Web research community service

[valerie]

I'm looking for a couple of projects for my students to work on. They
need to do 12 hours of community service learning in the second and
third week of July.

If you need some help with web research, we might be able to help.
Given some guidance, students can research a topic for web sites that
meet your criteria. This can be especially helpful if you are building
a library of resources about a topic. The students can do a good job
of finding sites for your review.

Other projects that students sometimes help with
* review and feedback on sites or course material
* finding pictures on the web about a topic

Some students read and write languages other than English, and can do
some translation.

An overview of the community service requirements and examples of
other partner projects
http://wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Community_service_learning_guidelines

Students really appreciate working on "real" projects for other
organizations. If you have any projects that you think students can
help with, please contact me.

..Valerie

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Valerie,

Your community service project is a fantastic initiative, not too mention that WE is a real live community project :-)

Thinking about community service projects within WE:

• WikiEducator has a major challenge regarding proper license attribution of images uploaded on our site --- we need help in identifying and tagging suspect images --- we would need to think about process and support templates to tackle an initiative like this. This may tie up with identifying images which need replacement and or students helping to find appropriate replacements licensed under a free content license.
  
• We need helpers, with relevant wiki skills who are qualified (or who could potentially qualify) at the level of WikiBuddy to assist with the certificaiton of past L4C participants under the Wikimaster typology (http://wikieducator.org/WikiMaster ). There are unfortunately a large number of L4C participants who have not formerly applied for certification, or where the facilitor had ommitted to apply the certification. This is a very important task under WE's monitoring and evaluation plan to accurately access the skills profile of WE users in accordance with the different categories under the WikiMaster typology.
• Translation work on tutorials etc is always well received. 

I'm sure there are many other projects in WE where we would benefit from community service hours :-).

Cheers
Wayne


2009/6/7 valerie <vta...@gmail.com>

--
Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D.
Director,
International Centre for Open Education,
Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org

[valerie]

Thanks Wayne

I have added these to the projects options
http://wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Community_service_learning_guidelines#WikiEducator_projects

We will likely need some clarification and future instructions for
students to complete these activities, but this is a great start.

..Valerie


On Jun 6, 11:00 pm, Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Valerie,
>
> Your community service project is a fantastic initiative, not too mention
> that WE is a real live community project :-)
>
> Thinking about community service projects within WE:
>

>    - WikiEducator has a major challenge regarding proper license attribution

>    of images uploaded on our site --- we need help in identifying and tagging
>    suspect images --- we would need to think about process and support
>    templates to tackle an initiative like this. This may tie up with
>    identifying images which need replacement and or students helping to find
>    appropriate replacements licensed under a free content license.

>    - We need helpers, with relevant wiki skills who are qualified (or who

>    could potentially qualify) at the level of WikiBuddy to assist with the
>    certificaiton of past L4C participants under the Wikimaster typology (

>    http://wikieducator.org/WikiMaster). There are unfortunately a large

>    number of L4C participants who have not formerly applied for certification,
>    or where the facilitor had ommitted to apply the certification. This is a
>    very important task under WE's monitoring and evaluation plan to accurately
>    access the skills profile of WE users in accordance with the different
>    categories under the WikiMaster typology.

>    - Translation work on tutorials etc is always well received.

[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

Hello Valerie,
I would be interested in collaborating with your students in updating Collaborative Projects and Teamwork:
http://wikieducator.org/Collaborative-projects
They can research for websites, articles, videos, images, and audio if available.
Thank you.
Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
Doctoral Student
Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal
You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register

[valerie]

Thanks Nellie

I have added your request to the list of options for students.

Clarification - you want students to research and report Books,
Articles, Videos, Websites, Podcasts that provide information about
working collaboratively and demonstrate successful projects.

How about tools or applications that can be used for collaborative
writing? links to wikis, Google doc,...

..Valerie


On Jun 7, 9:31 am, NELLIE DEUTSCH <nellie.muller.deut...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[valerie]

I'd also like to have an infobox template to put on pages where
"volunteers" can help.

