Hi Tiffany, http://www.wikieducator.org/OC4D - waiting and ready to go!
- Randy On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tiffany, > > Pleased to meet you virtually --- OC4D is a great project concept! Well > done. > > David Wiley is a good friend and also a member of WikiEducator's Community > Council. You're very privileged to have the opportunity to work and study > with David. You're going to have fun while making a substantive contribution > to open content for development. > > I must also compliment your project on the choice of the Mediawiki software > engine. Over the next year or so, the OER Foundation and WE will be > refining Mediawiki for use in educational contexts, including for example > WYSIWYG editing, enhancements on wiki ==> print technology (very important > for developing world contexts), building OER content interoperability > between WikiEducator <==> Connexions to widen opportunities for remixing > content between platforms as well as providing hosting for "static" > instances of course materials on Connexions. > > You are most welcome and free to link to the OC4D site -- better still, why > not create a portal node in WikiEducator for the project (see: > http://wikieducator.org/Create_and_institutional_OER_portal_page ). > > With regards to sharing best practice, WE would love to help and support > you in achieving success. > > In the first instance, given that you're using Mediawiki -- we can help you > with free training. We run at least one online workshop every month helping > educators to aquire basic wiki editing skills under the Learning4Content > initative (see: http://wikieducator.org/L4C ) -- Please feel free to > invite members from your community to join these workshops. The next one is > scheduled to start on 23 November 2009 -- and folk can register directly on > the wiki. > > If you like -- we could easily set up dedicated area in WikiEducator where > your OC4D domain could redirect to a dedicated landing page in WE with your > logo etc. WE have extensive international reach in the developing world > including Africa, South and South East Asia, Caribbean and the South > Pacific. In this way you can save considerable time and energy on building > networks for your initiative. Working together we can achieve far more than > working alone. > > OC4D is a brilliant project -- let us know how the OER Foundation and the > WikiEducator family can assist and support you in achieving your objectives. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > 2009/11/15 Tiffany Ivins <[email protected]> > >> Hi, >> Wayne, thanks for your reflections about the power of wikis and the >> imperative to freely share content in a global way. >> >> I'm Tiffany Ivins. I'm a doctoral student at BYU working with David Wiley >> (the guy that coined the term 'Open Content'). We are working with >> ProLiteracy Worldwide, an NGO based in New York, with 130 NGO partners >> across the developing world (Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and >> many island nations). >> >> Through several conversations with their International Program Director, >> Dr. Lynn Curtis, we have gotten consent to share all of their educational >> materials in open, digitized formats into an open portal on the web ( >> www.oc4d.org). We have decided to use a wiki format so that anyone >> anywhere can freely access, modify, localize and share these resources. >> These are tools developed by locals for locals in developing countries. >> >> The tools on OC4D are primarily geared toward nonformal educators (e.g. >> literacy facilitators, health workers, agricultural extension agents, peace >> workers, and microloan officers). As you will see if you look at the site, >> the issues addressed by these tools are central to lower-developed poor >> communities and the change agents (nonformal educators) who work with >> lower-literate groups and/or use these tools to facilitate "literacy for >> social change." >> >> Right now, we're working on getting English versions up and then we'll >> hope to put up all content created/modified by the NGO partners across the >> world who are part of the ProLiteracy Worldwide consortium. We would love to >> collaborate with anyone else in this effort who is interested to share >> quality content addressing critical issue for improved problem-solving in >> developing countries around the world. >> >> We are open to input and we would like to link to and from the >> WikiEducator Site because it will build capacity on both sides. Also, if you >> know of any other effort which is similar in nature to this, could you let >> us know so that we could seek collaboration with them (e.g. sharing best >> practices and lessons learned) so we don't reinvent the wheel. >> >> We are planning to launch this initiative at the first of 2010 and to >> share the materials with some non-foramal education groups in the Himalayas >> (Community Learning Centers, Tele-Centers, Community Multimedia Centers >> etc.). If any of you have done work with open content targeting these >> populations, we'd love to talk with you and share ideas to improve access to >> educational opportunities for all. >> >> Looking forward to hearing from you, >> >> Tiffany >> >> > > > -- > 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 > > > > -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. ________________ Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant & Facilitator, Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization & Business Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement, Change / Transition Management & Performance * Organization Design & Development * Sustainable Project Implementation & Community-Building * E-Learning, Online Collaboration & Communities of Practice * Coaching & Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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