Dear Friends,
Wayne is right, I didn't expect to receive public recognition and that it came nonetheless, is something that I appreciate a lot. The past three years have been an absolute pleasure and the most exciting work I have ever been involved and will continue to be involved in. There are most certainly not many people who can claim that they really enjoy what they are doing! Thank you to all of you for being a part of such a wonderful community of educators around the globe who have the foresight and dedication to bring about needed change. It is a real pleasure knowing you all and forming many new friendships in the process. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to Wayne for being such a wonderful mentor, supporter and role model, for and in my own professional development, who led by example in his tireless effort to drive WikiEducator forward. Warm regards, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of aprasad Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:14 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: L4C is making history! - We need your help Definitely, Ms. Patricia's contributions to our family are invaluable. All of us repeat the BIG thanks to her. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <wmackint...@col.org> wrote: Hi Nellie, Yeah -- the kudos belongs to the WIikiEducator community and folk like yourselves who never sleep helping others on their path to becoming active contributors to the OER movement. We shouldn't forget the amazing admin and facilitation support we have among our family. I've just remembered a very serious omission in my post about L4C statistics -- and that is my thanks to Wiki Patricia who meticulously keeps track of our all our statistics for the L4C project -- This is a huge task given the global scale of this project and we wouldn't have been able to achieve half of what we have without Patricia's tireless administration behind the scenes -- not too mention her skills as online facilitator as well. I know that she's blushing as I am posting this email because she doesn't expect public recognition. Nonetheless, every time I ask for the status on our L4C project -- within minutes Patricia has emailed a detailed spreadsheet to me of all the vital stats on the L4C project so that I can make these impressive announcements on the list. On behalf of the community --- BIG thanks Patricia. Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 01:44 -0700, NELLIE DEUTSCH wrote: Wayne, Congratulations to all the members of Wikieducator and the ones to come!!! And they will come :) Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C24 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller skype:nelliedeutschmuller On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <wmackint...@col.org> wrote: Hi everyone, I've just updated our latest statistics for the Learning4Content initiative. WikiEducator is making history. WE have launched and implemented (to the best of my knowledge) the largest wiki training project for educators in the world! 2360 participants have registered for 73 L4C workshops since January 2008. If you do the mental math this averages out at 1.14 workshops per week! WE have launched 23 Online workshops and 50 Face-to-face workshops in 30 different countries, including: Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Canada, Cameroon, Israel, India, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Kenya, Kingdom of Tonga, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda and Zambia. On a personal note -- I concede that I did have a few sleepless nights wondering whether we would be able to achieve our ambitious target of 2500 educators by the end of round 1 of the funding for this project ;-). How could I doubt the open community model? WE have now achieved 94% of our target of 2500 educators. WE still have a few workshops to go before 30 June 2009 under round 1 of the L4C project. Please invite your friends and colleagues to sign up for one of the remaining online L4C workshops: http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration Spread the word at your organisations, post invitations on your discussion lists and your blogs. Let's show the world how we can exceed our targets. A BIG thank you to the WikiEducator community and all the amazing L4C facilitators around the world who have turned this dream into reality. When we started L4C, there were only 3 facilitators. Our list of L4C facilitators is now nearing 30 with many L4C graduates becoming trainers in their own right. You've got to love the scalability of the open model :-). I'm working on a funding proposal to continue with work with L4C capacity building around the world. I'm also seeking to secure funding to assist with the development and implementation of an L4C Intermediate level course. Given the overwhelming success of L4C -- I'm confident that we will find additional funding to widen access to capacity building in OER using the wiki model. Watch this space :-). Cheers Wayne http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework http://wikieducator.org/Qualification_Framework/Professional_Education/M anagement/MHRM http://www.wikieducator.org/Edupatron 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
