Papers by Mina Theofilatou
Corfu Second Chance School and Argostoli Evening High School have pioneered the use of Open Educa... more Corfu Second Chance School and Argostoli Evening High School have pioneered the use of Open Educational Resources in enhancing the learning experience for several years now; an overview of our work was presented at CIE2014. During the school year 2014-15 we decided to illuminate aspects of Ionian Island Cultural Heritage in our classes by holding a Wikiexpedition trekking several villages in the area of Lefkimmi (Corfu) and adding words of the Kefalonian dialect to a newly created category in Greek Wiktionary (Argostoli). This paper shall discuss the methodology we employed to engage our students in investigating their cultural heritage and sharing their findings on the Wikimedia projects, followed by a report of the outcome. Finally, we shall also explore the possibility of “intertwining” the experience of the two schools in further expanding their contributions to open knowledge.
6th Conference on Informatics in Education 2014
Open Educational Resources (OER) are emerging as the most promising and rapidly-developing trend ... more Open Educational Resources (OER) are emerging as the most promising and rapidly-developing trend in the field of Education. One such OER is the Internet’s ubiquitous free encyclopedia Wikipedia and its “umbrella” foundation Wikimedia. Over the past several years Wikipedia has also been used as a teaching and learning tool. This paper discusses the reach of Wikipedia in secondary education, with special emphasis on adult education. Drawing from our experience at Argostoli Evening High School and Corfu Second Chance School, we shall provide examples illustrating good practices in implementing Wikimedia Education Programs in an adult education setting. Our intention is for this paper to serve as a reference for those interested in promoting OER and Wikimedia in secondary, evening and adult education in Greece.
Key words: Open Educational Resources, Wikipedia, Adult Education
Open Education uses established open content networks such as Wikimedia to engage students, scien... more Open Education uses established open content networks such as Wikimedia to engage students, scientists, local communities and senior citizens in joint efforts to build and share knowledge for the
solidarity focused society of the future.
Η εργασία «Τα Αιολικά Πάρκα της Κεφαλονιάς» πραγματοποιήθηκε στα πλαίσια του μαθήματος «Τεχνολογί... more Η εργασία «Τα Αιολικά Πάρκα της Κεφαλονιάς» πραγματοποιήθηκε στα πλαίσια του μαθήματος «Τεχνολογία» της Α’ τάξης Λυκείου, ενώ παράλληλα ήταν αντικείμενο περιβαλλοντικού προγράμματος του σχολείου μας για το σχολικό έτος 2009-10. Ο κεντρικός άξονας που διέπει όλα τα επιμέρους σκέλη της εργασίας είναι η προσέγγιση “hands-on approach”, δηλαδή η άμεση εμπλοκή των μαθητών στη συλλογή, δημιουργία και επεξεργασία υλικού και δεδομένων, παρά η ανάγνωση «έτοιμου» υλικού. Στα πλαίσια αυτά, πραγματοποιήθηκαν επισκέψεις στα δυο νέα (από το 2008) εν λειτουργία αιολικά πάρκα του νησιού (Ημεροβίγλι – Αγία Δυνατή) και δημιουργήθηκαν τα αντίστοιχα άρθρα στη Βικιπαίδεια (ελληνική Wikipedia). Ενδιαφέροντα ήταν τα συμπεράσματα που προέκυψαν από την έρευνα μέσω ερωτηματολογίου που πραγματοποιήσαμε για να «αφουγκραστούμε» τη γνώμη των κατοίκων της περιοχής για τα αιολικά πάρκα και τις ΑΠΕ γενικότερα. Η εργασία παρουσιάστηκε στο 4ο Εθνικό Συνέδριο για τις ΑΠΕ "RENES 2010" στο Μέγαρο Αθηνών.
Conference Presentations by Mina Theofilatou
Wikimania 2019, 2019
Created in 2012, Wikidata has evolved as a high-scale structured ontological database representin... more Created in 2012, Wikidata has evolved as a high-scale structured ontological database representing the sum of all human knowledge due to its ability of represent all kinds of information in form of triples. Due to its characteristics, Wikidata has an increasing diversity of use cases including health support. In this panel, we will introduce Wikidata as a useful resource for medicine through the explanation of its data model and statistical analysis of the medical entities, labels, descriptions and relations provided by the database. Then, we will give an overview of how Wikidata's medical knowledge can be used and processed for a variety of purposes such as clinical decision support, biomedical data integration and semantic interoperability between biomedical computer systems. Finally, we will propose PubMed-based bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval methods to ameliorate the quality of medical information in Wikidata and discuss their efficiency.
