This is great news for the entire free knowledge community. I consider
WikiEducator, in many ways, a sister project to our own initiatives,
especially Wikiversity. Wayne Mackintosh, who founded the project,
sits on our Advisory Board (and I sit on the WikiEducator Advisory
Board). He's also a friend and drives many key initiatives like this
one.
I'm especially pleased that the probably largest initiative ever for
capacity building around wiki use is taking place in developing
countries. The idea of the "Learning4Content" project - teachers get
instructed in the wiki use, and in return contribute their knowledge -
could very well be a model for us to follow.
Kudos to Wayne and everyone else who is making this happen. :-)
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From: mackiwg <WMackintosh(a)col.org>
Date: Oct 26, 2007 4:11 AM
Subject: [WikiEducator] Hewlett Foundation award WikiEducator $100 000
To: WikiEducator <wikieducator(a)googlegroups.com>
Be sure to check out our News on the front page.
(
http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page)
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation award WikiEducator $100000 to
build MediaWiki Educator skills for at least 2500 educators in 53
countries under our Learning4Content initiative:
http://www.wikieducator.org/Metawikieducator/Learning4Content/Hewlett_bid
The COL will also be investing an additional $60000 for this project.
The WikiEducator family is proud of this achievement because it is our
first funding proposal developed as free content on WikiEducator.
The project will widen the skills base among educators to contribute
to free content projects like WikiEducator and Wikipedia.
I think I should have a glass of red wine to celebrate. I hope
WIkiEducators all over the world will do the same!
Cheers
Wayne
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