Hi Günther Wow -- that's good news.
Apology for my delay in response -- we've been busy with our quarterly programme update meetings. That's an amazing donation! Please encourage Prof Wieser to develop a node page in WikiEducator for the University of Munich. Once you have more details of the project -- I would like to prepare a front page news item about this project. (See for example the University of Education, Winneba page node in WE - http://wikieducator.org/UEW ) In this way the University can profile their work in the open education arena. Regarding conversion of HTML into mediawiki syntax -- there is an online webservice that we could try. See: http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/ I've not used this myself yet -- but perhaps you could try converting one or two pages as a test case? Cheers Wayne On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 00:58 -0700, Günther Osswald wrote: > Hi friends, > > the University of Munich (LMU), department for the didactics of > physics, plans to get their materials for primary education on-line on > WE. According to their own estimations, the size is about 1000 pages. > The project is called SUPRA, and contains lesson plans and handouts > (immediately usable material for print or download) as well as > didactic background information and the results of research surveys. > Prof. Wiesner, the head of the department, calls it “unique in the > world”. > > http://www.edu.uni-muenchen.de/supra/ > > My personal opinion is, to get this content on WE could be of help to > millions of schools, as even in German teacher education, primary > physics is often weak. > > The “only” problem for them is the translation into English and the > conversion to wiki syntax. > The department itself does not have any resources available for this > purpose, cost are estimated to about 25.000 Euro. > > I guess this case is not the only one of this type. Good teaching > materials, ready for use, the authors willing to release it under CC- > license, but need for translation and conversion, and no funds :-( . > BTW: I myself do not yet know how I should get my Mechanics11 > translated properly :-( :-( . > > Any proposals? > > Greetings from hot&sunny Bavaria > > Günther > > http://www.wikieducator.org/User:White_Eagle > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
