Dear Friends, The WikiEducator User Page Expo <http://wikieducator.org/UPE> ("UPE" to its friends) is an ongoing event to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages that are particularly informative, innovative, visually appealing, or otherwise just plain clever.
We are happy to announce the winner for August 2014. She is Kim Thomas. Lets learn more about her. Kim Thomas <http://wikieducator.org/User:Hortykim> is a Lecturer for Foundation Studies in Trades,Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. In addition, she has performed roles as Lecturer (Natural Resources); as a Teaching and Research Assistant Department of Natural Resources, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin; managing Permaculture Garden and Wormfarm for Living Campus; as Lecturer,Occupational Therapy and Health and Safety Adviser for ABE at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin. She has lot of achievements to her credit like Recipient of staff excellence award (and development grant) February 2011 Staff Meeting; Certificate of Appreciation-Excellence in Leadership(2009); Public Speaker - Confident public speaker for Hort Talk series and kindred gardening groups; Short Course Coordinator - Created and developed short courses; sourcing tutors, developing programmes, promotion and co-ordination. In addition, she created substantial opportunities for all programmes and Short Courses at the Otago Polytechnic. She developed and maintained a working relationship with local media alongwith co-ordinating advertising features and publicity opportunities. She has successfully created an OER based Course on Permaculture Design <http://wikieducator.org/Permaculture_design>. This course provides an introduction to permaculture design principles and methods which when applied will lead you down the path to sustainable systems for your home or working environment. Some of the learning outcomes for this course are to understand and describe the ethics and principles of permaculture; and to outline procedures used to analyze a site for permaculture. An ardent fan, she expresses in her blog, "...I find that wikieducator is a great place to store resources and is extremely time efficient. Once I had mastered the ability to set up new pages and edit them then I am able to tweak and add information so that my lesson plans and resources improve every time I present a particular unit to my class. I also really enjoy capturing resources on video and photos as we do a lot of stuff that is practical and interesting.These resources become links in the wikieducator to support ideas or explain concepts for future students.Another great benefit is if a student misses a class then I can direct them to the session stored on the wiki." Please join us in congratulating Kimto <http://wikieducator.org/User:Hortykim> be the UPE winner for August 2014! with best wishes, Dr. Nellie Deutsch <http://wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller> and Ramesh Sharma <http://wikieducator.org/User:Rcsharma> -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
