Hi Valerie, I'm pleased that you have reminded us of the Newsletter and blog ideas! * Thoughts about a Newsletter*
Yes -- the OER Foundation definitely wants to support and promote a newsletter for the WikiEducator community. There is so much happening in our family around the world and we need to keep folk up-to-date with what's happening. A newsletter is also a great way to connect the disconnected :-). It's difficult for WikiEducator's who are less active on the site to know about all the exciting things that are happening. WikiEducator will certainly be able to put the community journalism concept to good use ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_journalism) In short - -the OER Foundation is very supportive of this idea and I want to see a professional, high quality quarterly newsletter for our family. As you know, WikiEducator will succumb to corporate advertising on our open education sites. However, I'm wondering about how the community feels about advertising in a professional Newsletter? We need funding to support the editorial and professional work associated with a high quality newsletter (notwithstanding the contributions from WikiEducators around the world for the newsletter.) Thoughts? * Thoughts about a WikiEducator blog* Over the last three years -- I've been wanting to host a WikiEducator blog. In fact, we installed Wordpress on our server with the view to a WikiEducator community blog. However, we need to do a little thinking about how best to implement a "community" blog for WikiEducator, for example: - Do blog posts on a collective WikiEducator blog represent the views of WikiEducator as a community? The blog sphere is typically a personal publishing space -- as opposed to a collective community voice. What is the approach that WikiEducator should adopt? - For example, While WikiEducator was operating under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Learning --- understandably a "blogging" policy was introduced by the agency, which restricted freedom of speech of individuals wanting to blog about different issues. Where do we draw the line between personal views and collective organisational opinion of an international project? - The OER Foundation is very keen to host and support a community blog for WikiEducator. However, we need advice and support from the community regarding the best way to do this. Perhaps we need to establish a blogging workgroup to think about all the issues and propose a set of guidelines for a WikiEducator blog - technically, hosting a dedicated blog for WE is no problem and the OERF will support this. However we need a clear set of guidelines developed by the community regarding the best way to implement. Thanks Valerie -- great suggestions and thanks for reminding us of these gaps in our community :-) Cheers Wayne 2009/11/4 valerie <[email protected]> > > Did anything ever come of earlier suggestions that there be a > WikiEducator blog with multiple contributors or a collaboratively > written newsletter? > > I poked around and didn't find much. > > old discussions > > http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/fa1128ff6e7401a4/dfa591a45e4391f6?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=newsletter#dfa591a45e4391f6 > > old pages > http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:NewsLetter > > Write an article for a magazine/newsletter styled publication > describing the wiki concept and how people can become involved > http://wikieducator.org/WikiMaster/WikiApprentice_Level_1 > > I'm having my students work collaboratively in small groups to come up > with a WikiEducator promotion. > http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Fall_2009#Final_Projects > > Naturally, their first question - Where is the WikiEducator > newsletter? Umm, I'll get back to you on that... > > Is there a good answer to this question? > > ..Valerie > > > -- 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. 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
