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.
--
Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
Hi,
Vahid asked me to sum up the organization of the #EduWiki campaign in the
Czech Republic. First, we decided that it is our long-term goal to attract
primary and secondary school pupils to Wikipedia. This is because most
people started editing Wikipedia at early age. We don't think that teaching
edit Wikipedia is really efficient, because most are unable to produce a
good quality article without us helping a lot. Rather, we'd like them to
learn *about *Wikipedia and how it is written. Teachers can use Wikipedia
as a cool example on which they can improve their pupils' *digital literacy*.
Because teaching digital literacy is a priority of the Czech government,
this proved as an achievable goal in the long-term. We called this
campaign Teach
(with) Wiki <https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:U%C4%8D_(s)_Wiki>.
We prepared drafts of *lesson plans*, a bit different from the ones
prepared by WMF but they do take some inspiration from them. This is not
because the plans written by WMF are trash, but rather because we wanted to
write something exceptional that will lay foundations to something bigger
(read on).
But we knew we needed *allies*. We contacted our friends in EDUin (an NGO
promoting innovation in education) who have experience with contacting
media and educational institutions and together prepared a press release
and organized a press conference. This helped us to spread the idea which
really attracted attention (about 10 articles in press TV and radio). We
were invited by the Ministry of Education to talk about our idea and they
will help us improve it and spread the word. We are still polishing the
three 45-minute lesson plans but once they are all out, they will be public
and hopefully also translated into English at some point. Also we hope to
attract teachers to try using them in their lessons as early as this year.
Next year, we want to register "Wikipedia and teaching digital literacy" in
the formal governmental *system of postgradual teachers education* so that
we can organize accredited course and gain (governmental or EU) financial
support for them. This is a way to get Wikipedia to many teachers in
primary and secondary school and thus to their pupils. Some of these pupils
may be so intrigued by Wikipedia that they start editing it, who knows? We
definitely want to devise methods to find this out retrospectively.
I hope you find this interesting,
cheers
Vojtěch Dostál
předseda rady / chair of the board
Wikimedia Česká republika | http://www.wikimedia.cz
Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR> | Twitter
<https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR> | Newsletter <http://eepurl.com/b--eXr>
Dear Collab members,
Happy almost September! We are pleased to report that we are almost ready
to proceed with the opening of the education campaign in the first week of
September.
For next steps, the campaign microsite
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Campaign> that we
have constructed has content that needs to be translated. If you are
looking forward to joining the campaign, we would like to kindly ask you to
translate the content of the website to the language used in your WEP, so
we can help engage as many teachers as possible. This includes the main
campaign page, and the subpages for registration, Lesson Plans and FAQ. We
have created a category on Commons to group the lesson plans PDFs:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:EduWiki_Campaign_2016
Please note that WMF Education Program team will not be responsible for
implementing the campaign in your respective country, but we will help
provide support in any areas you need. This means that each Collab member
who wants to be part of this campaign, has to promote the campaign in their
own context. This could include sharing the campaign on your affiliate
social media channels, creating a site notice banner for your language
version Wikipedia (if you choose to do so!), sharing broadly among your
network of educators, and any other means of collaboration you think could
be useful (for example, guest posting in an education blog, or working to
get local media coverage).
We have included a sign-up page
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Campaign/Participate>,
for educators to sign on-wiki and also via a form that we are finalizing.
We have also created a short survey to collect feedback on the campaign,
which will help the collab follow up after the campaign has ended. You can
review the draft surveys here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jHlSJS3wVCJUbzSDp5Y2Jgyc64LbJd6S1YGWJ8Z…>.
Thank you very much for your help and feedback. It is much appreciated, and
I look forward to working together to show the world that Wikipedia belongs
in the classroom.
Best,
Loreen
Hi all,
I wanted to follow up with you on a topic that came up on the first
campaign launch meeting we had last week: WMF Support for EduWiki Campaign.
After considering our options and current resources online, we decided not
to write a blog about this on the first week of the campaign on the WMF
blog. Since we have such a fine microsite, and we worked so hard on it,
this space will be our anchor for any messaging ww'll do to promote the
campaign.
For this reason, we are going to focus our efforts on social media only at
the moment. We are going to tweet and FB post from @Wikipedia and
@Wikimedia one post created by us (see attached). As per Jeff Elder's
advice, we are going to contact fellow organizations / personalities, to
retweet us on Twitter: Craig Newmark, Creative Commons, and the UN.
Further, we are going to be re-tweeting any tweets from organizations or
personalities that mention the campaign. Two good examples of this are WM
Ukraine <https://twitter.com/wikimedia_ua/status/770911431071891457> and
Telam <https://twitter.com/AgenciaTelam/status/773633196651053057> posts on
Twitter.
These social media efforts are going to happen *tomorrow, September 8*.
