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Building Sustainable Projects and Communities Randy Fisher October 15, 2009 For audio call Toll Free 1-888-886-3951 and use PIN/code 152961 Housekeeping • • • • • Maximize your CCC Confer window. Mute your phone (*6) if you have visitors or noise in your office. Please note phone audio may be in presenter-only mode. Ask questions over the phone when the presenter prompts. Ask questions throughout presentation via the chat window. Adjusting your computer audio 1) To listen on your computer, adjust your speaker volume 2) If you’re using a phone, click on phone headset. 3) To speak you’ll need a microphone or USB headset. a) First, run the audio wizard Tools/Audio/Audio Setup Wizard. b) Second, press on the mic icon when it’s available (release when finished speaking) Saving Files & Open/close Captions 1. Save chat window with floppy disc icon 2. Open/close captioning window with CC icon Emoticons and Polling 1. Raise hand and Emoticons 2. Polling options Sustainability "Community spirit is the most sustainable and renewable energy there is." - Rock Radovan, President, Sustainable Ottawa Slide 10 Open Education is… …a sustainable and renewable resource. Slide 10 Open Education is about… Building Community… Slide 10 WikiEducator We're turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks. We hope you can help us. Voted best educational wiki, Steven Downes, Dec 2007 Inaugural recipient of the award for Exemplary Open Education Resource (OER) practices Slide 5 Strategic plan Slide 7 WikiEducator A Community of Shared Interests Randy Fisher, International Centre for Open Education, 2009 Slide 1 Learning4Content workshops > 3,500 educators 100 workshops 110 countries 18 months Learning4Content Slide 14 Age distribution 30 28.1 25.5 25 19.4 18 Our WE surprise? 15 50% > 45 years 10 5.4 3.6 5 >6 5 -64 55 -54 45 -44 35 -34 25 15 -24 0 <1 5 Percentage 20 Years Slide 10 Current roles of WikiEducators Educator (teacher, lecturer, or trainer) 72 Researcher 21 Learner 17 Manager or administrator 14 Professional staff developer 10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Slide 11 Educational level and sector Pre-primary 1.1 Primary 6.4 Secondary 17.2 Tertiary 49.8 Vocational Training 15.4 Not involed in education 10.1 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Slide 12 Why do you join WikiEducator? to explore new trends and ideas 71 to learn wiki skills 70 to develop free content 70 to grow personaly 46 to build relationships with WEs 33 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Slide 13 Open, Self-Organizing Communities “The great thing about open self-organizing communities is that spontaneous and more structured approaches can be nurtured in parallel with each other in the wiki. The glue which keeps this together and provides positive direction for the WE project are our community values. Ultimately, the core value of sharing knowledge freely.” -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Founder, WikiEd Project Slide 11 Community Purpose – CP4 Model • • Model developed by the US Military Uses 4 overlapping elements to describe a community's purpose: 1. Content - educational resources, learning resources, etc. 2. Connections - networks, communities, relationships 3. Conversations - dialogue in groups 4. Context - background, history, orientation Slide 11 WikiEducator • Website: http://www.wikieducator.org • Projects & Initiatives • Otago Polytechnic, NZ • Discussion Group: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator • 4Cs - Content, Connections, Conversations, Content Slide 11 Community Media CoP • Website: http://www.wikieducator.org/Community_Media • Discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/community-media • 4Cs - Content, Connections, Conversations, Content Slide 11 LearnShare HIV/AIDS Africa HIV/AIDS Experts & Community Radio Practitioners http://www.wikieducator.org/HIVAIDS_Portal • Workshop Materials • Partners • Commonwealth of Learning, Canada • International AIDS Society, Switzerland • EcoNews Africa, Kenya • World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC) • 4Cs - Content, Connections, Conversations, Content Slide 11 WikiEducator & OER Foundation Join us in making the OER futures happen Randy Fisher, International Centre for Open Education, 2009 Slide 1 The OER Foundation Slide 16 Links & Resources • Heywire8 Think Tank, NZ • OER Foundation FAQs • Teacher Collaboration Portal Slide 10 Short videos • Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A Call for Freedom, at the opening of a Digital Freedom Exposition conference (2007) at the University of the West Cape, South Africa. • Educators Motivations in Open Wiki Spaces, Randy Fisher’s MA Thesis • The Wiki Wiki Slide 10 Q&As Randy Fisher (aka Wikirandy) Senior Consultant & Facilitator • Intersol Group, Canada • International Centre for Open Education / OER Foundation, New Zealand +1 613.230.6424 x144 (EST) [email protected] Slide 10 Evaluation Survey Link Help us improve our seminars by filing out a short online evaluation survey at: http://tinyurl.com/ONEeval-09F-Sustain Thanks for Attending For upcoming desktop seminars and links to recently archived seminars, check the @ONE Web site at: http://onefortraining.org/seminars/