User:Countrymike

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Ko te manu kai i te Miro nōna te ngāhere, Ko te manu kai i te mātauranga nōna te ao.

(The bird who eats of the Miro tree owns the forest, the bird who eats of the Tree of Knowledge owns the world.)

Maori whakatauki (proverb)

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I'm on a bit of a hiatus from Wikiversity as i'm currently working on my MA Thesis on Community Radio. I'll be back again early next year. Countrymike 08:34, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

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My real name is Brent Simpson... Countrymike is... well it's a long story which may have to be told some other time. I am a custodian here at Wikiversity, and a Sysop and Bureaucrat on the WikiEducator project where I am also a member of the Advisory Board. My user page over there has a bit about me as well. I'm active on both projects because I think that they're different leaves of the same tree. If you need to get in touch with me regarding Wikiversity please leave a note on my Talk page.

I'm also active on the English Wikiversity IRC channel, #wikiversity-en on Freenode so you might find me there as well.

I am also quite firmly an inclusionist on Wikiversity and fall into the Eventualism camp.

Contents 1 Active Wiki Projects 2 Currently Reading 3 The Beach: My Personal Learning Spaces 4 To Do

[edit] Active Wiki Projects

Wikiversity

• Portal:Reading_groups - my favourite Wikiversity learning projects
• Wikiworld
• Eric Von Hippel:Democratizing Innovation
• Ivan Illich: Deschooling Society - a Reading Group on Wikiversity.
• Web architecture for Wikis: learning project to discuss the implications of web architecture on the emergence of large scale participatory wiki projects like Wikiversity.

WikiEducator

• Audacity Tutorial
• Wikieducator Tutorials
• The Learning Design Project on WikiEducator.
• Main Page redesign.
• I attended the Tectonic Shift Think Tank in Vancouver in April, 2007 where I got to meet a lot of the top MediaWiki hackers and talk Wikis for education with a lot of people from the OER movement.

[edit] Currently Reading

• Wikiworld
• Making_Wikiversity_a_personal_learning_space
• FOSSlike_collaboration_in_schools - modelling teaching/learning after FLOSS development models.
• w:Talk:Ki-o-rahi - interesting ... could something like this be actually better off being dealt with in Wikiversity rather than Wikipedia? Knowledge systems based not on "verifiable" (read written) sources, but rather through oral forms of knowledge transmission.
• Renewable energy systems
• Wikiversity_learning_model/Discussion_group#A_4-pronged_approach - proposal from SB_Johnny about revisiting the way Wikiversity learning projects could be organised/structured.
• Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins

[edit] The Beach: My Personal Learning Spaces

Notes on Reading groups

The Political Economy of Information - class I am taking at the University of Auckland.

Masters Thesis

[edit] To Do

Templates

• Look at Wikiversity Templates on Wikibooks

Advocacy

• Interwiki links from Wikieducator to Wikiversity
• explore reciprocation of the above
• Expand Wikiversity page on WikiEd

Reading Groups

• Finish Illich Deschooling Society
• Reading group for Democratizing innovation
• Start group on Isaiah Berlins' Two Concepts of Liberty

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Google is where frustrated people end up looking for information when wikipedia doesn't have an article on it. Quote by User:Yeoman on IRC.