Wayne, While I am all over the place and find the process of having discussions on skype, social networks, via emails, google groups, and f2f beneficial to my learning, I would like to encourage everyone to add their input to The brain storming page <http://www.wikieducator.com> on Wikieducator.com. so the information is centralized. :)
Thanks. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller skype:nelliedeutschmuller On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Nellie, > > Good questions! > > The target population are all educators who are interested in working > towards a sustainable OER ecosystem in achieving the vision of free > educational resources in support of all national curricula -- a bold but > meaningful task. > > With the evolution of WikiEducator, over time multiple discussion avenues > have evolved, for example: > > * The main WIkiEducator list on google groups > * Discussion/talk pages in Wikieducator.org > * The brain storming page on Wikieducator.com > * Dedicated pages in WE focused on our future strategy -- eg > http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:WikiEducator_3.0 > * Individual discussions that WikiEducators have on Skype, personal email > and telephone conversations. > * Postings in the blogsphere > > I agree -- it would be great if all discussions took place in one place -- > but hey -- this is the world of networked education and we're an open > community -- it's the wiki way :-). Over time the processes of > self-organisation will converge and I know that our ultimate path will be > richer for the experience. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 23:34 -0700, NELLIE DEUTSCH wrote: > > Wayne, > I have followed the discussions and suggestions on > http://wikieducator.com/Main_Page and I am not clear on the target > population. Who are we targeting? Another question I think we may need to > consider is why we are having this discussion on google groups and not on > WE? > Thank you. > Warm wishes, > Nellie Deutsch > Doctoral Student > Educational Leadership > Curriculum and Instruction > http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller > skype:nelliedeutschmuller > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 12:30 -0800, valerie wrote: > > Consider acquiring and redirecting all .xxx that you can get your > hands on - the great domain name land grab. WikiEducator is a very > valuable domain and it should be protected at all costs. It should be > used for only for this one purpose in all its forms. > > > > Hi Valerie, > > I can assure you that all Wikieducator domains are well protected (that is > WikiEducator.org, WikiEducator.net and WikiEducator.com). These domain names > will be donated to the OER Foundation (a non-profit entity set up for > charitable purposes) to ensure that the core values associated with our OER > project remain protected in perpetuity. > > When we set up WikiEducator we wanted to make sure that all three domains > (i.e. .org, .net and .org) were available to avoid "land grab" challenges in > the future. A little history: Back in February 2007, Leigh forwarded a > compelling argument for WikiEducator & Wikiversity to join to form > "Wikilearner" -- It's interesting to note that when I was searching for > domain names before starting the project, I had considered "Wikilearner" . > Sadly Wikilearner was not available under all three domains (See: > http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator_Early_History#Reflections_on_choosing_the_domain_name). > In hindsight there is something special about "WikiEducator" --- we're > essentially a community of educators. > > There are both advantages and disadvantages associated with using > Wikieducator.com (or alternatively a sub-domain like business-solutions. > wikieducator.com) for value-added services around OERs. I think we > should deliberate carefully and thoroughly as a community before taking a > decision one way or another. > > Appreciate the feedback --- this is important stuff. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
