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Announcing WAOE's First Supportive Affiliates
The Special/Emergency Meeting of the WAOE Board of Directors which has only just concluded as this issue of WEB goes to press designated three organisations as Supportive Affiliates.
Child Research Net (Japan)
Child Research Net (CRN), a non-profit branch of Benesse (correspondence education)
Corporation, maintains a comprehensive bilingual Website dedicated to Japanese
children's education and well-being. The Japanese language site http://www.crn.or.jp/
attracts much public perticipation, while the English site http://www.childresearch.net/
serves international academics, educators, professionals, policy-makers
and youth. Educational data, surveys, statistics, professional articles,
and essays by Japanese young people are featured. A free weekly e-mail
newsletter is available by request to info@childresearch.net.
There are also several avenues for interaction including a "Let's Talk" bulletin
board.
Academic collaboration between WAOE and CRN began in 1999. In discussions with the WAOE President in Tokyo, CRN representatives have agreed verbally at this point to grant WAOE monthly authoring honoraria equivalent to over $200 for the Japanese fiscal year from April 2000 to March 2001.
It was resolved that directors award "WAOE Supportive Affiliate" status to Child Research Net in recognition of the organisation's parallel interests and objectives, and its support for WAOE. It was further resolved that WAOE will display CRNs logo and/or hyperlink within our Website in a place designated for Supportive Affiliates, and that we will give a WAOE "Supportive Affiliate" logo to CRN to display at Miksike's Websites should the organisation's officers wish to do so.
Miksike (Estonia)
Miksike creates and makes
available interactive K-12 online educational materials and lends assistance
to teachers who wish to use them. Miksike also arranges collaborations
online between classrooms internationally. Miksike is located in Estonia
and maintains sites and online educational materials in Estonian and English.
Through our Vice President Mihkel Pilv's efforts, Miksike established the domain name and server account for WAOE, and paid for most of our online operations the first year and a half of our existence. Thus, Miksike is our first actual sponsor. We owe a debt of gratitude to Mihkel and Miksike for donating time and money to WAOE when we most needed it.
It was resolved that directors award "WAOE Supportive Affiliate" status to Miksike in recognition of Miksike's voluntary support of WAOE during its early stages of development and on the grounds that Miksike's activities and goals are directly related to WAOE's mission.
It was further resolved that WAOE will display Miksike's logo and/or hyperlink within our Website in a place designated for Supportive Affiliates, and that we will give a WAOE "Supportive Affiliate" logo to Miksike to display at Miksike's Websites should Miksike's officers wish to do so.
NonCreditEd (Learn Online! - Omega College, Washington
State, USA)
John Spiers is Dean of Omega College, a Web-based
association of noncredit online instructors which is based in Washington State,
USA, and which maintains a catalog of online courses for adults interested in
life-long education. These online classes are taught by faculty in association
with Omega College, Ltd. Omega College does not offer credit for hese
courses, but other colleges sometimes give credit to students who take courses
that are listed from Omega College's Learn
Online! site.
John Spiers has offered to give WAOE an introduction to teaching on the Web course that is already in place through Omega College's "Learn Online" catalog, to list any courses WAOE may want to offer to educators and collect any fees for those taking WAOE's courses, and to pay WAOE a percentage of fees for any other course WAOE members take after being directed to Omega College's site. After including WAOE's Orientation at the Learn Online! site and accepting fees to register for it, John Spiers has processed over a thousand dollars worth of Bankcard fees to WAOE through his merchant account (absorbing the per transaction fees and returned fees himself). Without Omega College's assistance, WAOE could not have collected sufficient members' fees in 1999 to continue operating online. I feel we should .
Wising to express appreciation for these voluntary efforts to assist WAOE in the most tangible way possible, the Directors resolved to award "WAOE Supportive Affiliate" to NonCreditEd/Omega College, Ltd, in recognition of its voluntary support of WAOE and on the grounds that its activities and mission are directly related to WAOE's own mission.
It was further resolved that WAOE will display NonCreditEd/Omega College's online logo and/or hyperlink within our Web site in a place designated for Supportive Affiliates and that we will give a WAOE "Supportive Affiliate" logo to the organisation to display at its own Websites should its officers wish to do so.
Background
The relevant legislation behind these decisions was passed at the Directors'
Meeting in February this year, and part of it - the part applying to all members
of the Association - was described under Special Items in WEB for January 31,
2000 (see Membership Privilege
- WAOE Logo).
To give you the background to the important decisions the Directors took to recognise organisations having similar aims and a special relationship with WAOE, the full wording of the motion passed in February is set out below:
Motion for a WAOE Policy on Criteria for Use of WAOE's Logos and other Intellectual Property:
Introduction
The WAOE name and logos are intellectual property of the organization, a non-profit
public benefit corporation (NPO). Only WAOE members with dues currently paid
or waived may exercise the membership privilege of placing the WAOE logo on
their Web pages (criterion 1 below). They may also indicate their WAOE
membership on curriculum vitae and other documents as well as in their signatures
in e-mail and so forth. Conversely, non-members of WAOE may make reference
to WAOE intellectual property and make links to WAOE Websites, but non-members
are not authorized to use the intellectual property of WAOE unless they are
awarded the privilege by criteria 2 or 3 below.
1. WAOE Membership Privilege
Upon initial registration for membership (as an Associate or Voting Member)
and payment of dues or waiver approval, the nominal WAOE Member logo may be
used on one's personal or professionally related Web sites, provided the directions
are followed in the notice to members "Use
of the WAOE Logo as a Membership Privilege". Use of this logo may
continue as long as the member continues active enrollment and payment or waiver
of applicable dues as required with annual renewals. Authorization of use of
the logo as a WAOE membership privilege terminates upon termination of membership
or failure to complete annual renewal requirements.
