Hi, all. Sorry for the late post to the list. As you may know, the
Wikipedia Education Program in the US and Canada will soon be transitioning
its work to the Wiki Education Foundation[1]. We've been fielding some
questions on the Education noticeboard[2] and wanted to make ourselves
available in real-time chat.
We will be on IRC today, October 30th, from 8-9pm eastern (10/31 0:00 UTC).
We can use this time to answer questions, receive feedback, and discuss the
transition in general. We will be using the
#wikimedia-office<irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-office>[3] channel,
and we hope you'll join us!
Thanks,
Jami
[1] website development coming soon: http://www.wikiedfoundation.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ENB
[3] irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-office
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CCed the education list.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Jane Park <janepark(a)creativecommons.org>wrote:
> + those of you who were on that thread.
>
> Do any of you know who from Wikimedia is focused on education for K-12 in
> the US? And if there is a representative in California (Bay Area or
> otherwise) that would be interested in working on this topic?
>
> We're exploring a gathering of folks working on fair and balanced
> copyright curriculum for K-12 (a list to start at my post<https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/39781>)
> and wondering if someone from Wikimedia might be interested in being part
> of it.
>
Hi,
While I do not have experience with California's curriculum standards, a
copy of k-6 are available at
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/grlevelcurriculum.asp .
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/ contains a list of standards by subject
matter. One of the first steps would be to identify which curriculum
standards that any lesson plan designs would be aimed at assisting a
teacher in meeting. Library skills looks to be an easier one to target if
you read through
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/librarystandards.pdf . An
advantage to taking this approach is it allows plugging into both the
network of education folks and library folks. (Phoebe Ayers, a member of
the WMF Board is also a librarian, and she might have good access to
librarians working in schools in the state of California.)
Another question once you determine which curriculum standards that you're
seeking to address is whether you're developing basically developing a
learning unit, with a complete curriculum designed to take place over the
course of a quarter/term of whether you're looking to create lesson plans
aimed one to three course periods, or a plan that takes two to three weeks
of classroom time. There are merits to either approach, but implementation
may then come down to the school structure, support and teacher
flexibility. Developing multiple resources may not be a bad approach.
That said, I would be happy to try to assist where possible. I'm currently
working on developing an education program across Wikinews project,
starting on English Wikinews at
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Education . One of the goals is to
aim this potentially at high school teachers, and I could probably figure
out some way to do a better job at integrating these concepts into some of
the material that is being developed.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'd be OK if they simply gave some space in the training materials to
> talk
> > about public domain, free licenses and fair use. That's not likely to
> > happen given who's in control of those lesson plans.
> >
>
> You're still just arguing about the correctness of the material. I agree
> that this curriculum is stupid and misleading, but that doesn't explain why
> the WMF should care enough to make a statement, or even continue
> discussion, about it.
One alternative option would be to work with the Education folks and create
Wikimedia centric lesson plans for teachers to use that share the values
people are expressing. These can be linked on education outreach pages,
distributed to chapters, etc. Or general handouts can be made that explain
these concepts ad the linked on
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf . This is a nice option
because it is pro-active and community driven. If some one does approach
the WMF externally asking for support on this issue, they have the
materials to then work with.
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Hello James,
The lesson was on the french wikipedia. I was thinking that it was account specific because the first time half of the new accounts had no VE, it looks like a random issue, but yesterday it was only one for 9 account created.
Actually I haven't check the browser used, as they all use the same type of computer, I've done the assumption that it wasn't hardware or software dependent. Bbut now that you mention that, I remember that the students were using chrome, firefox and explorer, next tuesday I will take care that they all use chrome or firefox.
Thanks
Charles
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Le 15 oct. 2013 à 20:32, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org> a écrit :
> On 15 October 2013 00:58, Charles Andres <charles.andres.wmch(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we have
>> the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual editor
>> activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of editing.
>>
>
> Charles,
>
> Is this because of the browser they are using, the wiki they are trying to
> edit on, or specific to their account? Which wiki are you talking about
> this happening on?
>
> There was a configuration that we used in June for just over a week to A/B
> test VisualEditor, but that code is no longer around, so this should not be
> happening.
>
> However, users of Internet Explorer and some marginal or old browsers
> cannot use VisualEditor yet as we have not been able to get it to work
> there, which may explain the issue?
>
> Yours,
> --
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> Product Manager, VisualEditor
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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*Just a reminder that registration for EduWiki 2013 is only open until
Sunday 20 October 2013 at http://eduwiki13.eventbrite.co.uk*
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Wikimedia UK invites you to its second annual *EduWiki Conference being
held on 1st-2nd November 2013 in Cardiff Bay, UK*. This two-day event will
be looking at Wikipedia and related projects in terms of educational
practice including open content and global participation. It's a chance to
find out more about this, talk about innovative work in your institution or
online community, and shape the future of Wikimedia UK's exciting work in
this area!
