[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?
about blog or newsletter, Most wiki-groups, like in wikipedia do communicate by subscribe to the users pages of the wiki. (one receives a message when something has changed there) this google group is a newsletter, if you did subscribe to it. So knowing this, I don't get the point of another newsletter or blog to communicatie. That would be slightly overdone I think. kind regards Jaap On Nov 4, 1:18 am, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote: Did anything ever come of earlier suggestions that there be a WikiEducator blog with multiple contributors or a collaboratively written newsletter? I poked around and didn't find much. old discussionshttp://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/fa11... old pageshttp://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:NewsLetter Write an article for a magazine/newsletter styled publication describing the wiki concept and how people can become involvedhttp://wikieducator.org/WikiMaster/WikiApprentice_Level_1 I'm having my students work collaboratively in small groups to come up with a WikiEducator promotion.http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Fall_2009#Final_Projects Naturally, their first question - Where is the WikiEducator newsletter? Umm, I'll get back to you on that... Is there a good answer to this question? ..Valerie --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: WE blog or newsletter?
Example of an organization using a blog to connect to blogosphere would be PSF on the right hand margin of this recent post re Wikieducator content: http://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-curriculum-writing.html PSF has a board, voting membership, charged with protecting trademark, language authenticity, PEPs, user groups, conferences. Individuals track whatever special interest groups (sigs) interest them, e.g. I'm prolific on edu-sig and do a lot of my business there. Seems to me that subscribing to specific wiki pages is an esoteric insider activity for those already sold on the idea of a wiki. Blogging is somewhat a different medium and you'll find bloggers who've never thought of Wikipedia as much beyond another static website, not thinking to take part in the editing, treating knowledge as read-only (same problem as Britannica had). So it makes sense to me that a Wiki-based subculture, wishing to recruit new citizens, might promote a more educated readership via some synthesis blog that shows up in blog chatter. At PSF we think about airport concourse signage as another way of advertising, like a lit sign in some tunnel in O'Hare with our just use it slogan. Kirby On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Jaapb jaap.bos...@gmail.com wrote: about blog or newsletter, Most wiki-groups, like in wikipedia do communicate by subscribe to the users pages of the wiki. (one receives a message when something has changed there) this google group is a newsletter, if you did subscribe to it. So knowing this, I don't get the point of another newsletter or blog to communicatie. That would be slightly overdone I think. kind regards Jaap On Nov 4, 1:18 am, valerie vtay...@gmail.com wrote: Did anything ever come of earlier suggestions that there be a WikiEducator blog with multiple contributors or a collaboratively written newsletter? I poked around and didn't find much. old discussionshttp://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/browse_thread/thread/fa11... old pageshttp://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:NewsLetter Write an article for a magazine/newsletter styled publication describing the wiki concept and how people can become involvedhttp://wikieducator.org/WikiMaster/WikiApprentice_Level_1 I'm having my students work collaboratively in small groups to come up with a WikiEducator promotion.http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Fall_2009#Final_Projects Naturally, their first question - Where is the WikiEducator newsletter? Umm, I'll get back to you on that... Is there a good answer to this question? ..Valerie --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Fw: [WE Teacher Collaboration] WE believe in education - So where is all the free content?
Namaste, All WikiEducators. I am forwarding a forwarded message to the Google Group titled Foundation for Indian Scientific Heritage. Indian Teachers may consider in particular and Teachers across the world in general about creating OER on Indian Scientific Heritage. I welcome all to join the Group. http://groups.google.co.in/group/foundation-for-indian-scientific-heritage/browse_thread/thread/2a43c2aec33a8c04 Warm Greetings on CHILDREN'S DAY. Child is the Father of Man. Pranams. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Director Director,CSRD. --- On Sat, 11/14/09, Dr. Srinivasan Ramakrishnan director_c...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Dr. Srinivasan Ramakrishnan director_c...@yahoo.com Subject: Fw: [WE Teacher Collaboration] WE believe in education - So where is all the free content? To: foundation-for-indian-scientific-herit...@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 5:18 AM NAMASTE, ALL. HERITAGE AWARENESS MAKES ONE AN ENLIGHTENED CITIZEN. To make it happen WikiEducator can be of immense help. Hence, this forwarded post for the kind attention of all. http://wikieducator.org/User:Director Sharma. Director,CSRD. --- On Sat, 11/14/09, Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com wrote: From: Wayne Mackintosh mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com Subject: [WE Teacher Collaboration] WE believe in education - So where is all the free content? To: WikiEducator wikieducator@googlegroups.com, wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 5:08 AM Hi Everyone, A brief moment to reflect. Education is an act of sharing knowledge freely. So where are all the free education materials that we can adapt, modify and reuse without restriction? Why has humanity taken so long in achieving a free knowledge base for us to share for the common good of education and society? Why are the majority of our global population under served when it comes to education? To paraphrase Bob Dylan: How many years [can the closed copyright] mountain exist Before it's washed to the sea? Yes, 'n' how many years can some [educators] exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, 'n' how many times can [we] turn our [heads], Pretending [we] just don't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind. The value proposition of sharing digital teaching materials is a no-brainer. Getting back to Dylan's refrain The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind has been described as impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin%27_in_the_Wind) I started WikiEducator as a project to collaborate with the free culture movement to develop digital teaching materials in support of every national curriculum by 2015. (If we're a little late, 2017 will be just fine :-) ). Yesterday, WE were a top 59K site (Alexa).During October, WE generated more than 10.5 million hits on our site with a full-time staff of two people. WE train and build wiki skills for thousands of teachers in more than 110 countries -- thanks to a dedicated team of facilitators who share knowledge freely. WE have developed more content pages than Wikiversity (with only 6% of the number of the registered users compared to WV)WE can now work internationally, freed from the geographical constraints of the Commonwealth. WE should take a moment and reflect on what WE have achieved -- this is an amazing story and you are making it happen! However, we shouldn't gloat for too long. 2015 is a little more than 5 years away, but I sense an energy that WE have a fighting chance in achieving our goal of free digital resources in support of all national curricula. WE need to become more effective supporting new WikiEducators in becoming active contributors to our common goalWE need our technology to become transparent (i.e. significantly easier to use)WE need to continue our commitment to provide free training to any warm-blooded (as in mammal) educator in the world who wants to learn wiki skills WE need to connect educators across international boundaries andWE need to have fun while contributing to the social good of education.What else do WE need to do? Is the answer so obvious or as intangible as the wind? Let's continue making OER futures happen for the world -- the wiki way. Cheers Wayne -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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:
