Phil, Many of us get ideas as we talk. If you are one of those people, maybe we can get a voice conference going. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Phil Bartle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
