Hi Anil -- Appreciate the feedback.
Clearly the work have been doing on the India home page is paying dividends -- it's one of the most popular pages in WE! There are some excellent ideas in your post and I've noted these on a new page (with attribution :-) ). This way we can keep track of our thoughts and suggestions - see: http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Website_redesign Thanks Wayne On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:02 +0530, aprasad wrote: > 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 <wmackint...@col.org> > 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
