Hi Peter & WE friends Thinking out load here --- Under our emerging QA framework ( http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Quality_Assurance_Framework/Featured_Works ) there is a subsection called "other featured items" Would it make sense to re-classify the framework to include a sub-section called "Featured WIkiEducators" or Featured Individuals (or something similar)
It seems to me that there are distinctive categories, namely 1) Featured Works (including Featured work & featured collaboration) 2) Featured Individuals (including UPE or featured user page and featured contributor) 3) Featured Institutions Perhaps this will work better than "other featured items". What do folk think? I also think we should encourage featured users, UPE winners etc to write up a short personal story or testimony. This is something I started doing to capture personal stories with reference to L4C graduates as part of our reporting on the Learning4Content project. See for example: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg/Draft_Featured_Users . It would be great to have a rotating Featured Individual spot on the WE front page which could link to the personal story of these featured WikiEducators. People relate to real stories. I see that Curriki has a featured member on the home page. As our UPE numbers and featured individuals have grown -- we could set up a feature which would, for example display a different feature member every hour on the home page (similar to the WikiEducator photo which displays a different image for each hour of the day.) This reminds me of the need for us to think about redesigning our landing pages ---- I'll post a separate item on the list. BTW Peter -- my life is now becoming a little more settled after my relocation to NZ and I will be spending some quality time trailing the QA framework and the evaluation of our first featured work :-). What this space! Cheers Wayne A well planned and formated user page is in some respects featured content .... Taking this a little further, I think that there is also an argument to acknowledge "featured users". For example, innovative project ideas, contributions to the community etc. This all contributes to the --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
