User:Vtaylor


 * "What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn." ~African proverb

== Work in progress== "The quest for asking elegantly simple questions...the very best journey that our life offers" - Trudy Hall


 * /Engineering/, /MOOCs/, /Summer of Code 2014/, /here be dragons/
 * 2014.07
 * 2014.06 - /Learning literacies/, /CIS 89A HTML and CSS/, /MDC/
 * 2014.05 - /Mobile learning/, /4kids/ - resource sites

To enable a kid to learn without a teacher is the best gift a teacher can give a student.


 * 2014.03 - /Learning literacies/, /CIS 89A HTML and CSS/, /Summer of Code 2014/, /Open Doors Group (ODG) Advisory/, Catalyst, /OERs4kids/

== Recent work== “I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.” ~ Larry King


 * 2013.11 - Proj Mngt, CIS 2, /Learning literacies/, /Creekside/, /CIS 89A HTML and CSS/, /Technology Supported Learning/

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” ~ Ralph G. Nichols
 * 2013.09 - CIS 2 - /CIS2 Fall13/, /Silver Wings/, /MOOCs/


 * 2013.08 - /Lectric Library/, scenarios, flexible learning, /city living/, /Healthy kids/


 * 2013.07 - CIS 2 - /CIS2 Fall13/, /EAA sim/, /Engineering games/, /Writing non-fiction for kids/, /Education innovation/

''The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. [http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/b_b_king.html --B. B. King]''


 * 2013.06 - e4k, /NASA Summer of Innovation/ - notes, activities, report, L4C Solomon Islands


 * 2013.05 - e4k wiki, notes. images place, Suitcase museum. creativity mooc. /B&GC notes/, /21c engineering/

Don't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time. --Rabindranath Tagore


 * 2013.04 - e4k notes, http://engineering4kids.wikispaces.com

Advocating universal access to science and engineering. Promoting open education resources, personal learning networks and educator collaboration. Discovering open learning communities, networks and new ideas. "May you live in interesting times." For Gen-B2 (B squared aka Baby Boomers), life has been pretty amazing - full of surprises, change, prosperity and innovation. Technology, and the internet in particular play a big part in this story. They provide the opportunity to contribute to global understanding and application of science and engineering to benefit all. Image that - I'm part of the community sharing information and access to learning with anyone anywhere in the world. But wait, there's more...


 * 2013.03 - e4k wikispaces, challenge ideas, notes, k-8 examples, images place, /NSB BSF Education Zone, Y2013,  BSA Aviation, /B&GC notes/

if we are ever to civilize this world and live in greater peace and harmony, it can only be done by educating every single child to the limit of their capacity. --Edward Lukacs


 * 2013.02 - BSA Aviation,  in progress, /K-8 engineering/, wikispaces wikia - Engineering


 * 2013.01 - in progress, This Is Engineering, /Engineering Design challenge/, eng notes, /B&GC notes/,  dragons Y2013,  /Learning Spaces/ - paths, /pLearn/, PLE, self-directed, science 7 wikispaces - layered curriculum, b&gc kidsblog, EAA / BSA / BSF

''Expect creative solutions, not compromise, aligned with the vision that benefit the organization as a whole. ''


 * 2012.12 - /Engineering/ notes, byxbee wikispaces, /Technology plan/, /BST notes/, Math 6-8, EASY, /Lectric Library/, /B&GC notes/
 * 2012.11 - NSB BSF 2013, Y2012, /MOOCs/, /mTeaching and learning/, Meeks Sci 7, Edmodo community, /Technology plan/, Mrs. Graham Reading

the environment that succeeds supports student autonomy, mastery, and purpose - Daniel Pink's three elements


 * 2012.10 - BST program summary, /mTeaching and learning/, Sci7 layered curriculum, /Y2012/, Stanford Designing Learning Environments MOOC

''An engineer starts with a societal need. Absent a societal need, an engineer has nothing to do.''


