Hi Tiffany, As friends of open content -- we're here to help :-)
Cheers Wayne 2009/11/15 Tiffany Ivins <[email protected]> > Hi Wayne: > Many thanks for your quick and kind reply. We will take up your offers to > link from WikiEducator to OC4D and to refer people to participate in the > Learning4Content initiative. We'll do our best to get the word out for > several folkd to join the training on 23 November 2009. > > I will be in regular contact with you regarding our progress on OC4D. We're > so grateful to tap into a growing community of open minded educators who are > committed to making a positive impact in the world. > > Cheers, Tiffany > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Wayne Mackintosh < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Tiffany, >> >> Pleased to meet you virtually --- OC4D is a great project concept! Well >> done. >> >> David Wiley is a good friend and also a member of WikiEducator's Community >> Council. You're very privileged to have the opportunity to work and study >> with David. You're going to have fun while making a substantive contribution >> to open content for development. >> >> I must also compliment your project on the choice of the Mediawiki >> software engine. Over the next year or so, the OER Foundation and WE will >> be refining Mediawiki for use in educational contexts, including for example >> WYSIWYG editing, enhancements on wiki ==> print technology (very important >> for developing world contexts), building OER content interoperability >> between WikiEducator <==> Connexions to widen opportunities for remixing >> content between platforms as well as providing hosting for "static" >> instances of course materials on Connexions. >> >> You are most welcome and free to link to the OC4D site -- better still, >> why not create a portal node in WikiEducator for the project (see: >> http://wikieducator.org/Create_and_institutional_OER_portal_page ). >> >> With regards to sharing best practice, WE would love to help and support >> you in achieving success. >> >> In the first instance, given that you're using Mediawiki -- we can help >> you with free training. We run at least one online workshop every month >> helping educators to aquire basic wiki editing skills under the >> Learning4Content initative (see: http://wikieducator.org/L4C ) -- Please >> feel free to invite members from your community to join these workshops. The >> next one is scheduled to start on 23 November 2009 -- and folk can register >> directly on the wiki. >> >> If you like -- we could easily set up dedicated area in WikiEducator where >> your OC4D domain could redirect to a dedicated landing page in WE with your >> logo etc. WE have extensive international reach in the developing world >> including Africa, South and South East Asia, Caribbean and the South >> Pacific. In this way you can save considerable time and energy on building >> networks for your initiative. Working together we can achieve far more than >> working alone. >> >> OC4D is a brilliant project -- let us know how the OER Foundation and the >> WikiEducator family can assist and support you in achieving your objectives. >> >> Cheers >> Wayne >> >> >> 2009/11/15 Tiffany Ivins <[email protected]> >> >> Hi, >>> Wayne, thanks for your reflections about the power of wikis and the >>> imperative to freely share content in a global way. >>> >>> I'm Tiffany Ivins. I'm a doctoral student at BYU working with David Wiley >>> (the guy that coined the term 'Open Content'). We are working with >>> ProLiteracy Worldwide, an NGO based in New York, with 130 NGO partners >>> across the developing world (Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and >>> many island nations). >>> >>> Through several conversations with their International Program Director, >>> Dr. Lynn Curtis, we have gotten consent to share all of their educational >>> materials in open, digitized formats into an open portal on the web ( >>> www.oc4d.org). We have decided to use a wiki format so that anyone >>> anywhere can freely access, modify, localize and share these resources. >>> These are tools developed by locals for locals in developing countries. >>> >>> The tools on OC4D are primarily geared toward nonformal educators (e.g. >>> literacy facilitators, health workers, agricultural extension agents, peace >>> workers, and microloan officers). As you will see if you look at the site, >>> the issues addressed by these tools are central to lower-developed poor >>> communities and the change agents (nonformal educators) who work with >>> lower-literate groups and/or use these tools to facilitate "literacy for >>> social change." >>> >>> Right now, we're working on getting English versions up and then we'll >>> hope to put up all content created/modified by the NGO partners across the >>> world who are part of the ProLiteracy Worldwide consortium. We would love to >>> collaborate with anyone else in this effort who is interested to share >>> quality content addressing critical issue for improved problem-solving in >>> developing countries around the world. >>> >>> We are open to input and we would like to link to and from the >>> WikiEducator Site because it will build capacity on both sides. Also, if you >>> know of any other effort which is similar in nature to this, could you let >>> us know so that we could seek collaboration with them (e.g. sharing best >>> practices and lessons learned) so we don't reinvent the wheel. >>> >>> We are planning to launch this initiative at the first of 2010 and to >>> share the materials with some non-foramal education groups in the Himalayas >>> (Community Learning Centers, Tele-Centers, Community Multimedia Centers >>> etc.). If any of you have done work with open content targeting these >>> populations, we'd love to talk with you and share ideas to improve access to >>> educational opportunities for all. >>> >>> Looking forward to hearing from you, >>> >>> Tiffany >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. 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