User talk:Erat

Erat

I am working within a school that has about 100 students of the Finnish Language studying at any one time. I am thinking of using WIKIs to develop learning materials. The source material will come from professional teachers and will be translated (and improved upon) by the students into their home language if they so wish.

The logical place is to create this material is in wikibooks but I have seen you have already started one in English. There will be grammars, readers, audio material, and exercises. I can see you have spent a lot of time creating your particular material and I would not want to destroy it! But I'd like to know how you think we can work together so that my objective is met also.

Hauskalainen 13:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello Hauskalainen, it's nice to see that others also want to take part in this wikibook. This book consists largely of exercises (made by me) and hasn't almost any grammar, readers or other texts, so your material is more than welcome! This book yet lacks main structure (lessons, which things are taught first) and needs working.

If you have exercises that have been developed by professional teachers just put them on the suitable pages. The existing ones mustn't be deleted, but just perhaps edited or moved.

Erat 16:29, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I won't delete anything but my knowledge is too far advanced for me to want to start writing any lessons. However, I have introduced the books to the people at the school and also those who subscribe to the Yahoo! Finnish group. We also had a visit last Friday from people teaching at another school at Pori (Western Finland) and they were quite interested in the WIKI work we have done to date, not just in the English Wikibooks but in the Finnish and Russian books too. If they introduce it to their students, the numbers with exposure may rise. But that said, I have not seen much interest from the students in our school using their free time to develop anything. However, if the idea gains ground and I can get sponsorship to write more material, I may end up developing extra material. But at the moment it seems rather unlikely. Hauskalainen 18:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC)