Hi Gita, I agree -- its amazing to see how our family is growing and the tremendous pride among WikiEducators to welcome new participants into our neighbourhood.
This would not be possible without the culture of gifting time -- thank you so much for your offer to help us out with eL4C41 :-) WE're making history again. Cheers Wayne On 14 June 2010 13:54, Gita Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Wayne > I am happy to have been actively involved with the L4C initiative, and > am glad to see so many WE family members grow. It is a very nice > feeling to introduce new members to WE and see the difference WE makes > in them giving them the perspective to understand & contribute towards > OER's. > I want to offer to help out with this July workshop as a facilitator. > Wishing this workshop & WE a great success. > Gita Mathur > > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Patricia Schlicht <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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] > > -- > 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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