Entries for
* contact, time frame, reading level
* type of help - find resources and edit page directly, review and
comment in Talk, ...
* additional information about helping
* Category - so it comes up in a list

What other entries should be in a "Help Wanted" infobox?

..Valerie

[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

Valerie,
Have you seen the page: http://wikieducator.org/Collaborative-projects ?

Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
Doctoral Student
Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal
You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register

[Alison Snieckus]

Valerie,
I really like this idea of a help-wanted template to add to a page. I see us all using it -- both to request help and to offer help. To the template, I'd suggest adding "title of resource" and  "needed expertise."   

I have a project that may be ready for review in late July -- an intro tutorial for OpenOffice.org Calc. Would be great to have someone not very versed in Ubuntu or spreadsheets to try it out. I'll see how it goes in the next few weeks. If it looks like it'll be ready...enough, I'll add it to your list.

Thanks for asking,
Alison
http://www.wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckus

[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

Great idea, Valerie. What do you suggest we include in it just to get us started?

Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
Doctoral Student
Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal
You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register

[valerie]

Thanks Alison

I have been morphing some other templates into a general HelpWanted
and a project Infobox

examples of both
http://wikieducator.org/Community_projects
http://wikieducator.org/Community_projects#Bilingual_math_activities

They need work, but they are a start. I'm considering combining the
two but I'm open to suggestions.

Your OpenOffice project is a good example. For your OpenOffice
project, what would you like to display? What would you enter for
Title of Resource:
Needed expertise:

How about "date needed by" or something similar?

I'm thinking ahead a bit here. It would be nice to be able to find
these projects anywhere in WE and locate ones that need help now that
match my interest and expertise.

I'm assuming that there a lots of folks out there who want contribute,
but don't know where or how. It works for Wikipedia, so it should work
for WikiEducator too.

..Valerie

[Alison Snieckus]

Valerie,
Some good ideas.

I do see how the "help wanted" aspect of a project could be part of the main info box (I've been using the contentinfobox for projects). Here's my simplistic view of the process: a person connected with a particular project specifies what help is needed in fields in a box on the project page. The request automatically show up on help wanted list(s). WE members interested in helping leave a note on the contact's talk page (or maybe on the project talk page, not sure). Volunteer is brought up to speed on the work needed and works to get it done. Later in the development work, different help is needed, so the infobox is revised to specify new help wanted request. Request goes out and new helpers arrive and do work. 

For "Title of Resource" I mean the name of the project, in my case: Working with Spreadsheets using OpenOffice.org Calc. Your draft infobox has a "name" field, this takes care of it.

"Needed expertise" might include: basic wiki editing skills; never used a spreadsheet application/willing to tryout tutorial and offer feedback; English to Spanish translation...

Agree that box should include "date needed by."

I see that you've included a field called "activity" where the project leader would put in a brief summary of what work is needed. That works for me.

I think an effort such as this could really help the community.
Alison

[valerie]

Alison raised a good point. Maybe we should be using the
ContentInfobox with just a sub-box for help wanted - like the buddy
box insert for personal info boxes. How would this fit with the intent
of the ContentInfobox template?

Looks like Wayne and Brent are the main updaters of the ContentInfobox
template.

Is there a "process" for change requests? Do we need a general WE
change request process and/or category?


On Jun 9, 1:12 pm, Alison Snieckus <alison.sniec...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Robert Kruhlak]

I have only skimmed the thread so this might be off target.

What about creating a template called

ContentHelpbox

You could start by copying and pasting the content from Template:ContentInfobox

and changing it as required.

Cheers

Rob

--
Robert Kruhlak
Burnaby, BC
CANADA
(M) +1 778 230 1875
(E) kru...@gmail.com

[Gita Mathur]

Dear Friends
I have not been getting email notifications for the past few days about
changes in my watch pages.
Been a little tough as my EL4C27 workshop is in progress. I have been
hanging on the 'Recent Changes' to help my workshop participants.
I checked my preferences, no problem there.
Am I the only one facing this?
Warm wishes
Gita
-
Dr. Gita Mathur <gita....@gmail.com>
Associate Professor of Botany
Gargi College (University of Delhi)
Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049
skype:gitamathur

Web:
http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur
http://wikieducator.org/India
http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur
http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26
http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27

[NELLIE DEUTSCH]

Gita,
You are not alone in all three accounts: (a) in facilitating the workshop since I co-facilitate eL4C27, (b) in not receiving email notifications, and (c) in being concerned. I presume the reason for the lack of notifications has to do with the move to the new servers.

