User:Derek J Moore/sandbox
I'm an online educator, and my online teaching and learning is both visible and persistent. Although Wikipedia is still a relatively new environment for me. I have used a range of technologies for education. On wikipedia, I am grateful to many who helped me find my way. Here in Gauteng, Bobby Shabangu (for inducting me to this environment), and Matete Lesele (for the good company). Both have been very kind.
I am a member of Creative Commons and I consider myself a Wikipedia. But remain independent of any institution. I am however shaped by my context and my teachers. I engage critically with dominant technology and higher ed discourses and assume, in good faith, that these interactions contribute towards shaping education and technology for public good.
Abstracts or proposals
[edit]Articles under development
[edit]These are the articles that I am currently working on.
- /Anthology_edtech At an interview with Higher Health, I was introduced to Anthology
- /library_template A Template for Librarians to build upongher
- /COJ_libraries_and_information_services a COJ LIS wikipedia page
- /SACPO Supports, represents, promote and protect the interests of all Technical and Vocational Education and training Colleges in South Africa.
- CHE Council on Higher Education needs more work. It has been moved to draft
- /SAIDE I did not realise that Tony was also a Wikipedian. Need to find time to improve the SAIDE page
- /mama_money is an article about a remittance group that I am working on
- /Gukurahundi a Mythical create I bumped into in Malawi
- /open_access_SA is to notice the openness of research in South Africa
- /Geopolitics of postdigital educational development I am submitting a paper with Sean, Michael and Precious about post-digital privilege.
- /Centre for High Performance Computing, still waiting for NOX to add her two cents worth
- /DIRISA Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa
- /MCDE Malawi College of Distance Education (MCDE) is a department under the Directorate of Open Distance and e-learning (DODeL) in the Ministry of Education. It is mandated to provide education and training through open, distance and e-learning.
- /Cobblers Children Syndrome decided not to add anything more to this entry because that would undermine Petar's introduction to his book
- /siyaphumelela
- /bookdash
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Translated Articles
[edit]- I am busy translating this article about Jonathan Jansen.Little surprised that I cant’t get any translation assistance though.
Published Articles
[edit]After joining WMSA for their AGM in 2023, I learned about their Wiki Loves SA library campaign. [1] I hooked up with the wonderful peeps at Randburg Library, and we started a monthly Wikipedia meetup (led by Bobby and hosted by Matete). On 2023-12-11 I was inspired to create the Parkview Library page. After several speedy deletes, the Parkview Library page was finally published. I am pleased to have added an info box. I showed the article to Sissy and Portia and asked them to take over. I have been creating Wikipedia library pages for other people. My sister is in Cae Town and she visits the Kloof Street Public Library Writing library pages can be tricky. I have created a library template.
I finished up a short DH-OER project and noticed that the organizational sponsor, SADILaR was not on Wikipedia. I knew that they would be doing Wikipedia workshops. So on 2024-02-12 authored the following piece that was viewed and approved by Menno. Since this article was published a number of translations have been made.
When my " pay as you go" data ran out, I was looking through the “free” options. I there discovered, to my surprise, that South Africa has a state owned newspaper called Vuk’uzenzele. It’s only us big city folk who don’t know about it though. Most people out of the big smoke know all about it.
I work in higher education and am quite critical about the direction in which universities are going. One of the groups responsible for the current trajectory is USAf (universities in South Africa). This organization is made up of the 26 vice chancellor’s of public universities. They had a vague Wikipedia page. I have added more details. VC facing a massive leadership challenge. Frankly, I would not want to be in their shoes. I am not however sure who keeps them to account. This USAf article attempts to follow their activities. I will also be using the information therein for chapter about I am writing about post-digital geopolitics. This is far from complete, the challenges in the higher education sector are vast.
After completing a series of workshops for a client ODeL at MZUNI. , I visited MZUZU university and met the director. I composed this piece and sent it back to her for approval.
I was invited to a job interview with Higher_health, and so I decided to find out about them before the interview. I then shared the article with them afterwards. I did not get the job, (and neither did I receive thanks the article). I still have not found someone to review the piece properly.
=Substantial Contributions
[edit]- I have made changes to the introduction of the South African University Rankings site pointing out criticism of of rankings. I would like to get Sioux's perspective, but she has not replied yet. Received a rely from Philip.
I have made small alterations to these pages.
- Common Purpose UK
- University of the Witwatersrand
- Pan South African Language Board
- South Africa
- Bessie Head Library
- Robert Sobukwe
- University of Cape Town
- City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality
- University of Pretoria
- National Program on Technology Enabled Learning in India.
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