Διαφάνειες που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για την παρουσίαση της ερευνητικής εργασίας του Εσπερινού Λυκείου... more Διαφάνειες που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν για την παρουσίαση της ερευνητικής εργασίας του Εσπερινού Λυκείου Αργοστολίου στο 8ο Μαθητικό Φεστιβάλ Ψηφιακής Δημιουργίας. 18 Απριλίου 2018, Μουσικό Σχολείο Αγρινίου.
Kefalonia is an island in the Ionian Sea, on the west coast of Greece. Along with the other islan... more Kefalonia is an island in the Ionian Sea, on the west coast of Greece. Along with the other islands of the "Heptanese", the island's culture has been influenced by centuries of Venetian rule: words of Italian origin are often used among locals, although their use is declining with each passing generation. In the capacity of Computer Science Teacher at a High School for adults, and recipient of an IEG grant to train mentally ill patients to edit the Wikimedia projects, I will present the ideas that helped us contribute to preserving our cultural heritage: from the edits of a 55-year-old assistant nurse being warmly received on Greek Wiktionary, to a user-friendly programming environment being used to develop a language quiz app for Android devices, to getting the Wikitherapy participants actively involved in joining forces with the students... and presenting our achievements at an event in the local Municipal Library last June. The highlight of the event was a live demonstration of the language quiz by a volunteer from the audience; I will be making a quiz based on the same CC-BY-SA code especially for the Celtic Knot conference (volunteer from the audience will be needed :-)
Corfu Second Chance School and Argostoli Evening High School have pioneered the use of Open Educ... more Corfu Second Chance School and Argostoli Evening High School have pioneered the use of Open Educational Resources in enhancing the learning experience for several years now; an overview of our work was presented at CIE2014. During the school year 2014-15 we decided to illuminate aspects of Ionian Island Cultural Heritage in our classes by holding a Wikiexpedition trekking several villages in the area of Lefkimmi (Corfu) and adding words of the Kefalonian dialect to a newly created category in Greek Wiktionary (Argostoli). This paper shall discuss the methodology we employed to engage our students in investigating their cultural heritage and sharing their findings on the Wikimedia projects, followed by a report of the outcome. Finally, we shall also explore the possibility of “intertwining” the experience of the two schools in further expanding their contributions to open knowledge.
Τρίπτυχο που παρουσιάζει την έρευνα που διεξάγαμε το σχολικό έτος 2006-7 στο πλαίσιο του μαθήματο... more Τρίπτυχο που παρουσιάζει την έρευνα που διεξάγαμε το σχολικό έτος 2006-7 στο πλαίσιο του μαθήματος της Τεχνολογίας με την Α' τάξη του Εσπερινού Γυμνασίου - Λυκείου Αργοστολίου. Περιλαμβάνει φωτογραφικό υλικό και συνδέσμους στα 10 λήμματα που δημιουργήσαμε για τη Βικιπαίδεια. Η εργασία παρουσιάστηκε σε μαθητικό διαγωνισμό τις 21 Απριλίου 2007 στο Ερευνητικό Ινστιτούτο ΙΤΕ/ΕΙΧΗΜΥΘ στην Πανεπιστημιούπολη Πατρών.
First prize in Poster session at Scientix Conference in Brussels, Belgium. Using dialogue, comics... more First prize in Poster session at Scientix Conference in Brussels, Belgium. Using dialogue, comics and a picture gallery, the poster invites high school students to discover online activities more interesting than Facebook and start editing Wikipedia! Work of the Argostoli Evening High School is showcased in the poster.
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Papers by Mina Theofilatou
Key words: Open Educational Resources, Wikipedia, Adult Education
solidarity focused society of the future.
Conference Presentations by Mina Theofilatou
Talks by Mina Theofilatou
Key words: Open Educational Resources, Wikipedia, Adult Education
solidarity focused society of the future.