Dear Wikimedians,
Happy Monday! Recently, we have announced EduWiki Week
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022>! A virtual
festival for free knowledge in education, from 21st February 2022 to 25th
February 2022. This will be a hybrid event with asynchronous activities,
live interviews, and a final community showcase session. Stay tuned for
more updates!
The community showcase session will be on the 23rd of February from 13:00
UTC till 16:00 UTC. You can submit a proposal to highlight your work,
ideas, research or tools with the education community. The deadline to
submit a proposal is now extended till the 4th of February. Submit your
proposal here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Community_Showc…>
.
If you or your affiliate plan to organize regional events during the week,
like interviews, edit-a-thons, training or other events, please add them
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Asynchronous_Ce…>
to the asynchronous celebrations section.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks
Sailesh (Wikimedia Foundation), Florencia (WM Argentina), Klara (WM
Polska), Vjollca (WM of Albanian Languages UG), Will (WikiEducation),
Kashyap, Elfego (Wikimedia Foundation).
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
The Community Development team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development> at the Wikimedia
Foundation is hosting our first ever community call on February 23, 2022
from 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758>.
The purpose of the community call is to provide a space for volunteers to
meet the Community Development team. The five-person Community Development
team is responsible for developing accessible opportunities for volunteers
to grow critical capacities and leadership skills for movement
sustainability and growth. The community call is also a shared space for
all volunteers to hear or speak about projects related to capacity building
& leadership development in the Wikimedia community.
Our first call, Meet the Community Development Team will include a sign up
sheet
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIiyAlq7uKBp4eqmnbyVr9Zmi3LBjCQgZ…>for
those who would like to speak for 5-10 minutes about their
individual/community capacity building work.
If you would simply like to attend and listen, join the Zoom link at the
scheduled call time, please find the link here
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758>.
Although the primary language of the call is English, we are committed to
providing simultaneous translation to the best of our ability. Please use
the same sign up sheet
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIiyAlq7uKBp4eqmnbyVr9Zmi3LBjCQgZ…>
to indicate your language preference so that we can best accommodate
translation support as needed.
Some may be asking, what is capacity building and why is the Community
Development team supporting this work?
What is capacity building? Capacity building is any activity aimed at
developing a skill or capability in others; it can take many forms, ranging
from formal training through online self-study courses to individual
mentorship.
The “Invest in Skill and Leadership Development”
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…>
recommendation of the 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…>encourages
movement-wide capacity building as a necessity to achieve our strategic
commitment to Knowledge Equity. Capacity building has the ability to
encourage diversity, redistribute and share resources, welcome newcomers
and grow communities.
Community Development is launching this series to ensure we can hear
directly from volunteers who are interested in or who already are leading
capacity building work in their communities. This is one one way we plan to
create a space for direct conversations with volunteers about the different
contexts, challenges, and opportunities in capacity building across the
movement.
How do our projects relate to capacity building and leadership development?
Our team's portfolio is a curation of online and offline learning programs
and resources that aim to enable skill development and resilience in the
movement.
Some of our recent capacity building projects include the Wikilearn Online
Learning Pilot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/WikiLearn>, Board of
Trustees Candidate toolkit
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Candidate_Re…>and
the 2021 Wikimania Speaker Series
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/What_we_do>.
In order for us to continue building relevant curricula and programming, we
need to hear from the Wikimedia movement. Please visit the Community
Development team page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development> to learn more about
our capacity building and leadership development projects.
Key Dates:
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First community call: February 23, 2022 from 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on Zoom
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758>
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Sign up
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIiyAlq7uKBp4eqmnbyVr9Zmi3LBjCQgZ…>
to speak at the first community call. The application closes on February
February 14th, 2022.
To participate in the community call:
-
To attend the call, please find the link to the call here
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758>.
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Please ensure you have zoom downloaded on your personal devicer.
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Use the sign up sheet to confirm your interest to speak about your work
in capacity building here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIiyAlq7uKBp4eqmnbyVr9Zmi3LBjCQgZ…>
We are excited to see and hear from you in our call!
