Hi Wayne,
I can never get over the overwhelming interest in our Learning4Content workshops and it has been a privilege to had the honor to facilitate many of them as well. I enjoyed to see new Wiki family members grow into their own each time very much. I am also writing., to offer you my help with facilitation, if you'll have me. Cheers, Patricia From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 4:17 PM To: WikiEducator; [email protected] Subject: [WikiEducator] Well done WE -- on target to exceed 1000 L4C participants this year! Hi Everyone, Big thanks to Patricia who has tallied up our tentative figures for our Learning4Content training activities for the period 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010. WE set an ambitious target to provide free wiki skills training opportunities to 1000 educators for this reporting period. Our tentative figures show that 1,181 educators registered for L4C training workshops for the period under review! To date, the Learning4Content project has provided free training to 4,182 teachers, lecturers and trainers around the world. Kudos goes to our dedicated team of workshop facilitators and volunteers who have worked tirelessly this year in helping WikiEducator achieve these targets. In no order of preference our special thanks goes to: Nellie Deutsch (Israel/Canada), Gladys Gahona (Mexico), Patricia Schlicht (Canada), Rob Kruhlak (Canada / New Zealand) , Githa Mathur (India), Ramesh Sharma (Guyana / India), Victor Mensah (Zambia) , Vincent Kizza (Uganda), Nicholas Kimolo (Kenya), Steve Foerster (USA / Dominica), Sanjay Pandagale (India), Vallery Taylor (USA), and Brian Sikute (Zambia) -- who have all contributed to our international L4C workshops this year. Thank you! I've had the privilege of co-facilitating with many of our trainers in different online workshops -- we have an amazing international team of talented individuals. WE hold the accolade of administering the world's largest initiative to build wiki skills in education. Notwithstanding our phenomenal achievements, it is a tragedy that in our connected world, two-thirds of all participants have never created a wiki account before joining WikiEducator. Can you imagine the social impact in the world if we can build capability among 1% of the world's educators to create OER the wiki way. We can transform the planet if we reach 10% of the world's educators :-). We are preparing to scale up our contribution in building capability for OER to support learning for development and you can help us. Spread the word among colleagues and friends to sign up for a free training workshop. Demand may exceed our current capacity to supply free training - but that's a great problem to have. We are planning to launch our next L4C reporting cycle with a bang! We have scheduled a special L4C workshop for July 21-August 4, 2010 --- this will be an opportunity to provide training opportunities for prospective facilitators so we can scale up our training team to reach more educators. Let's see if we can break our current record for signing up the most participants for a single L4C workshop. We will also be making history with this workshop targeting the the highest number of facilitators working together in sharing their knowledge for the future of open education. Please spread the word and invite folk to join us for a free wiki skills workshop and help us to make OER futures happen. Folk can register here - be sure to circulate the link: http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C41/Register WE'll see you in the wiki :-) 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] -- 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]
