Dear Jane, Wow your background sounds very interesting and most definitely you would have all it takes to develop training materials for our global community to use locally. The good thing about WikiEducator is that you can take anything and make it fit for your local environment. I see many things that could be created just looking at your background, which I find inspiring.
Just recently a few months ago there was another culinary expert, I will try to find him, can't be that difficult, which would already make two, if he is interested. As you say, the Culinary Site is in its infancy, born out of an interest to cook myself and interest in ethnic cusine for all to share and enjoy. You can make the site whatever you want it to be, because we are an open community, so with consent of others involved, you can take a direction and go for it. The site could have several components with different people working on different goals. If you want to take the lead, feel free. What you will find that goat keeping and all that is involved will find interest in Africa and Asia and there again you will find others to help you. This is the beauty of collaboration. The initial challenge is to find like-minded people. Do you want to be a member of WikiEducator Teacher Collaboration Portal as well. Some 1000+ people are on this site and I am sure it will open up other avenues. I can subsribe you to the site, if you would like. You will find the WikiEducator community very generous in giving time and effort which is why we are all here, so the sky is the limit. My suggestion would be to create project page, maybe a subpage of the existing Cullinary Education site, which you invite people to contribute, calling for team members, and announcing this on the discussion forums, develop a concept note, a project plan, goals and targets, tutorials etc. It has been done with other projects successfull. Collaboration is one of WikiEducator's strong points and if you take your skills and apply them to what needs to be done, you will end up with a very sustainable project that can be used by everyone. We an open transparent, open online community, so all is done out in the open. You will also find that people will join you along the way which is always very helpful and maybe you will come out with materials that can be taught on WikiEducator, which is useful to many more than you envision right now. When you believe in the cause of an undertaking, your beliefs will become your thoughts, your thoughts will become your action and your action will become your passion. Consequently, your passion is not work but the source of satisfaction, fulfilment and and joy, it is really up to you. Warm wishes Patricia On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Jane Scripps <[email protected]>wrote: > A bit about my background. Chef and hospitality training for 3 years > in England; I was very fortunate to go to the 2nd best training site > [at that time] in the UK, and worked with some inspired people, 2 of > which authored the texts used for training for over 20 years. Lots of > work opportunities around the UK both during term time and in holiday > breaks. Then to Marks and Spencer Ltd, then the byword in corporate > training, to enter Catering Management and take on various small and > large sites, that meant small and large stores, ending up at the No 2 > store at that time, and involved in corporate catering as well as > industrial and store management. On emigration to NZ I worked in the > hospo industry for while and then entered tertiary education > designing, teaching, assessing and moderating chefing, front of house > and other things. Onto national training advisor for the industry and > then to a new city and parent hood and combining similar work with > raising kids. More recently I have set up the Modern Apprenticeship > scheme and Adult Community Education scheme in my city for my then > employer. As part of my new business I will provide work place > assessment. > > My thoughts on the above Project. > > I understand this project is in its infancy and that is such a good > time to get involved. You may have read media coverage of the increase > in interest of food grown and cooked locally, but informed by > international nutritional knowledge. We are all aware of water > scarcity and the regular stress large communities are put under by > natural disasters. Whilst this project can deal with all this I think > it would be worth while discussing linking organiponica based > community garden development with the use of produce in various > recipes. Perhaps down the line incorporating the keeping of goats and > making products from their milk, chickens and their eggs etc. > > We would need to decide on a goal and plan towards it, then the tools > we would use to facilitate it, film clips, images, visiting > specialists. Before we start I would like to see who else would like > to be involved and how we could network out. I will tap my chef > colleagues for their support and may find one or two of altruistic > persuasion, cross fingers. > > What do you think? > > -- > 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]
