Education February 2013

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Education Digest, Vol 21, Issue 14
by Elly Koepf 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi Annie, I also want to thank you for the great work you have done. You where very encouraging and open. Thats what the movemenr needs. I appreciated your international focus very much and I hope to get to see you again some time. cheers, Elly Elly Köpf Projektmanagerin Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition: http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. 2013/2/13 <education-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Send Education mailing list submissions to > education(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > education-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > education-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Education digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Annie leaving Wikimedia Foundation in late February (Annie L. > Lin) > 2. Re: Annie leaving Wikimedia Foundation in late February > (Petr Brož) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:24:03 -0800 > From: "Annie L. Lin" <alin(a)wikimedia.org> > To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Annie leaving Wikimedia Foundation in > late February > Message-ID: > < > CAF+m0T4nGU8bPDu8jVVagoFKcm6qnWSQvczoig03e3q1jz1Uxg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Hi everyone, > > After nearly 3 years at the Wikimedia Foundation, I am moving on to new > opportunities [1]. My last day at WMF will be Friday, 22 February. This has > been a very difficult decision. The work that all of us engage in on a > daily basis in the Wikipedia Education Program has been so incredibly > inspiring, and I know I will miss you all. You are such an amazing and > brilliant group of people, and I feel enormously fortunate to have had the > opportunity to work closely with so many of you. > > I plan on staying in touch with many of you, and I hope you'll do the same. > My personal email address is a12lin(a)gmail.com; I can also be reached via > Facebook (feel free to contact me anytime, about anything). And, you'll > likely still see me lurking around Wikipedia Education Program -related > activities as a volunteer, and I'll still be more than happy to help out in > the ways that I can with the development of Wikipedia education programs > worldwide, so don't hesitate to reach out to me anytime! > > For more formal WMF-related things that you used to send to me, please send > them to my colleague LiAnna Davis after 22 February — ldavis(a)wikimedia.org > . > > > Take care, everyone. Thank you all, so very much. > Annie > > > [1] If you want to know what I'm moving on *to*, just email me at the > personal email address above and I can tell you! >

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Annie leaving Wikimedia Foundation in late February
by Annie L. Lin 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi everyone, After nearly 3 years at the Wikimedia Foundation, I am moving on to new opportunities [1]. My last day at WMF will be Friday, 22 February. This has been a very difficult decision. The work that all of us engage in on a daily basis in the Wikipedia Education Program has been so incredibly inspiring, and I know I will miss you all. You are such an amazing and brilliant group of people, and I feel enormously fortunate to have had the opportunity to work closely with so many of you. I plan on staying in touch with many of you, and I hope you'll do the same. My personal email address is a12lin(a)gmail.com; I can also be reached via Facebook (feel free to contact me anytime, about anything). And, you'll likely still see me lurking around Wikipedia Education Program -related activities as a volunteer, and I'll still be more than happy to help out in the ways that I can with the development of Wikipedia education programs worldwide, so don't hesitate to reach out to me anytime! For more formal WMF-related things that you used to send to me, please send them to my colleague LiAnna Davis after 22 February — ldavis(a)wikimedia.org. Take care, everyone. Thank you all, so very much. Annie [1] If you want to know what I'm moving on *to*, just email me at the personal email address above and I can tell you!

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Wikipedia at Your Schools, Macedonia
by Dimce Grozdanoski 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

