using the Wiktionary as a teaching resource

using the Wiktionary as a teaching resource

by Pascal Boulerie -
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(My message is a bit related to an old and now closed discussion from 2006 :
- Moodle and MediaWiki integration ?
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=42233#p205288
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Just to say that in the French Moodle.org forum, someone has made the suggestion since 2016 to use or even, to embed / embark, Wiktionary in Moodle...

So I would just underline that teachers may wish to use the content of the free and open-source  online dictionary Wiktionary. For instance, especially the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) : es.wiktionary.org

for teachers of the Spanish language.


Wiktionary is a common worlwide dictonary. And Moodle teachers can complement it by their own public or private thesaurus and specific profesional glossaries (using the Moodle glossary functionality, of course !)

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Re: using the Wiktionary as a teaching resource

by Germán Valero -
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Hi Pascal,

Perhaps you can contact Ralf Krause.

He is the creator of the Wikipedia block plugin.

He might be able to create a Wiktionary block plugin.

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Re: using the Wiktionary as a teaching resource

by Pascal Boulerie -

The teacher using Wiktionary actually uses an offline version of the content, for areas without an online connection... So an online plugin would not help.

(actually maybe it could be interesting, I will now inform him that there is a Wikipedia block plugin - maybe he can configure it to search into a local copy of Wikipedia on a local server)


Here is the discussion (in French) :

- Moodlebox : Dictionnaire en local

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=334173

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Re: using the Wiktionary as a teaching resource

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Hi Pascal

If I understood you correctly, you propose to install the "on-line" dictionary Wikitionary in the MoodleBox and couple it to its Moodle. Right?

If Wiktionary content is available as a MediaWiki dump, I don't see a reason why this shouldn't be possible. I haven't done it myself but looked at RACHEL for example, https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=353602#p1466359. It works.

My doubts are more about the effect of an on-line translator on language learning. I have observed, words looked up very quickly are also forgotten very quickly. Here's some food for thought: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190220-how-can-a-distracted-generation-learn-anything.
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Re: using the Wiktionary inside a MoodleBox

by Pascal Boulerie -

Thanks. It's quite interesting.


Actually, I am not the "porteur de projet" (I am not a stakeholder of that MoodleBox Wiktionary embedding project).

I have also recently seen on the French forum that some universities do use a MoodleBox to give courses to "empeached" students : prisoners inside a prison, without an online connection.


(I am not taking parts to these two projects : I am just disseminating the info from the French-language Moodle forum here.)

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Re: using the Wiktionary inside a MoodleBox

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Hi Pascal

I don't mind even if you are in the https://moodlebox.net team. The project is not going to make the developers rich: https://moodlebox.net/en/support-the-moodlebox-project/.
wink

I have used the MoodleBox in a couple of occasions and still using it. The mobility of Raspberry Pi and the independence from the Internet the MoodleBox offers are the biggest plus for me. Talking of the mobility, I have realized that Pi 3 Model B is more portable than the more recent Model B+. My USB power pack is not powerful enough for the 3B+.

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