Chris, I was going to start a WikiEducator twitter name for the community but found someone had already taken the name. I presumed it was Wayne. Twitter is an excellent way to communicate. I would love to see it activated. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Chris Harvey <gnuch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Patricia, > > I think that this is a good idea and use some of those services to > raise awareness of things I'm passionate about and things that I think > are important, sometimes it also helps promote my own site. > > This may seem odd but a while ago I was looking on twitter/identi.ca > and noticed there was no wikieducator account so I registered accounts > on both those sites, pretty much to reserve the name. > > To be honest I was surprised that it didn't already exist and worried > that account name would get taken by someone else. Some people will > stay up all night to get a name they like, just look at downes with > facebook. > > I'm not sure if wikieducator is trademarked or not, that might be > another way to get the name you want. > > In a way Ive been waiting for someone to bring this up so I should > probably try to help out. > > Warm Regards > Chris Harvey > http://twitter.com/gnuchris > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Patricia Schlicht<pschli...@col.org> > wrote: > > Good Morning! > > > > > > > > I would like to add a point to the discussions while we are at it and add > > another point of for discussion, which is the promotion of WikiEducator > > offsite > > > > > > > > 1. How does the community feel about setting up working groups for > the > > discussion of the establishment of social network accounts such as > Facebook, > > Twitter etc. > > > > 2. Now that we will shortly arrive at a new stage of promoting > > WikiEducator, how should this be done. > > > > 3. Is it necessary and if yes, why or why not > > > > 4. > > > > Any thoughts appreciated. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Patricia > > > > > > > > From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto: > wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] > > On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh > > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:28 AM > > To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com > > Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Wikieducator live online wiki skills and > > collaborative learning at WiZiQ > > > > > > > > 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=prev&oldid=393778 > > ) > > > > 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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