In my short experience as WE, I have learned a very important lesson: COLLABORATION
Projects should be real collaborative, presented in a well defined main page which explains each aspect of the project. Aspects that must be covered in main page are: * A navigation bar with a logo * Aims * Tech info. (if necessary) * An invitation to join the project * List of contributors * Feedback (preferable encouraging use of Talk Page) * Miscellaneous Creator of the project is responsable of: * Publishing its project in Content and Initiatives pages * Visiting newcomers as Wikineighbour and inviting to join its project. * Once the project is embraced by two or more people... it becomes The Team's Project, no more creator's project. * All normal human beings need some level of recognition for our serious efforts on doing something. We must recognize other's job well done in many ways, the limit is our creativity. * Managing the project. Abandoned projects by creator generates disappointment in co-workers. Warme wishes Gladys Gahona User:Chela5808 On 4 feb, 16:27, Scott Newson <scott.g.new...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for you feedback Alison, it's really helpful to hear about your > first steps. > > I agree that seeing that others are involved in a given project is one of > the things that makes my contributions feel worthwhile. I'd guess that > seeing contributions by others conveys the feeling that the project (and by > extension my contributions) are beneficial to others. > > Scott > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Alison Snieckus > <alison.sniec...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > 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 < > > nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com> 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 > >> <sarita.sanja...@gmail.com>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 < > >>> nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com> 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
