[WikiToLearn] [WikiFM] First contact with Chilean Universities

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> earlier this week I was contacted from the responsibles of two Chilean
> institutions (CCLT* and REUNA**), which together represent most of the
> academical and research world of the country. They asked me to do a
> video presentation the day after (thursday evening here), at the
> presence of the coordinator for e-learning of the two institutions
> (Dario, please correct me if I got the titles wrong). I attendend the
> videoconference with Dario, who was hosting the video terminal in his
> office, and given the short notice, I delivered mostly the same
> presentation I did at Akademy.
>
> The response has been enthusiastic!!!
>
> They are very happy to join the initiative and would like to know
> more: for this they asked me to deliver another presentation in two
> weeks, which will be streamed live, broadcasted on the web, attended
> by about 40 people (directly or at a delayed time) representing the
> 6/7 major local universities. I will send you more details as I will
> know them.
>
> My idea is to propose the educators the following experimentation:
> they should ask for some volunteer students at the beginning of the
> course that will collaboratively take and refine notes (chapter of
> books), directly on w2l. This will give us a lot of free and high
> quality content and will give them a metric to evaluate the didactic
> effectiveness of the initiative. I think that for now this has been
> the collaboration method that gave us the biggest results. However, it
> is just a stub. What do you think? Can you give me feedback on this
> idea?
>
> Bye,
> -Riccardo

I'm very behind in reading and responding to email right now, so just
saw this. Did you do the presentation to the Chilean unis? If so, how
did it go?

It is really exciting to read every email from this project, which
seems to be catching fire all over the globe.

I love it!

Valorie