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Socialization (1)

Woh! You never stop to amaze me Phil! I could bet no "muzungu" knows that about africans,for example. To us looking your elder in the eyes,as you say, is a sign of disrespect. Looks like knowledge about such things befits all of us and is one of those OERs that is long overdue. Thanks.--Vkizza 17:18, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Borders-Thanks (1)

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Hi Phil,many thx for the cute borders.Oli musajja mulungi nyo!! Bravo--Vkizza 19:04, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Do you want me to change the colours? Do you know how?

Socialization past early childhood (1)

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The more borders open, communities mix and everybody travels, the bigger is a need for social training for older people. When my husband and I first came to the US as graduate students, our "English for Teaching Assistants" course included what I consider "social training." For example, we practiced standing at about a yard from the person we talk with - not more like in Western Europe, not less like in South America. Or, we practiced answering questions within 2-3 seconds, not up to one minute, as in China or Eastern Europe.

Also, autistic people may need more explicit learning in this area.

Most people who enter social media need socialization help learning netiquette. For example, in the last couple of years, many 50+ people joined FaceBook, and many 25- people started to leave it as the social climate there changed so much.

People who enter a new profession, which more and more people need to do repeatedly during their life, also have to learn, or create if the profession is new, different social norms.

Changing social norms consciously is another big part of social learning. It's something we have to teach kids more than we do now. Community forming, social norm design and establishment, changing existing social norms, and recognizing the non-malleable ones.

Good points, all

Such cute Borders and backgorund (1)

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Hi Phil, Your pages really rocks. How on earth do you make them? I could not figure out from the code!! Thanks in advance

I used the WikiED method. I stole them from other pages I liked. Only thing is to adjust the colour and borders.

Hello Phil (1)

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Hello Phil,

Very nice page! I have yet to make some changes to mine but have been very busy lately.

I do see much potential in open authoring tools, particularly in countries where quality curriculum materials are unaffordable. The ability to reproduce curricula at only the cost of publishing or printing material can make such material accessible more readily and more equitable.

My only concern is that the Creative Commons license under which Wikieducator operates allows material to be used for commercial purposes. How, then, does one prevent businesses whose only interest is to maximize profits, from exploiting this medium? I feel that information in the public domain should be available at no cost as I think most educators who contribute to it do so in the spirit of open learning.

What are your thoughts?

Warm regards, Bernadette http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Rego_b

I agree with you. I think we cannot stop entrepreneurs from picking up free material and selling it elsewhere. --Phil Bartle 22:47, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Very good. Thoughtful

Lots and lots of thanks (1)

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Hi Phil, I am an ardent reader of your "rants" and I must say they are next to a life line to me! Which made me read all the archives and this latest one comes at a time when we in the Ugandan group are bracing ourselves on this journey of OERs hence the advice particularly in the last line and I quote "...As we develop OERs (Open Educational Resources) we must not just parrot tired and worn approaches used in the classroom. We need to provide the best, and that includes a call for more analysis of the needs of the students and of the topics, and a willingness to be creative, novel and experimental" can't have come at a better time for us and I am now frantically circulating it to all my colleagues.
Bravo
Vincent --Vkizza 16:52, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Oliotia sebo. Thanks, Vincent. All the best to the Ugandan group. If i an be of any assistance at all, please let me know. --Phil Bartle 22:35, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Setting local time (1)

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Hello Phil,

After giving up some time ago on trying to get my local time set on my userpage, I've recently tried again; however, I'm still having troubles. I've set my local time under my preferences, but it still isn't working when I use the "21:18 magic word. Have you been able to get your local time right on your userpage? If so, what am I missing?--Benjamin Stewart 16:44, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

I cannot get it to work. As I said on the listserv, when I tried to use the WikiEd template, Local time yelds Israeli time.

Thanks for the image! (1)

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A big thanks Phil for adding the image to my userpage! I still don't know how you do it!--Benjamin Stewart 12:32, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

A pleasure, Ben. That is your reward for being UPE

Epistomology rant (1)

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Wonderful, thanks. Over the years, I've wondered about some of your points, and frankly didn't "know" that the study of the ways we "know" is called epistomology. Thanks for broadening my horizons. Some other thoughts on knowing:

  • I've often thought how wrong-headed it is that the educational system decides what is worth knowing (as occurs in the US, but likely also in many other locations around the world).
  • Teachers need to be much less about teaching, when defined as "causing to know," and much more about creating an environment for learning, such that ALL learners can be "successful." And as you say, we need to look to the unorthodox in our efforts to grow this kind of space.

Warm regards.

I think that we are on the same wave length, even though our backgrounds differ so we express them differently

Thanks (60)

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Dear Phil, Thanks for your help, Gal

and thanks for you comments on the discussion listserv

Thanks (57)

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Dear Phil,

A million thanks for your kind note on my WE page and terribly sorry for the belated reply. I wish there were an RSS feed feature added to WE to help me keep track of notes from my WE neighbors.

