WikiEducator:First Community Council Elections/Randy Fisher

My Platform

 * to build and mobilise a welcoming and sustainable community of support for WikiEducators - engaging and retaining the young and the older folks; formal educators and those less so; the geeky and the technically challenged
 * to facilitate and strengthen opportunities for collaboration - on projects and across geographic and cultural boundaries
 * to reach out to others and build networks that work - with strategic relationships that add value to WikiEducator and the people and organizations involved.
 * to develop a fundraising strategy so that WikiEd can be financially-stable and sustainable

Randy Fisher (aka Wikirandy) User Page

How I Became a WikiEducator
Slightly more than one year ago, I joined WikiEducators around the world in achieving our ambitious goal developing a free and open education curriculum for the world by 2015.

To start things off, I attended WikiEducator's 1st Tectonic Shift Think Tank at the Commonwealth of Learning (April 11-13, 2007) that brought together an international group of thought leaders to explore technical options for the young wiki site.

While it was intimidating to be among such techno-folks, I also found them to be surprisingly open and receptive to my contributions about the importance of building 'Community' - of engaging and retaining current WikiEducators, and reaching out to future WikiEducators in line with their particular interests.

After this 3-day meeting, I realized that I could use my talents in organization development, marketing, communications and network-collaboration to help the WikiEducator Community innovate and include others in a sustainable way. Professionally, I am specifically interested in projects that build capacity, leverage relationships and results, improve performance and lead to smooth implementation within communities, networks, alliances and consortia.

I then decided to devote one hour a day to support the growth of the Community, and the rest, as they say, is 'history'.

My Contributions to WikiEducator

 * WikiEd 1st Techtonic Shift Think Tank – participant
 * Community needs analysis and building strategy
 * WikiNeighbourly behaviour and LOTS of facilitation to help people to feel welcome and part of our Community.
 * Development of WikiEd Roles descriptions (i.e., WikiAmbassadors, WikiNeighbours)
 * WikiEducation Skills Certification process, policies & levels of mastery - development assistance
 * WikiEd Survey of New Account Holders (Newbies) - input and feedback
 * WikiEducator Tutorials - input & feedback
 * Monitoring & Evaluation project - input & feedback
 * Cluster development, outreach and matchmaking including:
 * Community Media / Community Radio project node & reports
 * WikiGovernance project node
 * Secured donations of 30+ Science and Chemistry labs by BC Science Teacher (retired) Jim Hebden, now being converted to Open Office by Dennis Doe
 * Heywire8 Think Tank - input & feedback (remote participant)
 * Suggestions for HW8 Agenda & Planning
 * MA coursework (Fielding Graduate University); Complexity Theory, Self-Organization and WikiEducator article / assignment.

Learning4Content

 * Learning4Content Tutorials (online and in-person) - design, input & feedback & revision
 * Revamping L4C Tutorials and creating Facilitator's Guide
 * suggested improvements and co-facilitation (July 28-August 8, 2008 - with Leigh Blackall)
 * Learning4Content brochure - development

Presentations

 * Open Source Geospatial Foundation, BC Chapter, July 2008
 * Digital Information Literacy (DIL) class / Q&A - to NZ students

What I Bring to the Role

 * passion, advocacy and belief in the merit of what WE are trying to achieve
 * values of freedom and openness
 * an ability to facilitate and build capacity in organization and individuals.
 * an understanding of eLearning
 * an understanding of organization / community development

Confirmation of Nomination

 * --Wayne Mackintosh 22:54, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --SteveFoerster 20:03, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --Pankaj 08:12, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --White Eagle 09:45, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --Victor P. K. Mensah 15:41, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --Dennis S. Doe 09:52, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --Cgeith11:22, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --Peter Rawsthorne 03:16, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --Ktucker 16:26, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --Anil Prasad 08:25, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --Savithri Singh 18:40 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * --Vivek Sharma--Viv 07:19, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * --Patricia Schlicht 11:53 20 August 2008 (UTC)