Hi, María!
I think you'll be interested in this recent experience:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Aislinn_Dewey/Distribute_WikiReaders_to_Schools/Report
I'm CCing Aislinn as well, as I'm not sure she's reading this mailing list,
so she can offer her perspective.
Cheers,
Asaf
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:17 PM, María Cruz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> at Wikimedia Argentina we are working with a potential new partner, to
> work in education. The institution gives school support to about 750 kids
> from 6 to 12 years old. However, they have huge needs of primary sources
> for consultation, when working on different school tasks and homework.
>
> One idea that we considered at Wikimedia Argentina was to provide
> WikiReaders: students could access them when at school support, and they
> could read Wikipedia in Spanish for school work, if they need to consult
> any topic.
>
> I wanted to know if anyone working on education programs has ever crafted
> a program that included the readers, and what was their experience. Can we
> install Wikipedia in Spanish? Is it useful for primary school research
> tasks? We can only buy it through
> Amazon<http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-WR-01-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B002N5521W/>,
> or is there another channel to purchase these devices? Since it works
> offline, is it possible to update it every other time?
>
> The only information I found was in the device
> homepage<http://thewikireader.com/>,
> but I would be glad to read about a program that uses WikiReader somewhere
> else.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Warm regards,
>
>
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> A.C. Wikimedia Argentina
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