 * 2012.09 - /Lectric Library/ EarthSci Archaeology, /FLL 2012/, /Engineering/, /Flying/, /EAA Young Eagles/


 * 2012.08 - /CIS3/, /Lectric Library/, /Lectric Library Guide/,  /Aerospace education/, /BYO.../, /Mobile learning notes/

learning is... connection, cooperation, open, mobile, global, imagination, inspiration, discovery, self-serve * zest, grit, self-control, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism and curiosity


 * 2012.07 - CIS2 -  12M, /Lectric Library/, /CIS3/, /Africa projects/,  /MOOCs/


 * 2012.06 - /Mobile learning/, /Review and evaluation/, /OERs to go/, /Jellyfish/, /Cooperation/,  NSB Hub on Canal,  Cultivating curiosity

''Excellence is Caring more than others think is wise; Risking more than others think is safe; Dreaming more than others think is practical. Expecting more than others think is possible. --Winston Churchill''


 * Come fly with me - Exploring Science K-6 and 7-9 through aviation and aerospace concepts. CF kids
 * /Y2012/, /Financial stories/ reality

The key ingredients for deep creative learning are real freedom and real responsibility. Freedom allows for exploration and experimentation, while responsibility insures that both will be pursued with rigor. Interest and commitment are the prerequisites for the responsible use of freedom. There is no way that we know of to force people to be interested and committed. That must be a precondition. --Harrison Owen

No one wants to be sold; they want to be empowered to buy.

Those who cannot claim computers as their own tool for exploring the world never grasp the power of technology ~ via OLDaily


 * 2012.05 - /JA7 Success/ presentation widget, /Aviation Day/, come fly wikispaces, /K8 engineering/, /Math7/, /iPad intro/


 * 2012.04 - /Healthy Habits/, /Healthy Eating/, /Renee and me/, /Fat kids/, /Money watch/, /Healthcare/, /Mobile classroom/


 * 2012.03 - BSF Ed Zone, CIS50 -  12W, notes, /BSA Aviation/, /Curatr/, 7FL6 info

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think ~ Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)


 * 2012.02 - /Digital Talking Books/, Aerospace_education/Timeless_Wings_and_Wheels_Museum


 * 2012.01 - /Middle school/, /SciTech/ User:Burns


 * 2011.12 - /WOW bibliography/, /Gender differences/, Aerospace education portal

Learning is the free and open-source version of education It's about individuals connecting to knowledge and pursuing their passions  among peers and guides with fewer constraints--time, place, cash, or otherwise. --


 * 2011.11 - /CIS50 notes/, CIS50, /WikiEducator tutorials, guides and help/. /Books/comefly_rev_0.1, /AITR/Minecraft/, MCwiki ed project, /here be dragons/, wikibooks navigation template, /12 Principles/

''Stay hungry. Stay foolish.'' --Steve Jobs (1955-2011) quoting Whole Earth Catalog


 * 2011.10 - /AITR/, Sugar Activities projects, Come fly with me, BSF EdZ, /MOOCs/, /Imagine that/, /Engineering/, /IAEP notes/, /Hiking/, /memo to self/, Template:Comeflyinfo, /Mentoring/, /IAEP 4 UR school/, /NSB BSF EdZone/, /CIS50/


 * 2011.09 - /Aerospace education/, /AITR/, Come fly with me, /CIS2 reading/, /WOW education/, /MOOCs/, /Imagine that/, /IAEP notes/


 * 2011.08 - /Introduction to Sugar/ - notes, /XO 101 notes/, /Science book/, /SciTech/ - /Come Fly K-6 lessons/,  7-9 lessons,  /Kids Fly/, /CIS2 reading/

The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance. --Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.


 * 2011.07 - DeAnza_College/CIS2/Summer_2011, /MOOCs/, /FL Math Science Grade 3/, /FL Science Grade 5/, /Science K-8/, /ePortfolio MOOC/, Collaborative writing with WikiEducator,, /Afterschool projects/, /Planet Sugar/ blog contributors

''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'' --frequently attributed to Mark Twain, and often to Will Rogers, Satchel Paige, Artemus Ward, as well as others


 * 2011.06 - /CIS2 2011M/, Technology Supported Learning - matrix, /Kitchen chemistry/, /Diigo bookmarks/, /Imagine that/, /XO notes/,  /Sugar manual/, /XO curriculum/, /XO teacher training/, /Aerospace education/

''education has been subjected to the tyranny of the Right Answer, even though the most important questions don't have right answers. - Who am I? Why should you believe me? Is this real? What is the most important thing that we should do next?'' --Edward Mokurai Cherlin


 * 2011.05 - Community Empowerment/Media projects, /Sugar Replacing Textbooks Project/, /SciTech Grade 5/, /Algebra 1/, /Aerospace education/, /AITR/, /CIS2 2011M/


 * 2011.04 - Build A Plane.org LookUp!, /Sci Tech K-8/


 * 2011.03 - OERu volunteers, /WE OER reviews/,  NSB BSF EduZ, /Learning literacy/, /AITR/, /Imagine that/ - problem solving and creativity, /Mobile learning/

You are the same today as you will be in five years except for two things, the people you meet and the books you read. --?


 * 2011.02 - /AITR/, TSL collaboration, /PLEK12/, /Mobile learning/, /OER challenge/


 * 2011.01 - FRC Robotics - Team 2152, /AITR/, /Education Zone/, /LAK11/, /CCK11/, Technology Supported Learning - blog, /TSL Feb2011/


 * /Aerospace education/ - templates, /Physical Science/, /Physics/, Build A Plane.org LookUp!


 * /Learning objects, personal learning environments, study guides/ - notes, /Adopting learning objects - case studies/


 * online volunteers, Open Business/Supply Chain Management, SCM notes, /Financial responsibility/, /Cloud computing/, /cloud LMS/, /WASPs/, /Engineering/, /Imagine that/


 * 2010.12 - FTC, /Adult learning/


 * 2010.10 - /Flying/, /PLENK2010/, Learning spaces

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. --Mark Twain


 * /Group projects/, /Computers and Society/, Teaching, Learning and Technology


 * 2010.07 - /Computers and Society/, CIS2 Summer 2010, Canal Alliance - High School 101


 * 2010.06 - WEreview, /Assessing the learning process/


 * 2010.05 - Teaching, Learning and Technology - /@ONE Moodle Bootcamp/, CIS2 Summer 2010, Community College Open Textbook Collaborative, @ONE/Moodle Quickguides, @ONE, Open Course in Education Futures   /EdFutures notes/, /Flying/, /Mobile learning/


 * /Computers and Society/, CIS2 Summer 2010,  1.End Hunger,  2.Universal Education / Gender Equity,   3.Child Health / Maternal Health,   4.Environmental Sustainability,  5.Combat HIV/AIDS,  6.Global Partnership,  Privacy guidelines, /CIS2 Open Textbook Reviews/, /Scenario-Based Learning experience/

Projects and courses


 * WikiEducator pages for Teachers Without Borders - WE Certificate,  Voices: Suggestions,  /TWB discussions/, /TWB CTM notes/, Teachers Without Borders/Millennium Development Goals,  Peace education, Learning disabilities education, Human Rights education, WE CollabOERate with TWB, Teachers Without Borders/Teacher Training


 * WikiEducator Community Council Spring 2010 WCC Third meeting  vt notes,  WCC Ready mix, /WEreadiMix/,  open media files - text playback


 * 2010.04 - /p2pu/, Summer 2010, /Locating and adopting OER content/


 * 2010.03 - CIS2 Winter 2010,  G1,   G2,   G3,  G4,  Council meeting, /Campaigning/, /Political parties/, /GED tutoring/


 * 2010.02 - Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT), /CE 2020/, Template:OER_Metadata status, /WE learning objects/, /Wikipedia objects/, /Textbook reviews/, /Campaigning/, /here be dragons/


 * 2010.01 - CIS2 Winter 2010, /Open Textbooks/, /Stroke/, /Insight/, /Innovation/, /Computers and Society/, /Campaigning/, /Flying/, /WikiEducator work/, /Mark Twain today/,  personalLearning PLE, /Engineering/, /Financial discovery/, /Community health/, /Assistive technologies/, /WE learning objects/


 * 2009.12 - WikiEducator:Blog, rss WEblog, scenario orientation, /Self-directed learning/, GWLN, /Adult learning/ WE textbook, /Mobile_learning/, /WE make a difference/ stories, CNX-WE proposal, Open Textbooks, /representation/,  science6 web


 * 2009.11 - Science for 6th Graders, WE Collaborate, Phil - Socialization, DeAnza College/Phi Theta Kappa, Workgroup:WikiEducator Blog, /Overfishing/, /WE experience/, /Healthy Habits/,  OER contacts, directories, repositories, ESL resources,  Wikis - sci ed, /Workshops/, Portal:Primary Education


 * 2009.10 - CIS2 Fall 2009 - community service, Open textbook project adoptions training, /Innovation/, WikiEducator:Community Portal - Initiatives - WE learning objects reviews, TSL Technology Supported Learning, Workgroup:Categories, /test OER metadata template/,  Engineering, /Industrial design/,  CHC  Community Gardens


 * 2009.08 - about money including behavioral economics, GWLN course


 * 2009.07 - Learning_objects, personal learning environments, study_guides, /OER adopt, reuse, remix/, /Style guide/, CIS2 Summer 2009


