Giving something back: Dutch Translation of the kids version of Small Pieces Loosely Joint
In an effort to do something back to the World Internet Community, me and my dad created a Dutch translation of the kids version of David Weinberger’s Small Pieces Loosely Joint.
How this came about? Well a few months ago, I visited the weblog of David Weinberger (via JP Rangaswami’s wonderful blog) and followed a link to one of his most famous books called Small Pieces Loosely Joint (next to his co-authorship for Cluetrain of course).
There I read David’s “kiddified” version of his book in which he tries to explain “What the internet is for”. Being a dad myself, and Internet geek of course, I really connected to the text. Then I spotted that the text was already translated in Norwegian, Italian, French and Portuguese, but not yet in Dutch. That is when the idea was born.
I asked my dad (having more time… :-) ) to do the first round of the translation, after which I did the proof reading. The next step was building the web pages, copying David’s own layout. In order to really create a Dutch experience for the potential online readers, I searched for some nice links in Dutch that would relate to the text, just like in the original piece of David. I even re-created some of the graphics. Finally I created an additional PDF format of the text. As always, it takes more time than you think…
The files itself are hosted on my own account at Textdrive.
By the way, David already posted about this happy event!
Other links (all in Dutch):
- Frankwatching
- frEdSCAPEs
- Kinderen zijn kleurrijk
- Marcomweblog
- Blogparty
- TrendMatcher tussen ICT en Onderwijs
- Hans on Experience
- Stauts weblog
- Oomph
- Computers in de klas
Link: The Dutch translation of the kids version of David Weinberger’s Small Pieces Loosely Joint
Technorati tag(s): Small Pieces Loosely Joint, David Weinberger, kids, Internet, Education, Dutch, Netherlands, Nederland, Onderwijs
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posted Feb 1, 12:51 AM on Feb 01, 2007 |
category: Books
Wow! This is great. Thx for doing this. It is a great vision of what the internet is and you translated it in a way all kids understand.
I will use the site and booklet in the lessons I am going to do with some children on new media (weblog etc.). And perhaps it is a good idea if I give the link to their parents also.
I subscribed to your blog!
Keep up the good work and thanks for visiting my blog.
— Hans Mestrum Feb 1, 10:54 PM #
Hi Hans,
Thanks for stopping by here and all your praise for my little project.
What a nice job you seem to have in doing lessons with children on new media! Are you a teacher?
And…spread the word!
Best regards,
Marcel
— Marcel Feb 1, 11:07 PM #