Re: [Wikimedia Education] Moodle at Wikimedia

2019-07-15 Thread Gabriel Thullen
The Geneva (Switzerland) education department has been using Moodle for years and is quite satisfied with the platform. A few films were produced on the subject: https://edu.ge.ch/site/archiprod/?s=DIP-Moodle That been said, Moodle is great for online courses with a Classroom size number of atten

Re: [Wikimedia Education] (no subject)

2019-04-05 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Hello, Thank you very much for uploading these 20 files to Wikimedia Commons (your files number 5) and 6) are the same files, and you left out the one called "NATIVOS DIGITALES"). We have the Spanish and English versions, we can now translate them into other languages as well ! We can all get to w

Re: [Wikimedia Education] nvitations to participate in a research about Wikidata as a learning platform

2018-12-18 Thread Gabriel Thullen
edia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>. > Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society > <http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>. > Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>. > *+972-525640648* > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:

Re: [Wikimedia Education] nvitations to participate in a research about Wikidata as a learning platform

2018-12-17 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Hello Shani, I am glad that the fix worked for Fernando but when I click on the link it just opens up my own Gmail... Bets regards Gabe On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 11:14 AM Fernando Da Rosa Morena < fernando.dar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now the link works well. > > Regards > Fernando > > > > > -- > -

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Endorse my projects

2018-12-04 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Hi Abel, Just endorsed your grant proposals. Please note that you have a bad link in your email for the WikiMed on DVD proposal. Best regards Gabe On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:42 AM Abel L MBULA via Education < education@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello folks, > > We are a small team of WM volun

[Wikimedia Education] Seeking Endorsements for offline Wikipedia grant proposals

2018-12-03 Thread Gabriel Thullen
a look at these two proposals, and if you feel that they are worth pursuing, please endorse the proposals. I welcome your comments and remarks on the grant proposal pages. Best regards Gabriel Thullen --- Ch

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Recommendations/Suggestions Needed

2018-09-12 Thread Gabriel Thullen
really hope that your project will work, and I am very interested in the outcome. Best regards Gabriel Thullen On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:53 AM Bekriah Mawasi wrote: > Hi Felix, > > The education program at Wikimedia Israel runs in Middle schools and in > High schools as well in bot

Re: [Wikimedia Education] request for presentations, suggestions, hints

2018-03-25 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Hi Gina, I can share with you how I do this in West Africa. The situation there is a bit different, I was presenting Kiwix (www.kiwix.org), an off-line Wikipedia reader, to teachers who had very little experience with Internet in general. They have modern cell phones, laptops but Internet connecti

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Help with research on integration of Wikipedia in education at middle and high school levels

2017-09-25 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Hello Tighe, You are probably aware of the work I do with 7th grade students on Wikipedia as part of my introductory course to computer science. It is in French because the school is in Geneva, a French speaking Swiss Canton. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Cycle-O-Pedia In 2016-2017 school

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Help the Education Team translate a survey about the Wikipedia Education Program

2017-08-23 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Le 23 août 2017 6:38 PM, "Gabriel Thullen" a écrit : > Hi, > I can help translate into French. > > Gabe > > Le 23 août 2017 6:11 PM, "Nichole Saad" a écrit : > >> Dear [Affiliates, WMF Staff, Translators], >> >> The Education Team at

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Education sessions at Wikimania 2017

2017-05-03 Thread Gabriel Thullen
___ > From: Education on behalf of > Tighe Flanagan > Sent: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 2:01:29 PM > To: Wikimedia Education > Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Education sessions at Wikimania 2017 > > Hi everyone, > > Gabriel Thullen has put together a helpful

[Wikimedia Education] Two Education related presentations at Wikimania

2017-04-28 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Hello to all, I am quite sure that many of you will attend Wikimania this summer in Montreal: https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org I am proposing two presentations to the organizers which you might find of interest: The first one is about sharing and spreading the Kiwix program by the teachers the

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Which kinds of students are successful in education programs?

2016-07-21 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Thank you very much for your feedback which corresponds to my experience with 7th grade students over the pastvten years. Sorry about being short, I am out in the senegalese brush and the phone connexion is sporadic. Le 21 juil. 2016 10:13 AM, "שי כץ" a écrit : Hello everyone, Sorry I'm joining

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary...

2014-06-21 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Yes, the Vikidia emcyclopedi is more appropriate for primary school students. It is also quite useful for them because the articles are written in a language that they can understand. I am actually trying to promote Vikidia among the primary schools in Geneva (as well as using Wikipedia with older

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary and secondary schools in Serbia

2014-06-19 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Yes, Andrew, that is the type of argument I usually use when talking to parents or the school authorities. What I am saying is that we have to make sure that all teachers/educators who work with Wikipedia have easy access to this type of argument. And as I said, this may be less of a problem with

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary and secondary schools in Serbia

2014-06-18 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Like I said before, great job for both Israel and Serbia ! There is one very important issue that we (as WM Chapters) need to address, now that Wikipedia editing will be part of the official school curriculum. How do we answer teachers or parents raising concerns about the so-called "adult" materi

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Integration Wikipedia into primary and secondary schools in Serbia

2014-06-10 Thread Gabriel Thullen
That is really great! Good work! I also do work on Wikipedia with my classes, and every once in a while I have a serbian student. When that happens again, I will try to remember to get in touch with you. Right now, I have a few Bosnian and Kosovan students, but I am not sure that they would relat

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimania Submission: Wiki-med

2014-03-31 Thread Gabriel Thullen
That's really great, Toobad I will not be able to follow your presentation, I will not be in London. The presentations were filmed and broadcast in Hong Kong, I am hoping to be able to watch yours later on. I am quite interested in this type of project in schools and universities. Gabe Thullen

Re: [Wikimedia Education] MediaWiki projects in Schools

2014-03-31 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Hello Graeme I am willing to talk about the work I do with my 7th grade students. They work on the French Wikipedia, but I am perfectly bilingual English-French. National Geographic ran an article about it (in English): http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/news/web-work/?ar_a=1 Gabe