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FYI,
At the end of this student year 2011/2012, on Thursday 5 july 2012, the
prizes for the best students participants in the project "Macedonia on
Wikipedia" were awarded. Prizes were awarded by Deputy Minister of
Education and Science Mr. Safet Neziri [1] in the presence of the rector
of SEEU [2], Mr. Zamir Dika [3], the dean of FINKI [4], Mr. Dimitar
Trajanov [5], the dean of FSNT [6] Mr. Bekim Fetaji [7], prof. Katerina
Zdravkova [8] from FINKI, assistant Shpetim Latifi [9] from FSNT, other
professors [10] from both faculties, the representatives from the
Ministry of Education and Science, the representatives from Wikimedia
Macedonia [11] as well as students from both faculties.
The solemn ceremony was held at the Southeast European University campus
in Skopje, an event organized by the rector of SEEU - Mr. Zamir Dika.
(You can read the report from this event [12], [13])
Implementation of the project "Macedonian Wikipedia" will increase the
number of articles related to Macedonia on Wikipedia and the increasing
use of free content available on the Internet in the teaching process in
state and private educational institutions in Macedonia. Ministry of
Education and Science is the sponsor of the project "Macedonia on
Wikipedia".
Students were processed on average 3-4 quality articles related to their
study, that made hundreds of new and quality articles. It is interesting
to note that students from FSNT have been working on the Macedonian and
Albanian Wikipedia, which gives a special dimension to the project
because it allows students from other linguistic communities to
contribute to their native language.
The best students were promoted after evaluation of their mentors, and
committee of deans of both faculties and a representative of the Working
Group of the Ministry of Education and Science established for the
project "Macedonia on Wikipedia." The Deputy Minister gave the students
first, second and third prize.
The following students were awarded: Bisera Dugalicstudent at FINKI -
first prize, Ljiridon Selmani student at FSNT - second prize and Drini
Aliu student at FSNT - third prize. These awards will contribute towards
these students in earning a scholarship from the Ministry of Education
and Science. The process of awarding is an important component of the
project, which pays tribute to hardworking students for their work.
In future the project should be extended to other faculties of all
universities, secondary schools and later primary schools. Experiences
from the project of these two faculties in the future we will implement
to the other faculties.
[1] http://mon.gov.mk/en/ministerstvo/zamenikminister
[2] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/
[3] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/~z.dika <http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/%7Ez.dika>
[4] http://www.finki.ukim.mk/en/home
[5] http://www.finki.ukim.mk/en/staff/dimitar-trajanov
[6] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/faculties/cst
[7] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/~b.fetaji
<http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/%7Eb.fetaji>
[8] http://www.finki.ukim.mk/en/staff/katerina-zdravkova
[9] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/~sh.latifi
<http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/%7Esh.latifi>
[10] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/faculties/cst/cst-staff
[11] http://mk.wikimedia.org
<http://mk.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1…>
[12] Report from the event
<http://mk.wikimedia.org/wiki/2012.07.05_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B…>
[13] http://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/information/news-events?id=711, Best
Students Prizes for the Enrichment of Wikipedia pages were Awarded
Best regards,
========================== Dimce Grozdanoski President of Wikimedia
Macedonia
Someone has created Meadowlark Bradsher's would-be Google Summer of
Code project from a few years ago:
http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1tN006KEWo
They claim it is free, so is there anyone from the Foundation willing
to reach out to see if they will integrate with Wikiversity?
Best regards,
James Salsman
Dear All,
I have been given information about National Forum on Character Education
conference, which may be of interest to some of you. Please register
directly with the website.
We will be holding our 19th annual conference, the National Forum on
Character Education <http://www.character.org/conference>, in Washington,
D.C. this November 1-4. We are excited that, for the first time ever, our
conference will involve an International Summit on Character and
Leadership. We invite international representatives to join us to discuss
how CEP can support character development efforts abroad. You can view
more information on the Summit and Forum here: www.character.org/conference.
Regards,
Daria
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Anyone who's at Wikimania is welcome to attend a session tomorrow from 10
a.m. to noon tomorrow during the Unconference (
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Unconference) talking about
Wikimedia projects' use in education settings. We'll get into more depth
than we were able to at the Meet-Up on Friday, and I encourage anyone who
has run an education program or who is interested in starting a program in
any country to join us!
