Thanks to everyone who has already participated
in this small
"brainstorming" with me. :-)
Just a quick clarification, I was talking about recording *only* the
project showcase, not the whole session. I believe it's good and important
to have an informal part, where peolpe are free to ask, share etc off
record, without worrying about being recording, for exactly the reasons
Sara mentioned.
Cheers,
Shani..
On 30 Nov 2015 11:04, "Sara Mörtsell" <sara.mortsell(a)wikimedia.se>
wrote:
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(a)gmail.com>om>:
> 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(a)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:
>>
>> 1) Why do you think it´s important to share this case?
>>
>> 2) Can be scalable?
>>
>> 3) About results and suggestions
>>
>> 4) 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(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>
>>> 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(a)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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Vojtěch Dostál
>>>>
>>>> předseda rady / chairman of the board
>>>> Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2015-11-28 16:42 GMT+01:00 Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Shani Evenstein (via Doodle) <
>>>>> mailer(a)doodle.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Shani Evenstein invites you to participate in the Doodle poll
>>>>>> "Scheduling the Wiki-EDU Collab Monthly Meetings: Dec 2015 +
Jan."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
<https://doodle.com/?tmail=poll_invitecontact_participant_invitation_with_message&tlink=logo>
>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Shani Evenstein (shani.even(a)gmail.com) invites you to
>>>>>> participate in the Doodle poll "Scheduling the Wiki-EDU
Collab
>>>>>> Monthly Meetings: Dec 2015 + Jan."
>>>>>> Hi, Collab members,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This Doodle is for us to schedule our next *2* Wiki-EDU Collab
>>>>>> Monthly Meeting, for both December 2015 & January 2016.
>>>>>> Please mark the dates you can make it so we can set the time in
>>>>>> advance.
>>>>>> These meetings are not mandatory, but we would love to meet as
>>>>>> many of you as possible online.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Shani & the WMF's EDU team.
>>>>>> Participate now
>>>>>>
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