Many-Many Happy Returns of the Day WE. Sarita
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:30 AM, aprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > > > > -- > Warm regards > > Anil > > -- > 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] > -- http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Saritasanjay http://www.wikieducator.org/India http://www.wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://www.andcollege.du.ac.in -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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