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Update on Vikidia/Wikikids (was Wikipedia in schools)
by Mathias Damour 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi, I take this subject to let a message about Wikikids/Vikidia (further down in this message) Le 03/02/2013 17:09, Laura Hale a écrit : > Had the chance to do it but things went pear shared. If I was > including it in the curriculum, I would look specifically at > curriculum standards and see how they can be specifically addressed in > ways that are non-disruptive to Wikimedia projects. Sample lesson > plans for how I would do this can be found at > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Outreach_Oceania_Integrating_Wikime… > . That sounds interesting and varied, we should have a closer look at it. However, haven't you feel that using Wikipedia, a quite sophisticated approach on each article, can be a limit for its use for younger pupils ? Le 03/02/2013 21:22, Lila Pagola a écrit : > In Argentina we have an interesting resource: > http://wikipediaenelaula.educ.ar/ (in Spanish) It was developed by the > government, including our booklet "Wikipedia in the classroom"... and > they added some suggestions of activities using Wikipedia at school: > general approaches such as using articles for research, evaluation of > information sources, collaborative work, wiki-culture, etc. Hi, in France we have an equivalent : Wikipédia en classe <http://www.wikimedia.fr/sites/default/files/userfiles/Wikip%C3%A9dia%20en%2…>, it mention Vikidia, and advice it for pupils up to 15 years old. Vikidia is an equivalent of Wikipedia for 8 to 13 years old children. I've already sent a message about it more than a year ago. It exists in French, Spanish and Italian (and is about to be launched in Russian) whereas another group opened it in dutch : http://fr.vikidia.org/ ; http://es.vikidia.org/ ; http://it.vikidia.org/ There has been a sister project proposal page for a long time on Meta : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids ...and I have update it. fr.vikidia.org ans wikikids.nl are doing well, whereas es. and it. not so well. Vikidia in French is about 1 to 2 % of the importance of Wikipedia in French for activity, number of article and audience, which is not bad. I can tell you more about the spanish Vikidia, that has had good supporter but deserve new people to join in or even an organisation to take it in charge. Wikitravel/Wikivoyage has recently be adopted as a sister project by the WMF. This could be possible for Vikidia/wikikids. I would help translate from French if needed different pages that introduce to the project, such as http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Pour_les_enfants_ou_par_les_enfants_%3F (by or for children ?) and http://blog.wikimedia.fr/la-documentation-et-vikidia-1494 (the documentation and Vikidia - which was already translated in Spanish) What do you think about it and would you be interested in it ? -- Mathias Damour 49 rue Carnot F-74000 Annecy 00 33 (0)4 57 09 10 56 00 33 (0)6 27 13 65 51 mathias.damour(a)laposte.net

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Wikipedia in Education, Uruguay project
by Fernando Da Rosa Morena 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hello all. Lianna has suggested to me that I joined to this list and now here I am. I tell them that in Uruguay with CFE and CEIBAL support we are developing a project on the subject Wikipedia in Education, I am directing the project. Here I pass more information: The "Wikipedia in Education" is a project that began late last year, and will be developed this year and next year. According to the results we may be able to continue it after 2014. We have yet two videos uploaded to youtube about the inaugural project activity. A lecture given by me and another by Angeles Soletic, the first of which is Wikipedia and how it works. The second is about the use of Wikipedia in Education. Both conferences are in Spanish: http://youtu.be/-GRm7TOOlt0 http://youtu.be/PFe_22EMoKE Both videos are free delivery and were released under Creative Commons 3.0 CC-BY-SA. I have not uploaded to Commons because each of the videos have a weight greater than 100 MB. On my website you can find more information and a link to the presentation made by me on the project start date. The presentation is in. svg format and is also free to use. Here I leave the link to the article: http://www.fedaro.info/2012/12/24/wikipedia-en-la-educacion-lanzamiento-del… Here I leave also a direct link to the presentation, made with JessyInk. To see it you must use a browser that supports SVG as Firefox or Google Chrome, it also may take a while to load. Then you must use the arrow keys to move along the presentation. http://www.fedaro.info/archivos/presenta/WikipediaHoy10.svg Fernando da Rosa -- -- Fernando da Rosa fernando.darosa(a)gmail.com http://www.fedaro.info

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Post from Lila Pagola
by LiAnna Davis 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

At Tom's urging, I'm trying to be better about sharing the posts our wonderful education leaders worldwide add to the WMF blog on this list. :) I have just published a post from Lila Pagola of Argentina -- many thanks, Lila! http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/07/creating-local-content-for-wikipedia If you're interested in contributing a post to the WMF blog on your education project, please let me know off-list! LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 ldavis(a)wikimedia.org