Thank you from the Community Development team
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
Dear Wikimedians,
TL;DR:
- Find the education newsletter for January 2022:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2022
- Showcase your work, share your ideas, tools or programs with the
education team during EduWiki Week, deadline for submission is 30th
January:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Community_Showc…
Greetings from the education team. It is almost the end of January, I hope
the year is going well for you all. Let's end this month by reading some
great stories from our community members in the Philippines, Estonia,
Poland, Israel, and others in the This Month in Education
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2022>
newsletter.
Thanks to the EWOC Newsletter & Comms group for helping in publishing this
edition. I also want to give a shout-out to the team for enabling
translation tags for the education newsletter. Special thanks to Zi Jony.
The current editions’ headlines and summaries are translated into more than
25 languages, Telugu, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Swedish, Akan, and many more.
Thanks to all the amazing volunteers who have helped in translating the
headlines and also some of the articles. You can also help!
The next edition of the newsletter will be on 24th February, you can share
your stories/articles in the newsroom
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom> on or before the
20th of February.
Let me also take the opportunity to remind you all of EduWiki Week
submissions
We are celebrating the entire week of 21st February to 25th February as EduWiki
Week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022>, take
the opportunity to share your ideas, programs and tools with the education
community members. You can participate in the event at your convenience.
Please fill out the submission form to share your work in our community
showcase session
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Community_Showc…>
.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Best!
Sailesh
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi everyone,
Have you submitted your article(s) for this year's first 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 20th of January. 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
Dear Wikimedians,
I hope you are having a good start of the year. I’m writing on behalf of
the organizing team to announce and invite you all to the first EduWiki
Week.
The idea of EduWiki Week comes from Wikidata Education Week
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Wikidata_Education_W…>,
a virtual celebration event the Education team at Wikimedia Foundation had
organized during the 8th birthday of Wikidata.
EduWiki Week is planned as a virtual festival and will be celebrated from
21st February 2022 to 25th February 2022. This will be a hybrid event with
asynchronous activities, live interviews, and a final synchronous session.
This is our first time organizing a virtual event of this format! The
celebration has three main objectives: to connect our volunteers across the
globe with each other and with leaders in the education sector; to foster
collaboration within our movement; and to promote the work done in
education in our movement.
Everyone is invited to participate! How can you do it?
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Asynchronous Celebrations
Local events organized by affiliates and volunteers for their community
members, teachers, and other stakeholders in the education sector. You can
organize interviews, edit-a-thons, virtual carnivals focused on the theme
of education.
-> To participate, add your event/campaign to this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022/Asynchronous_Ce…>
here with a description of the event. Use the hashtag #EduWikiWeek2022 on
social media posts.
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Live Interviews
5 live interviews focused on different topics related to global education
-> To participate, Watch the session on our Facebook page YouTube channel.
The schedule of the interviews will be available soon.
-
Community Showcase and Connection
A 4 hours long synchronous event to be held on 23rd February, 2022.
This includes 9 lightning talks for 20 minutes each and an hour-long
mingling session for connections, networking, and sending wikiloves.
(Mingling session will not be broadcasted)
-> To present a lightning talk, submit your proposals before the 30th
January on Meta-Wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Week_2022#Community_Showc…>.
It can be a live or pre-recorded presentation. To attend this event,
registration will be open from 5th February until 18th February.
You can watch it Live on Facebook and YouTube. We’ll make the recordings
available on Meta-Wiki a few weeks after the event as well. While waiting
for the EduWiki Week, enjoy the interviews from Wikidata Education Week
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Wikidata_Education_W…>.
More information coming soon, Stay tuned.
We hope everyone is as enthusiastic about this event as we are!
If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with the
organizing team through education(a)wikimedia.org
Thanks,
Florencia (WM Argentina), Klara (WM Polska), Vjollca (WM of Albanian
Languages), Will (WikiEducation), Kashyap, Elfego, and Sailesh (Wikimedia
Foundation).
