On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
everton137(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Andrew.
Em 25/12/2011 00:41, "Andrew Owens" <orderinchaos78(a)gmail.com> escreveu:
I'm an educator and tried to get involved with Wikiversity, but almost
anything I looked at in my home area was complete but chronically
sub-standard, focused away from the needs of my students, and it was not in
any way clear how I could contribute or what was acceptable or
unacceptable. In the end I simply gave up - there are others doing the same
sort of thing much better (eg WikiEducator). I've heard similar stories
from many other educators across a range of fields.
May you, please, show me the Wikiversity page where you have tried that?
I havent't thought about WikiEducator, that's a good idea to analyse,
thanks to remeber! I'll see if we have a community there in Portuguese as
well.
My impression: Wikiversity -> too horizontal. WikiEducator -> the
tradiciontal hierarchy. Besides that, it seems [[user:solstag]] has been
using pt.wikiversity succefully on a course on cultural centers and
universities here in Brazil.
As a random aside, my university probably has one of the biggest footprints
on Wikiversity. Our page can be found at
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra . They've had
several classes using the project, have over 7 staff members using in, and
have been using it to organise a wiki conference in Australia:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra/RCC2012 . The latter
is hosted on campus at our university and last year's conference attracted
a number of academics. We couldn't host it on the RecentChangesCamp wiki
on its own domain because of issues during the conference regarding wiki
open ness, down time, etc. The people doing the tech for it were in the
USA. :( I think the word my university has been doing has been pretty
fantastic. :) Leigh Blackall has helped make it a success.
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