Hi Nellie -- That's very useful and constructive feedback. Thank you.
I'm going to propose that you take up a L4C bounty to prototype a Mentoring Model for training. I think your approach is smart and you certainly have the skills to designing something that could work. We can use this L4C bounty as a prototype for fine tuning the Mentoring model. Please choose dates that would work for you. Give yourself enough lead time for the setting the course up and for folk to enrol. We will advertise the Mentoring pilot on the front page of WE to encourage enrolment. In terms of our L4C funding -- we need to have a minimum of 15 participant's per workshop. Would you like to specify a maximum? I'll send a backup version of a Moodle iteration we tried when piloting the WE tutorials. I'm sure the teaching approach and layout can be improved. As free content -- I have no problems where the course is hosted or how you refine and improve this first attempt. See for example -- http://moodle.wikieducator.org/course/view.php?id=11 (Note that this course is not actively facilitated at the moment.) I'm still thinking about a more advance training opportunity. For example, many lecturers at Otago Polytechnic have mastered the basics of wiki editing --- here I'm thinking about the resources we need and training interventions for getting the most out of WikiEducator. For example, there are many templates WE have that can improve the likelihood for collaboration -- but WikiEducator's are not aware of these features. I'm thinking of modelling a collaborative training session where contributors work collaborate on each other's materials -- while learning to use these new features in the wiki. Cheers Wayne On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 23:49 -0700, NELLIE DEUTSCH wrote: > 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. 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