Dear fellow Wikipedians:
This is to let you know about my most recent article, co-authored with former student Kate Rattray. We’re especially proud of this piece, in which we make a pedagogical and public-service case for writing and editing Wikipedia articles for law school credit. The article has just been published in the Journal of Legal Education, which, appropriately, is an open-access journal. The current volume can be found here: http://jle.aals.org/home/. You can also read an abstract and download the article from my SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network) website, here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2729241.
Yours truly,
John Kleefeld
Associate Professor, College of Law
University of Saskatchewan
15 Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK S7N 5A6
tel: (+1) 306.966.1039
email: john.kleefeld(a)usask.ca
skype: johnkleefeld
twitter: @johnkleefeld
web: http://law.usask.ca/find-people/faculty/kleefeld-john.php
Good evening, Professor Christie. My name is Lixxx235, and I'm a Wikipedia
editor and an Online Ambassador with the Wikipedia Education Program. (
userpage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lixxx235>)
It's come to my attention (through a student's request for help via
Wikipedia's live chat) that you have given your students assignments
relating to editing Wikipedia. While the Wikipedia Education Program fully
supports such assignments, and endorses a number of courses at various
universities around the world, according to one of your students, an
assignment you've given seems to have students confused and is causing
submissions in violation of some Wikipedia policies and wasting volunteer
and student time. For example, this
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fuel_controlled_fires_…>
is an entry one of your students tried to get help on from our live help
chat. This submission does not meet Wikipedia guidelines such as notability
policies, policies requiring verifiability of material, and policies
requiring a neutral point of view (NPOV) to be kept. In addition, it was
not in Wikipedia's standard format.
We'd love to get in touch with you. Please reply back to
lixxx235wikipedia(a)gmail.com and education(a)lists.wikimedia.org to see how we
can help you develop good assignments for editing Wikipedia and how we can
resolve some issues with your current assignment.
All the best,
Lixxx235
English Wikipedia
Dear all,
On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group, I am happy to announce
that the next conference along the intersection of Wikimedia & Education,
EduWiki Conference 2020 will take place in Belgrade, Serbia. The User Group
along with the support from Wikimedia Serbia will be organising the
conference next year. The conference will bring together Wikimedians,
educators, educational institutions and organisations, and other
stakeholders in the area. We will be sharing more updates regarding the
conference later in 2020, for now, we have been working on drafting a grant
proposal to the Wikimedia Foundation to support the conference.
As part of the drafting the proposal, Community Engagement Survey is
crucial to understand what community members are expecting out of such
conference, things you would like to share, learn, and do at the
conference. In that regard, I invite all those who are interested in
Wikimedia + Education (or EduWiki) to take part in the survey, and let us
know your thoughts.
You can participate in the survey at https://forms.gle/jQzJ21aYvgbDsaGf9
Cheers,
Krishna Chaitanya
Hey everyone,
It is the last month of the year. We have scheduled the last office hours
for this year on 11th December at 12:00 UTC.
Let's discuss on the projects you have worked on this year, challenges you
have faced or outcomes from the project. We will give some updates from the
education team. Along with that, we also have these topics to discuss:
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Information session on Wikimedia & Education database
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Wrapping up the year of 2019
You can find more details at the Wikimedia Space:
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikimedia-education-office-hours-decemb…
Do you want to reach out to the education team for a 1:1 consultation,
request for a slot for Education Office Space (
ttps://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space> ) by
filling this google form ( http://bit.ly/EduOfficeSpace )
Best!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Looks like Creative Commons and freely licensed content are frequent
topics here!
<https://openedss.uark.edu/2018/>
Federico
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Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] Save The Date: Open Education Southern Symposium -
July 16 - 17, 2020
Data: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 16:25:18 +0000
Mittente: Stephanie Pierce (via scholcomm Mailing List)
The Open Education Southern Symposium<https://openedss.uark.edu/> (OESS)
planning committee is excited to announce that the next symposium will
be held July 16 – 17, 2020 on the North Carolina State University
campus in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Open Education Southern Symposium is a day and a half event for open
education practitioners and advocates, both new and experienced, to
gather, learn, and share.
When: Thursday, July 16 – Friday, July 17
Where: James B. Hunt Jr. Library, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC
Cost: $99
Theme: Open Connections: Regional and Local Community Building for
Equity and Sustainability
Keynote: Anita Walz, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly
Communication Librarian, Virginia Tech
Watch for our call for proposals in mid-December 2019!
Registration is set to open in early January 2020.
Call for Volunteers:
We are looking for 4 volunteers to join the planning committee as part
of our program committee. If you are interested in helping review
program proposals and create the OESS program in 2020, please visit our
volunteer form<https://forms.gle/2Dj1mMY9EFobx2Vw9> to submit your
information and find out more about the expectations. Deadline to submit
is Jan. 3rd. Please note all program committee members will be listed
publicly on our website and in printed programs.
For more information about the Open Education Southern Symposium, please
visit our website: https://openedss.uark.edu/ or follow us on Twitter:
@OpenEdSS<https://twitter.com/OpenEdSS>.
Thank you and we hope to see you this summer,
The Open Education Southern Symposium Planning Committee:
Stephanie Pierce, University of Arkansas
Will Cross, North Carolina State University
Elaine Thornton, University of Arkansas
Alison Edwards, North Carolina State University
Scott Wright, University of Arkansas
Lora Lennertz, University of Arkansas
Shaun Bennett, North Carolina State University
Mary Thompson Price, University of Arkansas
¡Hola, Wikimedia education community!
The November edition of the Education Newsletter has been published:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/November_2019
This edition we're launching a monthly highlight on a member of
the Wikimedia education community with an article about the work of
Ixocactus. Thank you to Joalpe for the great nomination! You'll also find
stories from our communities in Mexico, Macedonia, Indonesia, Germany, and
more!
Do you have a great story to share from your Wikimedia education projects
or community members? Submit an article here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
If you would like to receive the newsletter at your talk page, you can
subscribe here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_…
Cheers!
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*Melissa Guadalupe Huertas*
Wikimedia Foundation | Program Officer, Education
mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org
user: MGuadalupe (WMF)
Check out our newsletter: This Month in Education
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>