User:Countrymike

I live here.

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

Wiki Projects

That i'm interested in or have participated in in the past.

Wikiversity

• Portal:Reading_groups - my favourite Wikiversity learning projects
• Wikiworld
• Eric Von Hippel:Democratizing Innovation
• Ivan Illich: Deschooling Society - a Reading Group on 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.

Personal Learning Spaces

Open PhD - an open working space for a PhD proposal.

Masters Thesis - MA completed in Dec 09 w/ degree awarded in 2010. Title of thesis: Community Radio on Waiheke Island

The Political Economy of Information - 2009 postgraduate class at the University of Auckland with Joe Atkinson

Notes on Reading groups

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.

This user is a custodian on the English Wikiversity.

This user has a page on Wikipedia.

Official policies

Assume Good Faith - Be bold - Bots - Civility - Community Review - Exemption Doctrine Policy - Privacy Policy - Privacy Policy (Meta) - Reliable sources - Research guidelines - Rollback - Verifiability - What is Wikiversity

Proposed policies

Academic freedom - Blocking policy - Bureaucratship - Chat channel policy - CheckUser policy - Child protection policy - Cite sources - Course Titles and Numbers - Course protection policy - Deletions - Disclosures - External links - Make no assumptions - Manual of Style - Naming conventions - Network naming conventions - Original research - Page protection templates - Polls - Respect people - Productive Forking and Tailoring is Encouraged - Real world schools - Scholarly ethics - Subpages - Username - User page - Vandalism - What Wikiversity is not - Catalyst