Hey Randy, NextWave is an excellent improvement on the first draft. Thanks. Gee -- you see how collaboration improves quality over time.
Lets start planning the NextWave and riding it! We can link this to more advanced levels on the road to becoming a Wikimaster! Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 14:37 -0700, Randy Fisher wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > Instead of 2nd Life (yes, I do recognize the play on words), my > preference is to go with 2nd Wave (of tutorials) or even better - > NextWave - it just gives a better image, picture, etc. and folks can > catch the wave...well, you get it... > > My 3 cents, > > - Randy > > > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Wayne Mackintosh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, > > David Leeming who facilitated the first official, face-to-face > Learning4Content workshop in the Solomon Islands has visited > COL on > route after an OLPC meeting in Boston. > > I was showing David a bunch of stuff in our Wiki -- and taking > the > advantage of a face-to-face discussion it became clear that we > need to > thing about how to provide the next level of support for the > early > adopters in getting the most out of WikiEducator. > > For example, we were chatting today about WikiEducator, > Learning4Content etc. While sitting in my office I was showing > David a > couple of our new COOL features in the wiki thanks to > WikiEducators > like Jim Tittsler, Brent Simpson, Rob Kruhlak. Randy (aka > WikiEducator > Community Builder) was with us highlighting community > achievements and > how WE can promote effective community development for the > future. > > While chatting with David, we were pointing out examples of > phenomenal > development in our community, including for example (in no > order of > preference): > > * The prolific content development at Otago Polytechnic; > http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic > * The successes of the FLOSS4Edu intiative; > http://wikieducator.org/FLOSS4Edu > * The OER initiative at the University of Education Winneba in > Ghana > http://wikieducator.org/UEW > * India's leadership in building a national WE community: > http://wikieducator.org/India > * The University of Mauritius involving Masters students in a > WE > project who are developing a wiki reflection on their > experiences of > an online L4C workshop: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Wikiflexion > * The work in Sri Lanka developing OERs for the farming and > agriculture community: > http://wikieducator.org/Sri_Lanka/L3_Farmers and > http://wikieducator.org/Sri_Lanka/L3_Farmers/University_of_Colombo > * The budding community media node: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Community_Media > > To list only a few initiatives -- there are many, many more! > The challenge -- How do WE continue to support these pioneers > and > innovators? > > Has our community reached the maturity where we need to thing > about > helping the early adopters move forward into a "2nd life" -- > perhaps > an L4C equivalent for our next generation of Wikieducators to > be > introduced to new tools and thoughts about getting the most > out of WE. > > What do you think? > Should we develop the next tier of tutorials? > Start a "2nd life" online workshop series using the L4C model? > > Please let us know what your think --- our community is > growing faster > than our ability to keep up ... > > > Cheers > Wayne. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ________________ > Randy Fisher - Facilitating Change and Designing Sustainable > Ecosystems to Improve Performance- for People, Teams, Communities, and > Organizations > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher > > + 1 604.684.2275 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.hirerandy.com > > Skype: wikirandy > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator, go to: http://www.wikieducator.org To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
