Hi, I registered last week, so I'm not really all that up to speed on things. But thought I'd put in my 2 cents anyway. The first thing I did after registering and realizing that I was serious and motivated about contributing was to look around at other user pages. Then, I started my user page. And after that I went to the WE tutorials and made myself follow them to the end. The tutorials suggested I imagine a project that I'd like to make happen and I did -- a collection of tutorials on statistics and probability, enough to make a whole traditional course. Kinda pie in the sky, but hey.
Once I'd written about this project, I just wasn't sure what to do next. I did a lot of looking around. I've decided to work on the math glossary. First because it is a good first step to what I want to do, but also it's an active project and this seemed to be a key factor in my getting involved in something. In the process of looking around, I read the to do list on the community page...a number of times, but I didn't feel competent enough for any of these. I'm a newbie. I looked at some of the portals and the initiatives and ideas4content pages and many of the projects that I felt I could help in didn't seem active. So based on my newbie experience, I wonder if there needs to be better (or more strategically placed) information on how to get involved. The naturally-occurring positive and negative incentives in the direct environment have the most impact on behavior (in this case participation). I do have to say that I'm not sure I would have gotten this far if I hadn't gotten such a warm welcome from the wikineighbors. Thanks for making me feel welcome right from the get-go! Alison Snieckus On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:07 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank you. I would like further suggestions on how to sustain active > members. > Warm wishes, > Nellie Deutsch > Doctoral Student > Educational Leadership > Curriculum and Instruction > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C19 > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller > skype:nelliedeutschmuller > > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Sarita Kumar > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> The article is quite impressive and good. But, may be we require more >> workshops and some on-line competitions regarding the contents, projects, >> maximum participation, etc. for active memberships. >> >> Sarita Kumar >> >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:46 AM, nelliemuller < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Dear Friends, >>> I would be interested in any suggestions you may have on how to >>> encourage active membership on Wikieducator. I found this article that >>> may get us started: >>> http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/Group05IncentivesReport.pdf<http://www.visi.com/%7Esnowfall/Group05IncentivesReport.pdf> >>> >>> What do you think? >>> >>> Warm wishes, >>> Nellie >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