Answering your questions:

Do you have any concerns about the quality of educational resources developed using an open authoring approach? If so, what are your concerns?
(image:comment.gif: The quality of materials won't be fool-proof. A lot of verification and editing is required to validate OER. Still I am awestruck by the power of the group to make this happen. It just needs a lot of collaboration, rather than competition, besides a collective sense of responsibility and awareness of copyright issues.)

If not, how does an open authoring approach contribute to high quality learning materials
(image:comment.gif: It definitely contributes to knowledge building and dissimination. Many people, myself included, wouldn't have dreamt of doing research, not to mention being published. Thanks to open authoring, researchers and educators empower others to follow in their footsteps just by setting examples. WE is an embodiment of this open authoring approach.)
P.S. I found your thoughts about WE community pretty inspiring.--Hanaakhs 13:34, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

Check my rants on my user page --Phil Bartle 03:25, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

If it's not a business, it probably shouldn't be run like one. (1)

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--alboss 15:31, 13 June 2009 (UTC)Bravo, Phil. Here in the U.S. too many of our schools are run like a business. Unfortunately, that business is a factory, and it's product is preparing people for jobs in manufacturing. This made sense in the 1950s (maybe) but is poor preparation for the current times. This model has managed to take essential, rich and fascinating subjects like history, science, math, language (and most others) and make them BORING, obtuse, meaningless, and wholly disconnected from life as the students know it. It caters best to the elite, whose parents can supplement it, and whose school districts have the money and the foresight to raise the additional funds needed to offset the penurious and misdirected funds from the state. Higher Ed, for those who can afford it and can get in, seems to focus on preparing people for careers in Higher Ed--careers most college students don't necessarily want and likely won't get.

Thanks, Al. Where do I find your blogs? These things should be distributed widely. I follow you on Twiter and read your Facebook status because you always have most insightful things to say.

Congratulations (21)

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You got big thoughts and great heart! and that is significant of Heroes. You belong to all the world and deserve a page in world history. I dare to call you "Phil The Great" and Congratulate Wikis for having you.

Thanks, Phil (1)

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Namaste.

I have downloaded Three Minutes and Thirty Minutes description of Empowerment. Hope to create slides/power point on these. I would like to get the power points from your website, the ones mentioned overt there for the use in the educational institutions I visit to familiarize the teachers and students with the ideas of OER/ODL and e-Learning.

Warm regards,

GCresearcher 00:25, 22 June 2009 (UTC) (Global Citizenship researcher) http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Director

Comments (5)

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  • Phil, I love the idea of creating a blog on wikieducator. --Nellie Deutsch 15:02, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Lore of Learning (1)

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Hi Phil,

Congrats for all your great contributions on many levels in many places.

Would you be interested in contributing to this wiki book:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lore_of_Learning

or, do you know anyone else who might?

Needed are experienced and knowledgeable people about the the philosophy, theory and practice of learning.

Thanks KTucker 16:22, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations! (15)

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Hi Phil, Congratulations buddy for the UPE award. You are a constant source of inspiration for me. Regards. Anubha----Yanubha 14:04, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations for UPE Award (2)

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Hello Phil. Congratulations for UPE Award. Warm wishes.--Gita Mathur 12:09, 3 June 2009 (UTC)




Hi Phil, Congratulations buddy for the UPE award. You are a constant source of inspiration for me. Regards----Yanubha 14:04, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Unclassified pictures (1)

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I found one of my pictures in your unclassified section. Probably I have even more lurking around. What should I do about it and how can I classify it. Thank you. I think we met briefly at wikimania in Alexandria --Nadia El Borai 15:30, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

I did not know I had an unclassified section. What is the picture? --Phil Bartle 04:25, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

I did not know I had an unclassified section. What is the picture? --Phil Bartle 04:49, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Greetings from Peru (2)

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Hello Philp! I love your pages and the quality of content you share. I'm just starting at Wikieducator and working on my user page. Best wishes from Peru --Alejacha 02:52, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much. We have Spanish volunteers in CEC, and are trying together to develop a Spanish CEC WikiEducator. Click on the links from my user page. I hope you can give us advice and guidance. --Phil Bartle 04:23, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your offer of help, I need it (1)

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Hi Phil, I'm once again attempting to make wiki comprehensible and useable for myself. I managed to get back into my user page Yea! AND figure out how to click the signature button to make a name stamp to use on what I write. Yea, yea yea!!! (that took me quite a bit longer)

but the date that is showing up is not in my time zone It says I wrote it 9seconds into April 27 when I really wrote it just after 5pm April 26 in USA Pacific zone. Can you tell me how to change it so it will show the right time?

thanks, Karuna Ruanne

Links between the different languages (1)

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Thanks for the tip Phil Français Looks a lot better. Also for pointing out [this page] was created in the wrong place, will correct it shortly. regards Oliver--Lebreton 17:58, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Done , will tag the original for removal Nederlands

Thanks, Oliver. I spent a marvelous term at the Afrikastudiecentrum in Leiden back in 1980, the best in my life. We have a few Dutch versions of our training material in Community Empowerment, but not much See: http://www.scn.org/cmp/indexne.htm --Phil Bartle 18:39, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiArtisan (2)

