Community building project/Communications
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Revised WikiEducator Purpose
The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:
- planning of education projects linked with the development of free content;
- development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning;
- building cohesive and sustainable communities of support for educators;
- building of individual, group, community capacity
- work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs;
- networking on funding proposals developed as free content.
There is a distinction between "A community of support" and "Communities of Support". Overall, WikiEducator can be considered a "community of support" - however, over time, as educators develop content, they will develop sub-communities or 'communities-in-communities' where they will benefit from support from each other. Thus, "communities of support" seems more likely, particularly as WikiEducator evolves.
WikiEducator - Draft Community Needs Analysis
Target Audiences
- Teacher / Educators
- Africa
- Asia
- South Pacific
- South America
- Rest of Commonwealth
- Opinion leaders - education, culture, arts, etc.
- News media (within the WikiEd community; education and mainstream)
- Policy Makers
Gaps (Needs)
<s>* Need for role descriptions - Wiki Educator Ambassadors Working on this with Wayne M., Sept. 07
- Need to know the 'plan' for what people are doing / plan to do - (User page)</s>
- Need to understand adoption behaviour (i.e., evolutionary phases of WikiEd adoption), and integrate this knowledge into messaging
- educators
- Need for Case Studies ~ particularly for institutional support
- Need for Endorsements / Testimonials - functional, celebrity, others
- Need for intuitive & integrative navigation
- Need for colour-coded Integration Dashboards / Maps / Trees + Progress Indicator - Curriculum, Expertise (to be links on Community Portal)
- Need to recruit people directly based on needs (i.e., individual or team approach)
** Need for a Wishlist
- Need for knowledge about what's possible ~ especially among newbies
* Need for updated "News" page
- Need for research (i.e., WikiEd adoption, evolutionary shifts in thinking / action; maybe even Univ. of London's possible WikiResearch site)
- Need for Brochure
Roles
Key Messages
(see Key Messages
Library of Messages
- Media:Library of Messages.pdf
- Pre- and post-activities around Learning4Content workshops - per country
- Message to Institutions & Individuals: Give us your unused content / lessons, etc. (i.e., social responsibility messaging)
Communications Materials
- multimedia package (i.e., slides, storyboard)
- Storytelling videos
- Compelling Situation video with SJD voiceover - (i.e., call to action --> aids videos, bcspca - sara mcclaughlin)
- Short interview videos (i.e., people who attended the FLOSS4EDU workshops (pix have to be tagged by country) - these are to be incorporated into a presentation - DONE
- Create AudioVideo_Librarypage
- Create Integration Dashboard V1.0 (Wayne M.) - identify courses to be created, and progress towards completion (%)
- User page handout / template (WIP)
- WikiEd history (EasyRead)
- Surveys
- Others
Opportunities
- Pre- and post-activities around Learning4Content workshops - per country
- Message to Institutions & Individuals: Give us your unused content / lessons, etc. (i.e., social responsibility messaging)
Thoughts & Musings
- if we're moving from the Innovator phase to Early Adoption, the the language of our communication has to reflect that...