leigh blackall

[melbourne australia]

first intro’d to Leigh via Thomas, 2011ish?

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nov 2014:go to the ed commons

http://leighblackall.blogspot.com/2014/11/worried-about-privatisation-of-public.html

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blackall all we can do law

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from about page:

Leigh lives in Melbourne Australia, with his beautiful wife Sunshine, their daughters Eve and Maya, and dog Lego. Leigh enjoys outdoor recreation with a passion for back country telemark skiing, and fond memories of rock climbing and cycle touring. He also enjoys tinkering with permaculture design and other ideas for post industrial living.

Leigh’s professional interest is in educational development, focused on open and networked learning and research, particularly through the Internet. A terribly out of date, and complete mess of a list of publications relating to this work is found on Learn Online and Wikiversity.Leigh currently works with the Teaching and Learning unit of the Faculty of Health Science at Latrobe University.

Do you get the point I’m trying to make? Who among us, that spend considerable time commenting on the commentary through our blogs, Slideshares, Youtubes and the like, take an hour out of each day to check and help improve the Wikipedia articles relating to our work? Who out there, when asked to create a hand out to use as a resource in some staff training session, thinks to edit and use the Wikipedia articles? I try to do it in every place I’ve worked, but remain the only one I know!The work of Public Relations professions, seeking to manage the message on any number of things through Wikipedia is unsurprising. If that practice continues to grow, soon they’ll overwhelm the capacity of volunteers to control their activities, in fact I bet they have overwhelmed them in many areas already. If we in and around the profession can’t see reason to make contribution to the most important reference text part of everyday practice, then we deserve to have our history rewritten for us.Wikipedia articles inform ‘credible’ publications, and ‘credible’ publications are used to refine Wikipedia articles. Can you see where that vicious cycle leads?