Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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 [...]
Pictures keep you honest
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 [...]
In the News
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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.
Students of Free Software
Thanks to the FOSS@RIT program, Wikiotics is proud to welcome two new developers to the project, Taylor Rose and Nate Case . Both are students at the Rochester Institute of Technology and veterans of the FOSS@RIT program. FOSS@RIT houses an innovative introductory class “Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Development” designed to give students real [...]
Time to Translate!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
After a productive summer of software building, we would like to introduce the first version of the Wikiotics community site. In order to test everything out and introduce the site’s new capabilities, we’re asking everyone to help out and translate our Introductory lesson into as many languages as possible. If you know how to write [...]