[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Leigh Blackall
This thread is about your text book proposal right? So, do you want me to explain this in practical terms relating to text books? Or do you want me to post a manifesto? On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Leigh > > In practical terms -- can you describe the tea

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Wayne
Hi Leigh In practical terms -- can you describe the teaching-learning system you envisage in terms of the functions of teaching and elements of the system. I'm not sure that I understand what you are talking about. Cheers Wayne On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:21 +1100, Leigh Blackall wrote: > I'm no

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Leigh Blackall
I'm not convinced we are pioneers at all. Illich is significant to me not for hi Deschooling Society, but for his vision of learning webs. As he describes it (in chapter 6 I think), Bolivia was rolling out OER in the form of television. The cost of television back then meant that Bolivia could affo

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Wayne
Hi Leigh On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 08:57 +1300, Leigh Blackall wrote: > Illich's Learning Webs idea for Bolivia, cited in his book Deschooling > Society - predating ODL, ignoring "instructional design", and > predicting post industrial society enabled by networked > communications. Illich was interes

[WikiEducator] Re: Edublog awards 2008

2008-12-05 Thread Peter
I've just voted for WE in its respective edublog category... I believe all WikiEducators should vote... On a note regarding the K12 area... yes, IMHO we need to attract more K12 contributors and I'm always looking for ways to encourage this. On a related note, when I requested we have another ses

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Maria Droujkova
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Leigh Blackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Wayne says: > > If the knowledge society is structurally different from industrialised >> society -- the open question we could ask is whether we will see a "new" >> pedagogy emerging which is structurally different from bo

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Maria Droujkova
I emailed the letter Wayne included here off-list, because I was not sure it would be of general interest, or if he had time to respond at all. An answer of that detail is definitely of general interest, that's probably why Wayne replied to the whole list. Thanks for the references, Wayne! Much app

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Leigh Blackall
Wayne says: If the knowledge society is structurally different from industrialised > society -- the open question we could ask is whether we will see a "new" > pedagogy emerging which is structurally different from both agrarian and > industrial approaches? > Obviously we are seeing that. Benkler

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Leigh Blackall
Is anyone else having the experience in this thread where responses are being made to posts not made in the thread? For example, Wayne is responding to Maria here, but as far as I can tell, Maria has only made one post to this thread, and the quote Wayne includes in his reply is not in that post..

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-05 Thread Leigh Blackall
Thanks David, thanks Bill. The good thing about being controversial is that it brings people up to share links and information in a pretty energetic way. A terribly selfish point of view I know, and it wasn't my plan from the start but it has worked out that way. Luckily its all on open forums and

[WikiEducator] Re: Building a sustainable WE OER Textbook initiative

2008-12-05 Thread Wayne
Hi Maria, On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 07:29 -0500, Maria Droujkova wrote: > Wayne, > > What are more names to look up on the subject, especially metalearning > and teaching/learning in communities of practice including "community > objects" in relationships? This is extremely useful, and I need to > e

[WikiEducator] Re: Edublog awards 2008

2008-12-05 Thread NELLIE DEUTSCH
Hi, Yes, I was thinking of the same thing. Perhaps WE could initiate a special learning environmentwiki for k-12 in English and in other languages in the near future. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C15 ht

[WikiEducator] Re: Edublog awards 2008

2008-12-05 Thread Kathy Pusztavari
Wow, that one looks great - if only it were offered in English ;) -Kathy _ From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 9:57 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: Edublog awards 2008 Hi Kath

[WikiEducator] Re: Edublog awards 2008

2008-12-05 Thread Wayne
Hi Kathy, Not sure if this is what you are referring to, but Kennisnet -- a Dutch support organisation for ICTs in education run a wiki for children, see: http://wikikids.wiki.kennisnet.nl/Hoofdpagina Als, Peter Rawsthorne and Nellie Deutsch from the WikiEducator community have been working in t

[WikiEducator] Re: Edublog awards 2008

2008-12-05 Thread Kathy Pusztavari
All long time ago someone was making a wiki for kids. This is not be be confused with a wiki by kids (kidpedia). Does anyone remember the URL? It is not simple wikipedia it was something specifically for kids. -Kathy _ From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[WikiEducator] Re: Edublog awards 2008

2008-12-05 Thread Patricia Schlicht
Wow, this is wonderful news! Thank you, indeed. Cheers, Patricia From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:21 PM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Edublog awards

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-05 Thread billKerr
On Dec 3, 11:28 am, "Leigh Blackall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I see that point but think it totally unreasonable. For one, I have no > access to an OLPC because I'm within a wealthy nation. It is possible to test out the Sugar software from a wealthy nation, Leigh I have done it in Aust

[WikiEducator] Re: Edublog awards 2008

2008-12-05 Thread Pankaj Khare
Done. :) On 12/5/08, Barbara Dieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also done :-) > Warm regards from Brazil, > Bee > > -- > Barbara Dieu > http://barbaradieu.com > http://beespace.net > > > > -- Dr. Pankaj Khare MTech, PhD Director International Division Indira Gandhi National Open University Mai

[WikiEducator] Re: One Laptop Per Child OLPC

2008-12-05 Thread David Leeming
Hi Leigh, Thanks for those references – I will check them out we can discuss this with my colleagues and learn from them, on a different list as it may be getting a bit off subject. I’ll get back to you. However, just to complete this thread, let me reply once more:- To reply to your

[WikiEducator] Re: Edublog awards 2008

2008-12-05 Thread Barbara Dieu
Also done :-) Warm regards from Brazil, Bee -- Barbara Dieu http://barbaradieu.com http://beespace.net --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieduca