Guest Speaker Week 4

Posted February 4th, 2008 by bdieu
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This week we are pleased to announce an online synchronous meeting with Wayne Macintosh, who has graciously ceded some of his very busy time to join us for an open conversation on wikis, WikiEducator and open content projects. Wayne has also suggested, depending on the interest of participants, that COL (Commonwealth of Learning) could run 10 working days of online training (about 20 minutes per day required) on basic wiki editing skills.

The meeting will take place on Wednesday 6th at 21 GMT. We will be using the Elluminate platform generously set up by Leigh Blackall from the Otago Polytechnic University in New Zealand. Leigh, whom I met f2f during the Future of Learning in a Networked World event in 2006, has been heavily involved in open content projects both with WikiEducator, Wikiversity, Wikibooks and more recently with OER Handbook.

Please check details in the Primer as to pre-activities/readings and how to join. Write down any questions or concerns you may have so as to have them answered during the meeting.

On February 6th, 2008 susnyrop said:

Right now we’re in the Elluminate room getting things ready for our session!

On February 7th, 2008 khaines said:

Unfortunately I had a workshop at work (10 am NZ time) that I had to go to - sorry I couldn’t attend Elluminate. Will there be any record of the session logged somewhere?

Karen (whose record for attending synchronous events seems to suffer from being in an unusual timezone perhaps?) 

On February 8th, 2008 leolaoshi said:

Gosh I missed this.

I am Leo Wong from China. I am also from TALO.

On February 8th, 2008 bdieu said:

Here is the link to the recording of the session, which requires a java download and takes a few minutes to start. It is also linked from my blog post the day after. As for the unusual timezones, it is true that OZ and AU are sometimes about 11 to 12 hours ahead of usa and many people tend to forget that afternoons here are early hours of the morning for you. I have experienced the same when traveling to OZ.

However, this particular presentation was hosted by the Otago Polytechnic in NZ so it was more Oceania friendly :-)