2. WAOE Supportive Organization
Awarding of the privilege to use the WAOE Supportive Organization logo shall
be determined by the WAOE Affiliate Liaison Committee, composed of a Chairperson,
ratified by the Board of Directors, and approximately four additional reviewers
who volunteer from the WAOE membership. At least three members of the
Affiliate Liaison Committee must not be associated with an organization under
consideration for potential award unless a waiver agreement is issued by the
WAOE Board of Directors.
Any WAOE member may nominate an organization to the Affiliate Liaison Committee
for consideration for awarding use of the Supportive Organization logo.
The committee shall use, as a minimum, the following criteria for consideration
in the awarding process:
(1) does the organization provide direct or indirect support to WAOE by way
of monetary, publicity, services or in kind assistance;
(2) does the organization provide a favorable, professional image to WAOE and
education; and
(3) will the organization provide reciprocal, Web-based recognition?
The organization may be either for-profit or non-profit in structure and may be nominated by one of its representatives.
3. WAOE Awarded Organization
Awarding of the privilege to use the WAOE Awarded Organization logo shall be
determined by the WAOE Affiliate Liaison Committee, composed of a Chairperson,
ratified by the Board of Directors, and approximately four additional reviewers
who volunteer from the WAOE membership. At least three members of the Affiliate
Liaison Committee must not be associated with an organization under consideration
for potential award unless a waiver agreement is issued by the WAOE Board of
Directors.
Any WAOE member may nominate an organization to the Affiliate Liaison Committee
for consideration for awarding use of the Awarded Organization logo. The
Committee shall use, as a minimum, the following criteria for consideration
in the awarding process:
(1) does the organization (or individual) receiving the award show a deep commitment
to education and is it actively engaged in activities compatible
with WAOE's mission as stated in the WAOE Bylaws;
(2) does the organization provide a favorable, professional image to WAOE and
education; and
(3) will the organization provide reciprocal, Web-based recognition?
The organization may be either for-profit or non-profit in structure, and the
organization may request self-nomination. To maximize the recognition
of this award, it shall be presented at an international conference whose proceedings
are available at least in part online.
Please welcome Karen O'Connor to the Coordinating Ring of WAOE. Also at the March Special Meeting, the Directors endorsed the appointment of Karen O'Connor to a position on the Membership Committee, where she will, in particular, supervise the WAOE Fellowships established in honor of her late colleague Carlton Scott, a WAOE founding member.
Karen is Department Head of Applied Business Technology & Distance Education
at Selkirk College, British Columbia, Canada. She also is a founding member
of WAOE, since the TCC 98 days.
Update on the WAOE Logo Design Contest
The following announcement about the WAOE Logo Design Contest, which was
originally advertised on WAOE-Views (see the archived message at http://www.egroups.com/group/waoe-views/1368.html
for information about the conditions and criteria) comes from Mike Warner.
I have posted a last call for entries on the waoe-views listserve and the deadline of March 31st has past. I have six entries posted at the following URL and still am expecting at least three more entries which have been held up by technical difficulties (read over committed school teacher with too many irons in the fire). Here is the game plan unless someone comes up with a more inspired idea: all Ring members please access the site, and submit your comments and constructive criticisims on each submission for each of the two categories "Supportive" and "Awarded." The voting/comments should be sent to the WebBoard http://www2.ec.erau.edu:8080/~waoe per the instruction at the site below. Please rank each submission using a 1 to 10 scale with 1 being
highest, 10 lowest. If you feel that none should be selected or you would rather see more entries or you would like to see an edited version of one or more, please make that clear in you comments. When I have secured the last remaining entries I will add them to this site and send you all another update posting. But please start the evaluation process now so that the selection and/or modification(s) can be expedited.WAOE Logo Design Contest Site: http://www.interdigm.com/mwarner/WAOE/logo.html
Although judging of the entries is in the hands of the Coordinating Ring, all WAOE members are very welcome to look them over.
Streamlining WAOE Communication Channels
This report from President Steve McCarty is intended to announce an administrative policy change and to set the historical record straight.
WAOE was organized through a list to discuss the first keynote address of the TCC98 Online Conference based at the U of Hawaii, which continued from April to October 1998 with a total of 320 posts, still archived on the Web at: http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcon98/discuss/keyone-l.
Another list designed for announcements of milestones in WAOE's organizational development was hosted by the U of Idaho, and provides a historical record from April 1998 to June 1999. Posts totaled 71, and are archived at: http://www.uidaho.edu/list-archives/waoe-news.
Plagued by technical problems with the Majordomo mail server and insufficient staff support, it simply became impossible to post messages from June 1999. WAOE members had been urged to join waoe-news, but we must rescind this administrative decision and streamline WAOE communication channels. Meanwhile, an e-newsletter WAOE Electronic Bulletin (WEB), 15 issues as of this writing and currently monthly, has superseded the role of waoe-news in its present form, and is announced to official members by e-mail as being available on the WWW at: http://www.waoe.org/web.
We would like to continue to urge members and allow non-members to participate in the unmoderated discussion list waoe-views@waoe.org, which has received over 1,400 posts so far from July 1998 through February 2000, and is archived at: http://www.eGroups.com/group/waoe-views/ and its mirror sites.
The WAOE Coordinating Ring relies on a closed list with many messages daily, courtesy of California State U.
Besides mailing lists, there are other types of WAOE communication channels such as WebBoards, MOO and chat rooms, virtual learning environments (Blackboard, etc.) and virtual organization environments (QuickTeam, etc.) available for WAOE activities. Thus we would like to streamline WAOE's communication channels as indicated above.