This is because on that day, we celebrate International Literacy Day *[1]*,
one of UNESCO's global events. This year it is the 50th Literacy Day, and
the slogan is "Reading the past, writing the future", which aligns
perfectly with the goals of the campaign. This is also why it made the most
sense for WMF to engage on this day.
Because the big push from WMF and these other actors is happening on
September 8, you should expect the highest visibility of the campaign that
day. You can, however, promote the campaign locally at your own timing. Be
mindful that collab members appear, divided by language, in the "Contact"
page of the campaign:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Campaign/Contact
Melina and Paola have already started promoting the campaign, and this is
why there is already news coverage of EduWiki Campaign in Spanish. I have
seen one blog from Vira on the Wikimedia Ukraine blog as well. *If you
tweet about the campaign, or see a local media channel post on social media
about the campaign, please send any repercussions to this thread. We will
retweet / repost from WMF channels.* Although we can only retweet
organizations or big personalities, not individuals.
We are also gathering press repercussions on a slack Vahid created to this
end: https://eduwikicampaign.slack.com/messages/press/
*Please also add media coverage, blogs and other repercussions to the
slack.*
If you are working on communication outlets and are struggling in some
respect, please let us know. We are here to support you! =)
We have created a spreadsheet
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10etbSkIfBuUraq1dYJd3j-d1k7DI_W7guXP…>
with
tweet ideas, and columns in languages represented in the collab. We will be
checking this regularly to see if there are tweets we can post in other
languages. Feel free to take tweet ideas from here, too!
Happy campaign, everyone! It is an honour to be co-hosting #EduWiki with
you <3
Best,
María
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, PC&L Team
\\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
*[1] *
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrat…
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Vahid Masrour <vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Dear Collab members,
>
> We had our campaign launch meeting a few hours ago, and we invite you to
> read the notes on: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/
> 1wXejU8BOd2DMTuO7PklA13rZuvzmNpG6cV76xtUakME/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Your comments and questions are welcome on the document.
>
> We are seeing the need for a second meeting, and as you will see in the
> document, this is time sensitive as a meeting would be preferable before
> september 8. I would therefore like to propose a meeting for Tuesday,
> september 6. I realize this is short notice, and that it would be
> preferable that we have more participants than we had today. If that day is
> not possible for you, please let us know.
>
> I've created a Doodle to help us all figure out which time would be
> optimal: http://doodle.com/poll/ktmfmnwtnkgx5esv
>
> Looking forward to seeing you!
>
> Vahid.
>
> --
> Vahid Masrour
> Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
> vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
>
>
Dear Education Collaborative members,
I hope you are having a good start to your week.
I am writing to inform you of a mistake that we have noticed in the lesson
plans for the EduWiki Campaign.
It was brought to my attention that the learning objectives for each
assignment were incorrect on the PDF version only (the pages on Outreach
are OK). As of a few minutes ago, the learning objectives have been changed
to the correct ones on the PDFs. I have also updated the files on Commons
to follow these changes.
*However, this means that if you are currently working on translating the
lesson plans on Google Docs, the lesson plans have the incorrect
objectives. *Please check the Google folder
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7vC0ZkKY4hZamEwdHEtOVE5aVE> for the
updated versions of the lesson plans. *Please also note that the Spanish
lesson plans are already being taken care of.*
I thank you all for your patience and apologize for the mistake!
Best,
Loreen
Hi all,
after months of hard work, we are happy to share with all a new video
series on the Wikimedia Education Program. You can now watch all 12
episodes on Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_in_Education_12-part_…>
, Youtube
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRftTk84fvO9XTVQ_oZ9w> and
Vimeo <https://vimeo.com/wmfoundation>.
With this series, we hope to engage new educators in using Wikimedia
projects in the classroom, as well as promote existing resources to support
education programs all over the world, like the Education Program Toolkit
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Program_Toolkits/Education>
and the many brochures
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Brochures> for educators.
*What is this video series about?*
*Chapter 1: Introduction and Why do you teach Wikipedia?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxCjD5Yu308&index=1&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRftT…>*
Meet Educators and Wikipedia education leaders from around the world who
share why they use Wikipedia in classrooms not just as a way to access
knowledge, but also a way to develop their students’ capacities, digital
know-how and to share knowledge with the world. Learn how the process turns
their students from consumers into knowledge producers, leaving behind
papers that only the teacher reads for articles that the whole world can
access.
*Chapter 2: What was your first Wikipedia article?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfymS0fjejU&index=2&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRftT…>*
How did these educators and Wikipedia education leaders get started?
Starting from light copyediting, to translating, realizing information of
interest was missing… and creating new articles!
*Chapter 3: The five pillars of Wikipedia
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncZmv-UO_3U&index=3&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRftT…>*
5 things you must know before you get started on writing on the Wikipedia.
>From these 5 rules, the educators reflect on the geopolitical implications
of knowledge production, good online behaviour, and even learning to
express knowledge the best we can.
