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 EduWiki Community,
I'm excited to invite you to the next EduWiki live event on* June 30th from
14:00-15:00 UTC*. Add it to your calendar!
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M3Q2cTh2Z2FqM3Y2Nm9…>Join
the Education Team and EWOC volunteers, Sandeep and Brahim, as we have a
conversation with Dr. Javiera Atenas about open pedagogies and open data in
Higher Education.
*YouTube and Facebook Live links will follow soon! *
Javiera Atenas is an Information Scientist with a PhD in Education and
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in UK (Advance HE). She is a
senior lecturer in learning and teaching enhancement at the University of
Suffolk, and education lead of the Latin American initiative for open data.
Her research is focused in two main areas: the development of critical data
literacy in HE grounded on the concept of ethics as a method and also, in
promoting the adoption of elements of data agency, ethics and privacy in
open education and digital education policies for the HE sector.
She is a co-founder of the Open Education Policy Lab, a member of the
UNESCO OER dynamic coalition and of the implementation working group at
Open Data Charter, a member of the European Open Education Policy Forum and
board of the Open Education Working Group, Open Knowledge International.
Also, she is a member of the committee for recognition and enhancement of
teaching skills for the Italian National Evaluation Agency for Universities
(ANVUR).
We look forward to seeing you there!
--
*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Manager for Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
Hi all,
Looking forward to seeing you all this Thursday for EduWiki Live with Dr.
Javiera Atenas. You can find the links below:
Youtube: https://youtu.be/sKV6N2-Tc7A
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam
We will be live streaming on YouTube and Facebook Live, and you can share
your questions and comments there.
All the best,
Nichole
On Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 6:41 AM Aminu Anas <aminuns(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Nichole
> Thank you for the invitation and I hope is through zoom if so please share
> the link.
> Kind regards.
>
> Muhammad Aminu Anas
>
> On Jun 20, 2022 7:00 PM, Nichole Saad <nsaad(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Dear EduWiki Community,
>
> I'm excited to invite you to the next EduWiki live event on* June 30th
> from
> 14:00-15:00 UTC*. Add it to your calendar!
> <
> https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M3Q2cTh2Z2FqM3Y2Nm9…>Join
>
> the Education Team and EWOC volunteers, Sandeep and Brahim, as we have a
> conversation with Dr. Javiera Atenas about open pedagogies and open data
> in
> Higher Education.
>
> *YouTube and Facebook Live links will follow soon! *
>
> Javiera Atenas is an Information Scientist with a PhD in Education and
> Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in UK (Advance HE). She is a
> senior lecturer in learning and teaching enhancement at the University of
> Suffolk, and education lead of the Latin American initiative for open
> data.
> Her research is focused in two main areas: the development of critical
> data
> literacy in HE grounded on the concept of ethics as a method and also, in
> promoting the adoption of elements of data agency, ethics and privacy in
> open education and digital education policies for the HE sector.
>
> She is a co-founder of the Open Education Policy Lab, a member of the
> UNESCO OER dynamic coalition and of the implementation working group at
> Open Data Charter, a member of the European Open Education Policy Forum
> and
> board of the Open Education Working Group, Open Knowledge International.
> Also, she is a member of the committee for recognition and enhancement of
> teaching skills for the Italian National Evaluation Agency for
> Universities
> (ANVUR).
>
> We look forward to seeing you there!
>
> --
> *Nichole Saad*
> Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Manager for Education
> nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
> user: NSaad (WMF)
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>
Dear Friends,
We are inviting you to the 2nd Regional Education Meeting for the ESEAP region. These
regional meetings serve as an opportunity to learn and share projects, tools, or ideas
with the education community from the region.
Regional education meetings are planned by the Community Specialists of the EduWiki
Outreach Collaborators (EWOC) and the Wikimedia Education Team. This is an opportunity to
strengthen the EduWiki network, explore collaboration opportunities, and identify common
practices or challenges faced by our community members in different regions of the world.
We encourage you to participate, share your ideas, and help this become a fully
community-led initiative.
The second regional education meeting will be held on the 25th of June 2022 at 09:00 UTC.
I, Agus, Community Specialist for the ESEAP community will lead the session. If you want
to volunteer to interpret this meeting for your community members in a local language,
please let us know. Find more information on the meta page.
Meeting Time: 9:00 AM UTC, 25th June 2022
Meeting Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87062890034
During this regional education meeting, we will have the opportunity to learn more
about:
Wikipedia and the Aotearoa New Zealand History Curriculum - Recently completed WMF funded
research project. James Taylor - Auckland Museum
Edit-a-thons in Philiphine - Joseph "Jojit" Ballesteros - Hablon User Group
If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add them to the
agenda here. We will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking forward to
seeing you there! This event will be live-streamed from Wikimedia Foundation Education
Team’s Facebook Page. You can also join the event through the Zoom link, meeting link is
available on our event page.
Best!
Agus, EWOC Community Specialist Team, and Education team
Hi everyone,
Have you submitted your article(s) for the June issue of the Wikimedia
Education newsletter?
Not yet, right?
Now is the time to share your amazing work with the Wikimedia community by
submitting reports of your project as articles for the Wikimedia Education
newsletter. Please use [1] to see examples of what you can do.
The last date for submitting your article(s) to the education newsletter is
the *26th of June*. Let me know if you need more time to publish your
article(s).
