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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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.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=7…
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.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=7…
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.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=7…
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.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=7…
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