Nellie, I support your call for centralised discussions on the brain storming page. I'll scan through the contributions on the WE list so far and copy the main points over.
Let's do our best to encourage community discussion and development on this node. Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 01:11 -0700, NELLIE DEUTSCH wrote: > 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 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. 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