I like your suggestions, Gladys, especially about placing the information on the main page. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C19 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller skype:nelliedeutschmuller
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Gladys Gahona <gladysgah...@gmail.com>wrote: > > In my short experience as WE, I have learned a very important lesson: > COLLABORATION > > Projects should be real collaborative, presented in a well defined > main page which explains each aspect of the project. > > Aspects that must be covered in main page are: > > * A navigation bar with a logo > * Aims > * Tech info. (if necessary) > * An invitation to join the project > * List of contributors > * Feedback (preferable encouraging use of Talk Page) > * Miscellaneous > > Creator of the project is responsable of: > > * Publishing its project in Content and Initiatives pages > * Visiting newcomers as Wikineighbour and inviting to join its > project. > * Once the project is embraced by two or more people... it becomes The > Team's Project, no more creator's project. > * All normal human beings need some level of recognition for our > serious efforts on doing something. We must recognize other's job well > done in many ways, the limit is our creativity. > * Managing the project. Abandoned projects by creator generates > disappointment in co-workers. > > Warme wishes > Gladys Gahona > User:Chela5808 > > > > On 4 feb, 16:27, Scott Newson <scott.g.new...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for you feedback Alison, it's really helpful to hear about your > > first steps. > > > > I agree that seeing that others are involved in a given project is one of > > the things that makes my contributions feel worthwhile. I'd guess that > > seeing contributions by others conveys the feeling that the project (and > by > > extension my contributions) are beneficial to others. > > > > Scott > > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Alison Snieckus > > <alison.sniec...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I registered last week, so I'm not really all that up to speed on > things. > > > But thought I'd put in my 2 cents anyway. The first thing I did after > > > registering and realizing that I was serious and motivated about > > > contributing was to look around at other user pages. Then, I started my > user > > > page. And after that I went to the WE tutorials and made myself follow > them > > > to the end. The tutorials suggested I imagine a project that I'd like > to > > > make happen and I did -- a collection of tutorials on statistics and > > > probability, enough to make a whole traditional course. Kinda pie in > the > > > sky, but hey. > > > > > Once I'd written about this project, I just wasn't sure what to do > next. I > > > did a lot of looking around. I've decided to work on the math glossary. > > > First because it is a good first step to what I want to do, but also > it's an > > > active project and this seemed to be a key factor in my getting > involved in > > > something. > > > > > In the process of looking around, I read the to do list on the > community > > > page...a number of times, but I didn't feel competent enough for any of > > > these. I'm a newbie. I looked at some of the portals and the > initiatives and > > > ideas4content pages and many of the projects that I felt I could help > in > > > didn't seem active. > > > > > So based on my newbie experience, I wonder if there needs to be better > (or > > > more strategically placed) information on how to get involved. The > > > naturally-occurring positive and negative incentives in the direct > > > environment have the most impact on behavior (in this case > participation). > > > > > I do have to say that I'm not sure I would have gotten this far if I > hadn't > > > gotten such a warm welcome from the wikineighbors. Thanks for making me > feel > > > welcome right from the get-go! > > > Alison Snieckus > > > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:07 AM, NELLIE DEUTSCH < > > > nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >> Thank you. I would like further suggestions on how to sustain active > > >> members. > > >> Warm wishes, > > >> Nellie Deutsch > > >> Doctoral Student > > >> Educational Leadership > > >> Curriculum and Instruction > > >>http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C19 > > >>http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller > > >> skype:nelliedeutschmuller > > > > >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Sarita Kumar < > sarita.sanja...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > >>> Hi all! > > > > >>> The article is quite impressive and good. But, may be we require more > > >>> workshops and some on-line competitions regarding the contents, > projects, > > >>> maximum participation, etc. for active memberships. > > > > >>> Sarita Kumar > > > > >>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:46 AM, nelliemuller < > > >>> nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >>>> Dear Friends, > > >>>> I would be interested in any suggestions you may have on how to > > >>>> encourage active membership on Wikieducator. I found this article > that > > >>>> may get us started: > > >>>>http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/Group05IncentivesReport.pdf<http://www.visi.com/%7Esnowfall/Group05IncentivesReport.pdf> > <http://www.visi.com/%7Esnowfall/Group05IncentivesReport.pdf> > > > > >>>> What do you think? > > > > >>>> Warm wishes, > > >>>> Nellie > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
