Re: Wiki Educator

[Sean Linton]

Hi All, 

I have been looking further at champion sound's program line up and I believe that between Champion sound and the Solomon Islands Indigenous Music foundation there is something to be said for having a set of online learning resources, which are left residually as follow up for people after they have participated in workshops. 

 

Open Source Solutions such as : Ubuntu, Mozilla, Google, Sun/Oracle, Open Office, Red Hat, Fedora OLPC wiki etc., can provide some of the tools needed to make things happen and there is pleanty of scope for Open Educational Resources OER(s), and WikiEducator, for creating online resources. How about an Open Educational Resource hosted on Wiki_Educator for acoustics, some of the principles are useful for basic recording applications 

 

We could include useful programs like Ardour and Audacity for recording audio to that list, there are lots more.   

Sean 

SL

On 30 October 2010 19:56, John <jo...@championsound.com.au> wrote:

Hi Sean,
Things are good here, I hope you are well.
We've been flat out developing some new certificate-based programs for long term unemployed, focused of course around the creative industries.
I like your idea very much, so far as I understand it!  We would certainly love to be able to offer program / workshop participants additional resources and an online forum is a great idea.  I actually have a forum (i.e. all the framework, pages etc) set up ready to use at forums.championsound.com.au, but have never had the time to develop it into anything to use.  I also don't have the time now either, but I would certainly be able to offer webspace and links on our site etc.
What sort of resource are you thinking? In what format? Yeah, I think out it to the group and see what ideas come up!
Cheers,
John

Champion Sound

Community Through Music

Ph: Chris Jay, 0407 673 549; John Lumley, 0438 779 032

Email: in...@championsound.com.au

www.championsound.com.au

Sean Linton wrote:

Hi John, 

Hope you have been well since our brief but fascinating meeting a few weeks back. I am starting to work more closely with some people on the idea of creating open educational resources, in the context of closing 'digital divides' between different sectors and regions. I guess you have a similar situation in NE QLD where some communities are very much online and computer savvy and others are not for various reasons. 

I appreciate that the champion sound approach is maybe a bit more hands on, and face to face, but I would be interested if you are motivated to pursue the idea of leaving people with an online educational resource post workshop. Like the OLPC drive we could think about how computers are good learning tools for life skills as well as for computer literacy. 

I am looking at your workshops page on the CS website, and thinking about a "post work shop tools" button or something.

Perhaps we could develop this idea and start running some thoughts past the SIIMF. 

Cheers

Sean