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Earlier Announcements  Deputy Chair of WCC



Dr. Savithri Singh, Principal of Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi has been declared elected on September 15, 2009 as the Deputy Chair of the WikiEducator Community Council. WikiEducator Community Council (WCC) has elected the following Office bearers of the Council:


 * Chair: Wayne Mackintosh
 * Deputy Chair: Savithri Singh
 * Executive Secretary: Nellie Deutsch (With voting rights on Council)

'''Face 2 face Workshop at CIET, NCERT, 27 July - 29 July 2009

The workshop is being conducted by Acharya Narendra Dev College for the faculty of NCERT.

eL4C On Line Workshops

Two online workshops on e-Learning and Developing Open Educational Resources are being facilitated by Nellie Deutsch and Dr. Gita Mathur. All are welcome to join. You will be sent an email with a tutorial everyday, it requires 30 minutes per day to do this. Can be done at your convenience any time of the day. Online help will solve any problem you face. There will be 10-day lessons with weekends off. The aim of these workshops is to reach those who are unable to participate in Face-to-face workshops, and also to provide a facility to the existing Wikieducators to further polish their skills. Workshop EL4C26 May 4-15, 2009  REGISTER HERE

Workshop EL4C27 June 1-12,2009  REGISTER HERE Course Layout, list of registered participants and all details are available for you at the links eL4C26 and eL4C27. If you feel confident, you can even start your page before the workshop starts. Happy Exploring.

Jubilant India goes further high!

With immense enthusiasm and pleasure the India community announces WE India Portal Project. By April 30, 2009 we will be having a full-fledged portal for India WE community. The prototype is being getting shape. Please visit the portal project from here…and be a part of the development team.

Image Categorization Project

The WE community jointly announces Image Categorization Project - a collaborative effort to categorize all images available on WikiEducator to make it easily accessible to the community. A systematic categorization will facilitate easily accessible galleries of images that the members can pick to add to their project.

Please see the interesting WikiEducator Google group conversations containing vital tips to create and maintain categories 'here

As a first step Category:Images has been created. Now visit the Image category page and the Google discussions to see what you can do.

This is an open invitation to all WE members.

National Knowledge Commission Launches Online Contest

National Knowledge Commission of India launches Online Contest. Contest Period is from 1st February 2009 to 1st March 2009. Categories of the contest are Film, Debate and Essay.

For further details of the contest please visit the contest website of the National Knowledge Commission from here