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
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Video encourages Wikipedia's use in classrooms
Wikimedia Sweden wanted to create a video about Wikipedia's use in classrooms -- and
the result is a fun, creative story. Incorporating characters including the teacher who
hates Wikipedia and the star pupil as well as a fun ditty teachers can hum, and starring
the incredible Sophie Österberg playing all the roles, the video is sure to be a hit with
teachers around the globe. Learn more and watch the video.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9…
Wikimedia Commons brochure released
A new brochure about Wikimedia Commons is now available. Designed to be a companion
brochure to the Welcome to Wikipedia brochure, the Commons brochure, titled
"Illustrating Wikipedia: A guide to contributing content to Wikimedia Commons",
covers what Commons is, how to upload files, how to use files, and the basics of free
licenses. The brochure will be useful for any classroom assignment that includes a media
component, including adding an image to a Wikipedia article. The brochure is available in
PDF or in print from the Wikimedia Foundation. Download the brochure.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9…
New book includes chapter on Wikipedia
Professor Lori Britt of James Madison University has participated in the Wikipedia
Education Program in the United States since 2011, so she has several terms' worth of
experience teaching with Wikipedia. She used that experience to author a chapter on
teaching with Wikipedia in a new book, "The Plugged-In Professor," now available
from Woodhead Publishing. Lori's chapter is called "Writing for Wikipedia:
co-constructing knowledge and writing for a public audience". Read more or order the
book.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=9…
Welcome, Tighe Flanagan!
A warm welcome to the newest member of the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Education
Program team, Tighe Flanagan. Tighe will be serving as the new Arab World Program Manager,
focused on expanding the program currently in operation in Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, and
Saudi Arabia. While in graduate school at Georgetown University, Tighe wrote three
articles on the English Wikipedia about the Arab World as part of his coursework through
the United States program, and he is excited to use his knowledge of the program to guide
the direction of the Arab World programs. Leave a message for Tighe on his user page,
welcoming him to the Wikimedia Foundation.
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