PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF HERE

[Patricia Schlicht]

Dear Friends,

I thought I create this thread for Newcomers to the Teacher
Collaboration Portal and Forum, to give them an opportunity to
introduce themselves to our community. This way it is not so anonomous
and we learn about our colleagues. It will also help to find linkages
for teams to form that can help you and them along in planning and
developing new open educational resources.

So, dear friend, tell us who you are, where you are from, and what you
hope to get out of joining an open education forum. How can we link
you with our wonderful teacher community.

Please be mindful though, as over 900 people are reading all messages
and the flood can be overwhelming. In that case it would be greatly
appreciated, if you created a project page on WikiEducator directly,
you can link to. We will be more than happy to help you.

If you have never been involved with WikiEducator, I highly
recommend, you sign up for one of our free Learning4Content courses.
You can sign up here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration

Warm regards,
Patricia

[Agherdien, Najma]

Hello everyone,

My name is Najma Agherdien and I am an Instructional designer at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. I have been lurking for about 10 months now but thought it was about time that I started participating actively. I am currently writing a collaborative article with a lecturer in the Social work department and we are exploring the use of reflective e-journaling in student learning. The idea is to improve on future use. Any thoughts, ideas. resources, etc would be much appreciated.

Thank you everyone for your willingness to share and collaborate.

Regards,

Najma Agherdien
Tel: +211 559 3525
Cell: 082 338 8899

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[Dr R C Sharma]

Dear Friends

Greetings.

 

I am Ramesh C Sharma (PhD in Educational Technology). I have been a teacher trainer and have taught Educational Technology, Educational Research and Statistics, Educational Measurement and Evaluation, Special Education, Psychodynamics of Mental Health Courses.

 

Currently I am working as Director of Distance Education at the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education, University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana in South America under the auspices of Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation, Commonwealth Secretariat, London.

 

Thank you and with best wishes

Ramesh Sharma

 

 

Dr R. C. Sharma

Director

Institute of Distance and Continuing Education,

Flat 5, Queen's College Compound,

Camp Road, Gerogetown, Guyana (South America)

 

Office phone/fax: 592-227-0407

 

Web: http://www.uog.edu.gy/schools/idce

[Hollis Sankar]

Dear Ramesh,
 Happy to hear Guyana is moving on  in DE. I am a Curriculum Coordinator in Science with the Min of Edu in T&T. I am interested in knowing if any Phd via distance is offered by your organisation and what other courses.
Thank you

--
hollis c sankar

[Dr R C Sharma]

Hello Hollis

Greetings.

 

Nice to know about you. We are 'neighbours'...

I did my MSc with Organic Chemistry, specialisation in Reaction Mechanism and NMR Spectroscopy. Good to remember those days in the chem Lab. Later on I did my Doctorate in Educational technology.

 

well, IDCE does not offer Phd via Distance as of now. But IGNOU (where I was working till this June and am on leave for 2 years) has MPhil and PhD in Distance Education.

 

if you wish you may see this link  http://www.ignou.ac.in/mphil/160809/mphiladvertise.htm

 

 

with best wishes

ramesh

[Amihai Bannett]

Shalom from Israel,

My name is Amihai Bannett and I run educational connections between young Jews worldwide.

Our program, which is called "Israel Connect", facilitates a two-way, long-term and interpersonal connection between Jewish youth from around the world and their peers in Israel 

Some personal info about me:

I am an educator with experience as a teacher and administrator in both Israel and Canada. I served as a teacher in the Israeli cities of Bet Shemesh and Ma’alot, a northern town bordering with Lebanon. I also served as a Principal of a Jewish day school in Winnipeg, Canada.

I hold a teaching certificate and Bachelor of Education from Herzog College in Alon Shevut and a Master of Education in Administration and Supervision from Loyola University in Chicago.

Amihai Bannett

Educational Director

Israel Connect - Melitz

Jerusalem, Israel

 

[Hollis Sankar]

Dear Dr Ramesh,
Nice to hear from you.
I am an IGNOU  graduate  in 1996-8 period. in PGDDE and MADE. I would really like to do the MPhil and Phd from IGNOU but from Trinidad.or maybe  GUYANA if you want to coordinate a cohort. Can I get to do the MPHIL?  I have kept in touch with IGNOU all these years..Prof Koul and Sharma.

