Community building project

Objective
To help WikiEducator achieve scaleable and sustainable growth among its high-priority stakeholder communities through community-building and appropriate messaging / communications strategies. (Lead role - Randy Fisher ~ aka wikirandy)

Activities

 * 1) Community Needs Analysis - high priority Stakeholder Communities
 * 2) Community Messaging
 * 3) OER Workshop Design / Materials - (beginning with FLOSS4Edu Pacific Workshop, New Zealand - August 11-13, 2007])

Stakeholder Communities (high priority)
Now that we're moving towards Phase II of WikiEducator's growth and development (July 2007), there is a considerable and time-sensitive opportunity to engage high-priority Stakeholder Communities to benefit WikiEducator.

If WikiEducator is to meet its goals - of developing a free educational curriculum by 2015, then it must develop content AND engage key people, organizations and communities in an interactive and supportive way.

These high-priority Stakeholder Communities include, but are not limited to:

Interviewing - Key Stakeholders
(Editor's note: to keep the community apprised of the progress of this project, excerpts of these interviews will be available at the Interviews page. Click here to go there!


 * WikiEducator Advisory Board Members
 * Erik Moeller
 * Nicholas Kimolo
 * Steve Foerster
 * Brent Simpson
 * Savithri Singh
 * Otago Polytechnic
 * Leigh Blackall - DONE, AUG. 2007
 * College of the Rockies
 * Dr. Nick Rubidge, College of the Rockies President and CEO
 * Gina Bennett, College of the Rockies' eLearning Specialist and author of the learning material donated by the College - DONE, SEPT 2007
 * Community Portal Page
 * projects - ongoing (project leaders)
 * projects - dormant (project leaders)
 * COL Education Specialists
 * Frances Ferreira - info gathering on secondary education communities (in Africa) - DONE - JUNE 11, 2007
 * Joshua Mallett - DONE - AUG. 15, 2007
 * Krishn Alluri - DONE - AUG. 15, 2007
 * Tanyss Munro, - DONE - AUG. 15, 2007
 * Other - Helena Fehr - DONE - AUG. 15, 2007
 * WikiAmbassadors
 * Steve Foerster (also advisory board member) - DONE - AUG. 29, 2007


 * Free Textbook Project
 * ** Leaders
 * One Laptop Per Child
 * Samuel Klein
 * Mel Chuo
 * UNESCO
 * Jean Claude Dauphin
 * Susan D'Antoni
 * CCNC developers - module coordinator, developers


 * Selected participants from non-commonwealth countries
 * Werner Westermann (Chile)
 * Gunter Osswald (aka White Eagle) - Germany

Other Stakeholders

 * Groups that form around / support WikiEducator Initiatives (this also includes individuals from within the groups, who perform specific roles (i.e., Librarians / Information Science)
 * VUSSC
 * MSU Global
 * Otago Polytechnic


 * Community Relationships - OER Projects
 * Wikipedia
 * Wikiversity


 * International / National Agencies
 * UNESCO, CIDA


 * Teachers / Educators / Tutors
 * primary
 * secondary (world, Africa)
 * tertiary
 * vocational
 * student support tutors
 * Course Writers / Instructional Designers
 * Management - Open Schools
 * Researchers
 * Policy Makers
 * Students / Learners

Community-Building Ideas

 * Wikimania 2007 - Little Angel Program
 * Summer of Content - Ask a Question Box - on each country page
 * Design a Home Page & Country-specific template, including aggregation (i.e., my blogfeed, communities, etc.)
 * ensure that country links on the Community Portal page & Country page, are linked to their respective countries.
 * ensure that local folk from each country, update their own Country pages.
 * initial design focuses on "country content"; v2-migrates to portal content
 * put in copyright page, and welcome message
 * use lots of tables - good way to order info, and a neat 'graphic' - re: FAQ page
 * Try to ensure a logical structure & linking for pages (WikiMaster)
 * intuitive, navigation and linkability (re: SBeL, and others)
 * Ensure appropriate contact info - this includes email (even the language to write in the subject lines), phone number(s), availability, etc.
 * Add Countries to main page Navigation Bar, and change Projects to Projects & Initiatives - Done --Wayne Mackintosh 23:44, 17 September 2007 (CEST)
 * Use Rapid Development Teams (WikiAmbassador + WikiMaster) when possible (future page)
 * this is akin to a "buddy system" buddy system where a new user / member is teamed (electronically) with an experienced user / member who can answer queries / deal with issues, or at least act as a first port of call.


