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Student motivations, an update from Greece - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

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. Analysis of student motivations in First Monday In their new article published in First Monday, Wikipedia researchers Amy Roth, Rochelle Davis and Brian Carver take a close look at the issue of student engagement with Wikipedia assignments. The analysis is based on research each of them did independently during during 2010 and 2011, and all of the data points in same direction: students are more engaged in Wikipedia writing assignments than conventional term papers. Read more in "Assigning Wikipedia editing: Triangulation toward understanding student engagement": http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4340/3687 In Greece, students build medicine and math articles Student editors at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) have been contributing to Greek Wikipedia for three years now. What started with the postgraduate Web Science program has expanded to undergraduates in the Medical School and the School of Mathematics, with students translating high quality articles from English to Greek. To date, more than 200 hundred students at AUTH have worked on Wikipedia. Read more about the growing education program on Greek Wikipedia: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/06/wikipedia-education-thessaloniki/ UCLA labor historian tries a Wikipedia assignment The Daily Bruin takes a look at how Tobias Higbie, associate processor of history, used Wikipedia in his American Working Class Movements course. It was the first UCLA course to participate in the Wikipedia Education Program, but from what the students and professor Higbie are saying, it probably won't be the last. Read more about Higbie's first Wikipedia assignment: http://dailybruin.com/2013/05/28/professor-incorporates-wikipedia-into-cour… Swedish program offers progress update Sophie Österberg, the education manager for Wikimedia Sverige, offered an extensive update on all of the educational efforts going on in Sweden right now. The program has been in operation for the last seven months, and they have been busy attending events, supporting collaborations, and creating online trainings to support their efforts. Read more about the program in Sweden. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/13/wikipedia-education-program-update-swe… Communications students reflect on assignment At Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas, students of professor Mary Grace Antony — another first-time participant in the Wikipedia Education Program — are also reporting a great experience with their Wikipedia assignments. In Antony's New Media Technology and Communication course, students worked closely with Campus Ambassador Dan Simanek and Online Ambassador Theopolisme to expand existing Wikipedia articles. Read more about what Antony's students got out of their assignment: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/10/schreiner-university-wikipedia-educat… To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=575&… To unsubscribe from all Wikimedia Foundation newsletters, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=575&qid=3… This email is sent from: Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States

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Global program updates, Ambassadors sought - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

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. Physics professor featured on WMF blog Professor Rafael Pezzi, a professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, was featured on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. In the post, he explains his views on why using Wikipedia as a teaching tool is important: "Wikipedia makes it explicit how knowledge is built: a never-ending dynamic process with conflicting opinions in a lively discussion. Although this process is fundamental, it is ignored in the standard textbook-based class where knowledge is just given, considered as an absolute truth." Read more in the profile. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/08/rafael-pezzi-profile/ Busy term wraps up for Mexico program Ambassador and professor Leigh Thelmadatter has been working hard at incorporating Wikipedia into her students' work in Mexico. Leigh authored a post for the Wikimedia blog about all the activities she's been running at ITESM-Campus Ciudad de México over the last term, including translation efforts of two medical English classes, an International Baccalaureate program, and photo donations and contests. Read more about the incredible breadth of activities happening around education in Mexico. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/15/education-program-mexico/ US student contributes two articles as part of minor Nadhika Ramachandran is pursuing a minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities at Rice University, and she — like other students pursuing the minor — has two required classes. Both classes included an assignment to contribute to Wikipedia on a course-related topic. For Nadhika's first project, she chose to expand the article on peacebuilding; the next term, she created an article on women in the Arab Spring. She's been particularly excited to add content to Wikipedia as part of her coursework. Read more about Nadhika's story. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/07/wikipedia-education-program-nadhika-ra… Swedish program offers progress update Sophie Österberg, the education manager for Wikimedia Sverige, offered an extensive update on all of the educational efforts going on in Sweden right now. The program has been in operation for the last seven months, and they have been busy attending events, supporting collaborations, and creating online trainings to support their efforts. Read more about the program in Sweden. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/13/wikipedia-education-program-update-swe… Brazil program featured in local media The Wikipedia Education Program in Brazil was featured in several news articles in Brazil last month. Oona Castro, the leader of the Wikimedia program in Brazil, gave a talk at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, where she encouraged professors to join the program. Oona's talk was covered widely. Read one article (in Portuguese). http://www.baguete.com.br/noticias/24/05/2013/wikipedia-quer-universidades English Wikipedia program seeks Ambassadors If you're a Wikipedia Ambassador who is available to support student editors and professors in the Wikipedia Education Program on English Wikipedia next term, please make sure to create your Ambassador profile on the Education Extension. If you don't yet have the appropriate user right, please log in to your Wikipedia account and request the user right. The user right will allow you to create a profile as a Campus Ambassador or an Online Ambassador. Don't forget to include an image from Wikimedia Commons, any universities where you can support classes, and the disciplines that interest you most! Request your user right today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors/Become_an_ambassador The Linguist covers Wikipedia as language tool The April/May issue of the Linguist, a journal with information about languages, included an extensive article on the ways using Wikipedia assignments in classrooms can be an exceptional tool for language learning and documenting minority languages. The article extensively quotes Leigh Thelmadatter of Mexico, who has been a pioneer in her use of Wikipedia in her language classroom. Read the article. http://thelinguist.uberflip.com/i/119185/15 To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=569&… To unsubscribe from all Wikimedia Foundation newsletters, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=569&qid=3… This email is sent from: Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States

