EduWikipedia

EduWikipedia

I have had several conversations as of late with folks about the dis-connect of all the connected learning taking place in Education 2.0. Randy Fullington, one of the Alabama Best Practice Fellows, commented how it was confusing tryng to navigate through all archived in the virtual learning community with all the resources we had gathered (much of it things edubloggers like you are creating and so willingly share) John Norton and I decided we had to come up with a better way to organize all we were pulling together around 21st Century teaching and learning.

Then Will Richardson, Darren Kuropatwa and I were talking the other day and the topic surfaced again-- around all the excellent resources we were all creating. It seems as if we are all working so hard in isolation and really duplicating effort in many cases-- which kind of smacks in the face of what connected learning could be...

Today Will posted this...

And to be honest, this is all stemming from a bigger burr in mybrain of late that has to do with the seeming randomness of all of thereally great work that people in this community are starting to create.It’s just feeling like it’s all over the place, and that if we could insome way get our collective act together, we could start creating anincredibly valuable resource. I know it’s all about small piecesloosely joined, but wouldn’t it be great to point the newcomers to onespot that was a clearinghouse for all of this work? Not to mention thevalue it would have to us old timers in terms of bringing people in. Imean all of a sudden, it seems like everyone has a wiki, and most allof them have great intent and good content. But there’s also a lot ofduplication of effort, and more importantly, dis-connection, at leastthat what it feels like to me.

Am I wrong?

And more importantly, what to do about it?

More conversation ensued and we decided the answer was to create EduWikipedia- the place for all edubloggers to get their act together!

What we need is a master Index where we can all link to all thingswonderful and good that we are doing in our own education 2.0 spaces.

The easiest way I see to do that is through a wiki. So please join me over on EduWikipedia- The place for us all to get our collective act together!

http://eduwikipedia.pbwiki.com
Password = connected
Share it wide and far in all your networks.

Together we can create a Table of Contents for a collectiverepository of Educational Web 2.0 related tools, resources, experts andso on.

After we create the sections in the Index– we still continue tocreate in our own spaces, we just link what we create in EduWikipedia–so we can all benefit from the awesome things we are all doing toimprove education.

Join me… help create this incredible resource!

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Comments

[dave cormier]

Hi Sheryl,

Nice talking to you the other day... if only for a couple of minutes. I got here via Bud's blog. We did alot of work on this in the early spring during our barnraisings... I think that this sort of thing is very necessary, but we need to keep things as focused as possible. I'm more than willing to help focus people on the pbwiki option (although i don't think that pbwiki has the antispam options your going to need if the wiki gets popular and that password gets around) or we are more than happy to open up our wiki to whomever would like to organize it... http://www.edtechtalk.com/wiki/index.php/TBDNMCE

as i'm sure tadge would be willing to work with others as well http://wiki.monroe.edu/index.php?title=Main_Page

[Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach]

"None of us are as good as all of us"

Bottom line-- I do not know if another wiki is the right tool and it certainly doesn't have to be the EduWikipedia page (or philosophy) that carries it-- but what I do know the timing is right for this conversation.

There is something deep inside me that feels that a collective/connected project like this is the very essence of Web 2.0 knowledge construction-- all of us adding what we have -- for the collective good. Something we can all use to grow and help others grow. Something that none of us have time to build alone, but with all of us contributing would be manageable.

I am so open to suggestions and ideas on how to do this differently-- better-- but like many of us out there-- I am longing for some organization and sensible way to put my finger on the resources I need, when I need them.

I hope others are feeling the same way.

Sheryl