Hey everyone,
Happy New Year, a bit late, but I hope we are all having a good start of
the year. In case, you have missed the 2019 wrap-up blog by the education
team, here it is:
https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/12/23/a-big-year-for-wikimedia-in-education/
And, It is time for the new edition of the Education newsletter, and we are
excited to read about the amazing work you have done or planning to do this
month. For this month, you can submit articles for the work you have done
in both December and January.
The last date for submitting your article for the education newsletter is
18th of January. Please submit your article at the Education newsroom:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
We encourage you to go through the publication guidelines (
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Publication_Guidelines )
before submitting the article. In case you have any questions, feel free to
ask me.
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Dear all,
On behalf of the Wikipedia & Education User Group, I am happy to announce
that the next conference along the intersection of Wikimedia & Education,
EduWiki Conference 2020 will take place in Belgrade, Serbia. The User Group
along with the support from Wikimedia Serbia will be organising the
conference next year. The conference will bring together Wikimedians,
educators, educational institutions and organisations, and other
stakeholders in the area. We will be sharing more updates regarding the
conference later in 2020, for now, we have been working on drafting a grant
proposal to the Wikimedia Foundation to support the conference.
As part of the drafting the proposal, Community Engagement Survey is
crucial to understand what community members are expecting out of such
conference, things you would like to share, learn, and do at the
conference. In that regard, I invite all those who are interested in
Wikimedia + Education (or EduWiki) to take part in the survey, and let us
know your thoughts.
You can participate in the survey at https://forms.gle/jQzJ21aYvgbDsaGf9
Cheers,
Krishna Chaitanya
Hey everyone,
It is the last month of the year. We have scheduled the last office hours
for this year on 11th December at 12:00 UTC.
Let's discuss on the projects you have worked on this year, challenges you
have faced or outcomes from the project. We will give some updates from the
education team. Along with that, we also have these topics to discuss:
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Information session on Wikimedia & Education database
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Wrapping up the year of 2019
You can find more details at the Wikimedia Space:
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/wikimedia-education-office-hours-decemb…
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 )
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Looks like Creative Commons and freely licensed content are frequent
topics here!
<https://openedss.uark.edu/2018/>
Federico
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Oggetto: [SCHOLCOMM] Save The Date: Open Education Southern Symposium -
July 16 - 17, 2020
Data: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 16:25:18 +0000
Mittente: Stephanie Pierce (via scholcomm Mailing List)
The Open Education Southern Symposium<https://openedss.uark.edu/> (OESS)
planning committee is excited to announce that the next symposium will
be held July 16 – 17, 2020 on the North Carolina State University
campus in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Open Education Southern Symposium is a day and a half event for open
education practitioners and advocates, both new and experienced, to
gather, learn, and share.
When: Thursday, July 16 – Friday, July 17
Where: James B. Hunt Jr. Library, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC
Cost: $99
Theme: Open Connections: Regional and Local Community Building for
Equity and Sustainability
Keynote: Anita Walz, Assistant Director of Open Education and Scholarly
Communication Librarian, Virginia Tech
Watch for our call for proposals in mid-December 2019!
Registration is set to open in early January 2020.
Call for Volunteers:
We are looking for 4 volunteers to join the planning committee as part
of our program committee. If you are interested in helping review
program proposals and create the OESS program in 2020, please visit our
volunteer form<https://forms.gle/2Dj1mMY9EFobx2Vw9> to submit your
information and find out more about the expectations. Deadline to submit
is Jan. 3rd. Please note all program committee members will be listed
publicly on our website and in printed programs.
For more information about the Open Education Southern Symposium, please
visit our website: https://openedss.uark.edu/ or follow us on Twitter:
@OpenEdSS<https://twitter.com/OpenEdSS>.
Thank you and we hope to see you this summer,
The Open Education Southern Symposium Planning Committee:
Stephanie Pierce, University of Arkansas
Will Cross, North Carolina State University
Elaine Thornton, University of Arkansas
Alison Edwards, North Carolina State University
Scott Wright, University of Arkansas
Lora Lennertz, University of Arkansas
Shaun Bennett, North Carolina State University
Mary Thompson Price, University of Arkansas
¡Hola, Wikimedia education community!
The November edition of the Education Newsletter has been published:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/November_2019
This edition we're launching a monthly highlight on a member of
the Wikimedia education community with an article about the work of
Ixocactus. Thank you to Joalpe for the great nomination! You'll also find
stories from our communities in Mexico, Macedonia, Indonesia, Germany, 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_…
Cheers!
