Community building project

From WikiEducator
Jump to: navigation, search
Road Works.svg Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page. Road Works.svg

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
  • 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

  • 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)

* Post Community Needs Analysis document

  • 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



Related Initiatives

Resources


Communities

  • Librarians / Information Specialists

(Debbie Schachter referral:


Associations