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On 28/09/2009 16:40, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > Hi Valerie & Nellie, > > Excellent and very timely suggestions! > > As we speak, we're planning a national co-ordinated community effort > to develop reusable and portable content for New Zealand schools ( > http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ ) we think carefully through the steps > to save time in getting resource started. Teachers are busy folk. > > For example -- if a teacher wanted to donate a lesson plan -- we > should try to make this as easy as possible. > > I'm experimenting with the concept of a lesson plan template which > will preload the main headings, formating and structure. It will > automatically insert the relevant categories and provide limited > guidance and ideas for filling in the template. Recognising that there > is not an ideal or optimal template given different approaches to > teaching, unique demands of the subject area, student background etc. > We will need to have a small selection of different templates. I have > been working on two prototypes: > > 1. A standard lesson template (http://tinyurl.com/ybt4g6t ) > 2. The "St Cuthberts College" template -- which is an example of a > template used by a local school ( http://tinyurl.com/ydjgjza ) > > With thanks to Nellie for a donation of one of her lesson plans (The > Last Spin webquest) -- I'm now piloting the template (still work in > progress) to provide an example which teachers can see. With this sort > of thing its good to have an example -- plus a short help resource to > show folk how this works. > > Once we implement a WYSIWYG editor -- we will remove more barriers. I > also think that its important to form teams that focus on specific > areas and tasks in the wiki -- see for example: > http://wikieducator.org/New_Zealand_Schools_OER_Portal/Roles . These > teams form mini communities which can provide help and support to folk > who want to get started with specific tasks. > > While this project has a strong New Zealand focus -- being OER, all > the content resources, templates and approaches can easily be > replicated and refined for other countries and communities. For > example, in the last week Uganda (http://wikieducator.org/OERUG) and > Israel (http://wikieducator.org/Israel_Schools_OER_Portal) have > started their national school portals :-). Hopefully many more will > follow :-) > > Good thinking -- lets make this happen! > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > > 2009/9/29 valerie <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > Hi Nellie > > Thanks for suggesting a brainstorming. WE need to do this regularly > about lots of topics, including community engagement. > > Engagement through contributing - I looked through the WE community > portal to see if there was a home for this sort of thing. > > http://www.wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Community_Portal > http://www.wikieducator.org/Wishlist > > These sort of address the idea of community participation, but most > are too complex or need too much prior knowledge to encourage newer WE > member to provide help. > > I would like to see more, easy to participate projects, so that if > someone has a couple of hours, they can contribute something > meaningful to the WE community. This might be a dynamic "job jar" with > instructions for each item, rated by WE knowledge level / skills and > time commitment. > > Perhaps some of the template gurus can come up with some "forms" that > present work, and the WE members can do some thing like categorization > through a "read, select, save" interface. > > Project Gutenberg has lots of jobs like this. The volunteers are happy > to help because they know that they are just one part of the process. > Once their small but important part is done, other more qualified > volunteers will be doing follow-on steps in some bigger process. This > generates great publicity and community engagement for the project. > > Having contribution process/forms help direct the work, making the > specific contribution more manageable form the WE community > contributor perspective as well as getting needed WE work done quickly > and reliably. Lots of small contributions from lots of WE members > turns into really great results. > > ..Valerie > > > > On Sep 26, 10:46 pm, NELLIE DEUTSCH > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Well, since my interest lies in active learning and engaging > learners, I > > would like invite those with common interests to join me in > brainstorming to > > find ways to engage members of the community. > > > > > > -- > 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 <http://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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