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
Juhar, Wikimedia education community!
We have published the education newsletter for the month of January:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2020
Thanks to all our community members who have shared their activities in
this edition of the education newsletter. This month we are highlighting
the work of Parvathisri in this newsletter. Along with that you can read
about the amazing activities and collaborations happened in India,
Indonesia, Macedonia, Serbia 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_…
Dhanyabaad!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Program Coordinator, Education
Happy New Year! The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend
our next Open Meeting via Zoom on *Tuesday, January 28, from 18:00 UTC to
19:30 UTC*.
As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the Wikipedia
& Education board, then leave most of the time for our guest speakers. This
month, we're thrilled to have featured speakers from Israel and Ghana join
us to speak about Wikidata in education and outside-the-classroom social
impact from Wikimedia projects.
*Shani Evenstein Sigalov* is one of the leading innovators in the Wikimedia
& Education movement globally. In addition to her work as a researcher and
free knowledge advocate, Shani has taught groundbreaking courses on
Wikipedia and Wikidata, and she'll be presenting in this meeting on her
Wikidata work. A founding board member of the Wikipedia & Education User
Group, Shani resigned to take on even greater responsibility as a Wikimedia
Foundation Trustee. We're particularly excited to welcome her back as a
guest speaker!
*Andrews Lartey*, Project Manager for Growing Open and Eco-friendly Skills
for the Youth (GOES), will speak about how Wikimedia Projects can be used
outside the classroom to create social impact (Industry 4.0 skills
acquisition, circular economy and zero hunger). Andrews Lartey will present
on how GOES, through community school farms is creating social impact in
Ghana, the global effect and how various institutions and individuals can
support the project.
The meeting will be hosted via this link on January 28:
https://zoom.us/j/580872511
Seems worth forwarding to any contact you may have in USA schools,
especially if they've worked on freely licensed OER.
Federico
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Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] Survey Request: Open Education Resource (OER)
Initiatives at U.S. Post-Secondary Institutions
Data: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:25:13 -0600
Mittente: Jon Bull
Greetings colleagues!
If your institution is U.S.-based and has an OER initiative, please
consider completing our research survey on Open Education Resource (OER)
Initiatives at U.S. Post-Secondary Institutions.
Link to survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/OERs0121
This project is intended to survey project managers of various OER-related
initiatives at U.S. post-secondary institutions of higher education in
order to ascertain common programmatic characteristics, including
implementation, organization, selection process, and assessment, as well as
explore the sustainability of such initiatives. Past surveys on this topic
have focused on regional adoption or other aspects of OER usage, but this
survey intends to focus on how these initiatives are started, currently
operate, and how they might continue to thrive or fail in the future.
This survey has been reviewed and exempted by the Institutional Review
Boards (IRBs) of Roger Williams University, University of the Pacific, and
Valparaiso University.
If you have any questions, please contact Jonathan Bull
(jon.bull(a)valpo.edu).
This survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete and will be
open for responses until March 15, 2020.
Thank you!
Jonathan Bull, Valparaiso University
Michele Gibney, University of the Pacific
Lindsey Gumb, Roger Williams University
Hey everyone,
Happy New Year, a bit late, but I hope we are all having a good start of
the year. In case, you have missed the 2019 wrap-up blog by the education
team, here it is:
https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/12/23/a-big-year-for-wikimedia-in-education/
And, It is time for the new edition of the Education newsletter, and we are
excited to read about the amazing work you have done or planning to do this
month. For this month, you can submit articles for the work you have done
in both December and January.
The last date for submitting your article for the education newsletter is
18th of January. Please submit your article at the Education newsroom:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
We encourage you to go through the publication guidelines (
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Publication_Guidelines )
before submitting the article. In case you have any questions, feel free to
ask me.
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
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