Forwarding message on to the education list about the upcoming diversity
conference in November.
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Tighe Flanagan
Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
tflanagan(a)wikimedia.org
education.wikimedia.org
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From: John Andersson <john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se>
Date: Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 9:26 AM
Subject: [education(a)wikimedia.org] Ambassadors for the Wikimedia Diversity
Conference 2017
Hi everybody,
We just received the great news that the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
2017[1] has received the full grant from the Wikimedia Foundation's Event
Grants.[2] We look very much forward to hosting the conference and to
welcome you to Stockholm the 3-5 November 2017.
We now need your help in making it a success! We invite members from your
Wikimedia organization or user group to sign up as ambassadors for the
conference.[3] Ambassadors are champions of Diversity on Wikimedia and
volunteer to use that power to support the conference in several ways.
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Support before the conference. Ambassadors help communicate to local
communities that the conference will happen and provide updates of the
planning process, such as when to register and how to apply for scholarship
and why submit a proposal. The other way is to provide constructive input
and ideas for the program and for the overall event. Ambassadors can also
organize discussions at other conferences taking place prior to the
Diversity conference.
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Support during the conference. Ambassadors can also volunteer their
champion powers during the conference to support documentation and curation
of discussions and insights, facilitate the implementation of the program
with the facilitation team, support participants with helpful advice and
on-site information.
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Support after the conference. Ambassadors help disseminate the knowledge
gained during the conference to their communities and to participate in
networks to continue working with Diversity.
Active participation as an ambassador will support a scholarship
application.
We would be grateful if you could forward this possibility to your
communities.
Furthermore, we are actively looking for more funding from sponsors, but we
do have limited opportunities to provide scholarships and only parts of the
travel costs for participants can currently be covered. If your Wikimedia
organization has the opportunity to provide a full or partial scholarship
for your volunteers or staff, please let us know. We would be happy to
highlight your involvement and support on the conference portal.[3]
If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to get in
contact with us!
We intend to send out the registration form at the end of next week.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference_2017
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Diversity_
Conference_2017
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia Diversity Conference
2017/Ambassadors
Kind regards,
John
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John Andersson
Executive Director
Wikimedia Sverige
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 <073-396%2051%2089>
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Visiting address: Hantverkargatan 21 2tr, 112 21 Stockholm
Hello education community!
I'm happy to announce that the new issue of This Month in Education
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News> is out. There are some
important topics being covered this month: education and the strategy
movement, formation of the new user group, IberoCONF 2017, and more!
Like an article? Have a question?* Please contribute your thoughts* on the
article's talk page!
I'd like to take this time to also say that* we'd love to have more
volunteers work with us to produce this newsletter.* Having monthly issues
is a great way to make sure we are aware of what is going on with WEP
around the world, but also requires a lot of bandwidth from our small team.
Please reach out if you are willing to join us :D.
Finally, we want your stories! *Don't forget to submit your stories for the
next issue by 20 July! *You can submit by heading to the newsroom
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom>and
using the input box.
Happy Friday!
best,
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*Nichole Saad*
WMF | Education Program Manager
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
*Want to talk about the Wikipedia Education Program?*
Schedule a meeting: https://calendly.com/nsaad-1
Dear all,
I have a professor in Myanmar who is interested in being mentored. Her name
is Yee Mon, and the details of her course are below. If anyone feels they
are able to help her out, please ping me :)
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In December, I will start a semester long ( 48 hours lecture time in 4
months ) new academic writing course for fourth year students in my
University. There will be about 70 students in that Course.
I' ll design my Course in a new approach, new teaching methods and new
assessment types. First I must consider the expected learning outcomes.
Then I would also like to get some suggestions from ELT professionals from
other Universities whether they apply Wikipedia or not. I am happy to learn
different approaches from others.
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*Nichole Saad*
WMF | Education Program Manager
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
*Want to talk about the Wikipedia Education Program?*
Schedule a meeting: https://calendly.com/nsaad-1
I'm really excited to be able to share the results from a research project
Wiki Ed undertook this year to measure the student learning outcomes from
Wikipedia assignments. There's an overview of the findings up now on the
WMF blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/19/wikipedia-information-literacy-study/
Or if you want to jump straight to the report:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Student_Learning_Outcomes_using_Wik…
In conversations with many education program leaders over the last few
months, I know this report is useful to many of you as well. Having this
kind of data on what the impact of Wikipedia assignments is to student
learning is helpful for conversations with potential instructors, school
administrators, and others. I encourage you to use and share the report
widely! We also included all of the data and questions from it under a free
license, so if you'd like to repurpose some for your own use, please feel
free.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Director of Programs; Deputy Director
Wiki Education Foundation
www.wikiedu.org
Dear Wikimedia & Education community,
The time has come to form an education-focused User Group to support the
needs of the global education community.
This weekend, a group of education leaders from 10 countries gathered in
Yerevan, Armenia. We continued a discussion that began in Berlin at the
Wikimedia Conference to strategize about the future of global educational
initiatives within Wikimedia projects. We discussed our current model of
supporting educational initiatives, including the limitations and
challenges we have faced over the last several years.
Though we do not pretend to cover the entire spectrum of education
programs, we believe our collective experience has given us insight into
common needs within the education community. We believe a User Group is a
natural evolution from the current structure of the Wikipedia Education
Collaborative (the “Collab”). As we organize to support educational
initiatives around the world, we want to be inclusive, open, and
transparent within our community. User Groups have formed to help
Wikimedians collaborate across languages and countries, enabling better
communication and visibility globally. With time, we expect this User Group
may become a Thematic Organization.
