Hi Brent, Ben, Peter and Nellie In the spirit of getting better at what we're doing and helping WikiEducators to connect with each other -- I think we should take a careful look at how we communicate as a social network.
Shall we set up a small working group and ask for volunteers to look at communication alternatives for WE? This way we can look at all the advantages, disadvantages and implications of the different alternatives, building on the wealth of experience from members of the WE family. As a community which encourages and supports the principles of self-organisation, nothing prevents anyone from setting up a social networking hub contributing to the aims of WE and I think that's a good thing. Personally -- I rather like the features of ning, but I also see Nellie's point about a central hub within the wiki which keeps things together. My sense is that collectively we can come up with a creative solution if we put our minds to the challenge. Anybody interested in pooling our energies and experience by setting up a volunteer work group to come up with a proposed solution? Cheers Wayne 2009/5/31 Peter <[email protected]> > > I'm a ning user for other projects, so you will have my support on > this idea. > I also agree with Nellie that the discussion should be on > WikiEducator. Given the Alpha release nature of LQT (the discussion > forum software used by WikiEducator) I don't see WE having a > discussion forum mature enough to handle and manage the discussion. SO > I believe we may want to consider a move to something like the ning. > It will provide us social technologies. > Sincerely, > Peter > > > On May 30, 12:49 pm, NELLIE DEUTSCH <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ben and Brent, > > I agree that ning is an excellent social network as I have created a few > > groups of my own. I also use Moodle and google groups and google docs, > but I > > think the forum discussions should be on Wikieducator. Perhaps google > > wave<http://wave.google.com/>will resolve the current social issues. > > Warm wishes, > > Nellie Deutsch > > Doctoral Student > > Educational Leadership > > Curriculum and Instruction > > Share your teaching experiences: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal > > You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how > to > > integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators > > around the world:http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register > > > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Ben <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > In the spirit of diversity, openness, and continual improvement, I > > > vote for a Ning (or Ning-like) site that manages all groups, forums, > > > etc. that pertain to WE. It would be nice to have one central space > > > that would be all things WE. The idea would be to replace Google > > > Groups entirely. > > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
