Hello everyone, Our landing page should reflect the dynamism and wide participation our evolving community is experiencing according to the last statitstics. I'd love to see a vibrant landing page (particulartly in the "News" section), animated banners, more frecuent updates, renewing general layout on a regular basis.
I invite folks to suggest, but most imortant, make things happen =) Warm wishes On 29 jun, 03:28, Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone -- > > BIG kudos to Nellie and Gladys who are taking wiki skills development to a > new level in WikiEducator! I'm proud to be associated with educators who > share the value of sharing knowledge freely and promoting growth in our > amazing project :-) > > Thanks also to Nellie for raising important questions on the list regarding > how we advertise workshops and use our collective space and real estate on > the WikiEducator landing page. Herewith my thoughts and ideas to your > questions: > > 1.) Should WE publish workshops on the main page? > > Yes -- in the spirit of sharing knowledge and opportunities to widen skills > in collaborating with the free culture in developing content resources in > support of all national curricula -- we should advertise our free training > as widely as possible. > > 2) Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? > > Yes -- WE should provide links to community wide and inclusive initiatives. > > That said, we need to recognise that the WikiEducator landing page is the > doorway into our community and I have received personal queries from the > community regarding the prominence of the rather large animated gif that was > placed on the homepage. With compliments to the facilitators of this > training event being bold and taking initiative the wiki way :-) > > (See:http://wikieducator.org/index.php?title=Template:Frontpage_news&diff=...) > > However, historically we've used the news section on the landing page to > keep to small thumbnails of images in the range of 100 to 150 pixels and > then linking to a subpage to provide more detail. In the past I've taken on > the responsibity of keeping the front page current and am very pleased to > see more folk from our family taking ownership. > > This raises the question whether we need guidelines and a community of > volunteers to assist with keeping our landing page current. > > 3) Should WE conduct these workshops at all? > > Absolutely! The Learning4Content project is the worlds largest wiki training > initiative for educators -- Any projects, online sessions which widen access > to learning wiki skills must be encouraged :-). > > 5). Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? > > Well - decisions which effect the entire community, IMHO should as far as > possible and practicble involve as many members of the Wikieducator > community as possible --- at least we should provide ample opportunity for > wide participation. The advantage of the workgroup approach (which was > proposed by a community member) is that any member of the community can > participate irrespective of rank or status. I think that we'll be moving > into questionable territory if we assigned all operational decisions, for > example to the WikiEducator Community Council --- that would demish the > democractic prinples on which our community is founded. > > That said -- WikiEducator is an evolving community and we do not have all > the mechanisms, guidelines and procedures in place that will contribute to > our future success. The workgroup approach is Work-in-progress for > consideration by the next meeting of Council. > > 6) Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? > > I think we should distinguish between two major categories of content: > > - OER content developed by individuals or collaborations between > educators. As long as this content aligns with the filters of the core > values stated on our home page, I think folk should have the freedom to > develop this content. This does not necessarily imply a consensus opinion > by > the community -- unlike Wikipedia, we are not developing "objective" > encyclopedia content and I think we should encourage a diversity of > pedagogical approaches. > - Community wide content, like policies and guidelines. As suggested > above -- I think that we should strive for community consensus on this > category of content including guidelines of how we should manage the > consensus process. > > 7) How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating stage? > > We collaborate on developing community consensus on how we think workgroups > should operate -- as we're doing at the moment > (see:http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:WikiEducator_Workgroups) and then we > present this proposal to the Community Council as a policy. > > I think this is the best way to move from planning to operations. > > As they say -- Rome wasn't built in a day, but I think we're well on the > road to future success! > > Look forward to hearing thoughts, views and improvements on our current > thinking. > > Cheers > Wayne > > 2009/6/29 nelliemuller <nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > Greetings, > > I would like to invite members to contribute to the success of the > > workshop by adding to the presentation: > >https://docs.google.com/PresentationEditor?id=dfhbndjd_233d8g847g8# > > and speaking at the event. Please feel free to join the initiative. > > > In addition, I would your opinion on how to advertise these workshops > > and perhaps answers to the following: > > > 1. Should WE publish the workshops on the main page of Wikieducator? > > 2. Should WE put a logo/banner of the event on the main page? > > 3. Should WE conduct these workshops at all? > > 4. Should members of the community take initiatives without receiving > > approval from the community members? > > 5. Should workgroups be created to make such decisions? > > 6. Is there any way WE can reach consensus on content added to WE? > > 7. How do WE go from the planning stage (workgroups) to operating > > stage? > > > Please add your concerns. > > > Thank you. > > > Warm wishes, > > Nellie > > > On Jun 28, 5:34 pm, Gladys Gahona <gladysgah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Wikieducator live online wiki skills and collaborative learning at WiZiQ > > > July 3, 2009 - 6:00 pm GMT > > > Join us > > > > Warm wishes > > > > Nellie Deutschhttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller > > > nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com > > > > Gladys Gahonahttp://www.wikieducator.org/Chela5808 > > > gladysgah...@gmail.com > > > > Live online free wikiskills workshop > > > <http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/155189-Wikieducator-Basic-Editing-S.. > > .> > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator,www.wikieducator.org > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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