One week after Open Education 2010 conference and the Drumbeat Festival both wrapped up in Barcelona and I’ve finally cleaned off my desk enough to write about it, just in time to discuss some negative comments that are going around. I had a lot of fun at the Drumbeat festival. I met a lot of [...]
Last week we explored how to use collaboration inside the Wikiotics community to build better lessons for each other and we saw how this can produce great results for material like weather vocabulary. But what about the parts of language that are more complicated? What about concepts like “beautiful”, “fun”, “boring”, and “interesting”? We each [...]
One week later I am proud to announce that our weather lesson is both more attractive and much more effective thanks to some great collaboration by our users. ← Before After → You can see that the new pictures are much easier to tell apart, especially the [...]
The collaboration with RIT's FOSS@RIT campaign I blogged about last week is now the subject of a press relase from the school here. Currently we're at the top of the University homepage! Welcome to all the RIT students who have found Wikiotics through that release. Crossposted with the Wikiotics Foundation blog.
Last week Great job last week everyone! We got the Introduction lesson translated into 14 new languages and made five more languages available for Wikiotics users building lessons. This week we’re focusing all that effort on one lesson, talking about the weather: http://wikiotics.org/en/Weather This week Talking about the weather is a daily activity in people’s [...]