Hi, Bettina!
You may find some of the trainings in the Wikipedia Education Program
useful. The Wikipedia Ambassador training[1] has some sections particular
to using Wikipedia in a classroom setting, but it mostly covers core
policies and editing that should be helpful for librarians who are new
editors, and it will hopefully help since they act in an edit-a-thon
similarly to an Ambassador when s/he presents to a group of student
editors. Hope that helps!
Jami
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_Ambassadors
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Proffitt,Merrilee <proffitm(a)oclc.org>wrote;wrote:
Hi Bettina,
I don't know of anything specifically (and you know I'm keeping my eye
out for good examples!) but I did notice this from the Primary Research
Group (below). I don't have access to this report (and in my opinion their
reports don't contain the "meat" I wish they did) but I was surprised by
the number of libraries in their sample who are giving Wikipedia workshops.
What does that mean? What is the focus? I have no idea. Good luck and if
you get more info, please pass it along!
Merrilee
Primary Research Group has published Library Use of the Mega Internet
Sites, 2013 Edition, ISBN 978-157440-241-4. The study looks closely at how
libraries are using Google, Pinterest, Yahoo, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia,
Amazon, Bing, Instagram, Vimeo, Twitter, Ebay and many other major internet
sites. Just a few of the findings from the study are that:
4.17% of the libraries have workshops which teach patrons to use
Craigslist
25% of the libraries sampled give workshops on how to use Wikipedia
90% of college libraries sampled give workshops on how to use Google
Scholar.
A third of legal and corporate libraries sampled considered Google
Translate to be “highly useful”.
Nearly 43% of libraries with an annual budget of more than $1 million
considered Bing to be “highly useful”.
The mean number of subscribers to the Twitter accounts of the
libraries in the sample was 323.
Non-USA libraries were much more likely than US-libraries to consider
MySpace useful.
About 23% of the libraries sampled had a YouTube account.
Public libraries in the sample spent a mean of $8,000 ordering books
from Amazon in the past year.
12.5% of libraries sampled use FlickR in their professional work.
The 160+ page study is available from Primary Research Group for $72.00.
For further information view our website at
www.PrimaryResearch.com<http://www.primaryresearch.com/>
.
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*Sent:* Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:10 PM
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*Subject:* [libraries] Wikipedia classes in the Public Library setting
Hello -
Is anyone else using classroom space in their local public library to
teach editing skills/as part of the library's computer class offerings? I'd
love to hear your experiences.
Here's what's going on in Michigan this summer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/West_Michigan#2013
Also, has anyone developed a good core curriculum to teach the librarians
how to help their patrons use Wikipedia?
Thanks for the input.
Cheers,
Bettina
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