE community: > http://wikieducator.org/India > * The University of Mauritius involving Masters students in a WE > project who are developing a wiki reflection on their experiences of > an online L4C workshop: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Wikiflexion > * The work in Sri Lanka developing OERs for the farming and > agriculture community: > http://wikieducator.org/Sri_Lanka/L3_Farmers and > http://wikieducator.org/Sri_Lanka/L3_Farmers/University_of_Colombo > * The budding community media node: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Community_Media > > To list only a few initiatives -- there are many, many more! > The challenge -- How do WE continue to support these pioneers and > innovators? > > Has our community reached the maturity where we need to thing about > helping the early adopters move forward into a "2nd life" -- perhaps > an L4C equivalent for our next generation of Wikieducators to be > introduced to new tools and thoughts about getting the most out of WE. > > What do you think? > Should we develop the next tier of tutorials? > Start a "2nd life" online workshop series using the L4C model? > > Please let us know what your think --- our community is growing faster > than our ability to keep up ... > > > Cheers > Wayne. > > > > > > > > > > > -- Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student of Education http://www.nelliemuller.com http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd http://www.building-relationship.com/education http://blendedlear.ning.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator, go to: http://www.wikieducator.org To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
