Hi Wayne Thank you very much for the detailed reply. I think you are great in motivating peolple. It would be my pleasure to contribute to WikiEducator because it's a very interesting and valuable project. As for my part I will do my best within my time limitations. Schoolwork absorbs too much time sometimes.
Now I'll try the links you mentioned to see if I can do something there. Cheers, Joao On 27/10/2007, mackiwg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Joao - > > An AMAZING network! > > How could I forget! > > Friends, Joao joined us recently in the WikiPasifika online workshop > on basic wiki editing skills. He teaches English in Portugal. If I > remember correctly, Joao found out about the WikiPasifika workshop > from Elderbob in Texas who posted a notification about the > WIkiPasifika workshop on the Webheads list. > > Consider the network connections, working backwards -- New Zealand > ==> Brazil ==> Canada ==> Portugal ==> Canada ==> Texas ==> Nine > Pacific states ==> Portugal. > > Hopefully we will connect Mozambique and Angola into this network > chart .... > > Joao - to answer your question - the Newbie tutorials are in-fact the > tutorials we used in the online workshop: > > http://www.wikieducator.org/Help:Contents > > So for example, if you go to the Help page in the French WikiEducator: > > http://fr.wikieducator.org/Aide:Aide > > You will see that they are busy with translating these tutorials into > French. > > So the idea is to start translating the English tutorials into > Portuguese so that they link from this page: > > http://pt.wikieducator.org/Ajuda:Conte%C3%BAdos > > mmmm - I'm thinking here - this could be a great project for > Portuguese learners studying English - For example, what about a > homework assignment where a group of two or three learners to > translate one of the tutorials. Their teachers could then check the > translations and improve on the language. > > Joao - thanks very much for the offer. Let me see if I can set up > linkages with colleagues in Mozambique, Angola, Brazil etc to spawn an > international community for the Portuguese WikiEducator. > > Chat to you soon. > Wayne > > > > > > -- Joao Alves --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
