Wayne, Having a friendly mentor available to ask questions and share issues about setting up user pages and applying the codes would have made the tutorials more productive and engaging for me. Not everyone feels comfortable posing questions to a large group such as the discussion forum on google. Participants may feel uncomfortable with having to expose lack of understanding in such as forum. They may find it difficult to ask what they consider silly questions. I can contribute by being there to help build trust by providing members with individual attention and support. I believe sharing and collaborating does not come easily to many. A wiki requires a mindset for sharing. In order to succeed and make wikieducator an inviting place for sustained collaboration, participants need learn the value of sharing one step at a time.
Warm wishes, Nellie On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Nellie > > Sound's very interesting .... > > What support would you recommend after the initial tutorials? > What strategies would you recommend for implementing what they have > learned? > In your view and experience -- what are the gaps we need to address and how > do we fill them? > > You have first hand experience of going through one of our L4C workshops > and engaging with the community. I'm very keen to hear your thoughts and > ideas for the next steps. > > Cheers > Wayn > > > > > > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 23:27 -0700, NELLIE DEUTSCH wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
