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ANNOUNCEMENT: Anna Koval joins Wikipedia Education Program team
by Rodney Dunican 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Hello everyone, I am happy to announce that Anna Koval is joining the Wikipedia Education Program team. Along with Tighe and Floor, Anna will be our third Global Education Program Manager and will work with our team to support education initiatives around the world. Anna's Serbian background will be helpful to our team's efforts to support education program leaders in Eastern Europe. She will also serve as our point person for outreach to Asian countries and secondary schools. She and Sage will work closely on Global Education technical support needs. For the past 8 months, Anna has worked at the Wikimedia Foundation as a Community Advocate, supporting several teams, including mine, as well as: * Siko Bouterse and the Grantmaking team on IEGs and gender gap work * Yana Welinder and the Legal team on the new Trademark policy * James Forrester and the Product team on the VisualEditor roll out and, of course, * Philippe Beaudette and the Community Advocacy team on a number of workflows, not the least of which is the wikis' emergency response system. Anna's transition from her Community Advocacy position and activities will be completed soon. Anna is an award-winning educator, with a master's degree in education and more than a decade of classroom teaching experience, ranging from middle school through graduate school. She was a Walt Disney Teacher of the Year nominee, an American Library Association Emerging Leader, and was even featured on the cover of *California Teacher <http://issuu.com/cftpub/docs/calteach_sep-oct-2009?e=7269471/3308134>* magazine. When Anna's not at work, she enjoys gardening at her home in Sonoma and spending time her husband and two dogs. She's also a mighty fine home distiller. Please join me in (re-)welcoming Anna Koval! Rod Dunican Director, Global Education Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation

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Wikimania Submission: Wiki-med
by Shani 01 Apr '14

01 Apr '14

Hi, everyone. Just wanted to draw your attention to a submission I made re my Wiki-Med course at the Sackler school of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University. I'm aiming to not only present the results of this first-of-its-kind course, but also use it as a case-study for future collaborations, which I'm hoping some of you may find interesting.. :) It's called: "Wiki-Med: The Story of the First Full Wikipedia Course in Israel - A Case Study"<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wiki-Med:_The_Story_of…> . Please feel free to let me know your thoughts on this! Cheers, Shani.

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Cool talks about Wikipedia?
by Vojtěch Dostál 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Hello everyone we are all giving dozens of lectures on Wikipedia all the time. Sometimes it occurs to me that mine are not interesting enough. Did you come up with some cool way of talking about Wikipedia? Some method to catch the attention of the class and make sure that they not only learn about Wikipedia but also have fun? Thank you for your ideas Vojtech, Czech Rep. Vojtěch Dostál Faculty of Science Charles University in Prague Albertov 6, 128 43 Praha 2 www.natur.cuni.cz/en

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Another education article
by Martin Poulter 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Hi all, my recent "Ten ways educators can use Wikipedia" article has gone down so well that I've been asked for follow-up articles. The first one of these is out today as a guest post on the CILIP blog. CILIP is the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, so this is a way to reach a lot of the library community, including university librarians who support courses or deliver student inductions. The article expands on a few of the "Ten ways". http://www.cilip.org.uk/cilip/news/3-ways-use-wikipedia-education-tool Again, the contents nothing new to the people on this list, but hopefully useful for reaching librarians and educators who hadn't seen the relevance of Wikipedia to their work. The "Ten ways" article is at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/inform/inform39/TenWaysEducatorsCanUseWikipedia.html Amongst others on this list, I should credit Alex Stinson who started me off with lots of these ideas and introduced me to Is/Is Not exercises which I still use in my workshops. Cheers, -- Dr Martin L Poulter Jisc Wikimedia Ambassador, July 2013 - April 2014 Wikipedia contributor http://enwp.org/User:MartinPoulter Volunteer, Wikimedia UK http://wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter<http://uk.wikimedia.org/> Musician http://soundcloud.com/martin-poulter http://myspace.com/comapilot Person http://infobomb.org/

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The last extension for ICCTIM2014 deadline!
by The International Conference on Computing Technology and Information Management (ICCTIM2014) 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