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Wikipedia Ambassador tshirts: request for size and mailing address!
by Jami Mathewson 15 May '13

15 May '13

Hi, Ambassadors! Now that a new batch of you has completed a semester as a Wikipedia Ambassador, we'd love to send one of our Ambassador tshirts your way! If you never received one of the black Ambassador tshirts (even if you've been involved for multiple semesters), please *send me an email with your tshirt size and mailing address. * * * Thank you! Jami -- Jami Mathewson U.S./Canada Education Program Associate Wikimedia Foundation jmathewson(a)wikimedia.org http://education.wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org*

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Egypt program results, US Ambassador profiled - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 07 May '13

07 May '13

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Namibia workshop, Best student work revealed - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

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Video released, Barcelona program report - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

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Student shares her story, Quebec program report - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

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. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… 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. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… 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. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… 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. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… 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. https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8… To unsubscribe from this newsletter, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe&rese… To unsubscribe from all Wikimedia Foundation newsletters, click this link: https://contacts.wikimedia.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/optout&reset=1&j… This email is sent from: Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 United States

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Education] School of Open has launched!
by Jami Mathewson 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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/ Like what we do? Donate: https://creativecommons.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education -- Jami Mathewson U.S./Canada Education Program Associate Wikimedia Foundation jmathewson(a)wikimedia.org http://education.wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org*

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Ambassador update: Classes needing Course Pages/enrolled students/OAs, Ambassador profiles
by Jami Mathewson 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Hi, Ambassadors! I've been looking through the new Education Extension<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Courses>[1] to see how things are going so far this semester, and it looks like some professors are still learning the ropes (as we all are!). There are quite a few classes whose students have not yet enrolled on the Course Pages, so please do encourage any professor you are working with to have them "enroll" as soon as possible. This will help us all monitor their contributions, provide feedback, and keep up with the work our awesome students are doing on Wikipedia! On that note, please do make sure your classes have a Course Page in general! There are also still some classes without Online Ambassadors (unless you have not signed on to the class yet), so I made a list of those (see below). If you still have the capacity to work with a class or two this semester and are interested in any of these classes, please sign on :)! If the professor is unresponsive on-wiki (or if you prefer communicating via email), please email me for the correct contact information! Don't forget: if you still haven't added yourself to the list of Campus Ambassadors or Online Ambassadors, please add your request to this user right request page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors/Become_an_ambassador>[2] and then create your relevant profile[3][4]. This should help us create a permanent database of all of our program participants, which will be very useful down the line. Thanks for all the hard work you guys have already been doing this semester! I've seen a ton of your welcome messages, guidance, and support all over our students' talk pages and sandboxes! If anyone has any questions, class updates, concerns, exciting news, or anything else to discuss, don't forget that you can post to this mailing list! Also, if you have some awesome student work you'd like to profile, please remember to update the Trophy Case<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Trophy_case> [5]! Thanks, all! Jami [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Courses [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors/Become_an_ambassador [3] CA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CampusAmbassadorProfile [4] OA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:OnlineAmbassadorProfile [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Trophy_case *Classes looking for Online Ambassadors: * "Developmental Biology",<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:Boston_College/Developmental…> Boston University, Professor Laura Hake "Discover New York",<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:St._John%27s_University/Disc…> St. John's University, Professor Ben Turner "Global Enterprise and Sustainable Development",<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_Michigan/Globa…> University of Michigan, Professor Ming Xu "Globalization and Peace"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:McMaster_University/Globiliz…> , McMaster University, Professor Nancy Doubleday "History of Psychology"<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:Ball_State_University/Histor…>, Ball State University, Professor David Perkins "Information Fluency in the Digital World," <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:California_Maritime_Academy/…> California Maritime Academy, Professor Michele VanHoeck "Intercultural Communication," <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:Millersville_University_of_P…> Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Professor Lisa Schreiber "Islamic Jurisprudence," <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:Colgate_University/Islamic_J…> Colgate University, Professor Aisha Musa "Personality," <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:Pepperdine_University/Person…> Pepperdine University, Professor Steve Rouse "Social Work Practice with Community and Social Systems," <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_Michigan/Socia…> University of Michigan, Professor Desmond Patton "Technical Writing",<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:Clemson_University/Technical…>Clemson University, Professor Trish Fancher "Women in Medieval Culture and Society",<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_Maryland,_Coll…>University of Maryland, Professor Janna Bianchini *TL;DR: * *1. Some classes still need Course Pages; many Course Pages still need enrolled students. * *2. Please check out the list of classes looking for an OA and sign on if available. * *3. Don't forget to create an Ambassador profile, add any great work to the Trophy Case, and continue being as awesome as you all are!* -- Jami Mathewson U.S./Canada Education Program Associate Wikimedia Foundation jmathewson(a)wikimedia.org http://education.wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org*

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Egypt student profiled, Photography project in Greece - a newsletter from Wikipedia
by Wikipedia Education Program Update 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

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