Warm wishes,
Nellie Deutsch
Doctoral Student
Educational Leadership
Curriculum and Instruction
Share your teaching experiences: http://www.wikieducator.org/Etnirag_Online_Journal
You are invited to join educators for a free 5-day online workshop on how to integrate technology into the classroom and collaborate with educators around the world: http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C25/Register

[Gita Mathur]

Hi Nellie
Thanks for letting us know that this is happening due to a technical
reason.
Warm wishes
Gita Mathur

[john stampe]

Valerie,

As I have mentioned in another thread, I have been interested in
working on a project on environmental education. However, I have not
had the time to work on it.

I would be interested in having your students work on it. I have
started a page here: http://www.wikieducator.org/EnvironEd

John

On Jun 7, 12:32 pm, valerie <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a couple of projects for my students to work on. They
> need to do 12 hours of community service learning in the second and
> third week of July.
>
> If you need some help with web research, we might be able to help.
> Given some guidance, students can research a topic for web sites that
> meet your criteria. This can be especially helpful if you are building
> a library of resources about a topic. The students can do a good job
> of finding sites for your review.
>
> Other projects that students sometimes help with
> * review and feedback on sites or course material
> * finding pictures on the web about a topic
>
> Some students read and write languages other than English, and can do
> some translation.
>
> An overview of the community service requirements and examples of

> other partner projectshttp://wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Community_service_learnin...

[Jim Tittsler]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 16:21, Gita Mathur<gita....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have not been getting email notifications for the past few days about
> changes in my watch pages.

I just tried a quick test, and it is working for me. :-)

I'll reset your notifications list.

[Jim Tittsler]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 13:47, Jim Tittsler<jtit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 16:21, Gita Mathur<gita....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have not been getting email notifications for the past few days about
>> changes in my watch pages.
>
> I just tried a quick test, and it is working for me.  :-)

And amusingly, by chance you seem to be watching the page I happened
to use for testing, because I see from the email logs that it sent you
a notification as well. So they are working for you on at least some
pages. :-)

[Gita Mathur]

Hi Jim
Thanks a lot for solving my problem. I have started getting the
messages. I very highly appreciate all the efforts you have put in for
this.
I am very relieved and happy with this.
Thanks again.

Gita

-
Dr. Gita Mathur <gita....@gmail.com>
Associate Professor of Botany
Gargi College (University of Delhi)
Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049
skype:gitamathur

Web:
http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur
http://wikieducator.org/India
http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur
http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26
http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27

[valerie]

Thanks John - I have added this to the list of options.

http://www.wikieducator.org/Community_projects
http://www.wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Community_service_learning_guidelines#WikiEducator_projects

[Ivica]

Til that my virtuali technological park "Park" will be for all in the
world who wont colaborite at real life project. Your and my students
can experiment thair posibility for building good team!

Keep you informed.

On 7 lip, 07:32, valerie <vtay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for a couple of projects for my students to work on. They
> need to do 12 hours of community service learning in the second and
> third week of July.
>
> If you need some help with web research, we might be able to help.
> Given some guidance, students can research a topic for web sites that
> meet your criteria. This can be especially helpful if you are building
> a library of resources about a topic. The students can do a good job
> of finding sites for your review.
>
> Other projects that students sometimes help with
> * review and feedback on sites or course material
> * finding pictures on the web about a topic
>
> Some students read and write languages other than English, and can do
> some translation.
>
> An overview of the community service requirements and examples of

> other partner projectshttp://wikieducator.org/DeAnza_College/CIS2/Community_service_learnin...