 * Image: Yin/Yang graphic - right brain / left brain, or even hands helping each other (i.e., handshake)
 * Make sure the right people are in the room
 * Leverage community of educators (i.e., global and sectoral)
 * Leverage collaborative creation / editing space
 * WikiAmbassadors - all contributions count (reference from Gunther Osswald comment)
 * also - share info / support others
 * Images / Graphics & How-to's
 * while video is a nice-to-have, how about using pix (or thumbnails) to guide the user through each step of how to get started. It can be a storyboard fashion, which linked together, can form a "movie-like" experience....When doing 'how-to's - a person can script out what s/he wants, and then go shoot some photos and upload them, to illustrate the how-to.
 * recruit people based on interest, and country
 * ensure link to country list (in development) in navigation bars (Done --Wayne Mackintosh 23:50, 17 September 2007 (CEST)), and portals
 * development of Events Calendar - could have its own page, or have an aggregate feed under each country (TBD)
 * is there a Visual Mapping Resource?
 * User pages are important - One Laptop Per Child has an interesting template
 * teams - re: Climatechange
 * Use Videos to facilitate discussion / activities (i.e., 60 minutes, Shipbreakers, Bangladesh)
 * Differentiation strategy - ie How does (or should) WikiEducator differentiate itself among similar initiatives, for eg:
 * WikiEducator focuses on building capacity of educators while developing free content
 * WikiEducator places a high priority on quality of learning materials and develops tools to support quality processes
 * We base our development processes on the research and experience derived from DE - a core COL competence
 * Developing society focus
 * Add Partners page

To Do (WikiRandy) ~ as of Sept. 18, 2007
* Post Community Needs Analysis document
 * Complete short paras on WikiEducator roles page (collaborate with Wayne Mackintosh)- pri-1
 * Complete individual role pages (pri-2)
 * Continue stakeholder interviews + put excerpts on Interview page (pri-1)
 * Develop Key messages page + grid (i.e., messages + tactics (pri-1)
 * Focus on WikiEd Wishlist development (or other name) + community cluster (pri-1)

* Developing Surveys - Newbie (User);
 * Supporting WhiteEagle for High School Student Survey
 * Case Study Development - White Eagle, Joshua Mallett - TVET
 * Review Curriki - strengths & Weaknesses
 * Ensure Progress Dashboard gets done
 * Check out BC Campus]

Community-Building Project - Key Links

 * Community Building Project
 * Stakeholders


 * Interviews
 * Community-Building - Communications
 * Key Messages
 * Community_building_project/CaseStudies
 * AudioVideo_Library
 * Wikieducator FAQs


 * WikiEducator Wishlist


 * WikiEducator Roles
 * WikiAmbassadors
 * Wikimaster
 * Surveys
 * Wikirandy (Randy Fisher) User Page


 * OER Workshop toolkit
 * FLOSS4EDU Pacific Workshops
 * FLOSS4EDU - Community Building - Detailed Agenda
 * Learning4Content

Related Initiatives

 * WikiGovernance


 * List of Countries - WikiEducator Activities, Communities, Initiatives & WikiAmbassadors

Resources

 * Facilitating Outcomes-Based Learning and Teaching: A guide for Trainers and FET College Lecturers

Communities
(Debbie Schachter referral:
 * Librarians / Information Specialists


 * BC Library Association (BCLA) - public and academic libraries primarily http://www.bcla.bc.ca/
 * Special Libraries Association (SLA), Western Canada Chapter - special libraries, as in corporate, non-profits, special subject areas, etc. http://units.sla.org/chapter/cwcn/
 * Vancouver Association of Law Libraries (VALL) - just law libraries http://www.vall.vancouver.bc.ca/
 * eXe:http://www.wikieducator.org/EXe_International_Advisory_Group (this is an example, to be developed in future work)

Associations

 * South African Institute for Distance Education - http://www.saide.org.za/frontend/