*************************************************************************** We apologize for multiples copies. Please circulate this CFP among your colleagues and students. *************************************************************************** [ICCTIM 2014] The International Conference on Computing Technology and Information Management April 9-11, 2014 Dubai, UAE http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icctim2014/ **************************************************************************** Paper due: March 25, 2014 **************************************************************************** The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at Academic City Campus, Dubai, UAE, From April 9-11, 2014 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: * Computational Intelligence * Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications * Theories and methodologies of enterprise management * Computer Graphics and Simulations * Information and Data Management * Internet Modeling * Mobile Networking * E-Technologies, E-Business and E-Government * Multimedia Computing * Network Security * Peer-to-Peer Social Networks * Information Management * Project Management * Wireless Communications * Real-Time Systems * Engineering management and applications * Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems * Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications * Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems * Semantic Web, Ontologies * Sensor Networks and Social Sensing * Remote Sensing * Web Services Security * Business Intelligence and Web Services * Ethics in Technology Management * Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design * Software Engineering **************************************************************************** All registered papers will be published in one of the following special issues provided that the author do major improvements and extension within the time frame that will be set by the conference and his/her paper is approved by the chief editor: * International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications (IJNCAA) * International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (IJDIWC) * International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF) * International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IJEEI) * International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA) * International Journal of Information Technology Project Management (IJITPM) * International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM) * International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET) ****************************************************************************

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WikiReaders - Can anyone give some advice please?
by María Cruz 23 Mar '14

23 Mar '14

Hi everyone, at Wikimedia Argentina we are working with a potential new partner, to work in education. The institution gives school support to about 750 kids from 6 to 12 years old. However, they have huge needs of primary sources for consultation, when working on different school tasks and homework. One idea that we considered at Wikimedia Argentina was to provide WikiReaders: students could access them when at school support, and they could read Wikipedia in Spanish for school work, if they need to consult any topic. I wanted to know if anyone working on education programs has ever crafted a program that included the readers, and what was their experience. Can we install Wikipedia in Spanish? Is it useful for primary school research tasks? We can only buy it through Amazon<http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-WR-01-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B002N5521W/>, or is there another channel to purchase these devices? Since it works offline, is it possible to update it every other time? The only information I found was in the device homepage<http://thewikireader.com/>, but I would be glad to read about a program that uses WikiReader somewhere else. Thanks in advance! Warm regards, -- *María Cruz* Encargada de Comunicación A.C. Wikimedia Argentina

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Organizational Information Request
by Christopher Leonard 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

What is the most effective way for me to learn how I can participate in the organizational goal of Wikimedia Education in the United States of America?

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WikiConference USA Announcement
by Pharos 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

I am very pleased to announce that Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are working in collaboration to host the first national Wikimedia conference in the United States! Here are the details for the conference: Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014 Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013) Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/ For more information, please review our official press release below! We hope you will join us and help us spread the word! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p… Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) Wikimedia NYC

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The Last Invitation for ICCTIM2014-Dubai, UAE
by The International Conference on Computing Technology and Information Management (ICCTIM2014) 17 Mar '14

17 Mar '14

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(Announcement) LiAnna Davis to leave the Wikimedia Foundation
by Rodney Dunican 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Hello everyone, More change is coming to the Wikipedia Education Program team. LiAnna Davis has let me know she will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation. LiAnna has directed our team's communications since I hired her for the pilot program in the United States back in June 2010. Her last day will be March 14. While we'll miss LiAnna at the Wikimedia Foundation, she'll continue to be involved in the Wikipedia Education Program in the U.S. and Canada. She's joining Frank Schulenburg and Jami Mathewson at the Wiki Education Foundation, where she's excited about helping the U.S. program achieve the potential we all saw in it when we started it back in 2010. Over the next several week, I will be working with the team to reorganize the many tasks that LiAnna currently does for the program. We'll be reaching out to and meeting with various program leaders worldwide. We will keep you posted about the Wikipedia Education Program team. As you can see, there is a lot happening, so stay tuned for more information. Please join me in thanking LiAnna for all her hard work for the Wikimedia Foundation and wishing her the best in her new role with the Wiki Education Foundation. Rod Rod Dunican Director, Global Education Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation

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