Hi Leo, The OER Foundation will support a Chinese localisation of WE.
I hope that the Chinese characters in WE will meet your approval :-) We will need the help of Chinese educators to assist with the translation of the WikiEducator tutorials -- as free content there are no restrictions in translating these tutorials as a derivative works. WE will do all we can to foster and promote international collaboration among Chinese Mandarin speakers. You will be free to adopt and use the Learning4Content training model for building capacity among teachers participate in developing OERs to support and enhance teaching through the use of OER in China. We will work with Chinese institutions and educators in developing funding proposals from the international donor community in helping to fund honoraria for facilitators of L4C workshops in China. Pretty soon, I'm sure that we will see a Chinese national hub for WE -- its about time India got some real competition :-). Cheers Wayne On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 13:04 +0800, Wong Leo wrote: > Well, Maria , Wayne and other folks here in WE > > I am welcoming the fact that WE is supporting Chinese letters , > hopefully it will not like wikispaces , the Chinese characters there > looks really weird to my eye :) > > However , in case it is really going WE does become independent > > I am suggesting WE start to think about this collaboratively > > * How WE really encourage the international collaboration ? WE > tutroial is all in English and most of Chiense teacher don't > speak English or write in English for sure > * I will try to move some of my own projects over on WE just > copy and paste > * maybe we need to offer L4C workshops in Chinese ? to train > Chinese users ? > * I always think OER , it is best to see students building the > content instead of teachers ,how to encourage students > starting to use WE especially to encourage the Mediawiki the > monster to become more user-friendly > Also I saw Wendy , Wendy is trying to get connected with Neillie , > that is great , Neillie I want to introduce Wendy to you , she is one > of teachers in one of my projects I am doing called > HelpElephantsLiveProjects ( which we have 39 schools ) > > If WE does support Chinese , I will try to talk to 39 schools here in > China to encourage their students , please notice that most of > students in 39 schools are Primary school students , So I welcome > anyone here from WE to collaborate with my teachers in those 39 > schools to build a really exciting but surely no-easy task in China , > to make WE really International and really Free in education ! > > anyone want to agree or disagree ,please leave your comments thank > you !! > > Leo > > http://wikieducator.org/user:leolaoshi > > 2009/2/12 Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]> > > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 05:01 -0800, Gladys Gahona wrote: > > > What about Latin America? > > > > > Absolutely!!! > > We already have a WE localistations for Spanish > ( http://es.wikieducator.org/ ) and Portuguese > ( http://pt.wikieducator.org/ for Brazil ) -- so Latin America > can get started :-) > > Currently WE is funded by the Commonwealth of Learning and > we're restricted to official languages of the > Commonwealth :-(. Spanish is an official language of Belize > and Portuguese is an official language of Mozambique, which is > why we've been able to implement these localisations. > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > > > -- > Leo Wong > -------------------------------------- > http://helpsuzhou.blogbus.com/ HELP > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
