Hi Maria, Thanks for the invitation -- I'll try and pop in during the session. Does the Math 2.0 community have an open education (OER) interest group?
The OER Foundation and the WikiEducator community can certainly assist in helping the Math 2.0 community grow on the open education front ---- a classic non-zero sum collaboration :-) CU later Wayne On 4 March 2010 03:05, Maria Droujkova <[email protected]> wrote: > Gladys Gahona and Nellie Deutsch made a presentation about WikiEducator for > the Math 2.0 series last October. WikiEducator is an excellent model of > community building. Math 2.0 community needs help of experienced people in > determining the directions of its growth and development. I would like to > ask any of you with experience and ideas about community building to join us > for a live discussion tonight. Here is the time converter for your time > zone: *http://1ps.us/rdf6ew* > > ~*~*~*~*~* > Event details > > All Math 2.0 events are free and open to the public. Wednesday, March 3rd > 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public Elluminate room at 6:30pm > Pacific / 9:30pm Eastern time: > https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=lcevents&password=Webinar_Guest > > I propose we get together and address some key community building themes. I > will try my best to invite leaders and representatives of Math 2.0 > communities who expressed an interest before, and I would like to ask > everyone here to do the same. > > I see Math 2.0 Interest Group, when it develops to the next stage, as an > alliance of communities with diverse members, interests, and projects: a > community of communities. For this to happen, we need to define some > structures for promoting conversations and collaborations. > > Here are two areas, open to change, we may discuss this Wednesday. Some of > the questions about each area follow. > > *Math 2.0 community representatives* > > > - Self-identify contact persons - community leaders or network nodes - > representing each Math 2.0 community as ambassadors. Questions: Where and > how is this contact information collected and made available? What about > individuals joining on their own? > - Representatives describe what areas interest their community. > Question: What is the initial list of these tags, and how do we add to it? > - Subgroups of representatives can invite their communities to > collaborate on projects in common areas. Question: How do we define > subgroups? How do we identify projects in different stages of maturity > (idea, initial building, ongoing)? > - Representatives pass on relevant messages to their communities, such > as event and project information. Question: Who has access to this message > structure and how do we support highly relevant information exchange? > > > *Conferences and events 2010-2011* > > - For those of us presenting at events, build a "conference intro pack" > with several rich media objects, open to collective authoring, and > describing Math 2.0, member communities and their representatives, past and > current projects within communities, ways to join, key terms and > definitions. The goal is for anyone active in the Math 2.0 Interest Group > to > be able to quickly and easily put together a good presentation about the > current state of events. Questions: Do we make this a completely open > resource to be used by anyone? How do we organize everybody's > contributions? > - Define a better structure for the weekly events, with rotating > moderators, rotating interesting platforms (such as 3d worlds) and a clear > way for Math 2.0 members to identify and contact people they want to see as > guests and hosts. Question: What is a good scheduler tool for multiple > people scheduling events? > - Identify conferences. Questions: What are good existing conferences > to go to in 2010-2011, and which of us are already going? How can we help > one another make our presentations better? > - Plan Math 2.0 conferences. Questions: What are good venues for online > conferences? What about face-to-face? > > > Cheers, > Maria Droujkova > http://www.naturalmath.com > > Make math your own, to make your own math. > > > -- > 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] -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. 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