Kindly use [2] for newsletter publication guidelines, and [3] to access the
Newsroom.
[1] Education News: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News
[2] Newsletter Publication Guidelines: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Education/News/Publication_Guidelines
[3] Education Newsroom: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education
/News/Newsroom
Best regards,
Ankan and the Newsletter team
--
Ankan Ghosh Dastider (he/him)
Newsletter Editor, Education Newsletter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>
Dear Friends,
We are inviting you to the 2nd Regional Education Meeting for the ESEAP region. These regional meetings serve as an opportunity to learn and share projects, tools, or ideas with the education community from the region.
Regional education meetings are planned by the Community Specialists of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators (EWOC) and the Wikimedia Education Team. This is an opportunity to strengthen the EduWiki network, explore collaboration opportunities, and identify common practices or challenges faced by our community members in different regions of the world. We encourage you to participate, share your ideas, and help this become a fully community-led initiative.
The second regional education meeting will be held on the 25th of June 2022 at 09:00 UTC. I, Agus, Community Specialist for the ESEAP community will lead the session. If you want to volunteer to interpret this meeting for your community members in a local language, please let us know. Find more information on the meta page.
Meeting Time: 9:00 AM UTC, 25th June 2022
Meeting Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87062890034
During this regional education meeting, we will have the opportunity to learn more about:
Wikipedia and the Aotearoa New Zealand History Curriculum - Recently completed WMF funded research project. James Taylor - Auckland Museum
Edit-a-thons in Philiphine - Joseph "Jojit" Ballesteros - Hablon User Group
If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add them to the agenda here. We will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking forward to seeing you there! This event will be live-streamed from Wikimedia Foundation Education Team’s Facebook Page. You can also join the event through the Zoom link, meeting link is available on our event page.
Best!
Agus, EWOC Community Specialist Team, and Education team
Hi all,
The Wikipedia & Education User Group is pleased to announce the second
round of our Education Program Mentorship Program. If you're an experienced
or aspiring program leader, we encourage you to sign up to be a mentor, a
mentee, or both, by June 19:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_ihp9DM35T9P557QQykOKpXoKmJksR4R…
A bit more details: A year ago, we launched the first edition of the
program as a pilot. Based on interest, we created eight mentorship groups
and introduced the people to each other. We evaluated the program with a
survey at the end of the year. Results showed people were very enthusiastic
about the project, but they were looking for us to provide a bit more
structure. In response to that, we've put together a mentorship guide which
we'll be distributing to mentors, and we'll be checking in more regularly
with the mentorship groups throughout the year.
One mentorship pair from last year, Nebojša Ratković from Wikimedia Serbia
and Anthony B. Diaz from Wiki Advocates Philippines, shared their
experiences at our last Open Meeting. If you missed it, you can watch the
recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT76_cj-SGY
If you're interested in participating in the mentorship program this year,
please fill out this interest form. The deadline is June 19:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_ihp9DM35T9P557QQykOKpXoKmJksR4R…
Thank you for your interest!
-The Wikipedia & Education User Group Board: LiAnna, Susanna, João, Filip,
and Ziko
The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend our next Open
Meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, June 15, from 16:00 - 17:30 UTC (see your
time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1655308815).
The focus of the meeting will be, as always, our two guest speakers,
Jackeline Bucio from Wikimedia México and Klara Sielicka-Baryłka from
Wikimedia Poland. We'll also share some updates from the Wikipedia &
Education User Group Board, including updates about our re-launched
mentorship program and our planned EduWiki Conference in 2023.
Our speakers' biographies:
* Jackeline Bucio holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics and has been involved in
online learning activities since 2007. Currently, she is the Deputy
Director in the Online high school & MOOC area at the Open University,
Educational Innovation and Distance Education Office (CUAIEED), Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She designs online professional
development courses for teachers at UNAM and, since 2014, has been working
in MOOC environments. She works actively in using Wikipedia in educational
contexts and is part of the board of Wikimedia Mexico (WMMX).
* Klara Sielicka-Baryłka is Wikipedian & Education Specialist at Wikimedia
Poland. She graduated in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the
University of Warsaw. She worked at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw
(on educational projects). For over 8 years she worked as a museum worker &
GLAM-wiki coordinator developing #EtnoWiki idea. She is currently
implementing a new edu-wiki strategy in our organization, which will
include an original pilot project for schools throughout Poland. She also
coordinates the Wikipedia part of the educational project with the National
Heritage Institute of Poland.
We hope you can join us!
The meeting will be hosted via this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81389679207?pwd=cBYSv53q5eE7kko-tqEEnW7raD2fVg.1
Meeting ID: 813 8967 9207
Passcode: 357408
If you'd like to be added to the Google Calendar invite, please email me
offlist (lianna(a)wikiedu.org).
Dear friends,
This is a gentle reminder email, we have the 2nd Regional Education Meeting for
the CEE region on the 17th of June 2022 at 15:00 CET
Meeting Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84136854845
*Meta Page: *
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Regional_Meeting/CEE
We are looking forward to seeing you at the meeting.
Best!
Небојша Ратковић
менаџер образовног програма, Викимедија Србије
m: 060 74 54 771 a: Кнеза Милоша 80, Београд
s: rs.wikimedia.org e: nebojsa.ratkovic(a)vikimedija.org
Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ
целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.