*Chapter 4: Assignments
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFq2s180ny0&index=4&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRftT…>*
How does using Wikipedia in the classroom work in practice? Educators and
Wikipedia education program leaders share different experiences and ways to
turn the open online encyclopedia into an educational, active learning
tool. … and the importance of explaining what plagiarism is, as well as the
value of using good references.
*Chapter 5: Brochures and tutorials
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQ8ndlO6mY&index=5&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRftT…>*
Need a little help? Downloading a few brochures can go a long way into
learning in more detail how to use Wikipedia as an edtech tool. Follow the
link and : https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Brochures
*Chapter 6: The key to a successful education program
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh57hTM-54k&index=6&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRftT…>*
Starting small and then growing the educational program seems to be the
key. If you are trying to start an education program in your region,
experiment with a single teacher, learn from that experience, an then grow
the program progressively.
*Chapter 7: Social media & connectivity
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh57hTM-54k&index=6&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRftT…>*
Social media is an ally to connect with other education initiatives, other
educators, and helpful volunteers that can answer questions regarding the
use of the internet.
*Chapter 8: Work with the Wikipedia community
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhwcWIUL8_U&index=8&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRftT…>*
A fact to take in consideration: connecting with the community of volunteer
that edit the Wikipedia in your language increases the probability of
success of your education project!
*Chapter 9: Motivating students
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1J2FcDdSeM&index=9&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRftT…>*
Motivating students to learn through editing Wikipedia is not very hard.
Here are a few experiences that highlight the value of using Wikipedia as
an educational tool, as well as a few tips on specific actions that will
fuel their interest even more.
*Chapter 10: Language and translation
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADxGmKeLqDM&index=10&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRft…>*
Wikipedia exists currently in 283 languages, and “incubates” many more
encyclopedia in other languages. There’s a very high probability that
students can work in the language they’re fluent in. Translation can be an
activity that will show them the ropes and increase their language skills,
on top of developing their knowledge of the subject matter.
*Chapter 11: When to hire an employee
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGUSMl7DD38&index=11&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRft…>*
How do you scale an education program that spans over many classrooms and
even many institutions?
*Chapter 12: Success and learning from failure
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH11w0IGz8E&index=12&list=PLVx9pX-VnGViiRft…>*
Success or failure? It’s all learning! This applies at the student level,
but also to the educators’ tasks, and to education program leaders.
*How can you get involved?*
We count on you to help us spread the word about this series and to use the
videos in your outreach efforts, for training and any other use you can
give them! Let us know how you like them, and feel free to translate
captions as well.
Thank you to all program leaders who took part in this video production,
sharing what you have learned during all this time running your education
program. A special thank you to Floor Koudijs, who sparked the first
efforts for the series to be and set the wheels in motion for this series
to happen.
Have a great week!
Best,
María
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, PC&L Team
\\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
Hi all,
The campaign sounds exciting!
Melina, I can help with the translations.
Cheers,
Paola
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> Dear all,
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> I want to translate the lessons plans
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> spanish. Can I have the editable version?
>
> Thanks! Keep in touch,
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> 2016-08-29 21:58 GMT-03:00 Loreen Ruíz <lruiz(a)wikimedia.org>:
>
> > Dear Collab members,
> >
> > Happy almost September! We are pleased to report that we are almost ready
> > to proceed with the opening of the education campaign in the first week
> of
> > September.
> >
> > For next steps, the campaign microsite
> > <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Campaign> that we
> > have constructed has content that needs to be translated. If you are
> > looking forward to joining the campaign, we would like to kindly ask you
> to
> > translate the content of the website to the language used in your WEP, so
> > we can help engage as many teachers as possible. This includes the main
> > campaign page, and the subpages for registration, Lesson Plans and FAQ.
> We
> > have created a category on Commons to group the lesson plans PDFs:
> >
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:EduWiki_Campaign_2016
> >
> > Please note that WMF Education Program team will not be responsible for
> > implementing the campaign in your respective country, but we will help
> > provide support in any areas you need. This means that each Collab member
> > who wants to be part of this campaign, has to promote the campaign in
> their
> > own context. This could include sharing the campaign on your affiliate
> > social media channels, creating a site notice banner for your language
> > version Wikipedia (if you choose to do so!), sharing broadly among your
> > network of educators, and any other means of collaboration you think
> could
> > be useful (for example, guest posting in an education blog, or working to
> > get local media coverage).
> >
> > We have included a sign-up page
> > <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_
> Campaign/Participate>,
> > for educators to sign on-wiki and also via a form that we are finalizing.
> > We have also created a short survey to collect feedback on the campaign,
> > which will help the collab follow up after the campaign has ended. You
> can
> > review the draft surveys here
> > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jHlSJS3wVCJUbzSDp5Y2Jgyc64LbJ
> d6S1YGWJ8ZzZe8/edit>.
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much for your help and feedback. It is much appreciated,
> > and I look forward to working together to show the world that Wikipedia
> > belongs in the classroom.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Loreen
> >
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