Hello Kim your work is impressive, I visited the wikieducator pages on Premaculture and found it very interesting and informative.
Congratulations for being an UPE winner! with best wishes Ramesh On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Ramesh Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