 * 2009.06 - MPICT - Experiential Learning Scenario Based Learning, /MPICT SBL notes/ STEM,  Applied Science and Engineering, /WPA 2.0/, Featured_L4C_Participant:Valerie_Taylor - adopting OERs, Wikis for Knowledge, /World nutrition/, Community projects - Template:HelpWanted Template:Instructions Template:Infobox_project,  WE introduction information /Scenario Based Learning/, Online Time Exchange Network @ ning

Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.[http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/vschools/ .. William B. Yeats, poet ]


 * 2009.05 - CEC work in progress,  Community Empowerment website in multiple languages,  WikiEducator Community Empowerment, African Village Libraries


 * CIS2 Community Service Learning Guidelines, Student work SPRING 09, /Global Fellows/,  S09 community service projects, /Second Life/, /Collaboration and Group Projects/, /UN Millennium Development Goals/


 * 2009.04 - /Team dynamics/, /Faculty inquiry groups/ FIGs, Images, Video, /CE African translations/ /emp ks/, Teacher Collaboration


 * /Open Textbooks/, /The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (2nd ed.)/


 * /Innovations 2009/, /innovation/, /Financial discovery/, social learning - flexible, evaluation


 * 2009.03 - GWLN, /STEM for a Small World/, Engineering,  /The Other Economics/, /Libertarian 30-3-30/,  /here be dragons/, /Financial Literacy/,  WE Wishlist, /Healthy Eating/,  /Technology Supported Learning/, /OTL collaboration/, /WE tools and services/, /Open Textbooks/, /Innovations 2009/, /iPhone PDF reader/, /social learning/ including topic maps, flexible and non formal learning,  /innovation/, /OER repositories/, /Mobile learning/

CIS2 Computers and the internet in society, DeAnza College, Summer 2008,  Fall 2008,  DeAnza @ iTunesU
 * 2009.02 - CIS2 Community Service Learning Student Guidelines, current Winter 2009

Ongoing Projects

WE Community Empowerment, WE Intro course, 30 seconds, 3 minutes, 30 minutes
 * 2009.01 - CEC Handbook for Mobilizers,  /CE African translations/,  CEC work in progress, CE Glossary, /CE Women's Leadership/, /Community Leadership Development/,/mobilisation/, community empowerment workshop, CEC sandbox @ WE - Community Empowerment website in multiple languages

''Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.''

.. Edmund S. Wilson (1895-1972) U.S. author, literary and social critic.

Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. [http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/vschools/ .. William B. Yeats, poet ]

Education: Being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it. [http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/vschools/ .. William Feather]


 * /monobook.js/ - javascript for my projects link - messes up relative addressing --Vtaylor 13:34, 11 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Women's leadership - Global Women's Leadership Network, WE GWLN resources,  Turkey, Participatory Learning competition -  grant proposal based on community service


 * ePortfolios - /BusCS ePortfolios/, F08 ePortfolio


 * open learning - find, refer, connect - community, workshops, innovation, adaptation, connections, referrer networks /Learning Spaces/, Learn nodes, Template: SocialBookmarkBar, Template:ContentInfobox, study guides /Mobile learning/, Moodle for teaching and learning, Science


 * TSL Technology Supported Learning, CAOS 160 outline, WB TSL rubric, /TSL literacy rubric/, TSL resources,  learningonline guide-blog, TSLR Course outline,  Moodle for teaching and learning - study guide


 * /OLPC for grownups/, OLPC community testing tutoring WE tutorial on tutoring


 * Facilitating online communities FOC08 August 2008 - my notes mini conference


 * CCK08 Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course CCK08 Sept 2008 - my notes


 * WikiEducator 3.0, council


 * Distance learning - mini-tutorials, 90-minute workshops, CUE - Catalyst Using Educators community, Moodle 1.9
 * /Catalyst 1 : Basics/, Catalyst FAQs - faculty and staff
 * students /Introduction to Catalyst/, /College Orientation/ - learning, time management, study schools, ideas, examples


 * Community Service Learning Student Guidelines - community organizations, service learning opportunities, project requirements Project Proposal and Summary format,  notes, student learning outcomes,  Students @ Work, /Experiential learning/ - theory for connecting community service learning with curriculum, other programs - UBC Learning Exchange  community service learning learning about inner city issues, /Pootle OLPC online translation/


