Thanks, Peter. I must admit I use the word "rant" with my tongue firmly in my cheek. What I have on my user page is a series of web-logs about issues that mean a lot to me, and in many ways are stimulated by the discussions on this listserv. Unfortunately, several of the topics on the listserv pass over my head, and I read them and hope some day I might understand them. Meanwhile i ave this urge (Like the artist in Tahiti) to write from time to time of things I do understand. I do not work well with deadlines, so I do not declare that i will put them up there on a specific timeline. I see many parallels between what I have been doing with my community empowerment web site, and WikiEd, and this is a good forum for me to explore those parallels. I like your phrase "getting out of the way" and see that as essential to the kind of eduction we are promoting on WikiEd.
Nellie,I hope I can, and it takes a long time for ideas to brew in my head before I start writing. Cheers, Phil Date: Thurs, Aug 20 2009 8:49 am From: Peter Great rant Phil... wouldn't call it a rant for you say many valid things. I particularly like your section on getting out of the way or as you wrote it community empowerment "vs" charity. I believe the hardest part of what we do within OER is in creating and holding the space that others can fill, help themselves, one could say. we need to be coaches on the sidelines, maintaining the field and helping people to become stronger... Thanks for your thoughts. PeterIf the coach does the pushups, The athlete will not get stronger Community Empowerment: www.scn.org/cmp/ WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle Join our discusssion forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
