User:Wikirandy

About WikiRandy (aka Randy Fisher), MA, OMD
I am President of iCentro  in Ottawa, Canada (a success network for entrepreneurs and business professionals). iCentro has provided extensive contributions to the open education community - see the iCentro space on WikiEducator.

I provide consulting support to International Centre for Open Education / Open Education Resources Foundation, in New Zealand.

I have 15+ years of experience in stakeholder engagement, project management, coordination and implementation and coaching. I also have expertise in OD / Change Management, E-Learning & HR/Performance Improvement, Marketing and Communications. In particular, I am an expert in Building Sustainable Projects, Communities and Networks with Web 2.0 social networking, MediaWiki and collaboration tools (blogs, wikis, Skype, discussion groups, etc.).

I have an MA in Organization Management and Development, Fielding Graduate University, California. My thesis: Primal Needs Gone Digital: Educators' Motivations in an Open Wiki Environment, 2009.

I am an elected member of the WikiEducator.org Community Council, the governing body of the largest formal education wiki in the world (18,000+ users in 120 countries). I am also an advisor to Amarok Society, which educates poor mothers and children in Bangladesh.

For more info, please see: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher

Project Links

 * OERF - Marketing Correspondence
 * CCCOER Meeting Planning (Quarterly)

Wiki Instructions
for November 17-30 course

Hi Everyone,

Here's a revised note, with the registration link (as per Jacky's feedback). This note can be easily shared with others.

Attached, please find the poster for the upcoming free Open Education Resources (OER) and wiki skills training workshop - 10 days from November 17-30. It's a collaboration between WikiEducator.org / OER Foundation and the Community College Consortium for Open Education Resources (CCCOER). WikiEducator's community comprises 16,000 educators in 120 countries; and CCCOER has 200+ community colleges primarily in the US and Canada.

You will learn valuable skills for developing OER content; and building new connections in the OER world and with others in community colleges and beyond.

Here is a direct link to registration - http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/eL4C47/Register

Please feel free to share this with your networks and communities.

If you have any questions, please contact me directly

Thanks much.

- Randy
 * Special Characters
 * Project Support
 * Support for Projects
 * What's in it for me?
 * Co-opetition Model


 * Facilitation
 * WikiEducator Purpose
 * Culinary Education Home
 * Learning4Content
 * VCC Practicum; L4C Community Media, Nellie's L4C-15 Course
 * L4C_Performance Interventions
 * L4C Post Workshop Survey (connecting the line to Pilot_Projects


 * Rupantar, Bangladesh Pot Songs Video
 * 1) Revised L4C Workshops
 * 2) L4C-Advance Pilot Workshop
 * 3) Advanced_Users
 * 4) L4C-Community Media, Nov. 3-7, 2008
 * 5) eL4C12
 * 6) /People_I_Have_Trained/
 * 7) Jewish Education (open)
 * Social Media
 * Learner Centred Learning

Organization Development

 * 1) HR-Employee Handbook
 * 2) Job Descriptions


 * Pilot Projects
 * Participatory Learning
 * Proposals
 * 1) Participatory Learning - MacArthur Foundation
 * 2) Digital Media (News) - Knight Foundation
 * 3) Free Content for Sustainable Ecosystems
 * 4) Mothers of Intention
 * 5) /Social_Entrepreneurship/


 * Tom Caswell - Accessibility Interests

Here are a few opportunities I see for those interested in working together to improve web accessibility in the OCW/OER community:

1. Share/promote accessibility in OCW tools, including automatic systems to create accessible content formats 2. Create/share/maintain OER Accessibility Guidelines 3. Create a model OCW course all about accessibility
 * Automatic video text
 * Automatic voice content generation like DAISY (http://daisy.org)
 * Web accessibility evaluation tools, such as WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org)
 * What other resources are out there?
 * For Subject-matter experts (professors/instructors creating instructional content)
 * For OER support staff (technologists converting/uploading OER content)
 * Again, is there something already out there we can build on?
 * Describe best practices and model specific examples of accessible OER content


 * OMD, MP
 * * Demo Example Template

To Do

 * UBC - Office of Learning Technologies
 * WikiCaribbean
 * WE Community Council - 1st Meeting
 * Yoga

Community-Building

 * 1) Setting up WikiEducator is Quick & Easy
 * 2) Community Building Project
 * 3) Community_building_project/Communications
 * 4) Request for Donations - Sample Letter of Request
 * 5) Benefits of Contributing / Donating Learning Materials - linked to Main Donations page

FCM Meeting

 * Community Media
 * Monthly Evaluation reports


 * HIV AIDS Portal
 * Rupantar - Rupantar - Pot Songs Video on YouTube (Storytelling / Community Theatre about Politics & Corruption

HIV AIDS

 * HIVAIDS Portal
 * Infobox Shortcut
 * Alexa traffic rank for WikiEducator
 * WikiEducator News - Portals & Projects
 * Cool WikiEducator Video
 * Free/Libre & Open Software for Schools,
 * My Sandbox
 * Quality Assurance Framework

Nodes

 * Clusters, Nodes
 * Community Media
 * Welcome_Note
 * M4L-Draft Notes
 * Monthly Evaluation (2009)


 * Heywire8 Think Tank on OERs, New Zealand August 2008
 * Heywire8 Think Tank
 * Feedback on Heywire8 Think Tank Agenda
 * Heywire8 - Critical Success Factors