Moving forward, we believe it’s vital to elevate the narrative of education
within our movement and the knowledge ecosystem. We see this group as a
platform for sharing the experiences and voicing the needs of the entire
global education community.
*We invite all interested parties **to join the User Group* as members (this
includes affiliates, individual program leaders, educators, students, etc), and
commit to setting the stage for greater success of Wikipedia in Education. *To
show your support, p**lease sign up under the "supporters" section in the
proposal page on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.*
Warm regards,
Shani Evenstein, Jami Mathewson, Vassia Atanassova & Liang-chih Shang Kuan
(On behalf of the founding members).
In 2016, Wiki Ed kicked off the largest targeted content initiative ever
undertaken in the Wikimedia world: the Wikipedia Year of Science. When the
year wrapped up in December, our programs for the initiative had added
nearly 5 million words of content to the English Wikipedia. More than 6,300
students edited more than 5,700 articles on STEM and social science
subjects on Wikipedia, and improved biographies of 150 women scientists.
The amount of content added during the Year of Science is impressive:
nearly 5 million words fills 3.5 full volumes of the last print edition of
Encyclopædia Britannica.
But simply touting our numeric successes isn’t enough. As part of Wiki Ed’s
commitment to the Wikimedia movement, we also wanted to evaluate our work —
and document and share our learnings.
We’ve published our Year of Science evaluation on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Year_of_Science_e…
The report highlights what we did as part of the Year of Science in the
Classroom Program, the Visiting Scholars Program, and other projects, as
well as indications of what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned from
the Year of Science. Our goal in publishing this report is to enable other
groups considering creating a large-scale content initiative like the Year
of Science to be able to learn from what we did.
I encourage anyone who’s interested to read the detailed report, or for a
TL;DR version, check out the green “Learnings” boxes. We welcome questions
on the talk page of the report or at Wikimania 2017 in Montreal, where I’ll
be presenting on the Year of Science initiative and what we learned from it.
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Director of Programs; Deputy Director
Wiki Education Foundation
www.wikiedu.org
Dear Collab members, see you/talk to you in 30 minutes!
Vahid.
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Vahid Masrour
Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
[[sorry for x-posting]]
Dear Collab friends,
Some of you may have heard that Cycle 1 of the movement strategy process is
over and the second round has already opened.
Below are some details on the results of round 1, as well as details on
round 2. You can help by doing 2 things:
1 - *Help share these details with your local communities*, especially in
case they do not have community liaisons, and then share your personal /
local thoughts on these themes there.
2 - *Participate in cycle 2 from an EDU-Wiki perspective (which is where we
need your help) - *
Our efforts around the world are dedicated to spreading the use of
Wikipedia & its sister projects as teaching and learning tools, in the hope
of not only creating high quality information in wiki projects, but also
help students develop relevant 21 century skills.
As mentioned, most of our work is done locally and you are all encouraged
to give your personal / local feedback via your local affiliates or
directly into the designated Cycle 2 page. However, *we also have EDU-Wiki
needs that are global and relevant to all of us.* It is therefore important
that we don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to let our joint
voice be heard *as a united group*.
To that end, we are facilitating a discussion on each of the 5 themes from
a *Wiki in Education perspective. *
You voice matters. So please share your thoughts & ideas.
If you have any questions, please ping me here or personally.
Best,
Shani.
*==Cycle 1 Report==*
Between March 14 and April 18, participants of our movement have been asked
to answer the question: "What do we want to build or achieve together over
the next 15 years?".
1800 statements were gathered from around the world, and after being
analyzed, *13 themes have emerged: *
* Reliable, neutral, high-quality content
* Community health & support
* Internal & external collaboration
* Features
* Users, editors, & contributors
* Outreach, awareness, & promotion
* Innovation
* Funding, staffing, and other organizational needs
* Emerging communities
* Advancing education
* Movement values
* Knowledge
* Sustainability & growth
You can read more about each of them it in *the complete "Cycle 1 Report"*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_1/Re….>.
In case your country does not have strategy liaisons, please share these
results in your home wiki. You can further help by translating this page to
your own language.
*==Strategy Cycle 2 is now Open== *
So what's next? Cycle 2 of the strategy process has opened yesterday and
will remain *open till the June 12*. Full details on Cycle 2 are here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_2>.
In this cycle, you can comment on *5 major themes* that have
been identified:
* Healthy, Inclusive Communities
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_2/He…>
* The Augmented Age
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_2/Th…>
* A Truly Global Movement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_2/A_…>
* The Most Respected Source of Knowledge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_2/Th…>
* Engaging in the Knowledge Ecosystem
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_2/En…>
*Feedback could be given in various ways: *
*1 - Via this email thread*
*2 - On Meta **in a dedicated page*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Outreach/W…>
for us to discuss each of the themes.
3 -* Via our Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaEducationProgram/>,* which will
host a discussion per theme every few days.
4 - If you don't wish to expose your thoughts publicly, you are
welcome to *reach
out to me personally*, and I'll be sure to convey your thoughts forward.
==Relevant Further Links==
* Further details on the timeline of the strategy process
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Process/en…>
* Participating in the discussion via your own home wiki - this page has
further details on opening your own discussion per language or group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Participat…>.
Thanks in advance for your participation. It can make a difference to all
of us.
Cheers,
Shani Evenstein.
Dear Collab members,
We will have our monthly online meeting on Monday 22, at 15:00 UTC. As
mentioned previously, we'll be focusing on the in-person meeting agenda.
You are welcome to take a look at the following GDoc, and write ahead your
suggestions, comments and offerings regarding the in-person meeting agenda.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X1wXlRcAl0Ay0zOsWvl7e-TLOwO_LghF6JUOrAJ…
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