Hi everyone!
Great progress guys!! Melina's outline feels just like something we can make good use out of.
I have some thoughts about recording the meetings. Generally, this is great for all the reasons Shani says and it's in line with the open and sharing spirit of our community and movement. One thing however I've learnt from facilitating MOOCs is that it can have a censoring effect on the participants, in this case that would be on ourselves. If I feel like I'm taking too much of a risk when I talk about the downsides or mistakes in my projects, then I might go for simply leaving them out of the discussions, missing a good learning opportunity for everyone. Perhaps we could record parts of the meeting recorded? I don't know, just thought I'd share my thoughts on that.
Video! YES! And if it's a matter of budget etc. we should also remember Simply Show Foundation (who where at Wikimania and perhaps some of you attended their workshop?), https://www.youtube.com/user/simpleshowfoundation. Ilya who was their representative joined us at the Education pre-conference so he already has some concepts of what we do and why etc. They are a non-profit part of a corporate and they do stuff for other non-profits at low costs, I know they're producing the Wikipedia 15 film so you'll see more about them once that film is out.
Looking forward to our next meeting! Sara
2015-11-29 17:39 GMT+01:00 Shani shani.even@gmail.com:
Oh, I love all the ideas, and even more so that there's a discussion about doing something like that. Still curious to learn what other collab members think about it, as well as WMF EDU team. :)
Cheers, Shani.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Melina Masnatta melina@wikimedia.org.ar wrote:
Shani
I love your ideas, I think both of them are very useful J
I´m agree with Vojtěch and Netha.
In the case of the showcase a specific project, maybe we can share before links, or make a very short infographyc (exist many free digital tools like picktochart http://piktochart.com/). I think we can prepare too a questions or a form to be more specific…for example:
Why do you think it´s important to share this case?
Can be scalable?
About results and suggestions
How can we get more information if we are interesting to know more?
Like the exercise of pitching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(filmmaking), we can do it in a very short time ;)
What do you think?
Hugs,
Meli
2015-11-29 9:44 GMT-03:00 Netha Hussain nethahussain@gmail.com:
Hi Shani,
Thank you for suggesting the creation of a video! I think a video is going to be a great resource, especially for outreach. I love the idea of being able to show a video to inspire students (and faculty) to join the Wikipedia Education Program. A cost-effective solution for this would be to have the respective chapters and liaisons film the video locally. The interviews could be done during Collab meetings or during Wikimania while in Italy, when most of us are likely to get together.
In mid- December, we in India will have a regional Wikimedia conference for Malayalam (ml) Wikimedians. We are anticipating a handful of students and teachers as participants. I am thrilled by the idea of videographing them,recording their experiences about how they started using Wikipedia as a resource for education. If we can lay down a plan for the video by early December, I will be able to get relevant shots from India for adding on to the video.
Best Netha
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Shani shani.even@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your input, Vojtech! I agree regarding trickiness of filming various programs, but it can be worked around creatively, by filming locally, interviewing online and editing everything later to one video. The bigger challenge I see is deciding what goes into such a video.. But before we get there, let's see if others agree it's necessary.
As for 10 min vs. 15+5 for questions -- no doubt, 10 is better than nothing. However, the reason for propoding a longer time is to allow people time to get into the details of *how* exactly they run their programs. It seems to me that we talk a lot about best practices and documentation, but bedises metrics (that the FDC also requires), the level of details is such that if you really want to understand how a specific program works, actually learn from their experience and say try to "duplicate" the experience, you won't know what to do because all you know it that "X had a great experience with 5th grade pupils", "Y created a successful university course", "Z have an inspiring senior citizen program". In other words, I find that other than this shallow knowledge *of* programs, the actual knowlege of *how* they really run is very little.
Now, it may as well be something that only bothers me. If so, I'll continue to do what I can on my personal capacity. But if it's not, and other share the need for more details, then let's do something about - let's collabotatively think of standars for effectively reporting a project / initiative and change the discourse. These videos can be a step in the right direction. :-)
Cheers, Shani. Hello Shani, thanks for your work on this!
As for the in-depth discussions, my view is that 20 minutes is too much to explain and discuss a single program. I'd give it a maximum of 10 minutes but that's just my personal view.
It would be very nice to have and official promotional video featuring the global education activities. At the same, the global nature of our projects means that it will take a lot of time and cost a lot of money to capture more than just 1-2 programs.
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2015-11-28 16:42 GMT+01:00 Shani shani.even@gmail.com:
Hello, Collab enthusiasts!
1 - I've just sent out a doodle for the coming *2 hangouts for December & January*. Since part of Dec includes holidays and some of us will be vacationing, it would be good to schedule these two dates advance. Please fill out the doodle by next Saturday (Dec 6th) so we can schedule a final meeting time as soon as possible.
2 - Following a remark Paola made during our last meeting about a need for an in-depth discussions about various topics, I'd like to propose using our monthly meeting in a new way. I was thinking we can use the first 20 minutes of each meeting to showcase a specific project / initiative from around the world. Something in the lines of a 15 minute explanation about the project and 5 minutes for questions. I believe having more than a minute to share our experiences will benefit everyone. I also suggest that at least these parts of our meeting will be recorded and then uploaded as a YouTube video. Recording doesn't have to be via "hangout on air". We can simply use a screen-capture software for that part of the session. The idea is that we have a growing database of wiki-edu case reports, some might probably be best practices, but even if they are not, people can learn from anything that happens, from things that do not work as well as things that do work. In short, videos are an important educational tool. There is no reason why we should document only in a written form on outreach. We can use other sources and link them on outreach. I think this is something practical the collab can do to promote awareness. *What do you say..? Is this something you'd like us to do during our meetings?*
3 - And one last suggestion, which is *practically directed at the WMF team, but again, I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts about* -- with Education been such a focus globally in many chapters and the WMF itself, would it be possible to harness Victor, the WMF's official story-teller, to create a sort of "formal" video about what the Wiki Education program is? Similar to what was done for Wikipedia Zero, or a few days ago for the Erasmus prize? I think it's something we really need and can be used worldwide (with subtitles) to promote what it is that we are doing here.
Thanks for bearing with me with all my thoughts today.. :)
Have a great weekend, everyone! Shani.
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