WikiEducators might like to see how we have been leveraging the WE in the Pacific Islands region with One Laptop Per Child.
The WE was used in this OLPC start up workshop in Tuvalu, very usefully, and made possible due to the prior L4C workshop (thanks Leigh!), in several ways. Many of the participants had WE skills although had yet to really make use of them. (a) We developed a deployment plan for their OLPC programme collaboratively during the workshop using the WE. This was not only very efficient, but really helps the team take ownership of the plan. It then allows continuous refinement, all with high transparency. One example of how we integrated the XOs and WE in the workshop... participants worked in groups on an objectives framework, using the XOs to collaboratively develop the table. I.e. they used the Write Activity (word processor) in "sharing" mode with the document editable on each XO synchronously. We then took the completed tables (as .odt files) and used Open Office to export the WikiMedia text and whack it into WE. Very nice integration of the technologies with the workshop and training objectives. (b) This then lays the foundations for the second important potential for the WE. This is that it can become a repository for lesson plans, resources and curriculum content developed by the teachers in the OLPC programme and first steps by curriculum officers. We were inspired by Wayne's comments below: So for example, a teacher could re-contextualise and re-use a wikipedia (and wikieducator) article for a lesson by adapting the resource for the age level of the students or selecting those components of an encyclopaedia article which map to the particular curriculum. It would be great to see WikiEducators experimenting with the adaptation and remix of Wikipedia articles as lesson plans or teaching materials for specific curricula. We're keen to try this under the OERNZ project here in New Zealand. It is early days yet, but I think there is a good potential from the Tuvalu project that may provide a model for the region. We'll be working with partners, especially OER Foundation and SPC. http://wikieducator.org/OLPC_Tuvalu To complement the WE pages we set up a Google Group and a Ning. David Leeming Honiara -- 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]
