On English Wikinews, we recently requested the Education Program extension
be installed with the idea of making it easier to recruit classes to
participate. We've set up a "course" for new project participants at
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Education_Program:The_Wikinewsie_Group/New_rep…
a way of testing this. Any feedback on our test course would be
appreciated. :) How useful is it for potential modeling by instructors?
How useful is it for new project participants? That sort of thing.
Feedback would be really, really appreciated as we want to be able to see
how this works so we can better assist existing contributors and classes
that may use English Wikinews.
I've talked to a couple of contributors on English Wikinews and we'd really
love to engage more with high school and university courses. We just lack
the people power to do the outreach to attract them at the moment.
Currently, David Blackall at the University of Wollongong has a class
using the Wikinews as part of coursework. He made a video about this
available at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StudentsInWikinews.ogv.
If anyone knows any university instructors or high school teachers
who
might be interested in doing work on English Wikinews, please get in touch
with me. :)
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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