Hi Valerie, Anil and Randy I too like the "try it and tweak it school" -- a process of continuous improvement, something WikiEducator does very well :-)
Please post a few links pointing us to a few good examples or exemplars we might want to tweak for our own purposes. Given that a blog is a personal publishing space -- we need to think carefully about how to set this up -- If its a WikiEducator blog -- in some respects it represents the "voice" of WikiEducator and we should thing creatively about editorial processes. Individual posts are personal comments, whereas the blog posts would be the community voice -- consequently we will need to have open and transparent editorial processes that will support the editors in reflecting the voice of the community. Why don't we set up a "blogging" workgroup to review and propose the processes and editorial guidelines for the WE blog? I see the newsletter serving a "different" audience -- its a way of connecting the disconnected, that is educators who may not regularly surf and / or participate actively in the wiki project. The digital "natives" are more likely to keep up-to-date through the blogsphere, but WikiEducator has thousands of members in the developing world who do not have the luxury of affordable and reliable connectivity. The newsletter, which can be reproduced locally in print format is a great way to support our diverse community. Clearly there will be blog posts and items that we would want to carry in the newsletter -- but at the same time, there would be news worthy items that may not be ideal for the blog. Thoughts? Wayne On Nov 5, 3:20 am, valerie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > Thanks Wayne - having Wordpress installed is a great first step. Is > there a placeholder or a link? > > The example Randy suggested -http://blog.worldcampus.psu.edu/ > It is really Ken's blog with friends and colleagues as contributors. > > The WE way would be more open - a few editors and lots of > contributors. There are plenty of examples of this working - I'll have > to dig up some links, but I'm sure most people have seen this team > blogging in action. > > The glossy newsletter could wait until there is some content from the > blog to incorporate into a more formal (and costly) production. > > I'm very much of the "try it and tweek it" school, but there are good > reasons to take a more measured approach. Looking forward to seeing > this take shape > > ..Valerie > > On Nov 3, 5:06 pm, Randy Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
