Dear Friends, January 2014 <http://wikieducator.org/File:Wayne_Mackintosh_Yale_2010.jpg>
It was in February 2006 the domain names for wikieducator.org, wikieducator.net and wikieductor.com were registered by Wayne Mackintosh<http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, a WikiEducator mailing list was created by Brent Simpson<http://wikieducator.org/User:BrentSimpson>in January 2007 and the WikiEducator launched the highly popular Learning4Content <http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content> project in January 2008. WikiEducator's first online training session was conducted in February 2007, since then our WE is now a 67,882 registered user strong community having provided online training to several thousand teachers and professionals. As an evolving community, WE're turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks. Currently Wayne <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg> is the founding Director of the OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org> and the International Centre for Open Education based at Otago Polytechnic<http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz>, New Zealand. He also holds the UNESCO-COL Chair in OER at Otago Polytechnic. It was during his stint at the Commonwealth of Learning<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Learning>he founded the WikiEducator, we all are in agreement with him for it to be the most rewarding project for turning the digital divide into digital dividends for thousands of teachers, students and educators. He was also an Associate Professor and founding director of the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning (CFDL) at the University of Auckland<http://www.auckland.ac.nz>, New Zealand. Truly a global figure, he has worked and lived in three different regions of the Commonwealth, namely Africa (South Africa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa>), the Pacific (New Zealand <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand>) and North America (Canada <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada>). We believe that its about time now that WE express our thanks to the founder of WikiEducator, Dr Wayne Mackintosh<http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>, he sure is a winner of our hearts!! Let's begin this year 2014 with our expression of thanks, gratitude and appreciation for Wayne <http://wikieducator.org/User:Mackiwg>for his vision, support, leadership and commitment to the cause of building open educational resources, free content and open networks. With best wishes Nellie and Ramesh -- -- 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wikieducator+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
