https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/30073
It would be interesting to see whether there's something we can learn
about Wikiversity and Wikibooks functioning and promotion, and about OER
promotion by Wikimedia chapters in general.
Nemo
If you're interested in hearing more about the Wikipedia Education
Program, please join us in 15 hours for the January Metrics and
Activities Meeting, at 16:00 UTC on 31 January. Information on how to
join and a time zone converter are here:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program_Metrics_and_…
If you'd like to be notified about future meetings on your talk page,
please sign the interest list on that page.
LiAnna
There is also the "Education" Wikimedia listserv:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
(Description of íts scope:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/2011-April/000001.html
)
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Robert Cummings <cummings(a)olemiss.edu> wrote:
> Dear Research-l Readers:
>
> I am happy to announce the creation of a new listserv dedicated to
> conversations about teaching with Wikipedia in higher education. The
> name of the list is, appropriately enough, teaching-with-wikipedia. My
> hope is that many users of this list will find the new list to be a
> good way to support teaching with Wikipedia, as well as share
> resources on researching Wikipedia pedagogy. I see the purpose of this
> new list as related to wiki-research-l, but materially separate enough
> to support a distinct conversation.
>
> At the moment, there is no web interface, so the best method of
> joining the list is to send an e-mail to
>
> md(a)listserv.olemiss.edu
>
> with the command
>
> subscribe teaching-with-wikipedia
>
> I would be happy to answer questions directly, and/or to see you there.
>
> Yours,
> Bob Cummings
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Hi all,
As some of you might know, we are planning to start a small Education Program pilot at two universities in Cairo this upcoming semester. In order to make the process transparent, I published the first draft of our planning document on the outreach wiki:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Pilot_program_plan
I invite you to take a look at the document and to ask questions and give feedback on the discussion page. I started to answer the first questions from members of the Arabic Wikipedia community in a FAQ section at the end of the document.
All kind of feedback is highly appreciated,
Frank
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Hello, and Happy, creative New Year to all:)
As promised in a message to this list in December, I have now completed my report on the presentation I delivered along with three students in Athens on December 17, 2011 titled "The Open Community in the School of Today".
Here's a quick overview for those of you who don't have time to check out the links (believe me, I know how it goes!):
Background: Our school is considered a "second opportunity" secondary school for adult learners in Kefalonia, Greece. We have been producing material for Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons since 2007. I have presented our work in Brussels (first prize in the Scientix poster competition) and Prague ("Wikipedia Startup Wizard" on Outreach). This was the first time I chose to have students co-presenting with me (also it was practically feasible, as this was our first Wikimedia presentation in Greece).
Most important conclusion: having the students present their own work is very rewarding for them: apart from giving them the opportunity to speak in front of an audience in a respected establishment, it has spurred the interest of other teachers and students in our school, and hopefully the "chain reaction" will lead to a buzz in Wikimedia contributions:)
Hope you find it useful!
Best,
Mina Theofilatou (User "Saintfevrier")
*This is a cross mail to educational-l and WMCZ board.*
Hi folks,
on December 12, 2011 seven Czech Wikipedians (mostly scollars and
researchers) met in a tearoom in Prague, Czech Republic to disscuss issues
relating cooperation between Wikipedia and an educational institutions. At
first some of the projects were presented and participants had a
possibility to ask details about these projects. Then broad discussion on
different topics continued.
At the time, there is one project running by the cooperation between
Wikipedians and teacher and one project which is runnig just by teacher
iniciative. Other ambassador x educational institution projects are in the
different stage of preparation (mostly attracting teacher and training).
There is not just interest from the side of Wikipedians to start such
cooperation, but also teachers directly come to use Wikipedia in the
classroom by the means of edditing it.
