Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each month. Someone from our staff has talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you would prefer not to receive these messages, simply reply to the email and ask for your address to be removed. Learn more about subscribing or read the archives.
New on-wiki Education newsletter debuts
At the Wikipedia in education session at Wikimania's unconference, volunteers around the world agreed to start a new monthly newsletter about Wikipedia's use in education for Wikimedians. The newsletter, delivered on talk pages, is designed to keep Wikimedians running programs or those interested in starting a program up to date about what's happening in different education initiatives around the world. This Month in Education will come out on the 15th of each month. See the August issue.
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Brazil pilot kicks off second phase
On August 11, the second phase of the Education Pilot in Brazil began with a workshop in São Paulo for orienting new professors and new Ambassadors, hosted by Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Participants included seven new professors, four interested ones who might join the program in 2013, and dozens of new Campus Ambassadors trained by experienced Campus Ambassadors and Wikipedians. Wikipedia Education Program Director Frank Schulenburg traveled to Brazil to participate in the workshop, and participants were excited to get started on working with Wikipedia in education in Brazil. See more about the workshop.
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ASA Annual Meeting features Wikipedia initiative
Wikimedia Foundation staff Annie Lin and Jami Mathewson traveled to Denver, Colorado, in mid August to attend the American Sociological Association's Annual Meeting. ASA has joined other academic organizations in starting a Wikipedia initiative to encourage sociology professors to edit and have students edit Wikipedia articles to improve information available about sociology. Instructor and Ambassador Piotr Konieczny helped out at the booth, and hundreds of people learned more about using Wikipedia in the classroom. Annie and Jami led a highly interactive teaching workshop that walked participants through discussions and activities on what Wikipedia is and is not, the Wikipedia Education Program, and the challenges and benefits of using
Wikipedia in the classroom. Learn more about the ASA Wikipedia initiative.
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Journal article shows four case studies
A journal article published in E-Learning and Digital Media last month describes how four professors who participated in the United States Education Program pilot used Wikipedia in their classrooms. UC Berkeley's Brian Carver, Georgetown's Rochelle Davis and Robin Kelley, and Michigan State's Jonathan Obar discuss their experiences using Wikipedia as a teaching tool and why they feel like it is a worthwhile endeavor for other professors in the article titled "Assigning Students to Edit Wikipedia: four case studies." See the article listing.
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each month. Someone from our staff has talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you would prefer not to receive these messages, simply reply to the email and ask for your address to be removed. Learn more about subscribing or read the archives.
Open professor call answered by 36 in Brazil
A pioneering initiative was held by the Brazil Education Program for the second semester of 2012: from an open call for professors, we received 36 proposals from all regions in Brazil in less than one month. Professors showed strong interest in joining the Wikipedia Education Program. We have selected an initial group of 8 proposals; the professors will attend a workshop organized by the Wikimedia Foundation on August 11 in São Paulo. Wikipedia Education Program Director Frank Schulenburg will be present at the workshop. More professors will be invited to join the program during the semester and to attend a second workshop that will be held in Rio de Janeiro. The Wikipedia community is also eager to participate — we've received more than
80 applications from volunteers to support education activities as Ambassadors. See the open call.
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Wikimedia UK hosts upcoming Edu Wiki Conference
Wikimedia UK is running an event September 5-6, 2012, in Leicester, UK, looking at Wikipedia, Wikiversity, and related charitable projects in terms of educational practice. It's a chance to talk about innovative work in your classroom, your institution or online community, and shape the future of Wikimedia UK's work in this area. This is useful for educators, scholarly societies, contributors to Wikipedia and other open education projects, and students. Guests from around the world are welcome. Learn more and register to attend!
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Cairo professor's work featured on Wikimedia blog
Dr. Abeer El Hafez, a Spanish professor at Cairo University, participated in the Cairo Pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program last term, and her work was highlighted in a post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. Dr. Abeer's 13 students worked on 31 articles on both the Arabic and Spanish Wikipedias, in some cases doing translations and in others writing articles from scratch. The students all wrote on Latin American authors. Read more about Dr. Abeer's work.
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Campus Ambassador promotes transnational scholarship
Georgetown University Campus Ambassador Kelsey Brannan wrote a post for the Wikimedia blog highlighting the work she's done with Professor Adel Iskandar to promote transnational scholarship between the United States and the Arab world. Professor Iskandar's students write articles for the English Wikipedia on media figures from the Arab world, and he's hoping that courses in the Cairo Pilot will expand the work by translating his students' articles into the Arabic Wikipedia. Read the post.
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