Hi Wayne, Great news for WE and New Zealand's public educational system. Thank you for sharing. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Good news for our community. The New Zealand Ministry of Education has > signed off on a project to establish a national OER collaboration for New > Zealand schools using WikiEducator. The project aims to: > > > 1. Build capability and support community development for NZ teachers > working on OER. > 2. Make the wiki easier to use for all teachers for authoring, > searching, and reusing OER content. > 3. Seed the development of OER exemplars mapped to the NZ curriculum. > > > The New Zealand Ministry of Education has agreed to fund the first year of > the project outlined in this proposal: > > > http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools. > > > I'd like to encourage all WikiEducator teachers to take a look at the > proposal and see how we may be able to replicate national OER collaborations > in your respective countries. > > All our planning documentation and resources will naturally be licensed > under free content licenses, which you can reuse and adpat for your local > context :-). Similarly all tools developed will be freely available for > adoption and use by all WikiEducators. > > Well done WikiEducator --- another natioinal OER initiave for our > community! > > Cheers > Wayne > > (Note there are a few minor tweaks on the budget allocations which must > still be updated in the wiki.) > > > > > -- > Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. > Director, > International Centre for Open Education, > Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. > Board of Directors, OER Foundation. > Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org > Mobile +64 21 2436 380 > Skype: WGMNZ1 > Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
