Ideas and thoughts WE's working in the school sector

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi everyone,

This past week I've been working on a funding proposal aimed at establishing a national New Zealand OER collaboration for the school sector, working in close collaboration with the local Ministry of Education and key stakeholders.

While this proposal has a strong New Zealand focus, there are two aspects which may be of international interest for our community: 

• The tools development stream (Stream 2) in the proposal which aims to improve usability of the WikiEducator platform for Newbies
•  The possibilities of replicating national initiatives like this in other countries.

I'd encourage WikiEducators working in the school sector or policy makers within Ministries of education to take a look and let us know what you think.

See: http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools

Any advice or thoughts you may have are always well received :-)

This proposal is still work in progress, but in line with the OER Foundation's commitment to open philanthropy -- we develop all our proposals transparently as free content.

Cheers
Wayne







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[Maria Droujkova]

Wayne,

I'd be happy to comment on the proposal's details. It is close to some projects we are now working on at Natural Math, so the area is of much interest to me. How would you like to see comments from people, though? I can make mine colored/bracketed within the document, or save the document to an etherpad, etc.

Cheers,
MariaD

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[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Maria,

It would be great if you could leave comments on the relevant talk page:

http://wikieducator.org/Talk:Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools

Thanks Maria -- look forward to reading your thoughts.

Cheers
Wayne

2009/6/22 Maria Droujkova <drou...@gmail.com>

Wayne,

I'd be happy to comment on the proposal's details. It is close to some projects we are now working on at Natural Math, so the area is of much interest to me. How would you like tosee comments from people, though? I can make mine colored/bracketed within the document, or save the document to an etherpad, etc.

Cheers,
MariaD

Make math your own, to make your own math.

http://www.naturalmath.com social math site
http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath subscribe now to discuss future math culture with parents, researchers and techies
http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Wayne Mackintosh <mackinto...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

This past week I've been working on a funding proposal aimed at establishing a national New Zealand OER collaboration for the school sector, working in close collaboration with the local Ministry of Education and key stakeholders.

While this proposal has a strong New Zealand focus, there are two aspects which may be of international interest for our community: 

• The tools development stream (Stream 2) in the proposal which aims to improve usability of the WikiEducator platform for Newbies
•  The possibilities of replicating national initiatives like this in other countries.

I'd encourage WikiEducators working in the school sector or policy makers within Ministries of education to take a look and let us know what you think.

See: http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_content_for_New_Zealand_schools

Any advice or thoughts you may have are always well received :-)

This proposal is still work in progress, but in line with the OER Foundation's commitment to open philanthropy -- we develop all our proposals transparently as free content.

Cheers
Wayne

[valerie]

Hi Wayne

Tomorrow, I will be participating in a meeting of the Community
College Open Textbook Project
(CCOTP) Steering Committee. This is a consortium of community
colleges. Many projects are publicly funded or funded by foundations.
There are some similarities and differences that might be of interest
to you in your work.

Open Textbook Project http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
Open Educational Resources Consortium http://oerconsortium.org/

Funding, tools, distribution and adoption are all important issues.
I'll send an update if anything comes up that is particularly
relevant.

..vt

[Gurmit]

Hi Wayne and everyone

I am tasked with creating an "open access" toolkit on scientific
writing to help developing country researchers write better science so
they can succeed at publishing in international journals.

I'm not sure how to go about it - should we create a basic toolkit
first, using content experts, or should we do it as Wiki, and build a
community around it? I'd also need to teach trainers how to use it for
mentoring inexperienced writers to improve their manuscripts.

I'd like to do it with WikEducator colleagues, and also ensure its
reusable and sustainable, so its a global resource.

I'd love to hear your advice, and your support in developing this
would be great!

Warm regards from a windy Geneva,
Gurmit
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gurmit

On Jun 22, 11:53 am, Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This past week I've been working on a funding proposal aimed at establishing
> a national New Zealand OER collaboration for the school sector, working in
> close collaboration with the local Ministry of Education and key
> stakeholders.
>
> While this proposal has a strong New Zealand focus, there are two aspects
> which may be of international interest for our community:
>

>    - The tools development stream (Stream 2) in the proposal which aims to

>    improve usability of the WikiEducator platform for Newbies

>    -  The possibilities of replicating national initiatives like this in

>    other countries.
>
> I'd encourage WikiEducators working in the school sector or policy makers
> within Ministries of education to take a look and let us know what you
> think.
>

> See:http://wikieducator.org/Funding_proposals/Reusable_and_portable_conte...

[Declan]

Hi Gurmit,

I think WE is an ideal platform for what you have described. In
particular, if teachers working with a scientific writing class use
our resource, there are great ways to use simple templates to offer
rapid advice for the most common writing mistakes. For example, open
a wiki page (or discussion page); type {{citations}} and hit save.
Similar templates can quickly be made for other common writing
mistakes.

Good luck,

Declan

On Jun 24, 6:30 am, Gurmit <gurmit.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Wayne and everyone
>
> I am tasked with creating an "open access" toolkit on scientific
> writing to help developing country researchers write better science so
> they can succeed at publishing in international journals.
>
> I'm not sure how to go about it - should we create a basic toolkit
> first, using content experts, or should we do it as Wiki, and build a
> community around it? I'd also need to teach trainers how to use it for
> mentoring inexperienced writers to improve their manuscripts.
>
> I'd like to do it with WikEducator colleagues, and also ensure its
> reusable and sustainable, so its a global resource.
>
> I'd love to hear your advice, and your support in developing this
> would be great!
>
> Warm regards from a windy Geneva,

> Gurmithttp://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gurmit

[john stampe]

I'm not sure how to go about it - should we create a basic toolkit
first, using content experts, or should we do it as Wiki, and build a
community around it?

I think it depends on what level your researchers are at. If your researchers have some experience, then I think a wiki is probably the best way to go. However, if they are just starting out then a basic toolkit would be a good way to get them started -- however, in this case a wiki would also be useful so they can develop a community and share experiences (good and bad). The wiki would also provide you with feedback.

 

Anyway, that would be my take on it. Count me as a supportor.

 

You may also want to look at this EveryONE blog http://everyone.plos.org/2009/06/16/ask-everyone-the-plos-one-production-process/, it is specific to one journal, but is a good description of the process.

 

Cheers,

John

 

http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS
http://johnsearth.blogspot.com

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