Nice work!
My opinion is that your home language is good to know, BUT here you have a perfect place
to show your student the importance of knowing languages. They already knows that the
whole world will be looking at them, but the whole world does not speak Greek...It use to
be hard for students to "understand" why they shall learn new things, unless you
explain. Here it is self-explained. Use English (to force them to learn, it is a school!),
but at home it is up to them...
I my self is teaching my own kids better english by letting them translate English
articles into Swedish. (Not complete, but the read and pic the most interesting things).
Then they learn a language and can see that people actually read and improve what they
have done. Its like a kinderegg (butt better for your teeths): 3 in one (new article, a
learning opporturny and it is fun for them)
Best regards,Harald(user: Adville, home wiki: svwp)
From: theoth(a)otenet.gr
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:34:07 +0200
To: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimedia Education Program
Hi to all from Kefalonia, Greece:)
Our school has been editing Greek Wikipedia under my guidance since 2007, but this year we
have shifted to Commons: it was simply the PERFECT place to publish the material we are
gathering from two projects in Upper Secondary! And, for the first time, I have 4 pupils
uploading with their own accounts (rather than handing their work over to me for the
uploading/gallery building). All I have to do is "touch up" their work. Read
about it here, in the post I wrote for WMF Global blog last month:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/21/education-program-greece/, links to projects are
included in post).
Have a look at the Villages project. A pupil of mine is very keen on photography, and he
released a set of photos that he had already taken with his mobile phone. Another pupil
(username "Deliko") uploaded them to Commons and added the photos to the
gallery. (See first item in gallery, "Argostoli", which is our capital).
Although our designation was around three photos for each village, Argostoli has so many
points of interest that we added 11.
We are still in a "dilemma" over whether we should use English or Greek for
captions in the gallery (-ies) (if you have a look now, you'll see it's mixed up:
other captions are Greek, others English). I intend to "streamline" the gallery
soon, but I need input on language. A user who has been helping us in categorizing (Foroa)
suggested Greek as a baseline, but I think that would make it difficult for international
users to "follow". Using both Greek and English captions would
"clutter" the page, in my opinion (unless we're talking about very small
captions). We try to add descriptions in both languages on each individual file page (at
least when I'm around: I'm bilingual, but not all my pupils are fluent in
English). What do you think? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated:)
To everybody: keep up the good work in using Wikimedia in education, and keep us posted!
Best,
Mina (user Saintfevrier)
On Mar 20, 2013, at 7:14 PM, LiAnna Davis wrote:Hi James, and welcome!
Beat is exactly right: the "Wikipedia" part of the Wikipedia Education Program
branding is for outreach purposes; people outside our movement understand Wikipedia and
not Wikimedia, but that doesn't mean we only encourage educational projects on
Wikipedia. Commons is another popular project we encourage students to participate in,
although there are more. See
http://education.wikimedia.org/casestudies and add your own
assignments to contribute to sister projects -- we're always looking to inspire people
to try new assignments.
The trick is to find an appropriate assignment for each course. Wikipedia article writing
is common because most disciplines require students to write a research paper or a
literature review section so it is an easy replacement, but that's obviously not the
*only* option. The video and photography courses we've worked with have all produced
great content for Commons, and one journalism professor we've worked with has had his
students write articles for Wikinews. Making the switch from traditional assignment to
Wikimedia assignment will be painful for every professor who isn't already a
Wikimedian, because of the learning curve, so finding the most closely related assignment
possible on a Wikimedia project is important.
I look forward to hearing more about the symposium you linked on the outreach wiki page --
sadly, the link seems to be dead, but we're always interested in hearing more of what
people are doing globally, both on this list and in the newsletter:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Newsletter
If you're attending the Chapters Meeting, I also encourage you to come for the
Education Program Workshop, where we'll discuss how to grow programs and share
learnings globally:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/Education_Pr…
LiAnna
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Estermann Beat <beat.estermann(a)bfh.ch> wrote:
Hi James, Concerning the p à m thing: I think outside the Wiki(p/m)edia movement, the
“Wikipedia” brand is way better known and more popular than the m-brand. Therefore, it
probably makes sense in most cases to use this brand to approach “new” people when doing
outreach. Even when talking about WPs sister projects you’ll probably find yourself
referring to WP first and then going on to explain the particularities of the sister
project. This in mind, I think it shouldn’t be too hard to adapt the texts in a way that
it becomes clear to the “insiders” that Wikipedia isn’t meant exclusively… I’ve just read
one of the manuals of the WP Education Programme today – they recommend as a starter task
to have students take a photo and upload it to Commons.. here you go! Best,Beat From:
education-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On
Behalf Of James Neill
Sent: Mittwoch, 20. März 2013 14:01
To: Wikimedia Education
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimedia Education Program Thanks, already, Tom and
Beat - I'll work with the Educational Portal (new for me) and try not to change too
many p -> m ! ;) I look forward to hearing more about Brazil's education work with
sister projects. I find it is also a problem/opportunity with other WMF initiatives being
too WP-focused e.g., Wikipedia Town - why not Wikimedia Town with QRcodes that can go to
any sister project page? On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Estermann Beat
<beat.estermann(a)bfh.ch> wrote: Hi James, The Wiki(m/p) Education Portal on Outreach
is open for initiatives aiming at Wikipedia’s sister projects as
well:http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal Why don’t you just include any
case studies, tips and resources concerning the sister projects on the existing portal? –
And don’t forget to contribute reports about cool projects in the “This Month in
Education” Newsletter! Best regards,Beat From: education-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James Neill
Sent: Mittwoch, 20. März 2013 12:58
To: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimedia Education Program Hi, I wanted to reach out and
say hello. I'm James Neill (jtneill). I've sketched out the beginnings of an
outreach project:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_Program which is
simply to expand the Wikipedia Education Program to focus on all sister projects rather
than just Wikipedia. Perhaps you already have something like this in mind, hence I'm
touching base to see what you think. Sincerely, James
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