Ambassador

What is an ambassador for WikiEducator?

Ambassador Bridge.

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An ambassador for WikiEducator is an enthusiastic champion who takes on a formal or informal leadership role to promote and coordinate activities at their own institution or community, or within their own country.

Ambassadors for WikiEducator assist in the realisation of our strategy by promoting activities which:

• help build the WikiEducator community,
• develop skills and build capacity for all WikiEducators,
• promote and advocate free educational content, and
• identify and implement innovation in WikiEducator.

Ambassadors are people who have a passion to widen access to quality education through open networks and free content. They identify themselves in the WikiEducator community and keep us informed of their ambassadorial activities.

Become a WikiEducator Ambassador!

• Add my name to My Country's WikiAmbassadors. (click on your country's name, and scroll down to the list of WikiAmbassadors).

What do ambassadors for WikiEducator do?

List your ideas for things that ambassadors can do:

• List your name and contact details below;
• Spread the word about WikiEducator at your own institution or community;
• Promote WikiEducator in the blog sphere, news groups and electronic lists;
• Introduce people to WikiEducator by showing them how to create an account and get started on free content development;
• Become a WikiNeighbour;
• Organise workshops and training sessions on how to author free content on WikiEducator;
• Record events where WikiEducator is promoted;
• Take initiative to speak about WikiEducator at conferences, round tables and other meetings;
• Recruit new ambassadors for WikiEducator;
• Encourage research on WikiEducator;
• Design new projects which ensure scalable and sustainable growth of the community
• ....

What resources are available for WikiEducator ambassadors?

• Newbie tutorials on using WikiEducator;
• Downloadable brochure;
• WikiEducator workshop toolkit for planning and presenting workshops;
• WikiEducator Discussion List for sharing ideas;

List of ambassadors for WikiEducator

• Wayne Mackintosh, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada. (See Record of promotions.)
• Kim Tucker, Meraka Institute, South Africa. (See Record of promotions.)
• Randy Fisher, iCentro Networks, Vancouver, Canada.
• Steve Foerster, Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia, U.S. (See Record of promotions.)
• Günther Osswald, Gisela-Gymnasium, Munich, Germany (See Record of promotions.)
• Wolf Hilzensauer, Salzburg Research, Salzburg, Austria
• Sandra Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Salzburg, Austria (See Record of promotions.)
• Kennedy Onyango, CISSO, Kenya.
• Werner Westermann, Educalibre, Santiago, Chile.
• viovio, My blog, Iquique, Chile.
• Alexander Hayes - Sydney, Australia
• Anil Prasad, Kerala, India
• Gita Mathur,Gargi College, University of Delhi, India
• Leutha, West Essex, England
• Paula, Port of Spain, Trinidad
• Malisa Richards, Georgetown, Guyana
• Sebastian Panakal, eSchool Kerala, India
• Jonas Backelin, eduToolkit, Bulgaria

Are there other ways in which I can help WikiEducator achieve its goals?

Yes. You can help us in variety of ways. Please see the WikiEducator Roles page. P.S. ~ even if you help us in a different role, you can still be an effective Ambassador for WikiEducator!

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Note: This initiative was inspired by Ambassadors for eXeLearning