Workshop Report

The National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) held the Guyana’s first Learning4Content Workshop on Wiki Education in the Computer Lab of NCERD. The workshop was held on Mondays and Thursdays from 15:00h – 16:30h on the 2nd to 16th February, 2009. Participants were taken from the staff of NCERD. Facillitators were: Jud Lohleyer – IT Specialist Samatha Joseph – IRI Coordinator (Ag.)

The participants were: 1.	Ms. Bibi Ali 2.	Ms. Claudette Phoenix 3.	Ms. Waleema Abrahime 4.	Ms. Cecelia Holder 5.	Ms. Sharon Bayley 6.	Mr. Krishna Nand Prasad 7.	Ms. Shirley Mc. Pherson 8.	Ms. Alisha Shiwbalak 9.	Ms. Rajwantie Permual 10.	Ms. Yolanda Charles 11.	Ms. Sunita Samichand 12.	Ms. Latoya Dolphin 13.	Mr. Nizam Bacchus 14.	Mr. Philip Kartick 15.	Mr. Andrew Kartick 16.	Ms. O. Roberts

The participants were trained in the following skills: 3.	How to register and create an account in www.wikieducator.org website. 4.	Basic Text editing within WikiEducator. 5.	Basic text formatting within WikiEducator. 6.	Creating internal and external links 7.	Wiki Certification Scheme. 8.	Uploading and inserting Images on WikiEducator 9.	WikiEducator Pedagogical Templates 10.	Collaborative Content Authoring (Reverting, History and understanding Recent Changes.

Presently, participants’ User Pages are being certified and a follow-up Workshop is planned.