Hi from Brazil - Education

2 Aug 2011

I just found out about this list from Frank's blog
post<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/08/02/global-education-program-a%E2%…z/>,
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
(UNIRIO<http://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.