LiAnna
Just wanted to share this JISC blog post (not sure yet which blog it is on)
regarding our recent World War I Editathon.
Hope those of you in DC are having a good time, sorry I can't be there to
share it!
Chris
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sarah Fahmy >
Dear all,****
I thought you may be interested in the blog-post below relating to a joint
event held the British library last month- the ‘JISC/ Wikimedia World War
One Editathon<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I/World_War_I_Editathon>
’.****
The event was interesting on a number of levels, not least because it
brought together academics and Wikipedians to create and improve Wikipedia
articles on WW1 topics which are very often the first ‘port of call’ for
researchers and the public. It also opened the debate further on how the
academy could consider applying and exploiting the educational and research
benefits of Wikipedia in a more nuanced way.****
Our sincerest thanks to Wikimedia UK and the British Library who helped
make this event the success that it was.****
Please do get in touch if you would like any more information.****
Best wishes****
“The key contention with Wikipedia has always been its perceived lack of
authority and reliability. To quote from Alison J Head and Michael B
Eisenberg’s 2010 report “How today’s college students use Wikipedia for
course-related research”<http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArtic…>:
‘if you want to stir up a room full of university faculties and librarians-
mention Wikipedia’. ****
However, the Wikipedia page on the World War
One<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_one>attracts approximately
7.3 million page views per year, 597,945 for the
month of June 2012 alone. Add this to the number of page views for June
2012 on the plethora of related WW1 articles from the Treaty of
Versailles<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles>(114,190,
~1.4m/year), to the Battle
of Somme <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Somme> (56,071,
~680k/year) and you can start to see how this substantiates the view that
all searches, whether for general interest or in an educational capacity,
start with Wikipedia. As noted in the ‘Researchers for
Tomorrow’<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2012/researchers…>report,
Wikipedia represented a ‘first port of call’ around a research
topic, but could not be seen as a reliable source for citation.****
“Wikipedia is nice to understand the background and basic concepts. I might
use that knowledge to understand my research up to a bit. But I am hesitant
to quote it directly in my work.” (Engineering and computer science)****
With so many students and researchers increasingly using Wikipedia to, at
the very least, inform further research, the need for improved accuracy is
a pressing issue.****
In order to address this issue in a pragmatic way, JISC and Wikimedia UK
hosted the first of its kind
‘Editathon’<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I/World_War_I_Editathon>around
World War One at the British Library. We brought together academic
experts and editors of Wikipedia (Wikipedians) to create and improve
Wikipedia articles on WW1 for the benefit of education and research on
these topics. The aim of the event was to increase coverage and make the
information as accurate, consistent, wide-ranging and up-to-date as
possible, as well as to build bridges between Wikipedian and academic
communities.****
The level of participation and engagement from the academic community and
Wikipedians, (both physically and virtually), was greater than we could
have ever imagined. ‘Editing’ the articles (33 pages in
all<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I/World_War_I_Editathon/Outcomes>)
was only the start of a rich debate on the content itself and the
possibilities for the academy to really consider how to apply and exploit
the educational and research benefits of Wikipedia in a more nuanced way.
Two key polemics emerged as reasons why and how the academy could engage
with Wikipedia further:****
**1) **In line with the recent finding of the Finch Group report
‘Expanding
Access to Published Research
Findings’<http://www.researchinfonet.org/publish/finch/>
* *which calls for ‘a programme of action to enable more people to read and
use the publications arising from research’, through editing Wikipedia,
academics and researchers are offered a relatively easy mechanism to
amplify the research findings and engage with the public on aspects of
their research, by virtue of the content being totally ‘open’. Albeit
indirectly and in a mediated way, the academics present felt like this
added huge value to their research and the credibility of their
institution. However, they felt that this counted for little as it was not
included in the formal assessment as to the quality of research, the Research
Evaluation Framework (REF) <http://www.ref.ac.uk/> - something that would
need to change if collaboration of this nature did take place in the future.
