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Getting started. WikiEducators from Papua New Guinea
Getting started. WikiEducators from Papua New Guinea


Randy Fisher aka Wikirandy
Website:www.wikirandy.org, www.icentronetworks.com
Employer:Consultant, The Commonwealth of Learning
Occupation:Consultant - wikirandy at yahoo dot com
Other roles:Elected Member of WikiEd's Community Council
Nationality:Canadian
Country:Canada
This user was certified a WikiArtisan by Mackiwg.
This user is a WikiNeighbour
for WikiEducator.
This user contributes using Ubuntu GNU/Linux.


Contents

Proposals

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About WikiRandy ~ aka "Randy Fisher

I have 15+ years of experience related to stakeholder engagement, project design, coordination and implementation in business, marketing, education, public policy, HR in diverse sectors (i.e., education, forestry, energy, government and nonprofits (including social / immigrant services). I have advised, trained and coached front-line staff, technical and IT specialists, middle managers and senior executives. Please see my full Resume.

I am a consulting to The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Vancouver, Canada:

Randy

My Interests

I am actively seeking project work to pay for my graduate education - an MA, in Organization Management and Development, Fielding Graduate University(graduating 2009)

  • Organizational design and development
  • Collaboration and (online and in-person) and innovation for teams, communities, organizations, networks, alliances.
  • Change management related to large-scale change, mergers & acquisitions

* Change management for development (in education)

  • Change management related to business process improvement
  • Improving performance, developing coaching and mentoring programs

Job Titles

  • HR Generalist (no recruiting)
  • Organizational Effectiveness
  • Change Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Internal Consultant

Learning MediaWiki Skills

  • Suspend your judgment – about where you think / feel you should be in terms of mastering this stuff.
  • Refresh your screen when you visit a page – to make sure that you have the latest version
  • Observe and reflect on changes you see in the wiki – (i.e., when I go in and make a change, look at the code ~ i.e., what I’ve done….)
  • Do not ignore the great Resources in this community: tutorials and people.


Activities

Contact Me!

wikirandy AT yahoo.com Vancouver, BC +1 604.684.2275

  • Gmail: wikirandy
  • Skype: wikirandy
  • Yahoo**: wikirandy

To Do

WikiEngagement

Links

WikiEducator My Community-Building Activities

WikiGovernance



My Project Focus Areas

Open Educational Content / Resources

Articles, Readings

My Blogfeed

My Watchlist

My Sandbox

Reaching Our Targets (Learning 4 Content Workshops in the Commonwealth)


L4C Progress Dashboard (Commonwealth)
Workshops completed
(Target - 160):
26%
Educators registered
(Target - 2 500):
60%
Learning Contracts
(Submission rate)
50%
Countries reached (for f-t-f workshops)
(Target- 52)
26%
L4C Vital Statistics
No. of online workshops 18
No. of face-to-face workshops 23
No of countries (f-t-f workshops) 14
Participants registered 1489
No. of learning contracts signed 744

Last update: 20 November 2008


Opinion Leaders

My 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 of capacity and sustainable communities of support for educators;
  • work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs;
  • networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

Note: I think 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.

My Perspective from the Tectonic Shift Think Tank Conference

While attending the Tectonic shift think tank held at COL, I noted the following:

  • Always be aware of the human factor in technology / community creation.
  • Make sure the technologies/technologists serve the users. Use every opportunity to engage others, and learn individually and collectively.
  • Know your stakeholders well, and their interests.
  • Communicate effectively, by multiple means at varying frequencies within the group and externally.
  • Wikis are a paradigm-shift - and also represent a power-shift: Remember that fear and anxiety are ever-present - before we ever started talking about MediaWiki / Wikieducator!
  • Give laggards (or perceived laggards) an opportunity to participate at their level.
  • Respond to feedback.
  • KISS..and...keep our eyes on the prize ~ individually and writ-large (i.e., Millennium Development Goals).
  • Exercise self-reflection
  • Try to find the humour / enjoy the laughter!

Attribution

When someone uses some work that I've created, I'd like to be notified about it on my User Talk/Discussion Page. I would also like that you attribute it to Randy Fisher, in a place of prominence equivalent to how prominent it features in your work! Thanks...

Templates


Alternate foto of moi (in a Japanese Restaurant in Vancouver, Canada
Alternate foto of moi (in a Japanese Restaurant in Vancouver, Canada

Great photo of Wayne @ PCF5: http://www.wikieducator.org/Image:Pcf5we7.jpg

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This user is a researcher of wikis and/or open educational resources.
Work in progress, expect frequent changes. Help and feedback is welcome. See discussion page.



Definition of Participatory Learning

Participatory Learning includes the ways in which new technologies enable learners (of any age) to contribute in diverse ways to individual and shared learning goals. Through games, wikis, blogs, virtual environments, social network sites, cell phones, mobile devices, and other digital platforms, learners can participate in virtual communities where they share ideas, comment upon one another's projects, and plan, design, advance, implement, or simply discuss their goals and ideas together. Participatory learners come together to aggregate their ideas and experiences in a way that makes the whole ultimately greater than the sum of the parts.

Notes

{{Note|Gurmit - if you want to start putting text on this page....just click the "edit" tab - 3rd from the right at the top of the screen (next to the globe - User Page - Discussion - Edit. I will be notified when you change your page, so I will go in and help you out... when I do, you will be notified too! ~ so please watch what I am doing, so you can do it too!

Simple Table Syntax

WE is running a simple table extension (formerly called tabbeddata) that makes it "simpler" to add data to a table.

To make a table that uses commas for separating columns and <return> for the rows, try:

Hi Hello Yes
Bye Good Night No


You can find more information on the syntax and examples at:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TabbedData

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