Wayne wrote: << Agree we need to be very careful with mass-email which can arguably and justifiably be labelled as WE spam. I would suggest implementing an option for new users to subscribe to a news / letter magazine. We can consider a once off notification to WE account holders regarding the option to subscribe to the news letter once this option has been implemented for new account holders. However -- this would need to be an affirmative action to subscribe rather than a default that everyone gets the newsletter unless they opt out. >>
Good, that's a reasonable approach. << Personally, I'd like to see both -- they serve different audiences and I don't see one replacing and / or duplicating the other. WikiEducator has extensive reach in the developing world -- places where connectivity is difficult, unreliable and expensive. The newsletter / WE magazine is an innovative way to "connect" the "disconnected" and keep those who want to stay abreast of what is happening online. Notifying teachers around the world of exemplary resources that may be of use. Profiling and sharing experiences of the efforts in setting up national OER collaborations (eg Uganda, Bangladesh, India etc.) --- These experiences are invaluable for other countries trying to bootstrap OER. We could have a low- resolution version to simplify local reproduction and keep costs to a minimum. Certainly, within the formal education sector -- there are still large numbers of educators who do not surf the blog sphere --- lets cast a wide net for open education :-) >> Very well, but there's no reason that a blog and a dead-trees newsletter couldn't have the same content. We could have the official news blog, and when there have been enough posts to fill however many pages we want the newsletter to be, we release the same content as PDF, RTF, ODT, etc. (Our actually printing and posting it sounds expensive, I assume that's not the intent here?) One potential issue with treeware is that some countries use Letter size and some use A4. (My wife's doing an LLB through a school in the UK from here in the U.S. where A4 is annoyingly hard to find, so we've been hit in the head by this one.) << Hopefully there will be more people than Wayne, Jim posting -- we should also include posts from Council members, workgroup leaders, featured teachers etc. This model would need some sort of editorial team to oversee alignment with community values etc. >> Valerie edited the workgroup charter to have us continue to oversee whatever blogs come out of this process. That's okay with me, at least as a starting point. << We definitely need an outlet that isn't edited --- we just need a clear communication / disclaimer that the posts are the opinions of the individuals writing them. >> Very good, so then it seems our workgroup should refine the approach of having three blogs: 1. Terra Incognita if possible, or if not then a sort of "Nova Terra Incognita". 2. An official newsletter blog, the contents of which are also periodically released in paper format. 3. An open blog where WikiEducators can easily add posts and there's light-handed moderation. -=Steve=- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