****
** **
**2) **Events like these and working with Wikipedia more generally,
also allows academics to redress the balance of how subject topics
including WW1 can be represented in terms of the coverage of Wikipedia
articles. Currently, the overwhelming number of articles pertaining to the
conflict, cover aspects of military history (e.g. battleships and military
strategy). Little can be gleaned in terms of the social, economic or
political effects of the war e.g. the role of women. Additionally, the
wider global legacy e.g. experience of servicemen from across the European
empires are widely underepresented. The editathon served to ‘rethink’ how
aspects of the conflict are represented in a wider context, to include
articles on previously unknown commonwealth soldiers like Gobind
Singh<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobind_Singh_(VC)>,
an Indian servicemen to be in receipt of the Victoria Cross or how women
coped with a generation of husbands, brothers and fathers being permanently
absent <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ErrantX/Sandbox/Surplus_women>. **
**
** **
>From all those who attended the event, the resounding message was that this
represented the start of a discussion. Academics and Wikipedians have
taken it upon themselves to maintain links with each other, at the very
least, to update or create articles, but also in some cases to trial
‘putting Wikipedia into the classroom’ as an editing exercise for the 3rd
year history programme. On a strategic level, JISC and Wikimedia are
committed to future collaborative work, to potentially include future
‘editathon’ events around a range of topics and exploring new ways to
engage the two communities.****
** **
Another notable message from the event was the importance of providing
mechanisms for academia to engage with the WW1 commemoration by adding
value to existing content and aiding ways in which students, researchers
and the public alike can comprehend the magnitude and legacy of the
conflict . The legacy of the war that shaped subsequent generations is at
risk of slipping from public memory, making it essential that today’s
educators are able to reinterpret, re-engage and re-create a new social
memory ‘lest we forget’ the experience and lessons created by this
conflict. The ‘JISC/ Wikipedia WW1 Editathon’ has in some small way created
another building block to realising this ambition.”****
** **
Best wishes****
** **
*Sarah Fahmy*****
****
Manager****
Strategic Content Alliance
Hi everyone,
right. Looks like a very interesting material. Thanks for reminding.
I also like Samuels idea of supporting "non-edprogram"-teachers with such
material.
Hope to see you all @wikimania (maybe also @our meet
up<http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetups/Wikipedia_in_Education>
)
Best,
Elly
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> An interesting case studies brochure
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> Agreed. This is fantastic! And this is a format you could ask
> non-'ed program' teachers to use to describe ways they've used
> Wikimedia projects in their classes. For instance there are some
> lovely uses of Wikiversity and Wikisource...
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> SJ
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Herzlichst,
Elly Köpf
Projektmanagerin
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de/>
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
*Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales
Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:*
http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Dear all,
Dear activists for free knowledge in education,
since we are new to this list: first a "Hello" to all of you!
Throughout the last years Wikimedia Deutschland has gained a lot of
experience in the educational field. Working in this sector, we had a lot
of different programs and activities running quite separated and isolated.
In the last year we collected this know-how and combined these efforts.
Coming from this idea of separated programs, our perspective is now, to
follow a wider approach in education and to overcome the very specialized
approach we have followed before. This step was helpful for the development
of all running programs and the effective distribution of needed resources
in education at Wikimedia Deutschland (until the end of 2011, these were
highschool teachers/students, elderly people and universities). It makes
our work more efficient leveraging all synergies and helped us to be
accessable not only for special target groups but for all people!
We are only following this approach for a few months and many things are
new to us, but we are sure that other chapters and Wikipedians also have
similar success-stories to share in education. It would be very helpful to
exchange ideas and approaches between different partners in the wikimedia
movement active in the educational sector and get feedback to ideas
concerning educational activities.
A good opportunity to meet is the Wikimania 2012 in Washington.
Here we will offer a meeting table on Thursday July 12th called “Wikipedia
in education” where we can get together. See more and sign in
here<http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetups#Wikipedia_in_Education>
.
If you are not able to join this year’s Wikimania we are open to hear
feedback from you and to discuss questions and ideas. Let’s collaborate in
the educational global wikimedia movement!
We are looking forward to meeting some of you soon to share our knowledge.
sincerely,
Elly Köpf and Denis Barthel
(and sorry for crossposting)
i.A. Elly Köpf
Projektmanagerin
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales
Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:
http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.