Anthere wrote:
Ray Saintonge a écrit:
In a different direction, after your Algerian
trip you mentioned that
you were showing your son how to use Wikipedia to help him with his
school work. Has he been sufficiently infected ;-) to want to
attend Wikimania?
I have showed him how to use it. Here is the page of the article he
wrote :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:William/Le_Sahara_alg%C3%A9rien
Well done!
Kids were set up in team (which I did not know at
first). His team
mate was a brazilian girl (which allowed me to make new brazilian
friends) with who he prepared a big poster where they pasted several
pictures. Though initially planned in february, they presented their
work in june :-)
It was extremely well appreciated and he got a 20/20:-)
Learning to work in teams is an important part of education.
I also noticed the interface was too complicated for
him and he had
pain to remember where to access what. So, even after a while, he was
very far from independant. If we ever do a wiki for kids, we'll have
to improve the interface I fear.
There's much to be learned from this experience in the Wikis for
adults. If I, as an experienced person here, can find navigating
throuugh templates difficult, it must be extremely discouraging for kids
and newbies.
Currently, he is giving most of his computer time
playing Alpha
Centauri :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri
My son played this a couple years ago, after having gone through "Sid
Meier's Civilization". These are very challenging role-playing games
that require a very big attention span. It's great to see someone so
young take an interest in that kind of game.
As for Wikimania, I have considered bringing the
family along, but
considered at least 3 would be very bored, not knowing anyone, with
only conferences to have fun. So, no, they will not come.....
I'm sure my son would find it boring too. :-)
Ec