Kindly send some advice. soon .Thank you.
Hollis Sankar       wikieducator.org/User:Hcsankar

--
hollis c sankar

[Vivek]

Hi everyone,
I am Vivek Sharma, from Chandigarh, INDIA. Have been a teacher, and entrepreneurship coach since over 20 years.
My talk is at http://www.wikieducator.org/User_talk:Prof._Vivek_Sharma

and http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Prof._Vivek_Sharma
Now a days I am engaged in teaching and creating content for e learning in Economics and entrepreneurship in a project by an NGO with which i am associated.
Vivwk

[Dr R C Sharma]

Dear Hollis,

greetings,

 

The MPhil in DE requires presence at IGNOU for two spell of  5days each. So, it can't be done from outside, without the student coming to IGNOU.

hope this clarifies. You may also like to see more details at http://www.ignou.ac.in/mphil/160809/mphiladvertise.htm

 

with regards

ramesh sharma

[Amihai Bannett]

Sorry, forgot my WE page. It is - http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Atbannett

You can also follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/israelconnect


Amihai

[Patricia Schlicht]

Dear Amihai,

 

Welcome to the Teacher Collaboration Portal. You are joining a well versed large group of global educators of meanwhile over 922 members who collaborate to develop open educational content. Please add  yourself to the list of people on the main portal site. If you haven’t edited on WikiEducator before, please feel free to sign up for our free Learning4Content training course online here: http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration. The next one will start on September 21, and will run through to October 2, 2009. The course will be facilitated by myself and Nellie Deutsch.

 

Warm wishes,

Patricia

 

http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Pschlicht

[pandu swamy]

Dr.Shrma
I am very happy to know that you have done PGDDE and MADE from IGNOU.I feel it is a great pleasure to express that I am also student of distance edn of IGNOU and did PGDDE and MADE in first batch.
Thank you
Dr.K.PanduRangaSwamy

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Dr R C Sharma <rcsh...@ignou.ac.in> wrote:

> From: Dr R C Sharma <rcsh...@ignou.ac.in>
> Subject: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF HERE

[pandu swamy]

It gives me immence pleasure to introduce myself,Iam Dr.K.PanduRangaswamy working in Instute of Advanced Study in Education,Kurnool,Andhra pradesh,India.Iam ateacher educator.
Thank u
Dr.K.Pandu

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Amihai Bannett <buildingj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Amihai Bannett <buildingj...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [WE Teacher Collaboration] Re: PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF HERE
> To: wikieducator-teacher...@googlegroups.com

[Dr R C Sharma]

Dear Dr.K.PanduRangaSwamy
Greetings

 

Thanks, Yes, the courses of IGNOU are excellent and enable you to implement your theory into practice.

 

Hope all is well at your end,

sincerely

rcsharma

[Loyce Kyogabirwe]

I am called Loyce Kyogabirwe,Ugandan, working with Isis Women's
International Cross Cultural Exchange Isis-WICCE[1].An International
women's human rights organisation that exist to promote cross-cultural
exchange of skills and information to contribute towards women's
transformation through documenting violations of women's rights. I am
interested in web2.0 and I have participated in web 2.0 trainings. I
joined this group to learn and shre with other liked minded people. I
have been silence because I was off for 4months maternity leave. I am
a mother of a handsome baby boy who has just made 6months today. 8th
of September 2009. I really has missed alot on previous discusions but
I hope to catch up along the way.

Retrieved from "http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Loyce"

[Omutujju Ronald]

Please loyce welcome back from maternity leave. I hope this does not mean abandoning the baby. The wiki is growing with some new meember like us. Visit some of our pages and we shall collaborate on different frontiers. We have a prolife movement club at school and you could give us afew ideas. romu...@yahoo.com --- On Tue, 9/8/09, Loyce Kyogabirwe <> wrote:

[Kiki]

HI Wonderful 'Wikians',
My native name is KABUKI. I have always loved using web tools and the
likes. I completed a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology not too long ago
and actually haven't gotten myself involved in anything much apart
from my involvement in FREE Wiz-Iq classes (a product of wiki
educator) which are very instructive and interactive. You should try
being there if you haven't!
I have gained a lot of knowledge since I joined WIKI though I haven't
been actively involved. I hope to learn, give back what I have to and
can give, interact with GREAT MINDS, network with wonderful people
through whom I can gain a working livelihood and financial
independence and also gain great business deals and ideas as I am not
employed at the moment . I am very passionate about especially free
knowledge/education for ALL. Above all it is my fervent wish to be
part of the WIKI Dream when the final story is being told!

Best Wishes and happy collaboration,
Kabuki Ocansey
yesn...@yahoo.com

[Patricia Schlicht]

Dear Kabuki,
Welcome to our wonderful community of almost 1000 Educators around the world. Feel free to make use of this open platform after completing the 30th free Learning4Content course on WikiEducator, you are part of and starting on Monday, Sep 21 - Oct 2,2009 (http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration). 100 people have already registered feeling just like you do, I am sure you will be inspired to start developing educational content that fits your surrounding and needs, to give back to the world.

A small correction out of fairness to Wiziq. Wiziq is not a product of WikiEducator, rather we use Wiziq to hold our one time Live meetings as part of our monthly Learning4Content courses we have been holding, to give participants the chance to ask their questions live, get inspired, receive some feedback and listening to a few presenters giving you a better understanding of what this all is used for and how.

All information can be found under the link above.

Warm wishes,
Patricia

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