Wayne, Experience is what I am generally after so I can make improvements. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction
You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nellie, > > The experience you've gained with the innovative projects at Ort Gutman High > School are going to serve WE well as we start planning ways to improve > participation from the school sector. > > Currently -- only 25% of our users are from the school sector (compared with > 50% from the tertiary sector) and I would love to see strategic growth from > K12. I'll be sure to include a section for the school sector in our draft > planning documents. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > 2009/5/11 NELLIE DEUTSCH <nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com> >> >> Greetings, >> I would like to thank the members of Wikieducator for the support they >> have shown in my first year at blending Wikieducator in my grade 11 >> and 12 EFL classes at Ort Gutman: >> http://www.wikieducator.org/Ort_Gutman_High_School. I gave a f2f L4C >> workshop to over 95 students so they can improve their writing and >> work on a the Holocaust project and their final bagrut projects for >> the national oral proficiency exam via WE. All the participants worked >> on the written project on wikieductator. >> Here are some of the pages: >> 1. http://www.wikieducator.org/International_Book_Sharing_Project >> 2. http://www.wikieducator.org/Holocaust >> 3. >> http://www.wikieducator.org/Ort_Gutman_High_School/Participants/Grades11_12_2008-2009 >> >> Looking forward to recruiting with more schools and students next year. >> >> Warm wishes, >> Nellie Deutsch >> Doctoral Student >> Educational Leadership >> Curriculum and Instruction >> >> You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on >> how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with >> educators around the world: >> http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register >> >> >> >> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Wayne Mackintosh >> <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi Declan, >> > >> > Congratulations on another successful year of teaching using >> > WikiEducator. >> > Your class and approach is a model example for integrating wiki's into >> > teacher education. >> > >> > The posting of these reflections is very timely - Over the next >> > fortnight >> > I'll going to be working on the operational and strategic plans for >> > WikiEducator and the OER Foundation. (WE subscribe to "Open >> > Philanthropy" -- >> > so all our planing drafts will be posted openly on the wiki :-) ) >> > >> > Reading the student reflections -- it's interesting/(suprising ?) to >> > note >> > that WikiEducator is the first wiki editing experience for so many young >> > people. Clearly, the need to lower the barriers of entry in "getting up >> > to >> > speed" with wiki editing is a challenge we need to address. >> > >> > We will need to find effective solutions for implementing rich text >> > editing >> > in WikiEducator. I'll be sure to include this in our operational >> > planning. >> > >> > Take care. >> > Wayne >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > 2009/5/9 Declan <declanjmcc...@gmail.com> >> >> >> >> I'll shortly hang up my WE tool belt for the year; I'll be back in >> >> January when my course is offered again. Before taking my leave, I >> >> have set up a category page listing some projects that have encouraged >> >> new users to reflect on their WE experience: >> >> http://wikieducator.org/Category:Reflection >> >> I think a written reflection offers information that we may not get by >> >> way of new user surveys. >> >> >> >> I thought it might be useful for other team leaders to request >> >> reflections from their students and workshop participants! This >> >> information may be useful for other group leaders, and those seeking >> >> funding for WE. >> >> >> >> Thanks to all for the ongoing help and patience. I'll see you all in >> >> January! Happy WEediting >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> Declan >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. >> > Director, >> > International Centre for Open Education, >> > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. >> > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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