I invited Lisa Lewin and Esther Wojcicki to this event earlier today,
and I think you might enjoy it too, if you can make it:
Much Ado About MOOCs: What's Next in the Evolution of Open Online Courses
Tuesday, February 12, 6:30pm PT
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
405 Howard St
San Francisco, CA 94105
Register:
https://go.edsurge.com/Much-Ado-About-MOOCs-Whats-Next-in-the-Evolution-of-…
Best regards,
Jim
Dear all,
We're back with the Office hours for the month of February. Like previous
months, this month also we are having two office hours. You can add the
office hours to your Google calendar by clicking on the links below (Thanks
to John).
- Office Hours (1): February 15, 15:30 UTC (
http://bit.ly/EducationOfficeHours15Feb )
- Office Hours (2): February 15, 12:30 UTC (
http://bit.ly/EducationOfficeHours19Feb )
Again, you can add the Office hours to your own calendar by clicking on the
bit.ly links in the bracket above.
Looking forward to seeing you all in the coming office hour. In case, you
have missed the previous meetings,
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/January_15…
and
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/January_23…
and for any other queries, feel free to reach out to me.
Best!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Dear all,
(and sorry in advance for x-posting -- we are sharing this a bit wider to
draw attention to not only the education group, but also the Libraries and
GLAM groups, which we believe have a lot in common with ours and hope will
be active partners in our work throughout the year)
Below is a report of what we've been up to during 2018, including a few
updates looking forward to 2019. We've tried keeping it short and to the
point.
Best,
Shani.
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** 2018 Report - *
Our group has been recognized during 10/2018, so we don't have much to
report about, but here is a short summary of what we've been up to since
being elected -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/2018_Ann…
** Revamping our User Group Page - *
Check out our (a bit more) updated page on Meta. The work is far from over
and the key areas identified are especially a work in progress and will
keep evolving as we do more work. That said, you can now easily find who we
are, how you can get involved, how governance works, various resources and
a way to contact us, which is a good start.
** Logo - winner - *
As some of you remember, we've ran a logo challenge, in order to determine
what our logo would be. We finally have a winner - a logo that most people
voted for, which was designed by krishna chaitanya velaga (who also happens
to be one of our board members :)). The new logo will be implemented soon!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_and_Education_User_Group_…
** Bylaws -*
We have started working on a draft for our bylaws here (which, once done,
will be moved to Meta) -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hsEXVCnLrqC7qcGYXinEZENIDsZIvPnBcInh_bf…
We are looking for people with experience in governance to join the board
as we finalize our bylaws. If you're interested in working on it with us,
please contact us privately.
** Annual plan *-
We've also started working on an annual plan. Again, this is a draft, and
once done, it'll be moved to Meta. In the meantime, we are inviting anyone
who's interested in affecting what we'll be focusing on this coming year,
to comment on the (really not final!) doc -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wBR-tAHwpwsCo24tu7mL0QNgUJEebSA18_rbZF8…
** Working groups -*
As part of working on our annual plan, the board has recognized key focus
areas for our work: *Community, Resources & Outreach. *
It was decided to open *working groups* that will be working separately on
advancing each of these focus areas. So what do we want from you?
*Please check out the different working groups
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Get_invo…>
**and sign up* to the group(s) that interest you. We will soon start
working in those groups (also in accordance with the movement strategic
process) and interested users will be contacted directly. Each group will
have a facilitator from the board, and each group will determine its own
annual plan and tendency of meetings throughout the year.
** Monthly Open Online Meetings - *
As of January 2019, we will be conducting open online meetings at *the last
Monday of each month, between 1630-1800 UTC* (that is the time-slot most
people voted for in a doodle poll we conducted). We will send a reminder a
few days before, but this means you can already mark your calendars!
This is *a link to the meetings <https://meet.jit.si/EDUWikiUG> *(at least
for the coming 6 months) and a *the minutes from the meeting
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6jrTGrFIS51L9qGIWXZiLfRBHSNZF8vKcO1uST…>
*(which
we'll also be using for the coming 6 months). We are hoping to record our
next meetings for those who cannot attend.
In addition, in every coming meeting *we will feature 3 stories* of
initiatives from around the world. I*f you'd like to be featured* in one of
the coming meeting, please *contact me privately*.
*Finally,* we realize that while all of this makes perfect sense to us, it
might not be so clear to others, *so p**lease feel free to ask us anything
at all*. We are really looking to involve as many people from around the
world as possible in order to achieve our goals. In other words, we do not
want to rely only on the board to develop these key areas for the global
community; rather it is hoped that board members will take more of a
facilitator role, especially as our network strengthens and our
organization evolves.
Looking forward to working with as many of you in the coming year!
Shani and the Wikipedia & Education User Group Board.
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*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>.
Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
<http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>.
