HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY WE!!! On 2/14/10, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > Happy Birthday WikiEducator! We are now maturing and growing up. This > provides a solid foundation for us to move forward in widening access to > scalable OER futures around the word :-). > > Sadly, the majority of the world's population are undeserved when it comes > to education. We need your help in planning our voluntary donation drive so > that we can expand and extend our mission in working collaboratively with > the free culture towards the development of free teaching materials in > support of all national curricula. > > - WE believe that sharing teaching materials as OER can make difference > in widening access to learning for all. > - WE believe that supporting educators in acquiring the skills to > develop OER collaboratively will help us in achieving our goals. In this > regard, the OER Foundation oversees the world's largest wiki training > project in education under the Learning4Content project. > > So what does this have to do with birthdays? Our WikiEducator domain names > were registered on 12 February 2006. I made my first edits on the > WikiEducator site on 13 Feb, and depending on where you are situated in the > world --- our Birthday coincides with Valentines day :-). A good day for a > birthday of an international OER project --- we can reflect and celebrate > our love of education and our commitment to sharing knowledge freely. WE > started with one registered user in 2006 and today, 12,700 educators have > created a WikiEducator account. WE have provided training opportunities to > thousands of teachers, lecturers and trainers in more than 120 different > countries -- but we need to do more if we're going to achieve our vision and > make a substantive contribution to the future sustainability of education. > > The OER Foundation is the legal entity responsible for supporting the > technical and operational infrastructure of the WE community. As a > registered charity we aim to foster the development of sustainable OER > ecosystems. We derive our funding from three main sources: > > 1. International donors, international agencies and government > contracts > 2. Organisations that join the OER Foundation as contributing members > -- We provide value added services in helping these members achieve their > objectives using OER. ( > > http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Join#Table_of_OERF_membership_benefits_-_Detailed_Comparison) > 3. Voluntary public donations > > We are now ready to plan and launch a public donation strategy. > > I need your help in developing a robust and successful donation plan for > our collective work. In accordance with the OER Foundation's committment to > open philanthropy, early drafts of our donation plan and thinking are being > developed in the wiki: > > http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Donation_planning > > Please take a look and visit this page. You are invited to list any > questions and/or suggestions on this wiki page as well. WE will monitor the > page and do our best to answer all your questions. If you can volunteer a > little time in helping us developing our donation plans, please list your > names as well and the areas where you can assist us. WE need all the help we > can get ;-). > > Looking forward to building OER futures together. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > -- > 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 > User Page: http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg > 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]
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