Dear Dr. Wayne, I agree with you. We have to make our Home Page - the living room of our online home - more active and dynamic. It should be able to tell about our OER efforts at a glance. Featured used is a good idea to introduce invaluable efforts by individual members and facilitate commitment and involvement. It for this reason India page started the Featured user series. Again we have to introduce promising projects. There are two considerations before us…one: Featuring an evaluated content - I like the idea and efforts of Peter in this regard very much. Two: we may also feature promising projects to facilitate increased rate of collaboration. We may have an editorial board for the home page who will be attending the home page 24 x 7 basis. -- Warm regards
Anil http://wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/Management/MHRM On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > > > > Skype: apletters --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
