Education May 2014

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Teaching Critical Reading through Wikipedia
by Asaf Bartov 01 Jun '14

01 Jun '14

Hi. Does anyone know of specific materials developed for teaching critical reading skills (either in K-12 or higher education) *through* reading Wikipedia? I vaguely remember coming across some, but don't remember the details. I'm thinking about things like "how to identify bias", "how to distill the argument from a paragraph", "what are weasel words", logical fallacies, etc. Thanks, A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.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! https://donate.wikimedia.org

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New Wiki Education Foundation staff
by LiAnna Davis 30 May '14

30 May '14

I’m excited to point you all to a new Wiki Education Foundation blog post announcing the hires for three positions. Sage Ross joins us June 2 as Product Manager, Digital Services; Jessica Craft joins us June 3 as Executive Assistant to the ED; and Sara Crouse joins us June 16 as Deputy Director & Senior Director of Fundraising and Partnerships. You can read more about their backgrounds and roles on our blog: http://wikiedfoundation.org/blog/2014/05/29/welcome-sage-jessica-and-sara/ LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Head of Communications and External Relations Wiki Education Foundation http://wikiedfoundation.org/

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Fwd: new education blog posts :)
by Anna Koval 24 May '14

24 May '14

Hello Everyone, Wanted to tell you about our most recent education blog posts, in case you missed them! :) from Leigh in Mexico: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/23/wiki-learning-adopted-at-tec-de-monte… from Lilit in Armenia: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/07/armenian-students-enjoy-editing-wikip… from Tighe in the Arab World: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/06/students-keep-editing-in-arabic-long-… If you'd like help sharing your work in this way, feel free to contact me. Warm regards, Anna Koval Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6729 akoval(a)wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org

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Student software dev projects for Wikimedia
by ENWP Pine 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hi, a few of us had an offline discussion about getting university professors to encourage their students to publish code that they develop for classes based on MediaWiki and Wikimedia projects. What I heard is that professors are using MW and Wikimedia projects as environments for student devs but not many are publishing the code that the students produce. Is anyone working on outreach to university professors to encourage them to get student projects published and in a form that we can use, and is there a list of projects somewhere that are suggested for professors to use when teaching? This could be a dev equivalent to the Wikimedia Education Program. Pine

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This Month In Education: May 2014: Volume 3, Issue 5
by The 'This Month In Education' Team 16 May '14

16 May '14

This Month in Education<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter>is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the Wikimedia education community. Learn more about Wikipedia in Education at education.wikimedia.org. ------------------------------ *This Month In Education: May 2014: Volume 3, Issue 5* Single page view https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/Single Wiki Camp 2014 at Vanadzor https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/Wiki_Camp… EduWiki Conference in Belgrade 2014 https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/EduWiki_C… Participation of "Servicio Social" students in Wikipedia grows at Tec de Monterrey https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/Participa…<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/Participa…> Egyptian students and professors celebrate last term's accomplishments https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/Egyptian_… Wikimedia Sverige: Meeting the educators https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/Wikimedia… Wikimedia Deutschland: Summary of activities in April 2014 https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/Articles_… Articles of interest in other publications https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/May_2014/Wikimedia… ------------------------------ Add your story / Help with the next edition https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom -- *The This Month In Education Team* https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter>

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Request for participants
by Simon Knight 14 May '14

