*Hi everyone, I am forwarding this email on behalf of Ewan Mcandrew. Ewan's
original email wasn't delivered because of mailing list filters. This seems
to be an exciting opportunity, I hope you all will find time to attend the
online showcase. *
Dear colleagues,
There is still time to book your place
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-skills-festival-wikimedia-in-scotland-event-tickets-334607729727>
to
join us Monday 30th May 1-2pm for a celebration of Wikipedia
#KnowledgeActivism in the curriculum! Please share in your networks and
apologies for any crossposting.
This online showcase event for the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Skills
Festival discusses the efforts of students, course organisers and the Wikimedia
residency at the University of Edinburgh
<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia>;
highlighting its efforts working with Wikipedia both as an ally in its
mission to disseminate verifiable open knowledge and an important tool in
its information literacy and digital skills strategy.
During the event there will be THREE lightning talk presentations on recent
case studies of utilising Wikipedia in the Curriculum; detailing approaches
taken and lessons learned over multiple iterations (pre, during and
post-pandemic). This will be followed by a brief Q&A.
Line-up of speakers
Welcome: presented by Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence (read more here
<https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/s4655j732?locale=en#/6/48[Ch13]!/4[bodymatter]/2/2[_16034-0039_ch013]/2/1:0>
), and Lorna Campbell, University of Edinburgh OER Service
<http://open.ed.ac.uk/>.
1. Reproductive Biology - Dr. Agnes Stefansdottir introduces the
Wikipedia group assignment where Honours students learn important
digital research skills and are motivated to communicate their scholarship
to improve global understanding of reproductive health topics. (Listen
to podcast here
<https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/podcast-improving-science-wikipedia/>
)
2.
History of Art - Dr. Glaire Anderson and student Sophia Klebnikov introduce
the 'Art in the Age of the Great Caliphs' Wikipedia assignment where
undergraduate students evaluate and improve topic coverage of Islamic
art and science on Wikipedia. (Read more
<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2020/12/stars-robots-talismans-honours/>)
3.
Global Health Challenges - Dr. Evelyn Balsells introduces the online
group assignment where geographically distant Masters students come
together to collaborate and improve topic coverage of natural and manmade
disasters. (Read more
<https://uoe-my.sharepoint.com/personal/emcandre_ed_ac_uk/Documents/Editing%20live%20Wikipedia%20pages:%20Assessing%20students%20through%20OER%20creation>
).
This is a free event, open to all.
Full details of the event can be found on Eventbrite
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-skills-festival-wikimedia-in-scotland-event-tickets-334607729727>,
where you can book a place and receive the Zoom webinar invite. More
details about Wikipedia at the University of Edinburgh can be found in
our Podcast
series <https://www.teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/tag/wikimedia-series/>, Case
Studies Booklet <https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/> and IS
Skills website
<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia>
. The student-created website and its 20+ short open-licensed ‘how to edit’
videos recently won an Open Education Global award
<https://awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2021/student/hannah-rothmann/> and
includes how to get started, how to create a Wikipedia article, how to
upload and add images, teaching with Wikipedia and more.
Hope you can join us 1pm on Monday.
Very best,
Ewan McAndrew
Wikimedian in Residence
Website for the residency
<https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/help-consultancy/is-skills/wikimedia>
and Map of Accused Witches site <http://witches.is.ed.ac.uk/>
Email: ewan.mcandrew(a)ed.ac.uk Blog: WiR blog
<https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/wir/>
Tel: 07867 593450
My working hours are 9:30am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday.
Book chapter on Gender Equality work: *Changing the Way Stories Are Told*
<https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11778416.ch13.en>
Wikipedia Project Page: Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh>
Media Hopper channel: Videos and video tutorials
<https://media.ed.ac.uk/channel/Wikimedian%2Bin%2BResidence%2BChannel/51020161>
YouTube: Wikimedian in Residence channel
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDRSVKM4ceUSPI-7-BFeoQ?view_as=subscriber>
Wikimedia in Education: New booklet of UK Case Studies
<https://open.ed.ac.uk/wikimedia-in-education/>
Join Wikimedia in Scotland
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland> events and UoE events
<https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?eventssearch=wikipedia&event=search&eventStart=0&eventProviderId=&cw_inChannelLink=1&cw_passThrough=marked>
.
The University of Edinburgh, Floor H (West), Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson
Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DR.
www.ed.ac.uk
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him/His)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>