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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Dear collab-orators,
since Stockholm I have been trying to help with the development of the
Program&Events
Dashboard <https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/> which is, at some point,
likely to replace the outdated Education Extension. Yesterday Amanda
Bittaker (CC'ed) gave me a guided tour of the current state of dashboard
and I had an opportunity to ask questions. I will also be taking part in
biweekly calls with the developer team to make sure that the Dashboard
development is going the right direction.
Some of you are probably already using it but most of the large country
programs are not using it yet on a large scale. I think there is a lack of
reliable and trustworthy information about the P&E Dashboard so let me give
you an update what it does:
- Is is an open system letting *anyone *with a Wikipedia account log in
and create his/her own course pages. There is nothing like userrights
except for developer access
- advantage: no barriers,
- disadvantage: possible vandalism or trolling.
- When you create a course page, you can send a link to this course
page so that participants can log in. Students need to *fill in a
"password" *- this can be publicly announced on the course page or
entirely private
- advantage: enables to "close" course for a desired group people only
- disadvantage: participants have to overcome one more step when they
want to enrol in the course
- you can *create a course *by cloning one of your past course pages
(not someone else's) or by starting a completely new page. In the course
page set-up, you can choose your "home project" and "home language".
- there is probably *no way to add "templates" to course pages*. For
example, each our course page on Czech Wikipedia has a template
which links
to guidelines, helpdesk etc.
- you can *edit the course page* if you are the creator or the
creator has assigned you as the "facilitator" of the course.
- advantage: preventing changes done by people who have no relationship
or knowledge about the project
- disadvantage: teachers creating course pages have to assign local
coordinators as facilitators otherwise the facilitators cannot help them
design the pages or curate them. This will lead to a load of
e-mails saying
"Can you please assign me as a facilitator to the course, sir?"
- *creating campaigns (groups of courses)* is not available yet. It is
not sure when it will be ready but hopefully before March. This is crucial
to large country programs - we need to have a list of "our" projects.
- advantage: you can include some information or links or training
material to the individual course pages
- disadvantage: anyone will be able to create campaigns - this will
lead to a mess
Overall the Community Tech team has done a good job in recent months!
Thanks for your work on this and especially for all you are planning to do.
But we need more work before the large programs like ours are likely to use
it on a large scale.
For more information please see this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard>.
You can give feedback on the discussion page there. This will be very
useful for the developers who are eager to get some input, especially about
the campaigns, according to Amanda.
Also I think we need to think about the *name of the dashboard* more... I
cannot imagine telling our students to open browser and type
*http://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/
<http://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/> *- we should make a shortened
version too with a catchy name than can be easily communicated without
knowledge of English. My Phabricator ticket for this is here
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146332>, without any comments for two
months now.
I understand there will be some announcements coming from the Community
Tech team in near future.
I think this would be also useful to the education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
people. There has been no official information about the Dashboard for
months on that mailing list!
best,
Vojtěch Dostál
předseda rady / chair of the board
Wikimedia Česká republika | http://www.wikimedia.cz
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Cross posting to the Collab list :)
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Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tighe Flanagan <tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 1:53 PM
Subject: Are you using education surveys in your programs?
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
I wanted to ask anyone has been using the Education survey templates
available on Outreach[1]? Have you found them useful? Is there anything
that needs to improve?
If you haven't used them, be sure to check them out. We have survey
questions for students in a classroom[2], educator surveys about their
classroom[3], and educator training [4].
Best,
Tighe
[1]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Surveys
[2]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Surveys/Students
[3]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Surveys/
Educator_survey_about_their_classroom
[4]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Surveys/
Educator_training_survey
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Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
TL;DR Let’s collect feedback about membership criteria and refocus on the
Collab’s goals. There is a need for clarity internally and externally :)
Dear Collab members,
Based on yesterday’s conversation on the Collab call, and on the growing
experience that we (the Collab and the Education Team) are having, it seems
like it is time to move to the next stage in the Collab’s evolution. We all
appreciate how the dedicated services the Collab selflessly offer to the
Movement, and its the education goals in particular, are valuable and
indeed bring a highly specialized focus to key aspects of its growth.
As the group decided in its in-person meeting in March, the Collab has three
key focus areas
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collabora…>
:
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Dashboard implementation
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Mentoring
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Comms support + Resources
These areas may change over time, as the movement and its needs progress,
but are representative of the current stage of the movement’s activities.
As we all know, participation in the Collab is completely voluntary, and
the time each member dedicates to it is even more valuable because of that.
As the Collab’s specialized service to the Movement evolves, it becomes
somewhat natural to make the framework for its work more explicit, and
having open conversations around the expectations we have for it also
become necessary.
We would therefore like to propose continuing this conversation we started
this month. Participation is welcome on this list, *on-wiki*
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Education/Wikipedia_Education_Coll…>,
or privately through direct email. We also want to make sure that other
stakeholders in the movement can join in the conversation (our list and
wikis are public and open, and some affiliates are already giving direct
feedback to the Education Team). We expect the outcome to be a frank and
constructive conversation that will update the membership criteria, and
clarify for everyone (including non-Collab members) what the Collab is and
does. We would like this conversation to happen over the months of December
and January.
Our team sees a need for robust conversations around education that are not
limited to the Collab spaces (our mailing list, virtual meetings, and
in-person meetings). Considering the specific work of the Collab, it
doesn’t make sense for Collab conversations to take the place of
discussions on the Education list, for example. For starters, the Education
Team intends to dedicate more of our efforts to general education spaces,
not just the Collab spaces. We appreciate Collab members who have helped in
these areas (like on Facebook, Twitter, Education-l, and the Newsletter).
We believe in a multi-pronged approach to making the Collab and the general
education spaces in the Movement productive and meaningful. Ideas welcome :)
I look forward to this important conversation!
Best regards,
Vahid.
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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Du har blivit inbjuden till följande händelse.
Titel: Collab November Call
När: ons den 16 nov. 2016 18:00 – 18:50 Stockholm
Var: Google Hangout
Kalender: Sara jobb
Vem:
* Sara Mörtsell– har skapat händelsen
* education-collab(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Händelseuppgifter:
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NzBwamlkOW1jY3FtNGI5Z…
Inbjudan från Google Kalender: https://www.google.com/calendar/
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händelse.
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avvisa denna händelse. Du kan även registrera dig för att få ett
Google-konto på https://www.google.com/calendar/ och kontrollera
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Vidarebefordras den här inbjudan kan alla mottagare ändra ditt OSA-svar.
Läs mer på https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding
Dear Collab members,
It's about time we gather again. We have a few topics to cover, and you may
have other ideas as well:
- the #EduWiki campaign if formally finishing today, so it would be
useful to share our perceptions and learning around it.
- Nichole Saad has joined the Education team at the Foundation, so it
will be great to have a chance to "meet" her as well.
- We also feel it's time to get a very participative conversation on the
future of the Collab started: how it should evolve, and how it can best
serve the needs of the movement (and of the education programs in
particular). An e-mail on this topic will follow.
- Conversations on education: how can we make sure that everybody feels
there is a place to have meaningful conversations on Education Programs for
everyone in the movement?
With all that in mind, we would like to propose tentatively Wednesday 16th
or Thursday 17th as possible dates for our next meeting.
Please help us figure out the ideal date (or the least worst) by
participating in the Doodle: http://doodle.com/poll/fw7ci9snixm6eshb
See you and talk to you soon!
Vahid.
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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education