*+972-525640648*
Hi all,
I have an unconventional question today :)
Wikimedia Ukraine was approached by the Ukrainian Institute, a recently
formed governmental organisation aimed at promoting Ukraine abroad. They
are willing to support creating Wikipedia articles in other languages about
Ukrainian culture. As of now, they have little resources on their own, and
are gathering information.
The question arose: Are there any educators outside Ukraine who are doing
or planning to do Wikipedia Education Program in topics, connected to our
country? And who are they?
Since this question never came to me, I have no idea :)
But if you know something, do tell! I'll be very grateful.
Thank you! and have a nice day,
*Vira*
*--*
*Vira Motorko // Віра Моторко*
Wikimedia Ukraine <https://ua.wikimedia.org/> nonprofit organisation // ГО
«Вікімедіа Україна»
mobile: +380667740499 | facebook: vira.motorko
<https://www.facebook.com/vira.motorko> | wikipedia: Ата
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ата>
If this email is about your daily job and it reaches you outside of the
working hours, please, feel free to answer when it's appropriate! // Якщо
це робочий лист і Ви отримали його не в робочий час, будь ласка,
відповідайте, коли вважаєте за потрібне!
Dear all,
Our next open online meeting has been scheduled for *this coming Monday,
Jan 28, between 17:00-18:30 UTC*.
We'll be using Meet so there shouldn't be any issue with the number of
participants. Here's a link to the call -
https://meet.google.com/pqs-ewoi-tmb
The meeting will include:
* A short introduction and update by participants.
* A short update regarding what we've achieved during 2018.
* A short update on our annual plan & bylaws.
* An invitation to our new working groups (explanation and call of action).
Hope to see many of you there! :)
Best,
Shani Evenstein
Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group.
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*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>.
Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
<http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>.
*+972-525640648*
Hola Wikimedia & Education community!
The new Education newsletter is out! Find the stories shared from December
2018 - January 2019 here:
*https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2019
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2019>*
In this edition we present you the new design of the Education space on
Outreach, you'lld find more info about the Wikimedia+Education conference,
and you'll read stories from our community in Ecuador, Portugal, India, and
many more!
In case you missed the newsletter at your talk page, you can subscribe to
the Education Newsletter here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_…
Cheers!
--
*Melissa Guadalupe Huertas*
Wikimedia Foundation | Education Program Officer
mguadalupe(a)wikimedia.org
user: MGuadalupe (WMF)
Just so -- the fact that not only the images but also their metadata was
released under CC0, is highly important.
It allowed us to add it to Wikidata, which offers new and exciting
opportunities of discoverability, while ensuring easy dissemination, reuse
and remix throughout Wikimedia projects, and also across different
languages, as Wikidata is multi-lingual (unlike Wikipedia, where each
language has its own site).
This is a big step forward toward helping people across the world find and
use this wonderful collection.
Kudos again to all those involved and hope to see many more institutions
opening up their collections in the coming years.
Shani.
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*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>.
Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
<http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>.
*+972-525640648*
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 8:21 PM Cable Green <cable(a)creativecommons.org>
wrote:
> +1 Thanks Shani. Here is a full list of the launch partners.
> <http://www.clevelandart.org/open-access-partners>
>
> This amazing Wikidata gallery will make it simple to update Wikipedia
> articles.
>
> The remix opportunities are exciting!
>
> Cable
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:43 AM Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Great work.
>> As far as I know, this was also in collaboration with the Wikimedia GLAM
>> & Wikidata communities, which uploaded the images to Wikimedia Commons as
>> well as added the metadata to Wikidata.
>> Here's a link to the query that shows a gallery of all the items added to
>> Wikidata - http://tinyurl.com/y94k7col
>>
>> Best,
>> Shani.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:15 Cable Green <cable(a)creativecommons.org wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings Open Education Friends:
>>>
>>> Good news!
>>>
>>> Creative Commons worked with the Cleveland Museum of Art to dedicate
>>> 30,000 high resolution images into the public domain using CC0.
>>>
>>> - Site: http://www.clevelandart.org/open-access
>>> - Article:
>>> https://www.cleveland.com/expo/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/01/fe82a74cbf1054…
>>> - Blog: https://creativecommons.org/2019/01/23/cleveland-museum/
>>> - Tweets:
>>> - https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1088079123963088896
>>> - https://twitter.com/ClevelandArt/status/1088081616059228161
>>>
>>> Enjoy,
>>>
>>> Cable
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Cable Green, PhD
>>> Director of Open Education
>>> Creative Commons
>>>
>>> - Join: CC Open Education Platform
>>> <https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-pl…>
>>> - Tw: @cgreen <http://twitter.com/cgreen>
>>> - CC Global Network: get involved today
>>> <https://network.creativecommons.org/get-involved/>
>>>
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>
> --
>
Hey everyone,
We're organising the second office hours of January today (23rd January).
Join us at 11:30 AM (UTC) : meet.google.com/drr-zntw-twz
Looking forward to seeing you there and in case you have missed the 15th
January Office hours, here's the minutes of the meeting :
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/January_15…
Regards
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
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