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.
Egypt program celebrates end of second term
The second term of the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt wrapped up last month with a celebration conference at Cairo University. Dr. Abeer Abd El-Hafez, a professor of Spanish from Cairo University, opened the conference and spoke about the spirit of the program and its importance in the lives of students and teachers in terms of skills development and new experiences. Faris El-Gwely, the education program consultant who runs the program in Egypt, shared results from the second term, and the best students and Ambassadors from the program received certificates recognizing their hard work. Students and professors also shared information about their experiences in the program. Check out photos from the event.
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U.S. student shares special Wikipedia story
University of San Francisco master's student Jacqueline McCrory wrote the Wikipedia article on habitat conservation plans for her class with Professor Aaron Frank in spring 2012 — and was then astonished to discover that she'd been assigned to read the article in a different class in fall 2012! Jacqueline talks about how her Wikipedia article experience gave her additional responsibility at work and kudos from professors in her department in a post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. Read the post.
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Quebec professor's work featured in WMF blog
Professor Simon Villeneuve of physics and astronomy at Cégep de Chicoutimi, a college in Quebec, has been using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in his classroom since 2008. Overall, his students have created more than 150 articles on the French Wikipedia on topics related to astronomy and physics, and Simon has learned a lot about the best ways of doing Wikipedia assignments. Read a post he wrote for the Wikimedia blog about his work.
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P2PU Wikipedia course kicks off
A free online course, Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond, kicked off this morning, as part of the launch of Peer to Peer University's School of Open. The course is taught by longterm Wikipedia editor Pete Forsyth, who helped design the model for the pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program. The course will teach students how to edit Wikipedia articles, with an emphasis on Open Educational Resources and related topics. The first webinar was held this morning, so students enrolling now should watch the archive of the first lesson. Learn more and enroll in the class.
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News coverage highlights Poland, Ukraine programs
An article in the Global Post published today highlights the work being done in Poland and Ukraine related to the Wikipedia Education Program. The Ukraine program ran a pilot last term that produced 23 improved articles. The Poland program is working with a university to replace a bachelor's thesis with a Wikipedia article. Learn more by reading the article.
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Hi, Ambassadors!
In case you aren't on the Wikimedia Education mailing list (
education(a)lists.wikimedia.org), I thought I'd pass this along. Some of you
may be interested in getting more experience editing Wikipedia yourself,
and this looks like a great opportunity!
Jami
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From: Jane Park <janepark(a)creativecommons.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:05 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] School of Open has launched!
To: Wikimedia Education <Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey guys, in case you haven't seen School of Open launched its first set of
courses today, including several on Wikipedia/Wikimedia:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/37179.
Sign up for these facilitated courses
this week (sign-up will remain open through Sunday, March 17). These
courses will start the week of March 18 (next week!). To sign up, simply
click the “Start Course” button under the course’s menu navigation on the
left.
- *Copyright 4 Educators
(US)<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/147/copyright-for-educators-us/>
* – Sign up <https://p2pu.org/en/courses/147/copyright-for-educators-us/>if
you’re an educator who wants to learn about US copyright law in the
education context.
- *Copyright 4 Educators
(AUS)<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/111/copyright-4-educators-aus/>
* – Sign up <https://p2pu.org/en/courses/111/copyright-4-educators-aus/>if
you’re an educator who wants to learn about Australian copyright,
statutory licenses and open educational resources (OER).
- *Creative Commons for K-12
Educators<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/9/creative-commons-for-k-12-educators/>
* – Sign up<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/9/creative-commons-for-k-12-educators/>if
you’re a K-12 educator (anywhere in the world) who wants to learn how
to
find and adapt free, useful resources for your classroom, and incorporate
activities that teach your students digital world skills.
- *Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and
Beyond<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/49/writing-wikipedia-articles-the-basics-and-be…>
* – Sign up<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/49/writing-wikipedia-articles-the-basics-and-be…>if
you want to learn how to edit Wikipedia or improve your editing skills
—
especially if you are interested in and knowledgeable about open
educational resources (OER) (however, no background in this area is
required).
All other courses are now ready for you to take
at any time, with or without your peers. They include:
- *Get a CC license. Put it on your
website<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/3/get-a-cc-license-put-it-on-your-website/>
* – This course is exactly what the title says: it will help you with
the steps of getting a CC license and putting it on your work. It’s
tailored to websites, although the same steps apply to most other works.
- *Open Science: An
Introduction<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/5/open-science-an-introduction/>
* – This course is a collaborative learning environment meant to
introduce the idea of Open Science to young scientists, academics, and
makers of all kinds. Open Science is a tricky thing to define, but we’ve
designed this course to share what we know about it, working as a community
to make this open resource better.
- *Open data for GLAMs
<https://p2pu.org/nl/groups/open-glam/>*(Galleries, Libraries,
Archives, Museums) – This course is for
professionals in cultural institutions who are interested in opening up
their data as open culture data. It will guide you through the different
steps towards open data and provide you with extensive background
information on how to handle copyright and other possible issues.
- *Intro to Openness in
Education<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/140/intro-to-openness-in-education/>
* – This is an introductory course exploring the history and impacts of
openness in education. The main goal of the course is to give you a broad
but shallow grounding in the primary areas of work in the field of open
education.
- *A Look at Open Video<https://p2pu.org/en/groups/a-look-at-open-video/>
* – This course will give you a quick overview of some of the issues,
tools and areas of interest in the area of open video. It is aimed at
students interested in developing software, video journalists, editors and
all users of video who want to take their knowledge further.
- *Contributing to Wikimedia
Commons<https://p2pu.org/en/groups/contributing-to-wikimedia-commons/>
* – A sister project of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons is a repository of
openly licensed images that people all over the world use and contribute
to. This challenge gets you acquainted with uploading your works to the
commons.
- *Open Detective <http://beta.p2pu.org/en/courses/8/open-detective/>* –
This course will help you explore the scale of open to non-open content and
how to tell the difference.
And more… check out all the courses at http://schoolofopen.org/.
--
Jane Park
Project Manager <http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark>
Creative Commons
the School of Open, a collaboration with P2PU: http://schoolofopen.org/
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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.
Egyptian student becomes active Wikipedia editor
Walaa Abdel Manaem, a master's student in Spanish at Cairo University, learned how to edit Wikipedia through the Cairo Pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program -- and shortly after she started translating articles from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia, Walaa was hooked. Less than one year later, Walaa has more than 8,500 edits on the Arabic Wikipedia. She's created 68 articles, and is steadily climbing the list of the 100 most active editors on the Arabic Wikipedia. She's also assisting the education program as a Campus Ambassador at Cairo University. Read more about Walaa's experiences.
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Students in Greece add photos to Commons
Mina Theofilatou, an instructor at Argostoli Evening High School in Kefalonia, Greece, wrote a post for the Wikimedia Foundation blog explaining her project to add photographs to Wikimedia Commons, the free image repository project. Mina and her students have embarked on two projects: one to catalog edible species on the island of Kefalonia, and one to photograph every village on the island. Learn more about Mina's project by reading the blog post.
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Teaching assistant works to improve Arabic Wikipedia
Doaa Seif, a teaching assistant at Ain Shams University's faculty of Al-Alsun, is an active Wikipedia Ambassador in the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt. Doaa was featured on the Wikimedia Foundation's blog in a post explaining her desire to improve the availability of information on the Arabic Wikipedia. The two courses that Doaa is a teaching assistant for both participated in the Egypt program last term, and she's also organized workshops teaching students how to edit. Read the profile on Doaa.
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