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Peter Rawsthorne, M.Ed IT, B.Tech

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Peter Rawsthorne
Website:http://www.rawsthorne.org
Occupation:Learning Systems Architect
Other roles:Instructional Designer; Enterprise Architect
Nationality:Canadian / UK
Country:Canada
This user was certified a WikiArtisan by Mackiwg.
This user is a researcher of wikis and/or open educational resources.

This user is a Learning Designer who assists with the instructional design of free content projects.


I have a very strong belief in Open Educational Resources (OER) and their ability to assist in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). I am an educator with extensive experience in software development and in designing technical architectures to support strategy. The best way to get a sense of me is to visit my website; http://www.rawsthorne.org and if you want a sense of my views on development visit my rich media blog; http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com.

Here is my vision for the tectonic shift.


Contents

How I can help

I believe their are three ways I could help in the development of OER;

  1. Team Lead / Technical Architect - taking the leadership / architect role in developing OpenSource software to support OER.
  2. Content Creation - creating learner centered content in the subject areas of;
    • Web 2.0
    • Education
    • Computer Science
    • Database Management
    • Small Business
    • Geography
    • Outdoor Recreation.
  3. Rich Media Developer - using multimedia tools to create podcasts, online video and rich media web pages.

I will be developing content within the WikiEducator site within these areas of expertise, if you require assistance with your OER projects, do not hesitate to contact me; Peter Rawsthorne


My Projects

K12 OER Development

  1. Network
    1. Contact SD45
      1. Contact Administrators & Principal(s)
      2. Email Administrators & Principal(s)
      3. Meet with Administrators & Principal(s)
      4. Create Statements of Work
    2. Contact Mulgrave
      1. Contact Principal
      2. Email Principal
      3. Meet with Principal
      4. Create Statement of Work
    3. Contact IPS
      1. Contact Principal
      2. Email Principal
      3. Meet with Principal
      4. Create IPS Statement of Work
  2. Determine and Document Student Privacy Issues
  3. Facilitate a Learning4Content online workshop
  4. Initiate Learning4Content as Pro D workshop with blended approach

CCNC Modules Enhancement

  1. Module 3
    1. Continue Migrating ICDL content (with as little structural change as possible)
      1. Getting started with the writer application
      2. Main operations
      3. Formatting documents
      4. Adding tables, pictures, images and charts
      5. Mail merge
      6. Preparing to print
    2. Use Template:ProjectNav and structure Module 3 to best print to pdf (see OER Handbook)
  2. Multi Media Bounty and Extension
    1. Complete bounty description
    2. Create sample treatment (storyboard)
      1. Consider CCNC MM Guidelines for development of treatment (storyboard)
      2. Review existing multimedia guidelines.
        1. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8318
        2. http://knowfuture.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/httpfootagestealthisfilmcom/
        3. http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Filmmaking
        4. http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2004_09/index.asp
        5. http://www.uncc.edu/webcourse/sb/worksheet.htm
      3. Create /Treatment Guidelines that include media type, content, duration, other metadata, etc.
      4. Polish treatment with meaningful icons
      5. Review treatment with other contributors
    3. Solicit contributors
    4. Provide status report to contributors
      1. Accomplishments
      2. Propose bounty award structure (solicit feedback)
      3. Discuss potential project changes (make schedule an issue)
      4. Determine Multimedia standard(s) for reuse
      5. Resolve file format and size issue
      6. Next Steps
    5. Have Wayne put bounty contracts in place for;
      1. Uma
      2. Vishal
      3. Pankaj (this is for a leader / reviewer role)
    6. Solicit updated treatments
      1. Have expressed interest (awaiting finalized proposals)
        1. Indira Gandhi National Open University - Pankaj
        2. Otago Polytechnic - Leigh
        3. Constance Hospitality Academy - Vishal
        4. Peter Rawsthorne Consulting - Peter
        5. Indira Gandhi National Open University - Uma
      2. Request greater detail
    7. Evaluate proposals
    8. Manage project

Develop /Multimedia for Reuse Guidelines

  1. Treatment
  2. Peer Review
  3. Media object creation
  4. Object publishing (with timelines)
  5. Completed Multimedia publishing
  6. Request to reuse

Quality Assurance and Review

  1. Complete Readings / Research
    1. Commonwealth of Learning. (n.d.). Quality Assurance Micro-site. Retrieved on 19 May 2008 from http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/4225
    2. Marshall, S. (2005). E-Learning Maturity Model. Retrieved on 19 May 2008 from http://www.utdc.vuw.ac.nz/research/emm/index.shtml
  2. Create Framework
    1. Create Microsite, which also becomes the project knowledge base
    2. Mirror key components of eMM for reference and WE discussion
      1. Processes
      2. Dimensions
    3. Contribution Levels
      1. Draft - Single Author
      2. Draft - Collaborative Effort
      3. 2nd Draft
      4. Featured Work nomination
      5. Peer reviewed
  3. Mapping & Framework
    1. COL QA materials to featured items / framework
    2. eMM to featured items / framework
  4. Edit Featured Articles
    1. Featured learning resource
    2. Featured reuse materials
  5. Create / Edit Featured Entity
    1. Featured institution
    2. Featured project
  6. Compile summary report

Privacy Policy

  1. Author Privacy policy
  2. Add statement of where responsibilities reside in relation to institutions with children contributing as OER authors.
    1. Add suggested approaches aligned with institutional policy
      1. Consent letters
      2. Teacher created and assigned user id's
      3. Shared institutional or project id's
    2. Add comment on reviewing national education policy

L4C

  1. Complete expression of interest
  2. Send email to Wayne regarding my facilitating and L4C in early September
  3. Review workshop materials

My Module Development

I've completed the development of Module Five (Database Management) of the Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate

I continue the development of Module Three (Writer) of the Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate

I've started to create some guidelines for the development of multimedia. I aspire for this to become a full course on authoring multimedia OER.


My WikiEducator Experiments

  1. An instantiation of some templates, so I can get a feel for these iDevices.
  2. How could a peer assessment iDevice be implemented within WikiEducator?
  3. How does the quiz template actually work?
  4. Is the full set of MediaWiki API's available on the WikiEducator site?
  5. Test a link to my contributions Special:Contributions/Prawstho

My WikiEducator Promotions

  1. I'm teaching into my daughters grade 7 class, where I will be introducing Wiki's for learning and I will make considerable reference to WikiEducator.
  2. I responded to a question on Wikiversity regarding the use of wikis within secondary education. I suggested they use wikieducator as their deployment site.
  3. I'm involved in an OER course and find myself often referring to WikiEducator in comments I make to other students.
  4. Today (Tuesday 18 March 2008) was the first time I evangelized the benefits of WikiEducator on a discussion forum. It surprised me how committed I am to this project...
  5. I met with the Director and Assistant Director of Island Pacific School to discuss the idea of students developing K12 OER. They really liked the idea, so the journey begins.

My Research


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