*Florencia Guastavino*
Asistente de Proyectos. Programa de Educación y Derechos Humanos
Project Assistant. Education and Human Rights Program
Dear Wikimedians,
Greetings from the education team. I hope everyone is off to an exciting
start in the new year. I'm hoping that 2022 will be kinder to all of us
than the previous two years. Despite many obstacles in the past few years,
all the stories I read through the newsletters always motivated me and made
me feel special to be a part of such an amazing movement that is always
looking for innovative ways to bring the value of Wikimedia projects to the
education sector.
Let's start the year by getting to know the group that helped in sharing
our stories and learning more about the newsletter. Please join us on the
13th of January at 12:30 UTC for a live chat with the EduWiki Outreach
Collboartors Newsletter and Comms team on Facebook. Meet the members behind
the "This Month in Education" newsletter, learn the process behind its
publication, and get other updates. This meeting will be recorded, and I
will share the link in this email thread.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/5086061558081377
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Best!
Sailesh
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians and Friends,
TL;DR: The first EduWiki Live will be on Tuesday, November 30, at 15:00 UTC
Theme: *Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization*
Livestream:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam
Youtube (link will be shared soon)
I hope this email finds you well. Last month, we introduced you to our
new EduWiki
community support strategy
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/10/05/promoting-more-inclusive-and-equitabl…>.
As a part of our new strategy, we are here with the first “EduWiki Live
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Live>” event, scheduled
for 30th November at 15:00 UTC. EduWiki Live is a virtual event that aims
to serve as a bridge between the EduWiki community and the Education
sector. This will help the community to engage in deep dives into
interesting topics about global education from a Wikimedia movement
perspective.
This month, the Education Team is hosting the first EduWiki Live on the
theme of *Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization*. We are aiming to highlight
the work that has been done in this area and how you can be a part of it.
For this event, we will be joined by guest speakers Ivan Savov, a
researcher working in the field of curriculum digitization and data models,
along with Ernest Gavor and Andrews Lartey representing the Ghana Society
for Education Technology (GSET).
Here is the brief agenda for the event:
- A general update and news on things happening in the EduWiki
community. An overview of the potential impact of aligning curriculum data
on Wikidata, and where we are now with the Wikidata for Education
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wikidata_for_Education> project
by Nichole Saad.
- Take a deep dive into the data models for curriculum standards
<https://learningequality.org/r/digitizing-curriculum> with Ivan Savov:
learn about the use cases for digital curriculum standards, the work done
so far, and how this could be useful for the Wikimedia movement.
- Meet our implementing partners from Ghana, learn what we want to
accomplish with the Wikidata for Education project, and why it is important
in the Ghanian context.
Open Q&A
You can watch the event live on Facebook and Youtube. For you to be able to
ask questions in your native language we encourage you to use the comment
option on Facebook, as it supports automatic translation, If you are
interested in helping translate questions and answers in the comments
please reach out to education(a)wikimedia.org
Best!
Sailesh and the Education team
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
Join me to welcome the members of the second cohort of EduWiki Outreach
Collaborators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators#Cu…>,
we are joined by a group of 14 Wikimedia volunteers from various parts of
the world. This group brings expertise in working with different projects,
and communities. We aim to support education leaders and other stakeholders
in our movement with better networking and communication practices.
We look forward to collaborating with you all in the future.
*Upcoming events:*
- This weekend, 27th November at 7:00 UTC, join us for the first ESEAP
regional education meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Regional_Meeting/ESEAP>
organized by Imelda Brazal, EWOC community specialist for the ESEAP region.
You can join the meeting or watch it live from Facebook.
- Take a deep dive into the topic of Wikidata and Curriculum Digitization
during EduWiki Live, learn more about the work done in this field, and meet
the experts. You can watch the meeting live on Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/events/1635752083428570/?ref=newsfeed> and YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbK_-C6Rlc>. Join us on 30th November at
15:00 UTC
Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions.
Best!
Sailesh
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>