Hi Jesse, Great and many thanks! Could you tell us the official link?
Cheers Rob On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Jesse Groppi<jagro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wayne, and all, > > You seem anxious to see this as an active project, but hesitant to > participate whilst it remains in my user space. So, I've gone ahead at > moved it to an official workgroup page. Please have a look and contribute > anything you have on your mind. > > Jesse > > On 13/07/2009 17:46, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > > Hi Jesse, > > That's an inspiring post -- thanks Jesse. A few thoughts and reflections > > Jesse wrote: > >> <I definitely want to bring the style guide to a workgroup page, and I >> agree it would have a higher profile, there. However, I don't think I'm >> familiar enough with WE to effectively mediate such a workgroup, nor have I >> ever designed a style guide. So, I'm using the categorisation work to get a >> better idea of what WE needs, and during that time, studying the copious >> volumes of WMF/WoWWiki style guides that are available.> > > Wayne says: You bring an objective view as a relative newcomer to the > WikiEducator project. This combined with your experience of other wikis is a > valuable asset. Moreover, you have a passion and calling for educators > around the world to expand and share knowledge and expriences and I can't > think of more appropriate qualifications to assist the WE family in getting > this right :-). I'm confident that we will consitute a diverse and > experienced team for this workgroup. Clearly we will need to adopt a > learn-by-doing approach given the diversity of OER WikiEducator develops, we > will need to prototype ideas and potential solutions etc. However, by > working together using an iterative design approach we will get this right! > > Jesse wrote: > >> <I also have a slew of ideas I'd like to eventually work into WE, if I >> don't find them already there, which include: >> >> getting every day teachers writing and collaborating on lesson plans (I've >> already planted the seed with a primary teacher I know, and may end up doing >> a wiki skills workshop at her school), >> a forum to discuss education news around the world, >> a method of testing and rating the practical use of lesson plans, >> using categories to sort resources by pedagogic method, >> and a forum for discussion on the practical uses of pedagogic methods.> > > Wayne says: Your ideas link up very well with the national OER collaboration > the Ministry of Education is supporting for the school sector here in New > Zealand. > > See: > http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools. > > We are also looking at ways to encourage and support teachers in developing > lesson plans, teaching handouts and forums for sharing experience. We will > also be looking for solutions of testing and rating the practical use of > lesson plans etc. So at least we have one national collaboration aimed at > achieving this objectives -- hopefully more will follow :-). It would be > great if we could refine and extend the work we're doing in New Zealand in > other countries. > > Jesse wrote: > >> That's just what I can think of right now. Basically, I want to see every >> educator in the world going to WE every day. I want to see the days of >> spending thousands of dollars on statistics based education resources end. >> I think there are so many bright, talented, experienced educators out there, >> and I want to see them expanding their own fields of knowledge, and sharing >> their own very valuable, practical experience with all the world. It seems >> these are also WE's goals, and so I'm very excited to be a part of the >> project. > > Wayne says: Now that's a vision I want to spend time and energy helping to > achieve and was the reason behind founding the project! You have my vote of > support. > > Cheers > Wayne > -- > 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 > > > > > > -- Robert Kruhlak Burnaby, BC CANADA (M) +1 778 230 1875 (E) kru...@gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
