"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." – George Bernard Shaw (http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_community.html)
This quote by George Bernard Shaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ George_Bernard_Shaw), I think, sums up how most of us feel about our commitment to OERs and what it can do for the betterment of the community. In an attempt to do something for the community, I’ve created the beginnings of an open course in English language learning (http://www.wikieducator.org/Distancelanguagelearning) with the intent of bringing together English-language speakers (of all levels and ages) in a way that fosters interaction. Although it may appear a bit structured, the idea (as I have it at the moment) is to bring those along the “long tail” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail) into the heart of a discussion that brings about various cross- cultural perspectives. In other words, I´m interested in not only bringing together English language educators and ELLs, but any English speaker that has an interest in interacting with big ideas (http:// www.authenticeducation.org/bigideas/), understandings (http:// www.grantwiggins.org/ubd/ubd.lasso), etc. as well as guiding ELLs through the language learning process. Recognizing that I will never develop such a project as well alone as I could with others, I invite you to the wiki (http:// www.wikieducator.org/Distancelanguagelearning) in order to have an idea as to what I´m proposing. If it is of any interest to you (regardless of your education, experience, or English level), please feel free to leave comments in the “discussion” tab or contact me directly (I prefer the “discussion” (http://www.wikieducator.org/ Distancelanguagelearning) tab over putting comments directly in the page itself, please). If anyone would like to discuss this in real- time, we can certainly do that as well. I´m actually more interested in receiving comments that explain why a project of this type would not work, or how in its current form the course would fall short in achieving its objective (i.e., constructive criticism). Thanking you for taking the time to read this post, I am. Benjamin http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Bnleez --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
