Two minor threads: Martin Poulter and I discussed
how we could put
together a teaching plan so that someone like yourself could organise an
enevening course in "creating your own wiki page" ... not sure whether
Martin made any progress. I know he was investigating ... I suspect there
are a lot of people who would like to put their local history work into
Wikipedia ... if we just explained it and demo ed it at the same time.
Other thread. I teach secondary ICT. I'm planning to teach intro to Wiki
editting next week. I have still to find some resources. Any help
appreciated.
regards
Roger B
On 1 June 2011 17:34, Alex Stinson <stinsoad(a)dukes.jmu.edu> wrote:
There is an education list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education which appears to
be one of the better ways to contact people because not everyone regularly
checks outreach wiki (including myself). I invite people to join who want to
work with Education and Wikimedia projects, it include a fair number of
Campus Ambassadors who are doing innovative stuff at universities as well as
a number of other people in various chapters involved in education stuffs,
Alex
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Thomas Morton <
morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hey Alex,
>
> Yes a lot of that has been my starting point. FWIW there is a lack of
> content for the younger age groups (say 14-16) which is where my current
> focus is; the "beginner" guides are more suited (at least in my experience
> of teaching) to older students. I'd also like to see some more material on
> the goals/ideals of Wikipedia (as that seems a better start point before
> leaping into account creation :)).
>
> Also I noticed that a lot of the focus is on editing or contributing
> Wikipedia. I've approached this from a slightly different perspective -
> which is that most of the kids I will be talking to aren't interested in
> writing (and probably aren't yet capable of doing so) a Wikipedia article.
> On the other hand I aim to teach them about using WP as a resource (and the
> potential pitfalls) as well as trying to get them to treat it with respect
> (i.e. quit the vandalism).
>
> Is there a place on Outreach where discussion of education/teaching
> materials is happening?
>
> Tom
>
> On 1 June 2011 17:15, Alex Stinson <stinsoad(a)dukes.jmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> "High school professors." Yikes! Meant teachers, not professors. I
>> thought I fixed that in a second read. Been working with universities for
>> too long.
>>
>> Tom, that sounds like something that could really use some development
>> in the way of documented techniques or presenting the information. You may
>> want to check out the stuff on the Wikimedia Foundation bookshelf project
>> for materials you can destribute instead of making all of them yourself (
>>
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf). We also have been
>> developing a fair amount of stuff at the education portal on outreach,
>> though still a work in progress (
>>
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education). Alot has already been
>> developed in fairly professional ways, it just needs to be applied in the
>> class room,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Thomas Morton <
>> morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> Yes, that was my impression too - I have some ideas/proposals to try
>>> and bring into play but didn't want to step on top of an active project
that
>>> I'd missed :P
>>>
>>> I'm based in Lincolnshire.
>>>
>>>
>>> Alex,
>>>
>>> I've been keeping a close eye on the Ambassadors project - it looks
>>> like some great work (yet another reason to wish I was a student again :)).
>>> Expanding that into schools is a major project, but one that I think would
>>> net us some massive gains long term. I'd be really interested in hearing
>>> about your work with the high school professors.
>>>
>>> In general:
>>>
>>> I've been interested in education for a while; I'm a scout leader
>>> here & my parents have their own business doing educational visits to
>>> schools on the topic of astronomy (so I have fairly extensive experience of
>>> that sort of "business model"). The reason I have a specific
interest now is
>>> that I've been approached to look at doing an evening class on computers
and
>>> the internet at a local secondary school. One of the topics I want to cover
>>> is Wikipedia and WP editing.
>>>
>>> I could put together some teaching material & release it for others
>>> to use on an ad-hoc basis, but I think there is loads more we could expand
>>> into if WMUK were behind it - stuff like working with the teaching bodies to
>>> get WP recognised as a resource, and perhaps even worked into the curriculum
>>> (at the very least work with them to provide useful material for
>>> teachers/students about Wikipedia). In fact, something like the training
>>> events Cancer Research people (but for teachers) would be really interesting
>>> to explore.
>>>
>>> Another off-hand idea; it would be great to try and team up with some
>>> of the GLAM institutions to run educational days (i.e. have groups of kids
>>> turn up to learn about stuff using local and Wikipedia content, and to get
>>> an introduction to Wikipedia).
>>>
>>> And more; we could use WMUK resources to train up and support
>>> Wikipedia volunteers who want to go into the classroom - because teaching
>>> kids can be damned hard!
>>>
>>> There's a lot to focus on, but I think it is one of our most
>>> important outreach areas in the UK.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1 June 2011 16:40, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think it's been hibernating for a while. I haven't heard it
>>>> mentioned at all since the new Board took office.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, if someone wants to pick up the ball and run with it,
>>>> that would be very welcome. Whereabouts are you, Tom?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Thomas Morton <
>>>> morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>
>>>>> What is the status of our work with schools/education?
>>>>>
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project seems to
>>>>> be a little stagnant, there are references to other School
interactions on
>>>>> the Wiki (including a link to a hidden office page about the
educational
>>>>> budget).
>>>>>
>>>>> Is any of this still active?
>>>>>
>>>>> I only ask because I've been approached locally to do some
>>>>> in-school work relating to Wikipedia and it occurred to me that this
is a
>>>>> major area we could be focusing on.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a decent amount of experience working with children,
>>>>> schools and educators and it would be great to contribute that on a
wider
>>>>> scale.
>>>>>
>>>>> If none of those projects are particularly active, would anyone be
>>>>> interested in working on this (including volunteering to go into
schools and
>>>>> youth groups)?
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom / ErrantX
>>>>>
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