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Website:http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher
Employer:Consultant, UBC and The Commonwealth of Learning
Occupation:Facilitator, Community-Builder, Consultant
Other roles:Elected Member of WikiEd's Community Council
Nationality:Canadian
Country:Canada
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About WikiRandy (aka Randy Fisher), MA, OMD

I have 15+ years of experience related to stakeholder engagement, project management, coordination and implementation. I have expertise in Change Management and Performance Improvement; Organizational Design & Development, Building Sustainable Projects & Communities; and in using wikis, blogs and social networking tools for collaboration, participatory learning and engagement.

I am an elected member of the first WikiEducator Community Council. Currently, I am consulting to UBC and The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Vancouver on several projects including WikiEducator (see below).

MA Thesis

I have just completed my MA, in Organization Management and Development from Fielding Graduate University. Please see my thesis: Primal Needs Gone Digital: Educators' Motivations in an Open Wiki Environment. It was written and published entirely on WikiEducator.


Contact Me!

I am interested in additional consulting engagements. Please contact me at: wikirandy AT yahoo.com Vancouver, BC +1 604.684.2275 (Pacific Time) GMT -8

  • Skype: wikirandy


My WikiEducator Links

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Activities, Projects & Links

Culinary Education Home Learning4Content

  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

Jewish Education (open)

Organization Development

  1. HR-Employee Handbook
    1. Job Descriptions

Proposals

  1. Participatory Learning - MacArthur Foundation
  2. Digital Media (News) - Knight Foundation
  3. Free Content for Sustainable Ecosystems
    1. Mothers of Intention
  4. Social_Entrepreneurship





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

Clusters, Nodes

Community Media

  1. Welcome_Note
  2. M4L-Draft Notes
  3. Monthly Evaluation (2009)

Heywire8 Think Tank on OERs, New Zealand August 2008

HIV AIDS


Nodes

WikiGovernance


Links

WikiEngagement


WikiGovernance



My Project Focus Areas


Open Educational Content / Resources


WikiEducators from Papua New Guinea
WikiEducators from Papua New Guinea


Tutorials

My Sandbox

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


L4C Progress Dashboard (Commonwealth)
Workshops completed
(Target - 160):
46%
Educators registered
(Target - 2 500):
94%
Learning Contracts
(Submission rate)
54%
Countries reached (for f-t-f workshops)
(Target- 52)
58%
L4C Vital Statistics
No. of online workshops 23
No. of face-to-face workshops 50
No of countries (f-t-f workshops) 30
Participants registered 2360
No. of learning contracts signed 1280

Last update: 1 April 2009


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!

{{Note|Randy - what text should/could I put here on your page?

Presentations

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.



Template:WikiRandyWikiStatus

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

Thought For The Day
The way to avoid mistakes is to gain experience. The way to gain experience is to make mistakes.

Educating Tribal Girls, Pune-India.


Quotes

"We chose the co-op model because the most logical way to combat problems so large is by co-operation. Community spirit is the most sustainable and renewable energy there is." Rock Radovan, President and Founding Member, Sustainable Ottawa – www.sustainableottawa.ca

In “Saying Yes to Solar”, by Patrick Langston, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Saturday, June 21, 2008. Retrieved December 25, 2008 from http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/homes/story.html?id=421525df-2ae7-4a86-87c9-eae8e63e229f&p=2

"Projects plans come and go, but stakeholders remain the same." -Randy Fisher, to Chris from Australia, Dec. 29, 2008

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