Hi All, I've been lurking on WikiEducator for some time, and have finally joined this list.
I am pleased to announce that Communicate OER will hold its first Wikipedia trainings at the Open Education conference in Vancouver next week. We enthusiastically invite remote participation, primarily through our project coordination page on Wikipedia. Communicate OER is a year-long effort to support people in the OER world in working together to improve relevant Wikipedia content. It is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and sponsored by the University of Mississippi. We are also proud to have the endorsement of the OER Foundation and Creative Commons. This initiative is intended to strengthen and focus capacities that of course already exist within the OER community: the ability to work together on a wiki, to improve content. While our tactical focus is on Wikipedia, the central goal is to build/strengthen a broad community of practice in the OER world around presenting itself to the world at large. So it would of course be ideal to do some work on WikiEducator along the way, as well; and any of you who are active, or interested in getting active, on Wikipedia, could do a great deal to help guide new contributors in wiki editing. So we really hope you will join us on Wikipedia -- especially during next week's launch, when we expect to have a flurry of activity! Please sign up on our "Team" page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Communicate_OER_Team And then click the "Do" tab to get started! -Pete p.s. For those who will be attending Open Education 2012, see this announcement for some more details -- including where we're meeting for happy hour Monday evening! conta.cc/Qd8rSx -- Pete Forsyth Project Lead, Communicate OER http://enwp.org/WP:COMMOER -- -- 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]
