I really enjoyed writing this piece on a student in the U.S. program who
wrote an article as a class assignment in Spring 2012 -- and then had it
assigned to her as required reading in a different class in Fall 2012!
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/13/student-assigned-to-read-a-wikipedia-a…
Enjoy,
LiAnna
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LiAnna Davis
Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://education.wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Hey guys, in case you haven't seen School of Open launched its first set of
courses today, including several on Wikipedia/Wikimedia:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/37179.
Sign up for these facilitated courses
this week (sign-up will remain open through Sunday, March 17). These
courses will start the week of March 18 (next week!). To sign up, simply
click the “Start Course” button under the course’s menu navigation on the
left.
- *Copyright 4 Educators
(US)<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/147/copyright-for-educators-us/>
* – Sign up <https://p2pu.org/en/courses/147/copyright-for-educators-us/>if
you’re an educator who wants to learn about US copyright law in the
education context.
- *Copyright 4 Educators
(AUS)<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/111/copyright-4-educators-aus/>
* – Sign up <https://p2pu.org/en/courses/111/copyright-4-educators-aus/>if
you’re an educator who wants to learn about Australian copyright,
statutory licenses and open educational resources (OER).
- *Creative Commons for K-12
Educators<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/9/creative-commons-for-k-12-educators/>
* – Sign up<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/9/creative-commons-for-k-12-educators/>if
you’re a K-12 educator (anywhere in the world) who wants to learn how
to
find and adapt free, useful resources for your classroom, and incorporate
activities that teach your students digital world skills.
- *Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and
Beyond<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/49/writing-wikipedia-articles-the-basics-and-be…>
* – Sign up<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/49/writing-wikipedia-articles-the-basics-and-be…>if
you want to learn how to edit Wikipedia or improve your editing skills
—
especially if you are interested in and knowledgeable about open
educational resources (OER) (however, no background in this area is
required).
All other courses are now ready for you to take
at any time, with or without your peers. They include:
- *Get a CC license. Put it on your
website<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/3/get-a-cc-license-put-it-on-your-website/>
* – This course is exactly what the title says: it will help you with
the steps of getting a CC license and putting it on your work. It’s
tailored to websites, although the same steps apply to most other works.
- *Open Science: An
Introduction<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/5/open-science-an-introduction/>
* – This course is a collaborative learning environment meant to
introduce the idea of Open Science to young scientists, academics, and
makers of all kinds. Open Science is a tricky thing to define, but we’ve
designed this course to share what we know about it, working as a community
to make this open resource better.
- *Open data for GLAMs
<https://p2pu.org/nl/groups/open-glam/>*(Galleries, Libraries,
Archives, Museums) – This course is for
professionals in cultural institutions who are interested in opening up
their data as open culture data. It will guide you through the different
steps towards open data and provide you with extensive background
information on how to handle copyright and other possible issues.
- *Intro to Openness in
Education<https://p2pu.org/en/courses/140/intro-to-openness-in-education/>
* – This is an introductory course exploring the history and impacts of
openness in education. The main goal of the course is to give you a broad
but shallow grounding in the primary areas of work in the field of open
education.
- *A Look at Open Video<https://p2pu.org/en/groups/a-look-at-open-video/>
* – This course will give you a quick overview of some of the issues,
tools and areas of interest in the area of open video. It is aimed at
students interested in developing software, video journalists, editors and
all users of video who want to take their knowledge further.
- *Contributing to Wikimedia
Commons<https://p2pu.org/en/groups/contributing-to-wikimedia-commons/>
* – A sister project of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons is a repository of
openly licensed images that people all over the world use and contribute
to. This challenge gets you acquainted with uploading your works to the
commons.
- *Open Detective <http://beta.p2pu.org/en/courses/8/open-detective/>* –
This course will help you explore the scale of open to non-open content and
how to tell the difference.
And more… check out all the courses at http://schoolofopen.org/.
--
Jane Park
Project Manager <http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark>
Creative Commons
the School of Open, a collaboration with P2PU: http://schoolofopen.org/
Like what we do? Donate: https://creativecommons.net/donate/
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From: Carolina <carolina.rossini(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2013/3/10
Subject: [okfn-br] Fwd: [OER-advocacy] Open Education Week March 11-15
To: Brazil interest group for Open Knowledge and especially Open Data
<okfn-br lists.okfn.org>, "rea-lista(a)googlegroups.com"
<rea-lista(a)googlegroups.com>
From: Mary Lou Forward <mlforward(a)ocwconsortium.org>
Date: March 8, 2013, 6:05:01 AM PST
To: OER Advocacy Coalition <oer-advocacy-coalition(a)googlegroups.com>
Subject: [OER-advocacy] Open Education Week March 11-15
Reply-To: oer-advocacy-coalition(a)googlegroups.com
Open Education Week is next week, March 11-15.
The second annual Open Education is next week, March 11-15, 2013. Open
Education Week is a five-day celebration of the global Open Education
Movement, featuring over 100 online and local events around the world,
video showcases of open education projects, and lots of information.
Its purpose is to raise awareness of both the movement and its impact
on teaching and learning worldwide. All events and resources are free
and open to everyone.
We appreciate your help in spreading the word about Open Education
Week. I've attached the press release, which you are free to modify
and post to your blogs, etc. We have a very impressive set of
webinars and excellent project overviews that will help introduce
people to the richness of the open education movement:
www.openeducationweek.org, twitter #openeducationwk.
We look forward to your participation next week!
Mary Lou
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."
