Hi Wayne, This is useful - often we receive feedback from our community, that the wiki is not (visually-) user-friendly.
Developing such templates to ease navigation and useability go a long way. - Randy On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > One of my responsibilities as elected Chair of the WIkiEducator Community > Council is to prepare for our meetings. As you know the OER Foundation > subscribes to open philanthropy which means our Council meetings are > conducted openly and transparently in the wiki. We do our best to implement > parliamentary procedure in our meetings, but as you will appreciate we need > to tweak procedure a little to prepare for the unique challenges of running > an asynchronous meeting in a wiki. > > To date we have conducted two WikiEducator Council meetings in the wiki -- > and with each iteration we get better at what we do. You gotta love this > open learn-by-doing model. We're getting parliamentary procedure (using open > asynchronous wiki meetings) down to a fine art. We work openly -- so we can > share this expertise with the world. > > What I like about the open wiki mode for these meetingsl, is that any > member of the WIkiEducator community, apart from observing the meeting, can > add their thoughts and discussion items to the meeting as we proceed. Only > elected and nominated members of Council can vote using an open ballot, but > you can participate in the meeting by adding your thoughts and views to the > discussions. Wow! -- That's open philanthropy in practice! > > When you think about it , this is pretty amazing. WE run international > meetings virtually spanning all time zones of the world. That is, from Samoa > just other side of the date line through to New Zealand, just this side of > the date line. Depending on DST, the Community Council members literally > span 24 hours -- WIkiEducator never sleeps! > > I wonder if Roberts Rules of order first published in Feb 1876 ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%27s_Rules_of_Order) ever envisaged the > procedures being applied for meetings with the assembly distributed over all > time zones on the planet! > > Today, I spent a little time drafting a boilerplate text for the individual > pages we use for drafting, tabling and voting on motions and tweaking > Robert's rules for our wiki way building on the experience of our first two > meetings. See: > > http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Boilerplate_text_for_draft_motions > > I've embedded a few guidelines for each subsection, but most notably > included a section for pre-meeting discussions. > > I've now populated two draft motion pages using the boilerplates for > pre-meeting discussions: > > > - > > http://wikieducator.org/Community_Council/Meetings/Third/Amendments_to_Open_Community_Governance_Policy > - > > http://wikieducator.org/Community_Council/Meetings/Third/Guidelines_for_embedding_links_to_third_party_media > > > So you can add you voice to pre-meeting discussions. > > We're making OER futures happen. > > 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] -- Open Education is a sustainable and renewable resource. ________________ Randy Fisher, MA, OMD Senior Consultant, Organization Development, E-Learning & Performance Intersol Group, Canada Senior Consultant, Organization & Capacity Development International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand Elected Member, WikiEducator Community Council, www.wikieducator.org +1 613.722.5577 (EST) Skype: wikirandy Twitter: wikirandy * Stakeholder Engagement & Project Implementation * Change & Transition Management * E-Learning, Online Collaboration & Learning Communities * Coaching & Facilitation * My Bio: http://www.communitybuildingexpert.com -- 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]
