Dear all,

I was a bit distanced from Wikipedia, a while after being the first president of Wikimedia Uruguay. I suffered a stroke; I was at the ICU for 70 days, and hospitalized for a whole year, but I've recovered, and back in charge of the Wikipedia Education Program in the CEIBAL Plan.

The Wikipedia Education Program is entering its second stage, it seeks reaching teachers in secondary education and languages from around the country, and teaching them on how to work in education with Wikipedia, in various Wikipedias, in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English .

The project was submitted before CEIBAL by me, and has won the support of authorities at a national level; mainly because Wikipedia extends the work in the classroom beyond physical boundaries. It serves the whole community, while also benefitting students, who, working in a collaborative environment, learn from the criticism and contributions of all the community. We all know that knowledge is a collective construction, what better way to build it than Wikipedia.

CEIBAL provides all students and teachers in the country with a notebook and internet access, a perfect plainfield to add Wikipedia to, and that’s what I’m working on. Moreover, I have already included Wikipedia in the Communication Sciences Program of our country, under the slogan "Yes, Wikipedia may have mistakes, learn how to correct them."

Best regards,

Fernando da Rosa