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UPDATE: Interested in a global meet-up?
by LiAnna Davis 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Thanks to everyone who filled out the quick survey I sent earlier this week. The good news is that it looks like there are enough people who are already planning to attend the Chapters Meeting in Milan to make it worthwhile to have the education workshop in conjunction with it. The bad news is that after further research, it looks like there isn't any money available from the Wikimedia Foundation for travel funding. :( We realize this significantly limits the number of people who are able to attend, but given the choice of a meeting with a small number of education program leaders who were already coming to the chapters meeting and no in-person meeting at all, we've chosen to move forward with the small meeting. We're working on some videoconferencing solution to bring people in virtually if that can be feasible, and we'll do our best to document the discussions well. We'll also plan a larger meeting in conjunction with Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong, in hopes that more program leaders worldwide will be able to attend that. If you're interested in learning more about the education workshop, please see this wiki page for more details: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/Education_Pr… If you are able to join us, either virtually or in person, please add your name to that page. LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 ldavis(a)wikimedia.org

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Welcoming Rod Dunican as education program director
by LiAnna Davis 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

It occurred to me that this announcement never made its way to the education list -- so better late than never! Rod Dunican is back with the Wikimedia Foundation as the global education program director, and he will be working with Annie and me, taking over the strategic direction role in light of Frank Schulenburg's promotion [1]. Please reach out to Rod at rdunican at wikimedia dot org for items that you used to reach out Frank about. LiAnna [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2012-December/0005… ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frank Schulenburg <fschulenburg(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:28 PM Hi All, It is with great pleasure that I welcome Rod Dunican back to the Wikimedia family. Many of you may know Rod as the Public Policy Initiative Project Manager, a role in which he spearheaded the start of the Wikipedia Education Program. Rod has agreed to join us again as the Global Education Program Director, in charge of building systems that enable quality at scale in different educational environments. Annie and LiAnna will report to Rod, and Rod will report to me. Aside from the obvious extensive background in the Wikipedia Education Program, Rod brings experience in instructional design, project management, and leadership to this role. Welcome, Rod! Frank -- Frank Schulenburg Senior Director of Programs Wikimedia Foundation Cell: +1 (415) 517-0453 Email: frank(a)wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 ldavis(a)wikimedia.org

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We Need a New Kind of Learner
by Everton Zanella Alvarenga 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hi all, I would like to share this article by Ainissa Ramirez (going to see her TED Talk later when I have time) * We Need a New Kind of Learner <http://bigthink.com/experts-corner/we-need-a-new-kind-of-learner> This reminds me when I accepted to coordinate the education program in Brazil and why I think Wikipedia can be useful in education. In Brazil, I think the description of professor Feynman about our classroom is still valid [1] in a large extent. Once I gave an interview to a French radio about Wikipedia (in 2011, a few days before Wikimania in Gdansk) and I just mentioned these points, that Wikipedia could be used as a potential tool for students learn how to make research and develop their critical thinking. On the curiosity point, I think Aaron Swartz was a great example, and I think we can see this on his article "How to get a job like mine" <https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget>. Since we have here in this list professors from a lot of places in the world, I would love to know if you see also problems like those pointed out in [1] on schools. Culturally, it could be interesting for us to share these experiences and stress the global nature of the Wikipedia Education Program. Best, Tom [1] Richard Feynman on education in Brazil http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

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Interested in a global meet-up?
by LiAnna Davis 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Are you running an Education Program in your country? Do you want to start working with instructors and students to improve Wikipedia? Are you interested in helping shape a global community of program leaders to grow Wikipedia's use in education worldwide? We are thinking about convening an Education Program Leaders Workshop, where 20-30 program leaders worldwide will gather for one day to build a global community to share learnings and help each other overcome challenges. We're considering having this all-day workshop in conjunction with the Chapters Meeting hosted by Wikimedia Italia on April 19-21 in Milan, but before we finalize the details, we wanted to see if this would be a convenient time with enough people to make it worthwhile. If you are interested in meeting with other program leaders worldwide, would you take 5 minutes to fill out a quick survey? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T-1KvPYJQwtRMauHk6Xypm733CUmB0wUi3NRZkkp3g… We need responses within 24 hours if possible so we can confirm dates. More information will be coming later this week. Thanks so much for your quick reply! LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 ldavis(a)wikimedia.org

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