 * Technology Supported Learning - OER Technology Supported Learning - tools and skills development to support learning through technology - a facilitated online course based on Chickering & Gamson's Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. ... evaluate good practice in online undergraduate courses links, readiness criteria - understanding instructional design, basic course development skills necessary to facilitate online delivery of course work, Moodle functions, /Moodle in teaching and learning/ - work in progress, invite collaboration, early WB TSL rubric, /TSL literacy rubric/


 * /Course Evaluation Checklist/ - questions address each of the principles,  Learning Environment Technology Considerations - list of items addressing the learning environment. Some sample technologies and their application are included as a guide. --source Mehlenbacher,  WikiEducator / Otago Polytechnic  Evaluation of eLearning for Best Practice, associated E-Learning Guidelines interactive cube, .pdf format,   Designing for flexible learning practice


 * ... design social working approach based on users' "technoprofile" - the way people behave in social networking: creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, inactives.


 * self-directed learning, threshold concepts, experiential learning, Inquiry education Students are encouraged to ask questions which are meaningful to them, and which do not necessarily have easy answers; teachers are encouraged to avoid giving answers when this is possible, and in any case to avoid giving direct answers in favor of asking more questions. - still have teachers and learners, problem-based, project-based


 * /Wit and wisdom of real online students/

Open learning


 * /Open learning/ formerly /Locating and adopting OER content/


 * OER Handbook


 * open textbooks - Foothill-DeAnza, Caltech, Rice Connexions


 * Whole course adoption - Sofia Course Gallery, HTML to wiki conversion, Foothill Global Access Sofia Project


 * course evaluation - Monterey Institute


 * clouds, trusted collections of open content, OCW, OER - more than just lists of repositories


 * WikiEducator Package Export - great tool to use with the WE Collections tool - gather content to "adopt" into a Collection, export the package and import the package into the course in the LMS.


 * Learning Objects and Open Courses - an article I wrote in 2004 - not much as changed.


 * Learning4Content - discussion

Ideas and random thoughts
 * generating productive interdependence, Immersed in Inquiry (Summer 2008) - different / better than group projects?


 * learner-centered design - Are students able to agree [on] some or all of their learning goals in negotiation with teaching staff? Do students have any choice in terms of either: what they learn, the particular resources they will study and / or the learning activities they will engage in?


 * Tutorial on tutoring


 * /WoW (World of Warcraft), psychology and education/ - What transferable life skills are developed through play - John Seely Brown comment


 * "/digital brownies/" - What can I do? What do you want from me? - invitation to collaborate, virtual volunteers


 * /Generation Ageless/ aka Boomers

== Valerie Taylor==



--Valerie Taylor 11:01, 21 June 2014 (UTC) I have been teaching part-time at De Anza since 2000. My business career has included work in the education, technology and consulting. I'm not just an online instructor - I have been an online student too. I have a M.S. in Education specializing in Online Teaching and Learning - all course work was online! When I'm not working, I enjoy traveling and sailing with my family. -- syllabus bio

--Valerie Taylor 11:10, 25 May 2014 (UTC) Valerie Taylor is a long-time advocate and curator for Open Educational Resources, MOOCs and wikis including Wikipedia, Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, Community College Open Textbooks, and Hewlett Foundation funded projects. She has contributed to several publications on open education, personal learning networks and distance learning. As a K-14 educator, Valerie continues to promote Engineering within the context of STEM education and open learning. She is an elected member of the WikiEducator Community Council, encouraging the growing adoption of open access learning through the developed and developing world. Valerie holds a B.Sc from the University of Toronto and a M.Sc in Education from CSU East Bay. --for ODG

--Valerie Taylor 11:53, 30 January 2012 (UTC) Florida resident. Promoting open education, personal learning networks and educator collaboration. Advocating universal access to science and engineering education. Exploring science through aviation and aerospace concepts. WikiEducator Community Council member.

--Valerie Taylor 16:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC) Early-adopter of technology-supported learning. Advocate for universal access to education. Open education contributor. Community college instructor. Faculty workshop facilitator. MS Ed in Online Teaching and Learning. WikiEducator Community Council member. Silicon Valley resident. Lifelong learner.

Valerie Taylor: I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I teach an online course - Computers and the Internet in Society, at a local community college in Silicon Valley. I have been a web user and learner since 1994. The possibilities for making information and learning available to anyone anytime and everywhere are really exciting. I am honored to be participating in a project that is actively engaging this amazing group of educational adventurers.

In addition to making educational content available, it is essential to guide learners to the material. Finding and figuring out how to utilize the open courses is going to be a significant challenge. Lots of people are willing to share their content as has been demonstrated many times over. Now how to we get the information transferred to those who need it and who will put the knowledge to good use?


