Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?

2012-05-22 Thread Joyce . McKnight 
I love it! WOLA! Joyce McKnight-wikieducator@googlegroups.com wrote: -To: wikieducator@googlegroups.comFrom: Don Sent by: wikieducator@googlegroups.comDate: 05/22/2012 12:14AMSubject: Re: [WikiEducator] Re: Shall we establish a WikiEducator Community College?Hooray for WOLA!On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Anil Prasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear friends,

The poll for choosing a name for the proposed WikiEducator community college is now officially closed (by the close of business on 19 May, 2012 in your time zone). Let me express my sincere gratitude to all the WikiEducator community members who have participated in the discussions on the WikiEducator community college concept, submitting nominations for selecting a name and subsequent voting with much enthusiasm. 




Now the formal announcment of poll results

(See http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator_Community_College/Community_poll/Poll.12.5.12 )




As you know, our poll had three sections to gauge opinion on the scope of the proposed initiative and preferred name for the initiative based on the submissions made by the community . Please see the queries and voting position below:





1. Should the initiative be extended beyond wiki skills and WIkiEducator specific activities?




Out of the thirty three (33) voters in this section, thirty (30) voters have voted Yes. Here the voters have given a very strong mandate to extend the community college initiative beyond wiki skills and WikiEducator specific activities.




2. Should the proposed name for this initiative include the concept WikiEducator (or reference to WikiEducator)? 




Out of the thirty two (32) community members voted in this section, twenty two (22) have opted Yes. It means majority of voters were in favour of including the concept of/or reference to WikiEducator in the name.




3. Which one of the following nominations (names) you chose to name the proposed WikiEducator Community College? 




The final section was to vote for a name. Therewere 30 nominations and 38 voters. To provide voters with the freedom of selecting different choices, multiple selection was permitted in this section.




First three positions:


The nomination Wikieducator Open Learning Academy (WOLA) got nineteen (19) votes



The nomination WikiEducator Academy got 15 votes



The nomination Institute of Open Education (IOE) got 7 votes.



Therefore, the name Wikieducator Open Learning Academy (WOLA) is the winner! Let us congratulate ourselves - Congratulations WikiEducator Community!!!



Now I would like to propose that we may constitute a WikiEducator Workgroup to discuss and document the Vision, Mission, Interim Organization Structure, Interim Business Proceedures and Pilot initiatives for WOLA. Please see the work in progress charter for the Workgroup (http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator_Community_College/Workgroup1.12 ) and build it futher. I hope we will be able to complete the draft charter in two-three days and invite community members to sign up. 




''WE ARE OFF TO ANOTHER MILESTONE IN OPEN EDUCATION BY ESTABLISHING WOLA!!!"-- 
Warm regardsAnil 
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad
http://www.apletters.blogspot.com
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Anil Prasad aplett...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear friends, 

First of all I convey my hearty gratitude to all the WE community members who expressed genuine interest in setting up a WikiEducator community college (a community-driven initiative to provide and support training including: wiki skills, creation and use of OER, open licensing, online learning, teaching, mentoring as well as promoting research on related topics)and submitted their choices for a name to it. The response of the community was amazing - WE got 30 nominations!




The time for nominations was closed officially by the end ofbusinesson 10 May 2012. Now it is the time to choose one name for the proposed community college from the 30 wonderful nominations we have received. For this purpose a rough consensus poll page has been setup in WikiEducator. The poll is designed in three parts to gauge opinion on the scope of the proposed initiative and preferred name for the initiative based on submissions made by the community.




Section:1Cast your vote regarding the proposed scope of the initiative
Section 2Your opinion regarding specific reference to "WikiEducator" in the proposed name for the initiative

Section 3Your preferences for naming this initiative - this is the section for casting your vote for a name.

The first two section will help the voters to revisit and review the draft Overview and Objectives of the projectand arrive at a logical conclusion while selecting the name.




Technology related instructions: 




You will need aWikiEducator accountand you must be logged in to cast your votes.



You must check the relevant options and click on the "Vote" or "Change my vote" button displayed below each option to record or change

[WikiEducator] free open source reading and pronunciation tutor project

2012-05-22 Thread James Salsman 
I'm building a speech recognition-based reading and pronunciation
tutor. Actually, I have been doing so for ten years but a patent
recently expired so I can start giving it away if I can raise enough
money to pay for the servers. I already have generous support from
Google Summer of Code and the One Laptop Per Child contributors
program, but still need help from an Android specialist, and money to
collect the exemplar pronunciation recordings and graphics necessary
to provide sufficient and engaging instructional content appropriate
for all ages and experience levels.  Please help support the project
if you can:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jsalsman/choose-your-reading-and-pronunciation-adventure

Thank you.

Best regards,
James Salsman

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Re: [WikiEducator] free open source reading and pronunciation tutor project

2012-05-22 Thread gene loeb 
james,
You are very inspiring to this elderly reader and want to encourage you in
your efforts. Please keep me involved and thanks,
Gene
Gene Loeb, PH. D.

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:34 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm building a speech recognition-based reading and pronunciation
 tutor. Actually, I have been doing so for ten years but a patent
 recently expired so I can start giving it away if I can raise enough
 money to pay for the servers. I already have generous support from
 Google Summer of Code and the One Laptop Per Child contributors
 program, but still need, and doing  much for all of us. help from an
 Android specialist, and money to
 collect the exemplar pronunciation recordings and graphics necessary
 to provide sufficient and engaging instructional content appropriate
 for all ages and experience levels.  Please help support the project
 if you can:


 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jsalsman/choose-your-reading-and-pronunciation-adventure

 Thank you.

 Best regards,
 James Salsman

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