The conference will be of interest to students, teachers, educators,
scholarly society members, contributors to Wikipedia and other open
education projects.
We will explore the ways in which these projects can support innovative
education, and discuss the Wikipedia Education Program (in which university
students improve Wikipedia articles for course credit). We will learn from
universities around the UK where aspects of the programme are already
embedded, exploring the educational opportunities and drawing lessons from
the experience so far.
*For further details please visit http://bit.ly/eduwiki2013 or register now
at http://eduwiki13.eventbrite.co.uk*
We are able to offer a reduced conference fee of £30 to staff at
educational institutions, as well as active Wikimedians. A day rate of £20
is also available. This fee covers lunch and daytime refreshments.
We hope you can join us in our efforts to continue building promising
partnerships between Wikimedia and the Education sector.
Many thanks,
Toni
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Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.
United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
Wikimedia UK invites you to its second annual *EduWiki Conference being
held on 1st-2nd November 2013 in Cardiff Bay, UK*. This two-day event will
be looking at Wikipedia and related projects in terms of educational
practice including open content and global participation. It's a chance to
find out more about this, talk about innovative work in your institution or
online community, and shape the future of Wikimedia UK's exciting work in
this area!
The conference will be of interest to students, teachers, educators,
scholarly society members, contributors to Wikipedia and other open
education projects.
We will explore the ways in which these projects can support innovative
education, and discuss the Wikipedia Education Program (in which university
students improve Wikipedia articles for course credit). We will learn from
universities around the UK where aspects of the programme are already
embedded, exploring the educational opportunities and drawing lessons from
the experience so far.
*For further details please visit http://bit.ly/eduwiki2013 or register now
at http://eduwiki13.eventbrite.co.uk*
We are able to offer a reduced conference fee of £30 to staff at
educational institutions, as well as active Wikimedians. A day rate of £20
is also available. This fee covers lunch and daytime refreshments.
We hope you can join us in our efforts to continue building promising
partnerships between Wikimedia and the Education sector.
Many thanks,
Toni
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Dr Toni Sant - Education Organiser, Wikimedia UK
toni.sant(a)wikimedia.org.uk +44 (0)7885 980 536
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.
United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
On English Wikinews, we recently requested the Education Program extension
be installed with the idea of making it easier to recruit classes to
participate. We've set up a "course" for new project participants at
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Education_Program:The_Wikinewsie_Group/New_rep…
a way of testing this. Any feedback on our test course would be
appreciated. :) How useful is it for potential modeling by instructors?
How useful is it for new project participants? That sort of thing.
Feedback would be really, really appreciated as we want to be able to see
how this works so we can better assist existing contributors and classes
that may use English Wikinews.
I've talked to a couple of contributors on English Wikinews and we'd really
love to engage more with high school and university courses. We just lack
the people power to do the outreach to attract them at the moment.
Currently, David Blackall at the University of Wollongong has a class
using the Wikinews as part of coursework. He made a video about this
available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StudentsInWikinews.ogv.
If anyone knows any university instructors or high school teachers
who
might be interested in doing work on English Wikinews, please get in touch
with me. :)
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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A copy of the most recent edition of The Wikinewsie Group newsletter can be
found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group/Newsletter/4.
This month's edition includes information on:
* our progress with aff-comm application.
* research being conducted by the group.
* education outreach being worked on.
* planned original reporting at the Sochi Paralympic Games.
* technical updates to e-mail, servers, translation tools, etc.
* information for reporters on oppprtunities to report at the United
Nations and get more recognition for their work.
* technical issues in regards to conducting outreach.
* a list of original reporting completed in the past month-
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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Hi all:)
I decided today to update my LinkedIn profile and while looking up my paper for the Open Education 2030 "Call for vision papers" I stumbled on this page: the Open Education Europa gateway has now been officially launched.
I couldn't help whipping up a blog post about Wikipedia editing in the classroom, here it is:
http://www.openeducationeuropa.eu/en/blogs/wikipedia-editing-easy-see-leafl…
Hope you enjoy it! And also, hope the Wikimedia Education list members that were recently asking for ideas on introducing Wikipedia editing to their younger pupils find the links useful.
I strongly encourage list members from Europe to register and contribute to the portal. Perhaps the site is open to non-Europeans as well, I'm not sure. It is certain though that Wikimedia deserves to be well-represented on a European initiative involving open education technologies: after all, that's what Wikimedia Education is all about:-)
Best,
Mina
(Please excuse cross-posting)
Over the next few months, I will be overhauling the Welcome to Wikipedia
brochure[1] to better reflect what new editors need to know when learning
how to contribute to Wikipedia. I'm hoping to get a wide variety of
feedback on what people like and do not like about the current brochure so
I can create a new version that reflects the best knowledge we collectively
have about outreach to newbies.
Please see more details and add your feedback here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Wikipedia_(Bookshelf)/2013_e…
LiAnna
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_to_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf
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