Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C51/Pre-workshop Instructions

Dear Friends,

A warm Welcome to the WikiEducator Learning4Content free online training workshop titled: "Becoming an Agent of Change through Openness", which starts on Wednesday, 21 September 2011 nd which you have signed up for.

This is a workshop with more than 140 participants from 37 difference countries! (Registration is still open if you would like to invite a friend to join you on this exciting journey. Everyone is welcome to join us.

This is a friendly a reminder that our workshop starts next week Wednesday, not on Monday. Details are provided below, should you want to post to this forum -- however, as a wiki workshop we encourage all participants to post their questions directly in the wiki.

Two things you need to do today -- it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to complete this orientation:

1. Bookmark the course homepage: Go to the workshop homepage eL4C51 Homepage, and bookmark this in your browser. (If you're not sure how to bookmark a page in your browser -- see below). 2. Read the getting started instructions: We have listed a few points to help you get started -- take a few minutes to read these, particularly if you are new to wiki courses and / or OER (see: eL4C51 Workshop Schedule 3. To see who is your personal facilitator, please refer to your own line number in the participants table/Class list (see here: Participant and Group Number) We are looking forward to meeting you in the Wiki! Be bold and try an edit, and most of all let's have fun! These are the getting started instructions. Instructions for Day 1, will be uploaded shortly as well. Warm wishes, Your International '''Facilitators

Posting to this forum (shouldn't be necessary)

We don't anticipate any need to post to this forum (which is hosted on Moodle) because we encourage participants to use the wiki. However, you have been registered under the same username as the one you used to registered your WikiEducator account with two differences:


 * Your registered Moodle username for this course is all lowercase -- whereas WikiEducator is case sensitive. If your WikiEducator username is WayneMackintosh -- use waynemackintosh on for the Moodle forums


 * If your WikiEducator username has a space, for example Patricia Schlicht - use patriciaschlicht


 * Your initial password for the Moodle forum is changeme and you will be prompted to change your password. (Note this password is not the same as your WikiEducator password.)


 * If this doesn't work -- create a new account


 * If this doesn't work - -don't stress -- all the instructions are posted in the wiki under the link provided above, our home page.