14 May '14

Hi all I umm’d and ahh’d over whether this was an abuse of the mailing list – so my apologies if you’re of that view (please let me know), and obviously just ignore it! Essentially, I’m looking for participants to take part in some PhD research, if anyone has a spare afternoon I’d really appreciate your help (sadly gratitude is all I can offer in return). The study is of broad relevance to Wikimedians in that it involves collaborating to find information, and writing a short shared piece based on that information. I can obviously provide further information particularly after the study is complete. I’m currently looking for participants to take part in some PhD research. The study is of broad relevance to Wikimedians in that it involves collaborating to find information together, and writing a short shared piece based on that information. I thought this community might be interested in two ways: 1) take part yourself, if anyone has a spare afternoon I’d really appreciate your help (sadly gratitude is all I can offer in return), 2) working with a student group, the task would be a great task for students (undergraduates or above) to think about how they work together to find and evaluate information The study involves two collaborative tasks, the first of which involves reading a set of assigned texts, and the second searching on the web. So to do that: · It involves downloading and using a firefox addon · to work with a partner (someone you know, but it’s better if they’re not in the same location – you can schedule this at your own convenience) · to read some documents and write a short piece together There are two tasks (total time 2.5-4 hours) but if you wanted to just sign up to 1 in the first instance and then decide on the 2nd that’s possible. More information on the website, so I’ll leave it with you. The research findings would of course be shared back to you. Your help would be much appreciated! If you’re interested in signing up, please check out the website at <http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/edusearch/> http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/edusearch/ If you do sign up where your role is asked, it’d be great if you could put whatever you consider your main role to be, + ‘Wikimedian’

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Invitation for participation in DigitalSec2014-Ostrava, Czech Republic
by International Conference on Digital Security and Forensics (DigitalSec2014) 12 May '14

12 May '14

CALL FOR PAPERS The International Conference on Digital Security and Forensics (DigitalSec2014) June 24-26, 2014 VSB-Technical University of Ostrava Ostrava, Czech Republic http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/digitsec2014/ ----------------------------------------------------------- The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic From June 24-26, 2014. All papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference, sDIWC digital library and best papers for special issue journals. Important Dates: ================ Final Submission Deadline : May 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 7 days from the submission date Camera Ready : June 14, 2014 Registration : June 14, 2014 Conference Dates : June 24-26, 2014

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May This Month in Education submissions
by Leigh Thelmadatter 08 May '14

08 May '14

Its that time again! For many of you, the end of the semester is coming or already here. We would love summaries of semester projects along with all the usual news. Last month we got a record number of submissions including a number from projects we havent heard from before, let's keep it up! Also, feel free to add links to Wikipedia in education-related stories published in other media. This has its own section in the newsletter. As usual the place to go is https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom Leigh

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WikiConference USA - almost here!
by Pharos 07 May '14

07 May '14

I am very pleased to announce that WikiConference USA is less than 30 days away! Over the last few months, Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC have been collecting curated submissions on a diversity of wiki and free/open knowledge-related topics (with tracks on Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM, Education), and recruited some excellent keynote speakers who can speak to their personal activism and leadership in these domains. But this is a "Wiki" conference, and what it thrives on most is your participation, your differing areas of experience and expertise, to enliven and enrich all of the sessions we have planned together. And, exciting too, there still will be numerous opportunities for "unconference" sessions led by participants on the fly, and we encourage you to bring the ideas from your domain for these sessions as well. Here are the details for the conference: Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014 Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013) Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/ And our distinguished and dynamic roster of keynote speakers: *Phoebe Ayers - Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees *Sumana Harihareswara - Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Team; Advisor, Ada Initiative *Christie Koehler - Community Building Education Lead, Mozilla Corporation *DC Vito, Executive Director - The LAMP/MediaBreaker For more information, please review our official press release below! We hope you will join us and help us spread the word! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p… Thanks, Richard Knipel (User:Pharos) Wikimedia NYC

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Wiki Education Foundation Monthly Report, March 2014
by LiAnna Davis 03 May '14

03 May '14

The Wiki Education Foundation's monthly report for March 2014 is now available on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Education_Foundation_-_Monthly… And a wiki version is on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Monthly_Reports/2… The March report contains: * Information on the $1.39 million grant the Wiki Education Foundation received from the Stanton Foundation. * An update on student progress this term. * Information about the Wiki Education Foundation's participation in the Education Cooperative kick-off meeting. I welcome any suggestions for what would make this report more useful in the future. LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Head of Communications and External Relations Wiki Education Foundation

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