Hi Everyone, BIG thank you for the positive response from all our WIkiEducators who are keen to become online facilitators for our Learning4Content training programme. I'll be sending a personal email to all prospective facilitators with more detail in the near future.
With the launch of our first public giving campaign and prospective organisations joining the OER Foundation as contributing members, I expect that the demand for L4C workshops will increase in the near future and I am very pleased that we will have a growing team of capable facilitators available to respond to any increased demand for training. I'm planning to facilitate the July 2010 Learning4Content workshop and I will invite our new group of facilitators to join us as co-facilitators. This will provide an opportunity for the new facilitators to see how we set up and manage the workshops. In addition, the introduction of rich text editing in WikiEducator requires a few minor tweaks to the workshop format we have been using to date for our international workshops. We will trial a revised workshop schedule and workshop layout to accommodate the refinements for rich text editing basing this on experiments I've been using for recent OERNZ workshops ( http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ/training/OERNZ4/Home ). It would be great if our existing team of facilitators could join us and assist with the refinements and feedback to improve our training interventions. It's amazing to see how L4C is growing and the number of educators around the world who want to share open content the wiki way! Cheers Wayne On 9 June 2010 18:35, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > WikiEducator has enjoyed the privilege of positive growth since our > inception. Fortunately our growth has been incremental giving us the space > to refine our operations and procedures. > > With the advent of our first public giving campaign (still very much work > in progress see: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Donate) we may need to > consider how we will manage exponential growth. > > The OER Foundation administers the world's largest attempt to build wiki > skills in the formal education sector. In the event that the demand for our > free training through WikiEducator's Learning4Content project increases > beyond our current capacity to deliver, we must prepare in advance and be > ready to scale-up the number of Learning4Content facilitators. Moreover, I > think its fair and reasonable provide opportunities for our sterling team of > L4C facilitators to take regenerate their batteries :-). WikiEducator is > indebted to the tireless dedication of our facilitation team and I feel > guilty placing unrealistic demands on our team of facilitators -- way beyond > the call of duty. Kudos to all our L4C facilitators! (For the record -- > none of our L4C facilitators have complained about serving the WE community > :-D). > > I'm extending an open invitation to experienced Wikieducators and online > Facilitators who would like to participate in facilitating future workshops. > I'm planning to facilitate another international workshops, and would like > to invite prospective L4C co-facilitators to join me in this workshop to > learn how we do things. In this way we can widen and extend our cadre of > Learning4COntent facilitators for WIkiEducator. > > If you're interested (and qualified in terms of WikiEducator experience and > online facilitation skills) to become a future L4C facilitator, and are > prepared to learn the ropes through co-facilitation of a live L4C workshop > with me -- please send me an email. You can contact me at: wayne "at" > oerfoundation "dot" org > > Let's make 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 > -- 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]
