Hi Juliana,
interesting you mention this! We just got a request from a professor to try to create a moodle course for editing Wikipedia. It would be great to see the material you used.
We are currently still a little unsure about moodle since the problems in usability sound a little like madiawiki problems ;) And the course, like Lila said, is only open for one course and hard to spread.
Well, I am interested in hearing more.
Cheers, Elly (WMDE)
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Message: 1 Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 18:04:50 -0300 From: Lila Pagola lilapagola@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Education education@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] WP and Moodle Message-ID: CAL+SW3D0TDvMkbk8MC30nFg1CpY=5DX6RfMHXw6JTqg15TjgPQ@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
2012/11/2 Juliana Bastos Marques domusaurea@gmail.com:
Hi all! Too bad to see this list being so quiet, as I'd love to hear from other professors and find out what you're doing in your classes. Many discussions take place on the WP talk pages, but it's hard to keep track of everything there!
At the end of the month I'l be starting an undergraduate course in which I'll use both Wikipedia and Moodle. For Wikipedia, the usual: articles, userpages, talk, sandboxes etc. I'll use Moodle for forum discussions, assignments and extra reading/media material. This is part of an experimental initiative in Brazilian public universities to create working models for the merging of traditional and distance learning classes, and I'll be the first one to do this together with our well-known Wikipedia Education Project.
My point is, I'd like to know whether any of you here or someone you know has used Moodle to support a course with Wikipedia assignments. I'll be happy to hear about such experiences. And I'll share mine when I have them, of course.
Hi Juliana, and everyone in this list,
I have been using moodle to support 2 short courses on Wikipedia editing, courses offered from university to community, in specific topics (gender topics) or for specific people (teachers).
In both experiences, moodle has resulted a great tool for following the activities during the course and specially after the course, while people was doing the final assignment, using forum for questions and reporting experiences and problems (deleting contributions is a big issue with new users nowadays).
Also, of course a useful repository for reference materials used during the course (edition guide, our booklet "Wikipedia en el aula", studies on gender gap, and so on).
Unfortunately, moodle campus of my university doesn't allow guests, but if someone is interested on visiting the virtual course, I can send a user/pass by private email.
Saludos,
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