I personally don't care (not too much) about "ranks" and measures of "activity", I consider myself a competitive person, finding challenges everywhere, -Hey Gladys... let's see how far you can go on this... try yourself!! If you can't, nothing appens but you tried. Since child I'am so . It's my nature.
But statistics are quite important, activity must be measured, Reasonable standards must be set. All data set I discovered in Randy's link must be interpreted carefully. Variations between two measures in this case, in my opinion are more significant than measures itselves. Nellie's words "encourage active membership on Wikieducator" keep flying around my head. Though WikiEducator is a complex, self-organizing ecosystem (Randy's paper), I have no doubt that: * Some educator-authors don't need to be pushed by coach. * Some educator-authors DO need to be pushed somehow. I also agree with Randy that educator-authors are motivated by: "self- interest and a need for achievement, affiliation and power and varying forms of compensation". Different cultures require different approaches. Cheers, Gladys On 13 feb, 08:43, NELLIE DEUTSCH <nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know if we need to measure or compensate those who are engaged in > learning. I think we should find ways of adding feedback and encouraging > sustainability. > Warm wishes, > Nellie Deutsch > Doctoral Student > Educational Leadership > Curriculum and > Instructionhttp://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller > skype:nelliedeutschmuller > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Phil Bartle <cmpbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I feel uncomfortable with the >100 edits. A bit too mechanical for me. > > I am up and down like a toilet seat at a mixed party; sometimes many > > edits a day for a few days, sometime none, but maybe just looking at > > various pages and learning from them. I am not opposed to an effort at > > encouraging more to become or become more active in WikiEd. > > Cheers, > > Phil > > If the coach does the pushups, > > The athlete will not get stronger > > Community Empowerment: > > www.scn.org/cmp/ > > Join our discusssion forum > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening > > "You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act > > your way into thinking positively." > > Nido Qubei > > Keep away from people who try to belittle > > your ambitions. Small people always do > > that, but the really great make you feel > > that you, too, can become great. > > -- Mark Twain > > Phil Bartle 1 (250) 727 9214 > > WikiEducator Profile: > > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle#My_profile > > Face Book: > > http://www.facebook.com/profile.php? > > Akan (Kwawu) Studies > > http://www.scn.org/rdi/ > > Community Empowerment and Development > > Training for field workers, trainers and managers > > http://www.scn.org/cmp/ > > Personal and Family > > http://www.philbartle.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