Our very own WikiRandy at the 2009 Open Ed conference: "Open education is a sustainable and renewable resource" (15:52).--Benjamin Stewart 22:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Social Media
 * Open Education for Schools
 * WikiGovernance
 * WikiRandy at the 2009 Open Ed conference

Other Links

 * OSGEO Repository of Learning Materials
 * WikiEngagement
 * Ideas 4content
 * Development Meetings
 * FLOSS4EDU Pacific Workshops
 * FLOSS4EDU - Community Building - Detailed Agenda
 * Francophonie FLOSS4EDU
 * OER Workshop toolkit
 * WikiAmbassadors,WikiMaster
 * Writing Effectively - Learning Tips
 * FreeContent4SustainableEcosystems
 * Terra Incognita, Internationalising Online Programs
 * WikiGovernance
 * PCF5 Wiki

Focus Areas

 * Mothers of Intention
 * Adopt-a-Mom project
 * Community Journalism
 * Science Education (gord s.)
 * Organization / Community Development (ed h.)
 * Climate Change / Environment (john b.)
 * Perceptual Barriers to Using Open Educational Content (OERs).

OERs

 * WikiEd Tutorial / What is Free Content?
 * Free Content Essay by Kim Tucker - Say Libre
 * OER Workshop toolkit
 * Open_Educational_Content/Top10Reasons Top 10 Reasons to Use Open Educational Content
 * Open Content Resources
 * Open Educational Content - OLCOS (European Project)]
 * The Cathedral and the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond
 * UNESCO Free and Open Software Portal
 * Ivan Illich - Deschooling
 * Leigh Blackall's Case Study on Otago Polytechnic (New Zealand), on Terra Incognita blog - WikiEducator version
 * Signatory to The Capetown Open Education Declaration, 2008
 * OER Links on Stewart Marshall's CEDICT Blog
 * Exemplary Collection of Open eLearning Content Resources
 * Brent's Reading Group on WikiVersity


 * Tutorials - Using Open Office



Opinion Leaders

 * Jim Hebden (retired educator), BC Interior, Canada - Chemistry Lessons & Handouts
 * donated - November 2007 - "Thanks for your generous contribution Jim!"
 * John Bennett (Executive Director, Climate for Change), Ottawa (also see Educational Resources)
 * Steve Dodd (retired educator), Montreal - Science & Math Lessons
 * Ed Hampton, retired professor, University of Central Florida, USA - OD & Leadership Materials
 * Stephen Hardy (Professor, School of Engineering, Simon Fraser University), Vancouver
 * Joanne Norris (Program Manager), Social Capital Partners, Toronto
 * * Leigh Blackall - To Facilitate or Teach Online
 * Internationalising online workshops - SLOAN C - Conference - November 2007
 * OER Workshop Toolkit
 * David Wiley's Course - Intro to Open Ed
 * Meetings - OMD

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...  Note from Wayne I would suggest using the licence statement on the home page, with a note that all sub pages are licensed accordingly. Then a discrete footer template on each page. The Creative Commons site will have have wording and display options.

One of our technical and policy tasks is to sort out license policy and technical adaptations to make this easier to manage and attribute the license.



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

Presentations

 * Presentation to OSGeo (BC Chapter), July 22, 2008 @ Sierra Systems(Also, see OSGeo Page on WikiEducator)
 * Talk to Otago Digital Information Literacy students, 2008

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.


 * Ottawa Home


 * Test Page

Templates

 * Frontpage_help
 * Frontpage_news
 * Profile
 * WikiGovernance Course Template Page Generator

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 for the rows, try:

Hi, Hello, Yes Bye, Good Night, No

Please find information on the syntax and examples


 * To Wikify Content (i.e., converting, uploading content into WikiEducator)
 * Account Set Up - Assistance
 * FacilitationPro Training
 * Uploading PowerPoint
 * Quotable Quotes
 * Atlassian Questions
 * To Wikify Content (i.e., converting, uploading content into WikiEducator)
 * Account Set Up - Assistance
 * Displaying Special Characters
 * Facilitation Pro Training
 * Displaying Special Characters
 * Facilitation Pro Training

Correspondence

 * Jim Stovall, Journalism

Copyright on WikiEducator

 * See: Copyright on WikiEducator
 * OER Portal Page Generator

Questions

 * Atlassian Questions
 * Go To Meeting Questions

Other

 * Monitoring and Evaluation System of Training Programme: an enhanced system for Regional AIDS Training Network, International AIDS Society, 2008.

Remix Experiments
http://wikieducator.org/OERF:WikiEducator_remix_experiments

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Video


Cable
Thanks to the open community's collective efforts, "open" continues to move into the mainstream:

US Department of State Unveils Open Book Project: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36421
Earlier today, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the Open Book Project (remarks, fact sheet, press notice), an initiative to expand access to free, high-quality educational materials in Arabic, with a particular focus on science and technology. These resources will be released under open licenses that allow their free use, sharing, and adaptation to local context.

Blackboard’s xpLor: Cross-platform learning repository adds Creative Commons license options: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35378
Earlier this year, Blackboard announced xpLor — a new cloud-based learning object repository that will work across the various learning management systems (LMS) in use at educational institutions: e.g., Blackboard, Moodle, ANGEL, and Sakai. xpLor has added Creative Commons license options, which means that instructors and institutions can create, share, and even build on each other’s CC-licensed content all through the same interface.