Hi Leo, I shall continue my efforts to find a way support a Chinese Mandarin localisation for WE. I will need to find an external source of donor funding --- but at a personal level am confident that we will achieve this community objective.
Cheers Wayne On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 17:06 +1200, Leigh Blackall wrote: > Hi Leo, in many ways - the sooner more of us speak and read Chinese > Mandarin the better! The little I know (can only speak some) I know > enough to appreciate how beautiful the language is, and how much > language is everything about us, and how much people must lose of > themselves having to speak and read another language. Apart from that, > Mandarin is such a practical language to know. I visited Uruguay > once.. couldn't speak Spanish.. but didn't have to go far to find a > Chinese family who could tell me all about the place. > > I hope WE will support Chinese soon Leo, and we can take advantage of > your energy to make it truly global and inclusive. Having Chinese > versions of some of our educational resources would greatly assist us > and our Chinese students here. > > I'm sorry that you have felt a bit outside the core group, it is > deeply regrettable, but I can see why that would be. The sooner we can > speak Chinese the better. > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Wong Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > to give you even more intersting example , one of my students > called Kevin , he is tall and handsome ,he is like me a > Chinese ,I taught him mass media research last year , he gave > out his amazing final persoanl assignement on "problems and > solutions on self learning " you can view his slides here > http://www.haokanbu.com/story/5258/ , well I don't ask them to > use slideshare , coz They can get more feedback from their > peer student and me there at Haokanbu > > however , I feel very strange to ask them to write in > English ,but I ask them in my class to present this in > Chinese , coz they feel most clear and confident , it is > beneficial for many many parts , and reading all the stuff in > web on web2.0 , is really make me sick , > > coz they are brainwash my students now and even worse , my > students are getting lazy to copy the idea from English > material if they don't much of their own peer created content > > WE is changing history , but please understand my persnal > struggle and my sincere wish for > > 1 more Chinese content on the web to learn and reuse for > teaching and learning > 2 free soul spirt > > by the way we translate the very interesting and powerful > slides called Free soul ( I started the project and other > people helped me ) we are almost finishing you can view it > here http://www.haokanbu.com/story/70693/ （ what is the free > soul ) > > Best rgds > > Leo > > > 2008/6/26 Wong Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Thank you Leigh and others , > > It is even much harder for me to participate in the > discussion here , coz I sooooooooooo much want to > speak out for China students , but there are not much > platform like WE ( I like WE best personally ) > however , WE is not supporting Chinese so far now . > > I am promoting WE in my network , you can find all the > stories I creat duringh last year I write stories on > haokanbu , I use A chinese web21.0 website , and many > teachers in China don't have the techie captacity on > building their own wiki like I do I have my own wiki > site , > > and Chinese as the most spoken and beautiful langauge > itself should be supported HERE in WE no matter what > you think . > > personal note on myself : I don't feel comfortble and > blend in here in WE , but at least I am trying to > read ,listen , thank you guys , > > > > > 2008/6/22 Leigh Blackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I think we should INSIST that Wikieducator be > set to support Chinese, and any other language > that is requested - almost as soon as it is > requested. > > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Steve > Foerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To expand on Randy's point, > WikiEducator doesn't actually do > anything > independently of those who contribute > to it; it is simply the sum of > its contributions. The strength of an > open system like WE is that > those who are concerned about > maintaining cultural diversity in > educational materials are free to make > contributions that further > those ideals. In other words, if > those materials appear on WE (or > another repository), then the issue > really was important to people. > And if not, well, then it really > wasn't important. After all, actions > speak louder than words. > > That's not to say there aren't good > examples. Educators in India > could have used materials from MIT or > the Open University or other > Western materials, but they're > creating their own eGyankosh > repository > instead > <http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/>. Thus, > when they talk about > wanting their own materials, they > clearly mean it. > > Another example would be the various > curricula that the VUSSC project > is building here on WE. It takes into > account the unique economic > situations that those in small island > states face, things that would > not be covered in currricula developed > for those in large countries. > http://wikieducator.org/VUSSC/Content > > -=Steve=- > > > -- > Stephen H. Foerster > http://hiresteve.com > http://wikieducator.org > > > > > > > > > -- > > > -- > Leigh Blackall > +64(0)21736539 > skype - leigh_blackall > SL - Leroy Goalpost > http://learnonline.wordpress.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > HELP 项目论坛 > > > > https://groups.google.com/group/helpelephantsliveproject > > > > > -- > HELP 项目论坛 > https://groups.google.com/group/helpelephantsliveproject > > > > > > > -- > -- > Leigh Blackall > +64(0)21736539 > skype - leigh_blackall > SL - Leroy Goalpost > http://learnonline.wordpress.com > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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