I just found out about this list from Frank's blog posthttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/02/global-education-program-a%E2%80%93z/, and I'm happy to have finally found the place I was looking for! I have already met some of you in person in Boston, and I'm very excited about exchanging experiences and ideas with all of you.
For those of you whom I haven't met, my name is Juliana Bastos Marques, and I teach History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State (UNIRIOhttp://www.unirio.br). On Aug. 15th I'm starting a course on topics in Roman History and editing the Portuguese WP - for undergraduates, approx. 20 students. The state of History articles in WP:PT is still not so good, and frankly quite bad in some cases. As you may know, students from all levels do use that sort of material anyway, so my primary goal is to have them understand how to read sources more critically and improve them in a more adequate matter.
I'm blogging the steps in this initiative, so in the case anyone wants to try your Portuguese or test Google Translator, it's http://wikipedianauniversidade.blogspot.com/ - readership is still low, but I'm confident that the initiative will pay soon. As I've written there, I'm still worried because I have no Campus Ambassador whatsoever - the only guy who seemed interested doesn't reply to my emails. I think I'll have to do that part all by myself.
Greetings, Juliana.
Welcome aboard, Juliana and thank you for sharing your thoughts and blog with this list. Your project seems quite interesting and it will be very useful to see its goals for the rest us.
Best wishes.
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2011/8/2 Juliana Bastos domusaurea@gmail.com
I just found out about this list from Frank's blog posthttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/02/global-education-program-a%E2%80%93z/, and I'm happy to have finally found the place I was looking for! I have already met some of you in person in Boston, and I'm very excited about exchanging experiences and ideas with all of you.
For those of you whom I haven't met, my name is Juliana Bastos Marques, and I teach History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State (UNIRIOhttp://www.unirio.br). On Aug. 15th I'm starting a course on topics in Roman History and editing the Portuguese WP - for undergraduates, approx. 20 students. The state of History articles in WP:PT is still not so good, and frankly quite bad in some cases. As you may know, students from all levels do use that sort of material anyway, so my primary goal is to have them understand how to read sources more critically and improve them in a more adequate matter.
I'm blogging the steps in this initiative, so in the case anyone wants to try your Portuguese or test Google Translator, it's http://wikipedianauniversidade.blogspot.com/ - readership is still low, but I'm confident that the initiative will pay soon. As I've written there, I'm still worried because I have no Campus Ambassador whatsoever - the only guy who seemed interested doesn't reply to my emails. I think I'll have to do that part all by myself.
Greetings, Juliana.
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On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Juliana Bastos domusaurea@gmail.comwrote:
I'm blogging the steps in this initiative, so in the case anyone wants to try your Portuguese or test Google Translator, it's http://wikipedianauniversidade.blogspot.com/ - readership is still low, but I'm confident that the initiative will pay soon. As I've written there, I'm still worried because I have no Campus Ambassador whatsoever - the only guy who seemed interested doesn't reply to my emails. I think I'll have to do that part all by myself.
Welcome, Prof. Bastos!
Have you been able to find an ambassador yet?
Asaf
Yes, Asaf, thanks for asking! I was lucky enough to receive a recommendation from one WP:PT admin, for a very experienced editor. He's not a student, though, but it took me a while to find out that this wasn't mandatory. The best thing is that he knows quite well the workings of the WP:PT community, which can be very difficult sometimes. I could teach the editing basics, but this makes the whole difference - I don't think I'd be really successful without his aid.
I wish this list was used more often! I'd love to hear how things are going in India and in the new courses in Canada. If anyone wants to follow what's going on with my course, I've been blogging my project, which can be decently read in English through Google translator: http://wikipedianauniversidade.blogspot.com.
Juliana.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Juliana Bastos domusaurea@gmail.comwrote:
I'm blogging the steps in this initiative, so in the case anyone wants to try your Portuguese or test Google Translator, it's http://wikipedianauniversidade.blogspot.com/ - readership is still low, but I'm confident that the initiative will pay soon. As I've written there, I'm still worried because I have no Campus Ambassador whatsoever - the only guy who seemed interested doesn't reply to my emails. I think I'll have to do that part all by myself.
Welcome, Prof. Bastos!
Have you been able to find an ambassador yet?
Asaf-- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation
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On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Juliana Bastos domusaurea@gmail.comwrote:
Yes, Asaf, thanks for asking! I was lucky enough to receive a recommendation from one WP:PT admin, for a very experienced editor. He's not a student, though, but it took me a while to find out that this wasn't mandatory. The best thing is that he knows quite well the workings of the WP:PT community, which can be very difficult sometimes. I could teach the editing basics, but this makes the whole difference - I don't think I'd be really successful without his aid.
Great, glad to hear!
I wish this list was used more often! I'd love to hear how things are going in India and in the new courses in Canada. If anyone wants to follow what's going on with my course, I've been blogging my project, which can be decently read in English through Google translator: http://wikipedianauniversidade.blogspot.com.
Yes, indeed. Perhaps Frank can speak to the Global Education team's communication, whether by blog or on this list. I'm sure we can get some reports shared here. And you can do your bit, by providing (even very concise) reports on this list. (Google Translate is an option, but is so very painful to the language-sensitive...)
Cheers,
Asaf
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yes, indeed. Perhaps Frank can speak to the Global Education team's communication, whether by blog or on this list.
I'll chime in here -- we're already seeing some excellent work come out of our India Education Program, where classes started in July. More than 1,000 students are participating; you can see the courses students are working on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Courses
Classes are just now starting in the U.S. and Canada, and we anticipate having around 1,800 students participating in each country as well; see the following links for those courses -- keep in mind that most are just having their first week of classes either this week or in the next few weeks, so they haven't really gotten started yet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Canada_Education_Program/Courses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Cours...
Thanks for sharing your blog, Juliana! And I do encourage you, as Asaf said, to update us with reports to the list -- I encourage anyone running a Wikipedia assignment at any level of student and any country to do the same!
LiAnna