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Prince M. Obiri-Mainoo
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 Prince M. Obiri-Mainoo | |||
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| Website: | NAF | ||
| Blog: | PLTRC | ||
| Employer: | National Africa Foundation (NAF) | ||
| Occupation: | Executive Director | ||
| Country: | USA, Ghana | ||
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My profile
Personal
My name is Prince M. Obiri-Mainoo. I currently live in the United States with my family. I am originally from Ghana and living in the United States. I am the Executive Director of the National Africa Foundation (NAF), which is also based in the United States with Africa's Regional Offices in Ghana. I recently joined the team of instructors at the African Language Program at the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/ in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I also facilitate programs for the Pentecost Leadership Training Institute (PLTRC) in Massachusetts. For more information on NAF go to http://www.nationalafricafoundation.org and on PLTRC go to http://www.pentecostleadership.blogspot.com.
Professional
I started as an elementary school teacher and later as a teacher in the training college in Ghana and ended up as a K-12 Instructional Technology Teacher in the United States. In the intervening years, I joined the bank and later set up my first non-governmental organization (NGO), Mac's Vision International, which has recently been incorporated into my second NGO, [National Africa Foundation.] I trained as a basic education teacher in Ghana before studying on my own to enter the University of Ghana for my bachelor's degree in Political Science and History. In the United States, I enrolled at the [Lesley University] for my Masters in Technology in Education degree.
I spend time online as a facilitator of e-learning and online programs in Computer Literacy. Recently, I joined the faculty of the African Language Program as an instructor in the Asante Twi Language at Harvard University http://www.alp.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/84. Twi is widely spoken in Ghana and some neighboring countries in the West Africa sub-region and gradually emerging as the country's lingua franca.
My goal is to learn all aspects of [Wiki Educator] and use it to conduct training for both students and teachers, especially from Ghana and sub-Sahara Africa through [WiZiQ] and [Teachers Without Borders]. As a training administrator at the Pentecost Leadership Training and Retreat Center, I also intend using Wiki Educator and WiZiQ for my online programs.
My interests
I'm interested in: Networking with other educators online, online learning and teaching others in the virtual classroom:
- OERs
- E-learning
- Computer Literacy
- Teacher Education
- Networking with educators to share educational resources online
My Websites and Blogs
My website is at the National Africa Foundation (NAF) at [1] and the current blog, Media:Pentecost Leadership Training and Retreat Center (PLTRC) is at http://www.pentecostleadership.blogspot.com
The NAF website reports mainly on our activities both in the United States and Africa while the PLTRC is for ongoing activities at the center.
My sandbox
Notes and Feedback from my Wiki Neighbours
- Akwaaba, Oheneba,
All the following are in your tutorials, but I put them here for you as a kind of learning shortcut. Earlier posts on bottom, later ones on top.
- Here is another tip. Uploading Pictures. You have a picture on your computer. You want to put it onto a page you are editing. Remember where it is and what it is called on your computer. On your page, in edit mode, you name the file by whatever name you want to call it. Do not use a generic name like "My_picture" or it will get easily mixed up on the WikiEd site. Best is to put your name in the file name you choose. Make sure the extension is one of the many Wiki can handle, like gif, png or jpg. Put it inside two sets of square brackets. At the beginning, type in the word image followed by a colon followed by your image file name. Then save and that puts your page into publishing mode, and you have a web page again. The image file name should appear in red, indicating that it has not been used already. Click on it and a new page will appear that has easy instructions abut uploading the file from your computer. Do it. The image gets its own page. When you see it, go to the bottom of that image page; click on your page name and there it will be.--Phil Bartle 13:07, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
- Another tip is to borrow from your Wiki neighbours. Browse around other User pages. If there is anything you like, just copy it and paste it in to your user page. Make any modification you need, and there you are. --Phil Bartle 03:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
- If you have not seen it yet, I recommend that you look at the youtube video clip on Wikis. In WikiEd, as in the video, the most important buttons are edit and save. A third button, Link, is not quite the same on WikiEd. To make a sub page, in edit mode, you simply give it a name. put forward slashes around it, then two square brackets in front and after the result. When you save, the word will be in red. Click on it and it will tell you there is no such page. As soon as you start editing, the sub page is created. --Phil Bartle 03:05, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
- This is a wonderful start, Prince. Keep practicing the wiki skills. --Nellie Deutsch 19:39, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
- Great to see you in the tutorial, Oheneba, and to see your user page. Do you have any concerns about the quality of educational resources developed using an open authoring approach? If so, what are your concerns? If not, how does an open authoring approach contribute to high quality learning materials?--Phil Bartle 19:33, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
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: Hello. Please click edit and fill in the personal information box. Don't forget to add your photo instead of the photo of wikieducator. Thank you. --Nellie Deutsch 04:49, 7 June 2009 (UTC))
(: Dear Prince. I am really glad to see you here again. Welcome! Hope you are enjoying the course. Warm wishes --Patricia 18:23, 27 July 2009 (UTC))
Welcome to Workshop EL4C27, an online workshop: June 1-12, 2009
You may wish to check the layout of the workshop and introduce yourself.
- Click on the link EL4C27.
- The page that will open is the workshop page with all the links you will be using during the workshop.
- See your name in the list of participants.
- Whenever you have time click on each of the boxes.
- You may even start with Day 1 activities.
- See the videos and slide presentations.
Enjoy the workshop.
| EL4C27 | WiZiQ Meeting |
| Introduction to Wikieducator Friday, June 5, 2009 15:30 to 16:00 (GMT) |
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- Hi Kwaaku, I was drawn to your profile and was pleased to find another Kwaku since I have a Ghanian friend in Trinidas with your name. Hope you do benefit from your time with wikis. All the best in your work.--Allison Sarjeant 20:51, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
- Kwaku is an Akan soul name and means Wednesday.--Phil Bartle 18:02, 13 June 2009 (UTC) See: http://www.scn.org/rdi/kw-nam.htm