This year the TED conference awarded their top prize to this talk by
Sugata Mitra entitled "Build a School in the Cloud":
http://http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.ht…
The point of the talk is asking for educational technologists to
design and offer peer-oriented learning systems. But such systems
already exist. The most advanced of which at present is called
PeerWise: http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/
In short, PeerWise is an automated self-study, low-stakes assessment
system where both questions and answers are edited and reviewed by
anyone (with access; in practice this usually means anyone enrolled in
a course or major at an institution) very similarly to textual content
in a wiki. It is already being used successfully at hundreds of higher
education and other institutions. But sadly it's closed source. I
have since 2009 been trying to encourage the Foundation to build an
open source version of such a system.
Is there anyone else interested in this?
Dear professors, please, let your students know. Thanks, Tom
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From: Students for Free Culture <webleader+rss-bot(a)freeculture.org>
Date: 2013/3/5
Subject: [FC-discuss] Register for FCX2013!
To: discuss(a)freeculture.org
Students for Free Culture will be having its annual conference at [New
York Law School][1] on April 20-21st!
The Students for Free Culture Conference is an annual gathering of
student and non-student activists, thinkers, and innovators who are
dedicated to advancing discussions on technology, law, and public
policy. Through panels and keynote speakers, FCX 2013 will focus on
current issues in intellectual property law, open access to educational
resources, maker culture, and technology policy. Through workshops, the
conference will revisit the core pillars of the free culture movement,
examine the success stories from our movement, and identify new ways in
which Students for Free Culture can advocate for a more free, open, and
participatory digital environment.
For more information about the conference, visit the conference
[website][2].
Registration is [open][3]!
Through the generosity of our sponsors, [Students for Free Culture][4]
is once again able to offset student travel costs for this year’s
conference in NYC. Our first priority is to provide funding to at least
one student from every active chapter in the organization – but funding
is available to _all_ student activists and leaders who would like to
attend FCX2013.
If you can’t afford the cost of traveling to NYC next month, please do
not hesitate to fill out this [form to request travel funding][5]. We
have some money and we want to give it to you.
If you have friends at schools that do not currently have an active SFC
chapter but you think they should be at the conference, please pass
along [this link][5] to them, too. Sometimes attending the conference is
just the spark that someone needs to get out there and start a new
chapter on their campus!
[1]: https://www.google.com/maps?q=new+york+law+school&hl=en&sll=40.6
97488,-73.979681&sspn=0.69759,1.233215&hq=new+york+law+school&t=m&z=15
[2]: http://freeculture.org/feed/fcx2013.org
[3]: http://fcx2013.eventbrite.com
[4]: http://freeculture.org/
[5]: http://bit.ly/fcx2013_travelfunding
URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/03/06/register-for-fcx2013/
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."
If you're planning to join us, I've added a link to Wikimedia Italia's
registration page here:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/Education_Pr…
Please fill out the WM-IT form in addition to adding your name to the page.
We're hoping to put together an agenda in the next week, so if you have
specific ideas of things you'd like to discuss, please add to that page.
LiAnna
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From: LiAnna Davis <ldavis(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:02 PM
Subject: UPDATE: Interested in a global meet-up?
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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
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LiAnna Davis
Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://education.wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Dear member of the Wikimedia Movement,
During our last Wikimedia CH board meeting, we resolved to set up a web conferencing solution.
After reviewing our needs, we decided that the most effective solution would be that of setting up a dedicated server for that purpose.
From a chapter level point of view, it could appear like an expensive investment, but put in the context of the Wikimedia movement, this investment (not such a large one, in fact) could be made profitable quite easily.
We plan to give access to these tools at first to all the chapters and affiliated group, as then as well for thematic groups.
Deployment is planned for the next Wikimedia Conference in Milan.
In the meantime, people interested in getting access to the tools can contact us by email at support(a)wikimedia.ch, with a simple description of the project, an estimation of the number of people interested and the frequency of usage.
For further information on the chosen solution, you can check the Big Blue Button website. http://www.bigbluebutton.org/
For the Wikimedia CH board
Charles
___________________________________________________________
Charles ANDRES, Chairman
"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –
www.wikimedia.ch
Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20
Skype: charles.andres.wmch
IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch
Hi, a few weeks ago I wrote here asking for mentors to come to Kosovo
to help us with our Wiki Academy. It is happening this weekend. Thanks
for your positive response. Below is a statement on the event.
With the goal of improving the quality and quantity of online content
related to Kosovo on Wikipedia, Kosovo is opening this weekend Wiki
Academy Kosovo, where more than 100 mostly young future Kosovar
Wikipedians are expected to participate.
The Academy will bring together active online citizens and content
experts and help them develop into skilled editors to write high
quality articles and source high quality photos from Kosovo in
categories such as culture, heritage, social issues, geography,
institutions, economy and tourism.
During the Wiki Academy participants will meet Wikipedia mentors and
research experts from abroad and Kosovo and learn valuable research
and drafting skills. Seven Wikipedians from abroad have been invited
to lecture and mentor the participants, most of whom have not edited
Wikipedia before. Some of the topics being worked on are those on
economy, national cuisine, forests, and touristic destinations for
Wikivoyage. In parallel, in a competition that will end today, the
organizers have so far sourced more than 1,300 photographs depicting
Kosovo, which can be seen on
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Academy_Kosovo_Photo_Contest.
The event is organized by Ipko Foundation with the support of Republic
of Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Embassy in
Kosovo, Free/Libre Open Source Software Kosova and the British
Council.
See the website http://wikiacademykosovo.org for details, the articles
being worked on our dedicated wiki at
http://live.wikiacademykosovo.org if you would like to help out and
follow the conversation on @ipkofoundation, #wikikosovo, and
https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikiAcademyKosovo
Cheers,
Arianit
