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Downes (1)
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I think I'd avoid milking the Downes things given that the basis for his decision appears to be factual error about relative activity levels. Jtneill 16:48, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
Come now JT! Mentioning that Downes' blog post on WikiEd on the front page hardly seems like "milking" it to me. Wikiversity would have done the same; not to mention that i've been looking at the stats today re: both Wikiversity and WikiEd and I'd actually tend to agree with him that Wikied is really more active in a way. Particularly when you look at the edits that actually take place on Wikiversity - the majority of them are done by Custodians and the Colloquium is probably the most active space on the entire site. There's no reason to start Wikied vs Wikiv again -- i based my custodianship on the exact opposite - of trying to bring the OER projects closer together, not make islands of them. Why not do the same?
Fair call, Brent. Numbers don't mean much; attitude does; I agree collective OER efforts are what matters. Interesting point about "non-sysop" edits; I think that's a useful criteria evaluative criteria (say for internal benchmarking). Much WV activity (esp. new account registrations) probably also comes from sisproject editors. Downes' list was long, so perhaps unfair to criticise his lack of citation. Also WE stats are transparently displayed on the Main Page, to its credit. Jtneill 11:14, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
I find many instances where I recommend one over the other. I like helping out around here because much of the community is new at this and very passionate, and a great part of what WikiEd is about is training people on real wiki skills (there's nothing like Learning4Content that i've seen anywhere else!) - where people use those skills is ultimately irrelevant; and, Wikied is also more able to innovate technically, which is a major point of difference for me; but funnily enough I mostly like working on my own resources/projects on Wikiversity as it seems more akin to the type of projects that I'm particularly interested in using a wiki for, and I like at times interacting with skilled and experienced wiki users.
Take a look at this as well though: http://www.wikieducator.org/images/f/f6/WE_Survey_04262008.pdf it might provide an nice view of how different are the two communities. The diversity of the different projects will ultimately be a strength to the movement as a whole and we should I think cross-promote and cross-pollinate as much as we can. When this licensing thing is fixed i reckon it will open a flood gate of interoperability, reusability, and collaboration between the sites, and perhaps what this movement is edging towards: that the whole will suddenly be much greater than the sum of its parts will be that much closer. I nearly quit Wikiversity because of some of the ridiculous accusations of paranoid partisanship that were levied against me when I applied for Custodianship and i'm still somewhat wary of the effect of users on the site that are overly active in organisation rather than in creating valuable content/projects. Wikiversity is in my opinion desperately in need of some new and exciting projects - the OER course was the last one I can think of that had any real substance to it (and should be run again in an improved form i'd say.)
Brent, JT
From my perspective WV and WE are "two leaves on the same tree" to cite Country Mike. I also think that there is considerable value in comparing and evaluating our collective experiences. WE has learned a lot from the WMF projects and we try to learn from these experiences. For example -- I was very surprised to see the productivity of the WE community comparing the ratio of pages to registered users.
We've been pretty successful in extending our work in the developing world and as Brent has pointed out, a lot of energy goes into capacity development in using MW technology.
For those interested -- you can view our daily stats here:
http://wikieducator.org/stats/
Ultimately the diversity in our OER projects will contribute to a better world for all involved.
How to motivate participants to fill out the survey (or happy sheet) (1)
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I tried to raise this issue before during a web conference but as I did not really get the answer I was after I will give it another go and try to revive the discussion page!
My point is: it is not hard to force participants to fill out the good old questionnaire at the end of a face to face course as it is the last thing you do in the course. But with no direct contact, how can you motivate the participant to fill out the form.
First of all, how should you make it available. Do you send an email with the link to the questionnair? Does it automatically appear in the list of course you have enrolled in when you have an LMS?
And then, how do you motivate them to complete it. Is the course only complete when the questionnair is sent back?
Do you send a chocolate fish by post?
I am really keen to find out what your ideas are, because I think we all deal with this issue to some extend.
Helga
Workshop held at Colombo, Sri Lanka (1)
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Information about Workshop on Collaborative Content development organized by COL in association with Sri Lanka Association of Distance Educators at Colombo from 31/03/2008 to 03/04/2008 is available at http://wikieducator.org/Sri_Lanka/L3_Farmers/Content_Development_Workshop_Colombo-2008.
I would like to suggest it for In The News Section.
Regards Anil
Missing bits (1)
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Love some of the pages I am viewing from other learners and feel like I've missed some stuff. Where do you get a content box? and was there a session on the other cute boxes like web resources that I missed reading? Am getting there though!
Not Well (1)
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Sorry, For the last three days, I am not able to participate in the discussion as I am not well . But today I hope, I will complete all that.
Sarita
Tutorial3 (1)
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I read the editing basics and the office writer1 course,bothare interesting and giving us the good tips of editing. sarita
News Placement, i.e., Hewlett Foundation Announcement (1)
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I think the Hewlett Foundation's grant to WikiEducator is very significant in my view - to people in our community, and also those Newbies just coming on board....I see that it is now in the archives....
I think we need to make sure that very high priority news - even if it is a bit older - stays on the main page.
--Randy Fisher 23:21, 6 January 2008 (CET)
Test for a new thread (1)
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Testing upgrade ...
We need your help Section - Let's change to "Join Us" - priority item for this week (1)
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Hi Wayne,
Of the millions of things we need to do, let's make this item a priority this week.
I'd like to see the real estate on the bottom of the main page - bottom right (for now!) heading to change to "Join Us"....and then use that space as a way to draw folks in....
I'll work on this, on Wednesday.... where's the actual template to start working on this....
-Randy
Hi Randy,
My suggestion is that you start working on a new template in another area in the wiki - that is not linked to the main page. Once we're happy with a first draft - it's very easy to transfer this into the template for going live.
The trouble with Front-page text is that it doesn't look good when we're updating the page every time we make and edit.
The current template is template:frontpage_help
I've created a new template template:frontpage_join_us.
This way we can tweak, invite comments etc, before going live on the front page. I think its important to give folk an opportunity to comment on this. WikiEducator's are proud of their front page, so lets give them a chance to improve on our ideas.
Once we're done - uploading this is 30 seconds. I'll show you how its done.
Cheers