 * good open educational content is already available online - location, description, usability, target learners
 * collection and distribution - connections, networks
 * assessment - subject matter expert review and rating
 * trusted sources / reviewers - current information, point of view, credentials
 * lead by example - using available resources - process

My interests

I'm interested in:
 * online teaching and learning using the internet to make education available to everyone anywhere
 * open content, Open Educational Resources (OER)
 * kids - One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), tutoring, mLearning
 * Global Women's Leadership Network - an international network of women leaders working on issues of human rights, gender equality, sustainable development and global integrity
 * professional development for teachers, technology supported learning
 * lifelong learning, life skills
 * collaboration, /Group projects/ - MS Edu
 * sailing, reading, community projects

My Website, blog and contact particulars

DeAnza College, Cupertino, California
 * Valerie Taylor, instructor - my blog, course information and assorted projects
 * mailto: taylorvalerie at deanza dot edu
 * Technology Supported Learning and Retention - wikibooks text for an online professional development workshop, ...
 * /CIS 2 Computers and the Internet in Society/

WikiEducator


 * WE projects for students' community service learning - Template:Learning project boilerplate - what do you want them to do


 * Template:S@W,


 * finding stuff in WE - collections, category lists, searching, trusted clouds


 * page status - my stuff, read-only, collaboration welcome

WikiEducator Collections

--Vtaylor 13:22, 29 June 2008 (UTC) : Sometimes there is an "Add article" link in my collection box, sometimes not. I'm trying to make a WikiEducator "cheat sheet" so I want to include some of my own pages and some of the Special pages - which don't get the "add article" link. Help:Collections/Bug reports‎

Also - the process for adding to and saving an existing Collection is error prone - requires retyping an existing name and saving in the right panel. It would be nice to have a save button in the left panel to save the current list with the modifications.

I was surprised to find that the "saved" collection didn't reflect new additions. I had also created several Collections because I had used a different name in the right panel to save while trying to figure out how this worked.

Nice feature and I really want to use it a lot! I think this could be a huge "value add" - allowing "collectors" to discover great content and publish collections with reviews, comments, ratings, ... The problem with OER isn't the availability of content - it is already there. It's a problem to find the good stuff and use it. This is where Collections will provide an invaluable service. Collectors will build reputations in their areas of expertise. Users know they can trust the collectors recommendations, limiting their search to a manageable set of OER content. Then OER adoption will accelerate.
 * Assembling OER content - Using the WE Collection feature, assemble content by adding an article (or page) to a collection, arrange the articles and save the collection.


 * Collectors and collections - Trusted community member who creates collections of WE articles (content pages) available for adoption as a package. The package may be used by an individual learner who access the content as is. A package may be adopted, modified, edited, expanded, reformatted, published and/or distributed for use. For example, an instructor who adopts a collection might add the package to a course within a course management system such as Moodle where students will access the content with the guidance and facilitation of the instructor. A trusted collector is some or all of these: subject matter expert, instructional designer, course developer, instructor / facilitator, known by reputation and track record

Resource Status

For my own work, I need to designate a "status" (this may not be the right term) to wiki pages / articles, either individually or in groups.


 * memo to self (MTS) - essentially personal notes, random thoughts, to do list, links with/without explanation, my "stuff" and I really don't want it altered, but I appreciate comments, feedback as discussion entries.


 * read only - one or more pages that are part of a resource, notes for a course, lessons - these are available "as is". Unless I explicitly invite someone to help, these are "read-only" content. It may be useful to designate these as "complete" or "work in progress". Most OER content is in this group - feel free to make derivative work. Some way of identifying links to derivative works (through link backs) would be great so there is a record and trail if someone translated some or all of this OER.


 * help wanted - collaboration welcome - a stub or partial work, outline, description of contributions of expertise, knowledge and/or skills for expanding this work. This would be a great way to engage students or other contributors who want to help, but are not yet creating new content from scratch.
 * Invitation to collaborate (ITC) - template, category

Comments on this page

Hi Valerie and my hearty congratulations on winning the User Expo Award for February 2011. All the best. your page is a goldmine for information...Cynthia--Agnes 02:01, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Somehow I got to be Wikibuddy. Not sure how I did it, because I feel I have so very much to learn. I do know that I owe you a big debt of gratitude for showing me this. Many thanks. --Philbartle 17:17, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi I am one of the participants of the workshop'Wikieducator Gives back' .I am in your group .--Shijna 11:07, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

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