Hi.. this is the contact address for the This Month in Education newsletter. I strongly recommend that you write this proposal up for the next newsletter which goes out on July 15.
*The This Month In Education Team* https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter <http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Charles Matthews < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm new to this list, so hello all. > > I'm writing in support of a proposal for a day-long event based around the > potential for reuse of Wikimedia UK Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It > is a Moodle site hosted at > > http://moodle.wikimedia.org.uk/ > > and requires account creation (it is also in beta right now: you can apply > to Stevie Benton <[email protected]> if you'd like to help > review it - should be done by Wikimania). > > What the proposed Education Pre-Conference day, either on 6th or 7th > August ahead of Wikimania, is intended to do is to concentrate on possible > reuses of the content. The text content, in rough form, is posted to > ModuleWiki, i.e. > > https://modulewiki.wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page > > so that there is an easy way to get a rough idea of the scope of the site. > There are also images, around 400 quiz questions, and a quite intense use > of resource links to English Wikipedia manual and FAQ pages. Content is all > CC-by-SA. > > The intended focus on the day would be > > (a) subsets useful for particular education and training to be identified, > copied out and modified; > (b) translations made and potential translations identified; > (c) Quiz material reused. > > The page for the event is > > > https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Pre-Conference/VLE_content_reuse > > which needs work, clearly: please bear with me as I have three proposals > arising from the weekend that need attention. > > Let me explain more about (c). There is a tool authored by Magnus Manske > called Wikisoba: > > http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/wikisoba.html > > and it is an elegant lightweight way to author quizzes, using wiki page > sections. The quiz material "locked up" in Moodle can certainly be reused > using this tool, via wiki pages, so that a quiz then exists in a link to > Wikimedia Labs. Example I showed yesterday at the "Future of Education > Workshop" related to the Wikimania venue: > > > http://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/wikisoba.html#module=User%3ACharles%20Matthews%2FBarbican%20quiz > > Anyone, I claim, can learn the coding easily: that one is based on the > wikitext of > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Charles_Matthews/Barbican_quiz > > which will be all the tutorial some people need. The 400 quiz questions on > the WMUK VLE can obviously be reused in other contexts, the Wikisoba tool > is fun to work with because you get quick results, and I hope we could get > quite a ways in this direction on the day. > > Charles > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > >
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