Julie McDonough Dolmaya | December 23, 2011
Now that the fall term is over and I’ve (finally!) finished marking the tests, assignments and essays that were submitted during the last week of classes, I’m ready to sit down and write a few blog posts about my experiences in the (virtual) classroom over the past 13 weeks. Among the courses I taught this [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | September 28, 2011
In the lead up to September, I spent quite a bit of time tweaking the course websites for the three classes I’m teaching this semester. And as I resolved last year, I’ve stopped using WebCT and moved to WordPress instead–not just for my in-the-classroom course (Introduction to Translation into English), but also for my two [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | August 24, 2011
While I’ve still got the survey open in my browser, I thought I’d finish writing about the results. This last post will look at the motivations the 76 respondents gave for translating, editing or otherwise participating in a crowdsourced translation initiative. (I should point out that although the question asked about the “last crowdsourced translation [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | August 23, 2011
It’s been quite some time now since my last post about the Wikipedia survey results, and for that I must apologize. I was side-tracked by some unrelated projects and found it hard to get back to the survey. But I’ve just finished revising my article on this topic (which will be published in the November [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | June 12, 2011
This is a follow-up to last month’s post describing preliminary results from a survey of Wikipedia translators. To find out about the survey methodology and the respondent profiles, please read this post first.
I initially planned for this survey to be one of several with translators from various crowdsourced projects, so I wrote the participation-related questions [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | May 30, 2011
This is the first in a series of posts about the results of my survey of Wikipedians who have translated content for the Wikimedia projects (e.g. Wikipedia). Because I’ve already submitted an article analyzing the survey, these posts will be less analytical and more descriptive, although I will be able to discuss some of the [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | April 11, 2011
I’ve just returned from my trip to Monterey, where I attended (and presented at) the Monterey Forum on Innovations in Translator, Interpreter and Localizer Education. (See my last post for more details). Although many of the presentations focused on interpreter training, I did come back with some new ideas and tools to integrate into my [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | April 8, 2011
I’m writing from my hotel in Monterey, California, where I’ll be attending Monterey Forum on Innovations in Translator, Interpreter and Localizer Education at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Here’s a copy of the program, for those who are interested. I’m looking forward to today’s presentations on technology in the classroom; I’ll write a post [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | February 15, 2011
In Howe’s 2008 book Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, which I reviewed here, Howe describes TopCoder Inc., a company that develops software for industry partners by administering programming competitions. Twice weekly, competitions are posted and any of the 200,000+ members of the TopCoder community can compete to [...]
Julie McDonough Dolmaya | February 7, 2011
For several years now, I’ve been using WebCT as the online course environment for my translation classes, first at the University of Ottawa, and now at York University. While the University of Ottawa has discontinued WebCT in favour of Blackboard, York still offers only WebCT or Moodle as course environments.
When I first starting using [...]