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  • I certified you a WikiArtisan, Phil, so well deserved. With warm wishes, Patricia --Patricia 14:53, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
    • Thank you so very much, Patricia. I am sure you know that I am not fixed on the ranking or competing to climb it, but it is nice to know, I am just having lots of fun learning and working with WikiEd. --Phil Bartle 16:07, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Renaming your user page (1)

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Phil, I think I figured out how I removed the "user" from my user page. If you click on the move link located in the page tabs along the top of the screen (i.e., page, discussion, edit, etc.), this will give you the option to rename and thus redirect your User:your name page to some new page. --Benjamin Stewart 03:18, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

  • Thanks, Ben, That sounds right. (Why was I not notified of this edit? This is on my watch list)--Phil Bartle 16:07, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Your page (7)

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One thing I liked about your page was learning a bit about Ghana. One thing I would change is to reduce the amount of information on the main page. Overall, it is educational --Victoria Spagnolo 09:05, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

  • Thanks Victoria. You are right. One thing I did to shorten it was to move the discussion to this discussion page. What would you like me to move? Phil--Phil Bartle 05:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you (14)

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Hi Phil,

Thank you very much for your valuable comments about my user page. I will be pushing some of the items to sub pages soon.

Regards
Anil Prasad 02:38, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

  • Thanks, Anil, Just following instructions from the tutorial. I hope others make suggestions for me.--Phil Bartle 06:08, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


Dear Phil,

Thanks for your advice, I will definitely add more content when I have time. I like your pages on the Akan people, it is very interesting! Congratulations also for the great work and engagement for community empowerment.
Nadia Kharoua--Nadia Kharoua 11:30, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

  • Thanks, Nadia. I also added something about AIDs to your discussion page. --Phil Bartle 06:08, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks -- Acronym written out :-) (1)

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Hi Phil,

Thanks for your comment --- Have now written out the acronym for OER.

Cheers

I like and use acronyms (eg CEC <smile>). Only that the first time they are used, I recommend that in parenthesis the full meaning be spelled out.--Phil Bartle 15:26, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Kudos, and an offer (1)

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I really enjoyed the brilliance, technically and in terms of the writing, of your page. My main purpose for participation in the course is primarily to learn to use wikis for training in writing and learning project development for language classes, but I am also planning on developing a progressive community political wiki in our Northern Illinois area, and I'll let you know when it gets up and running. Who knows, a community organizer might, as we have recently heard, have almost as much to say and teach as a small town mayor!

Social network analysis (1)

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Hello Phil, I´m interested in doing a social network analysis in higher education and would appreciate any information you might have on relevant studies, SNA software, etc. Thanks!--Benjamin Stewart 12:46, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Benjamin. I am afraid I am totally out of the academic kingdom on that one.--Phil Bartle 15:20, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Deletion (1)

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Hi Phil,

I noticed you wanted a duplicate page deleted. If you pop over here: Category:Deletion requested there are simple instructions to request deletion. The deletion tab is accessible to administrators and once your page is listed an admin will delete it.

Cheers, dmccabe 23:58, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Done, and many thanks

And now deleted! Cheersdmccabe 02:43, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, It was deleted. but why did you delete the one that I wanted left on?

Thanks (29)

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Hi Phil
Thanks for your message on my page. I am very happy to reach the WikiArtisan Level and will put in more efforts at WikiEducator to live upto this. GitaGita Mathur 02:48, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Warm greetings from Mexico (7)

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Welcome to WikiEducator!

Greetings Dr Phil

I'm your WikiNeighbour. Welcome to our dynamic community of 11,758 WikiEducators.
I see you are starting the EL4C19 Workshop. You will be working along with two amazing facilitators, Patricia and Nellie. Enjoy the journey and work at your pace. I'm certain you will become a great WikiEducator. Congratulations.

Anything I can do for you, please let me know

--chela5808 17:21, 26 January 2009 (UTC))

Thanks for the welcome. I am slow in learning how to do things, but now I found the reply button, I am tryng to find out how to upload images. Did it once and forgot how

Phil,

Look for tool "Upload Files" which is located in the box "Tools", at the (left) side navigation bar of WikiEducator.

Cheers, Gladys G. --chela5808 08:53, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Well,

I see you found the link. Great

Greetings

Gladys --chela5808 08:56, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Phil,

Thank you for your kind words in my User Page.

You know what?

When I heard you talk on last online session, I had a precious flashback from my high school years, you reminded me to a wonderful spanish literature professor. Thank you for that.

Gladys Gahona--chela5808 16:10, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

A gift for my friend :)

Image:Philbartle.png

Community development (1)

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Dr. Phil, Thanks for the comments. I am also developing a programme for the unreached population, the non-formal education planning. We seem to be addressing the same kind of audience. Please do look at my user page my contribution. Its still in its development process. wishes jyoti

See: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle/My_sandbox#Discussion_on_Non_Formal_Education

Greetings! (171)

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