Summer Wikiotics and Last Language Textbook update
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Ian Sullivan
Jun 20, 2013, 1:29:25 PM6/20/13
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After a full spring of planning we have just announced our summer plans,
including a community event in the fall where you can pitch in no matter
how what languages you speak!
Details of the summer plan are available here: http://blog.wikiotics.net/2013/06/building-for-the-world/
The short summary is that we have partnered with a local elementary
school in Brooklyn, NY (PS 9), which has a young and exciting dual
language immersion program.
We have launched a Wikiotics Open Education Design Fellowship program
and chosen one of the teachers form the school and a local graduate
student as our first Fellows and they will be spending the summer
building free materials to support the school's program and better
engage parents in the language learning process.
Come this fall we will be co-hosting an event with the NY Wikipedia
chapter where we illustrate all the new language materials by taking
pictures of the neighborhood, adding our own audio to lessons, and even
by posing as characters from the language dialogues so that we can build
storybook lessons for complex topics.
We are all excited by everything going on and thrilled to have the PS9
bilingual education team and the NY Wikipedia chapter on board for this
stage of the Last Language Textbook campaign.
If you are interested in getting involved, there are lots of ways to
help. The lessons are all being assembled as a WikiBook, which you can
view and help edit today:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Elementary_Spanish. An even easier way to
help out will be attending the fall community event, where you can meet
everyone involved and have some food while we work.
If you are part of a different community and like the idea of helping
children and their parents of a local school learn language together,
send me an email! We can make as many versions of these materials as
there are communities interested in customizing them and we would love
to help you organize an event in your communities to do just that.
-Ian
including a community event in the fall where you can pitch in no matter
how what languages you speak!
Details of the summer plan are available here: http://blog.wikiotics.net/2013/06/building-for-the-world/
The short summary is that we have partnered with a local elementary
school in Brooklyn, NY (PS 9), which has a young and exciting dual
language immersion program.
We have launched a Wikiotics Open Education Design Fellowship program
and chosen one of the teachers form the school and a local graduate
student as our first Fellows and they will be spending the summer
building free materials to support the school's program and better
engage parents in the language learning process.
Come this fall we will be co-hosting an event with the NY Wikipedia
chapter where we illustrate all the new language materials by taking
pictures of the neighborhood, adding our own audio to lessons, and even
by posing as characters from the language dialogues so that we can build
storybook lessons for complex topics.
We are all excited by everything going on and thrilled to have the PS9
bilingual education team and the NY Wikipedia chapter on board for this
stage of the Last Language Textbook campaign.
If you are interested in getting involved, there are lots of ways to
help. The lessons are all being assembled as a WikiBook, which you can
view and help edit today:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Elementary_Spanish. An even easier way to
help out will be attending the fall community event, where you can meet
everyone involved and have some food while we work.
If you are part of a different community and like the idea of helping
children and their parents of a local school learn language together,
send me an email! We can make as many versions of these materials as
there are communities interested in customizing them and we would love
to help you organize an event in your communities to do just that.
-Ian
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