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*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>
Dear Wikimedia and Education community,
We are hosting a 10 days long asynchronous edit-a-thon for Wikimedia
Education mapping exercise [1] from 10th December 2019 till 20th December
2019. The goal of the edit-a-thon is to get feedback on the existing
data[2] in the mapping exercise database and also to add the missing
activities[3] with the help of community members and affiliates.
We are also looking for regional collaborators to help us in successfully
organising this event, to work closely with the affiliates and find
documentation of education activities on their Wikimedia project and add
them to the mapping database. If you are interested, please write to me
before 30th November.
You can find resources on how to add and update data to the mapping
exercise on the Outreach wiki page, we are also working to develop more
resources, and will share in this thread soon. If you have any questions,
Please let me know.
You can also take part in this event from now, and add your name as a
participant[4].
Best!
[1] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Mapping_Exercise
[2]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wekxbA21QM9ZcXFw0aKkKFc-jl8DEEhCly8…
[3]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQjiOWBzZvvRsoIj1r5omoJm84FoIlVG5…
[4]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Mapping_Exercise#Role_of_regi…
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Dear all,
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) <https://www.alt.ac.uk/>
and Wikimedia
Germany <https://www.wikimedia.de/en/homepage/> are inviting you to an open
evening “Education, open participation and democracy: critical reflections”
on Wednesday, November 27, 2019 from 5pm – 9pm (CEST). The event, inspired
by the OER20 Conference <https://oer20.oerconf.org/> theme “The Care in
Openness” will focus on the ways in which Openness, individuals and
communities can foster a participatory and democratic culture in Open work
and in society in general. The event will run in parallel to #OEB19
<https://oeb.global/> and will take place in the main offices of Wikimedia
in Berlin.
Through the event we aim to open a space for critical conversations and
questions: Who is Open for and who is it open to? How can Open be leveraged
as a force for participatory culture in society and education? Which roots
of Openness do we need to be especially critical of when we claim that Open
is here to save us all from the world of proprietary, industry-driven and
techno-solutionist claims around education and participation in society?
How do larger narratives around web culture play into the ways in which
education, participation and the web are framed?
We are delighted to have a group of dedicated activists and researchers as
guests and contributors to this evening: Lorna Campbell, Laura Czerniewicz,
Maren Deepwell, Martin Hawksey and Audrey Watters. Find out more on our
guests and the agenda on our blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.de/2019/11/07/open-for-a-cause-fostering-participati…>.
We hope that this event will stimulate discussions that can continue at the
OER20 Conference and encourage participants to consider making a submission
for the OER20 Conference <https://oer20.oerconf.org/call-for-proposals/>.
The event’s facilities put a limit on the maximum number of attendees.
Registration
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrh5vmgl8vYyPhg7_3iuqseQlPw_dbTrC…>
is free and open until November 22, 2019.
So please feel free to sign up and bring your colleagues and friends who
are interested in Open movements and communities in general and/or in Open
Education in particular. We are very much looking forward to welcome you
here in Berlin!
Best regards,
Christina
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Christina Rupprecht
Projektmanagerin Bildung, Wissenschaft & Kultur
Twitter: @c_rupprecht
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissens der
Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns
dabei!https://spenden.wikimedia.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 27/029/42207.
Juhar,
Hope you are all doing well. It is time for the November edition of
the Education newsletter, and we are excited to read about the amazing work
you have done or planning to do this month.
Starting this month, in every Education newsletter we would like to
highlight at least one person who is impacting or who has been impacted by
Wikimedia & Education work. This person can be a movement organiser,
volunteer, teacher, student, school leader, policy maker, anyone you think
we should know about!
Please nominate someone other than yourself, to nominate someone please
write an email to me. Find more details here:
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/highlighting-individuals-involved-with-…
The last date for submitting your article for the education newsletter is
18th of November. Please submit your article at the Education newsroom:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Newsroom
If you have missed the October edition of the newsletter, find it here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/October_2019
Dhanyabaad!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hi everyone,
A gentle reminder, we have the education office hours scheduled today at
12:00 PM UTC.
We will give some updates from the education team, and also excited to hear
about some of the amazing work you are doing. The space will also be open
to discuss the challenges you are facing with your Wikimedia and Education
projects. Along with that, we also have these topics to discuss:
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Sharing and gather feedback on the draft guidelines for inclusion by the
education team.
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How and where to look for in-kind resources to support your work
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Reading Wikipedia project
To join the call, you have to click on this link:
https://meet.google.com/wfq-qiyh-pdg
Please let me know if you need a calendar invitation.
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor