[Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7962912.stm The Guardian said the draft review requires primary school children to be familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication. It looks like there may be a little more demand for my proposal

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Williams
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: It looks like there may be a little more demand for my proposal for WMUK to go into schools... Seconded! As an employee in the education sector - I know that Wiki* can and will be a very valuable tool when used

[Wikimediauk-l] My Recent Inactivity

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Williams
Hi All, I would like to apologise for my sudden spate of inactivity in WMUK / Wikimania 2010 matters - just 5 days ago I suffered the loss of my father who had been suffering from cancer for the past year. It is high on my list of tasks to get to the AGM and to get reinvolved as soon as possible

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/25 Paul Williams p...@skenmy.com: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like there may be a little more demand for my proposal for WMUK to go into schools... Seconded! As an employee in the education sector - I know that Wiki* can

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] My Recent Inactivity

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/25 Paul Williams p...@skenmy.com: Hi All, I would like to apologise for my sudden spate of inactivity in WMUK / Wikimania 2010 matters - just 5 days ago I suffered the loss of my father who had been suffering from cancer for the past year. I'm sorry to hear that - my condolences. Do

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/25 Sean Whitton s...@silentflame.com: This is precisely my point. The press are obsessed with it and it is increasingly used for commercial purposes. But it will be interesting to see how long it lasts. Maybe the draft review mentioned it because Number Ten has a Twitter feed and so

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Al Tally
At school today I was busy admiring some of the work on the wall. The kids (year 2) had been working on important buildings, and one particular one on Buckingham Palace caught my eye. It went something like *Buckingham Palace*is the official London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London residence of

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Teaching how to use Wikipedia to be compulsory in primary schools

2009-03-25 Thread Al Tally
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/3/26 Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.com: At school today I was busy admiring some of the work on the wall. The kids (year 2) had been working on important buildings, and one particular one on Buckingham