Seemingly the most successful project, running at this time on cs.wp, from
which we may learn is the cooperation between user:Chmee2[1] and a teacher
of ecology from the Institute for Environmental Studies from Faculty of
Science of the Charles University. Chmee2 was contacted at Wikikonference
2010 after presenting a project aiming to develop articles about protected
areas (=ecology) by a Ph.D. student, who introduce him to the teacher. Half
a year later around 30 students were instructed how to edit Wikipedia. If
they create NPOV, good article with references and images, they will recive
a credit. User Chmee2 periodically reads students work, repair it and offer
them a feedback. Thus the teacher doesn't have extra work with that. To the
end of the semester students present chosen protected area (e.g. via MS
PowerPoint) in class. Teacher and Chmee2 give them a feedback and together
with the teacher and other students they give them questions to push them
to think about the topic. Thus it gives students 2 values: a) they study
and understand the topic, b) they got variegation in education and good
feeling that their work will be useful. Chmee2 says: "The ambassador must
have a time for such project. While in U.S. people are proud of having an
editing experience with Wikipedia and they can have it in CV, in the Czech
Republic that is nothing special and there is a luck of motivation. Thus
ambassadors are old Wikipedians themselves."
So it seems, that this might be one of the models which may work in the
environment of the Czech Republic, while to see if other ambassador like
programs will work we have to wait some time.
Thus we spent quite a lot off time in discussing the motivation factor for
students, teacher and/or ambassadors. It seems in it there would be a need
of some credit system supporting ambassadors and/or teacher to become a
valuable part of such cooperation. But this encounter legal issue of
schools – you have to negotiate it with school functionaries. User:Hawkzn
things it might be possible, while User:JirkaDI sees it like structural
problem.
Other "problems" comes when newbies coming to the Czech Wikipedia. There is
a luck of mentors for them and they have to face both technical
(wikisyntax, templates, standards) and social problems (unpleasant users,
lack of social interaction, just templates on their discussion page). Thus
we have agreed to focus on setting up some features from en.wp such gadget
Cite[2] or Wikilove. At this time User:Vojtech.dostal comes up with the
information that Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) developers is close to
WYSIWYG editor for Wikipedia, but user Chmee2 is afraid that most of the
good tools from WMF might be reject by the local community.
The group is not just aware how to motivate more people to get into the
cooperation and how to create friendlier environment for newcomers, but
also comes up with questions how to communicate an offer to a teacher to
start participate and how to motivate her/him to start up with the project.
Thus participants will share their experience via Wikipedia on WikiProject
EDU.[3]
Finally could be assumed that this first meeting and hopefully not last,
come up with a lot of answers and positive mood to continue with such work
and overstep problems which will come up. There is a common will to
continue in such work. Participants understand they should be slow in
getting more work and work together, but as every participant has some
amount of internal pride, they will probably work separately developing and
testing new models. Some of them call to go to younger leaners (high
school, elementary), others disagree and call to join seniors (via lifelong
learning courses).
If you understand Czech you can joint us via Ambassadors's page[4] and see
there also our projects and their state.
Best regards,
Juandev
Chmee2
[1] http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedista:Chmee2
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_expander
[3] http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_EDU
[4] http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Ambasadorstv%C3%AD
Hi,
I've just discovered this YouTube for Schools
<http://www.youtube.com/schools> and saw a easy way to navigate on
educational videos <http://www.youtube.com/education> on this popular
video site. I was wondering if wouldn't be good to have a channel just
for the ambassadors program, such as the Stanford channel
<http://www.youtube.com/stanford>, TED <http://www.youtube.com/ted> or
even WMF <http://www.youtube.com/wikimediafoundation>? It can be a
useful too to penetrate on schools.
I've started making some videos [1] with professor Juliana Bastos and
I believe it's very appealing to other professors to see such videos -
when I posted them on my facebook, some professors of my network have
already become interested.
I believe videos with interviews of ambassadors, mainly the most
motivated, would also be good to attract other ambassadors.
Do we already have a central place where I can find videos of
professors in other countries involved with the ambassadors program?
Best wishes,
Tom
[1] In Portuguese
Juliana Bastos sobre embaixadores da Wikipédia (sorry for the wind)
http://youtu.be/sSoxiGwoWQ0
Embaixadores da Wikipédia no debate sobre Recursos Educacionais Abertos
http://youtu.be/WosEVULbU2A