Hi Patricia, I would like to echo what Anil wrote. We all appreciate the fact that you took the initiative to get this going otherwise we might still simply be discussing this. :)
Ellen Sent from my iPad On May 3, 2012, at 7:42 AM, "Anil Prasad" <aplett...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Patricia, no worries. Community would love to explore all possibilities > and values all efforts. Moreover you are an integral part of our community by > mentoring it from the very beginning. See you tomorrow in your time zone - > here it is tomorrow already :) take care > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Patricia Schlicht > <patri...@oerfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi Anil, > > I would have created it on WE, if I had known that we had a poll application > on WE. I don't have the luxury of working with Wayne directly anymore, so am > not a the root of new developments all the time. > > I have taken the poll I had created off of FB not to confuse people We will > upload the new WE poll once ready. I tried to to do this tonight. I am so > sorry, I can't, I am exhausted and my mind doesn't think straight and doesn't > want to kick into gear, to do more. I am on overloaded at work and I am > struggling with a serious health issue. I wanted to help when Wayne wrote. > Will look at it tomorrow again. > Cheers > > Patricia > > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Anil Prasad <aplett...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Patricia, > > > > Excellent work! Thank you very much for moving forward with the preparations > for conducting the poll based on the nominations received. I am also in > favour of conducting the poll in WikiEducator using the poll widget as Dr. > Wayne and you have discussed. As per the tentative schedule announced > earlier in the other discussion thread for nominations, we will run the > current ‘Nomination Session’ till May 10, 2012’ and the rough consensus poll > from May 14 to 20, 2012. I think it will give sufficient time for the idea > to reach maximum number of community members and time for you to try poll > widget. > > > > After the poll and selection of a name, we may create a WE work group to > formulate the business procedure for this new community initiative. It will > be nice to have all the contributors to this discussion thread and the main > thread on nominations on board the WE work group as well. > > > > Go ahead and create the WE page for poll! – These are thrilling moments for > our WE community! I will also be joining you and Dr.Wayne there. > > > > -- > > Warm regards > > Anil > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad > http://www.apletters.blogspot.com > > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > No worries Patricia, > > The poll widget is relatively new and we have trialed this with a few polls - > it should work rather well for this purpose. > > Let me know where you set up the page in the wiki to keep track of this > project and I will help set up the widget. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Patricia Schlicht <pschli...@col.org> wrote: > I agree with you, Wayne, just didn’t know we had such application. > > Cheers, > > Patricia > > > > From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieducator@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 3:27 PM > To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com > Cc: wikieducator-teacher-collaboration-fo...@googlegroups.com; > aplett...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Cast your vote in a poll: shall we establish a > WikiEducator Community College? > > > > Hi Patricia, > > > > Great to see international community collaboration in moving this idea > forward. > > > > I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be better to host the poll on WikiEducator. > For two reasons: > > > > We remain true to our community values associated with the free cultural > works definition and commitment to using free software. (The trouble with a > Facebook poll is that the data will default to all rights reserved and will > not be openly licensed and Facebook is non-free software.) > Hosting the poll on WikiEducator will ensure that we can keep an accurate > history of this important process. > We have a poll widget on WikiEducator (see for example the current poll on > design decisions for the OERu). > > > > Thanks for your initiative in setting up a poll -- but at the same time, lets > consider walking the talk in terms of our open values for community > initiatives ;-) > > > > Cheers > > Wayne > > > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Patricia Schlicht <pschli...@col.org> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I loved the exchanges and the community participation in trying to find a > suitable name for the new WE activities of establishing a “‘WikiEducator > Community College”. > > > > I thought perhaps we could make a bit easier to vote on the many suggestions > made, and so I have created a poll, using a FB application. > > > > I hope I have captured all suggested ideas for the naming convention. Please > cast your vote by clicking on the link below. You will be asked to log into > your Facebook account after your clicked on the link, which will take you to > the Poll Application. Click on “Go to App” and you can cast your vote. > > To give people a chance to do so, they will need a bit of time, so how about > we say cast your vote by the end of Sunday, May 6, 2012? > > > > Is this acceptable to you all? > > > > Anil, I hope this is helpful > > > > http://apps.facebook.com/opinionpolls/ > > > > Warm wishes > > Patricia > > > > Patricia Schlicht > > Programme Assistant > > COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING > > LEARNING FOR DEVELOPMENT. > > COL is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of > Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and > distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. > > Suite 1200 - 1055 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC V6E 2E9 Canada > PH: +1.604.775.8227 | FAX: +1.604.775.8210 | WEB: www.col.org | E-MAIL: > pschli...@col.org > > Announcement: Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education will co-host COL’s > Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7) in Abuja, in November > 2013. 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