Juhar,
You can find the education newsletter for the month of February here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/February_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 Maxwell, He is a volunteer from Ghana and is using Kiwix to
spread awareness about Wikipedia and digital literacy in his region. Along
with that you can read about the amazing activities and collaborations
happened in Mexico, Indonesia, San Sebastian, Albania, the UK 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 want to highlight someone from the education community for their
work, please follow this:
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/highlighting-individuals-involved-with-…
Subscribe here to receive the education newsletter at your talk page!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_…
Dhanyabaad!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Program Coordinator, Education
Hey EduWiki community,
This year the education team will be attending UNESCO’s mobile learning
week (MLW) in Paris from 2nd March till 6th March. Like the previous
year[1], we again have a table during the conference to help anyone
interested in learning more about Wikimedia projects.
It is a great opportunity for us to showcase the work of our community with
our allies and other high level education actors, like government agencies
and international donors.
*What do we need from you? *
A 30-45 seconds video sharing the following details (can be in any
language[1])
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Who are you? Where are you based in?
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The language Wikimedia project you contribute to?
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What difference is Wikimedia bringing in Education?
This video will be played in the television set provided with the table.
Please share your recorded video with us by 27th February, upload it to
your drive or on Wikimedia Commons and share the link with me at
spatnaik(a)wikimedia.org. Also, a declaration of video under CC-BY-SA 4.0
license, so that we can upload them on Commons.
[1]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/March_2019/Wikimedia_at_…
[2] The Education team can provide translation support in the following
languages (
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Education_Team#More_abo…
), if you speak languages other than these. Please help us in providing
subtitles and translations.
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Program Coordinator, Education
Dear all,
I am Cristian and I am new to this list. I am not new to the movement
and education initiatives. I have been part of Wikimedia Italy for the
last 12 years, 7 of which I have spent serving in the board.
I wanted to share this project that I have just proposed for a project
grant:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Community_Health_Metrics:_Un…
We are team of 3 researchers from Eurecat, a research center in
Barcelona. We have quite an extensive experience doing research on
Wikipedia both on content and user interactions.
Our aim is to study editor's lifecycle to identify factors associated
with editors leaving the project and make what we discover available
through dashboards that can be used by the communities to plan further
actions.
We would like to involve the community as much as possible when choosing
on which metrics we should focus on, and we would like to hear your
feedback.
Thank you.
Cristian
Juhar everyone,
We are here with the education office hours for the month of February. We
are organising this Office hours on 13th February 2020 at 12:00 PM UTC.
This month the focus of the meeting are on Comms related queries from the
community members. Also, we will give some updates from the education team.
The agenda for February Office Hours:
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Where are we keeping the resources? What are our current documentation
practices of education activities?
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Highlighting Wikimedia Education leaders. Please add other topics you
want to discuss during the event:
You can join the call by clicking on this link:
https://meet.google.com/iaz-xfot-yrf
Looking forward to seeing you all on Thursday, Please let me know if you
have any questions.
Do you want to reach out to the education team for a 1:1 consultation,
request for a slot for Education Office Space (
ttps://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space> ) by
filling this google form ( http://bit.ly/EduOfficeSpace )
Dhanyabaad!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Program Coordinator, Education
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn
more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different
roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed
framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on
how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are
looking to speak with YOU, our community to learn about your journey as a
Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from
the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and
contribute to our movement.
To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Learning_and_Leadership_Developmen…>.
If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this
simple Google form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegM07N1FK_s0VUECM61AlWOthwdn5zQOl…>.
Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we
encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in
participating!
--
Lauren Miranda (she/ her/ hers)
Project Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*I**magine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. *
https://donate.wikimedia.org/
Hi everyone,
Hope you are enjoying a great week! We wanted to highlight that the
deadline to submit project grant proposals
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project> is *Thursday,
February 20th*. Especially for those of you who are going through the
Wikimedia Education Greenhouse online course, and already have been working
on project proposals--submit your ideas! Below is the Round 1 2020
schedule. The deadline is strict, so don't miss it if you want to get in on
this round!
The Education Team will also be co-hosting the project grant clinics
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project#Upcoming_events> and are
available to give feedback on your proposals. Check the link
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project#Upcoming_events> to learn
about the dates and times of the clinics, you can join any and more than
once if you need to!
Cheers!
--
*Melissa Guadalupe Huertas*
Wikimedia Foundation | Program Officer, Education
mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org
user: MGuadalupe (WMF)
Check out our newsletter: This Month in Education
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News>
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