Section 2. Reflecting the global potential of Internet technologies,
WAOE fills the need for an organization of worldwide educators,
one that is unencumbered by geography, physical travel, paper
publications and other material means of production that
must be subsidized by members. As world civilizations are
becoming digitized, the WAOE organization itself can function
entirely with digital technologies. As a global organization,
WAOE upholds online education towards multilingualism and
multiculturalism, preservation of human rights to diversity,
mutual respect despite differences, and world reconciliation
through intercultural communication among global citizens.
The Constitution doesn't have to specify the content-area workgroups,
but I'll be making more proposals soon and the input of members is
needed. Article V now simply reads in part:
Section 6. Content-Area Workgroups are each called
Online Course and Resource Evaluation Workgroups,
abbreviated as Online CREWs or O-CREWs. They aim to cover
most areas of learning online, and to bring together educators
of related interests, with a content-area scope suitable for
stability in the long run. O-CREWs may form autonomously,
but at least five WAOE members of the Workgroup must vote
for its Representative to be added to the Coordinating Ring.
The WebBBS is serving the purpose of an asynchronous Constitutional
Convention, so successive drafts, proposals and discussion thereof are
categorized into threads and available from the menu at URL:
<http://155.43.48.225:2020/waoe1.html>.
Please add to that if you have time. Specifically, the Constitutional
thread, including "Draft Constitution Articles I-V of VI," can be found
at:
<http://155.43.48.225:2020/cgi-bin/wao6.pl>.
The latest, soon to be superseded, "Committee System Update" can be
found under the Membership discussion thread at URL:
<http://155.43.48.225:2020/cgi-bin/wao2.pl>.
Most members seem to be satisfied that this organism is getting
organized for global action. Beyond mutually exclusive or dualistic
thinking, rather with spherical reasoning _a la_ Plato, we need to
prepare many mansions and communication avenues to organize those
concerned with turning online education into a professional discipline.
In MOO lingo:
Steve (blue heron) waves wing to send healing stardust to Lujean Baab.
Collegially,
Steve McCarty
Professor, Kagawa Junior College, Japan
<steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
<http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcon98/keynote/mccarty.html>.
<http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcon98/keynote/mccarty.bio.html>