Hi Alex, and thanks for the encouraging reply. The format that the activities and games take will be determined by the team appointed in consultation with school staff and young people. They may be web hosted but not web based for example, and it's likely they will include activities for groups. We've put up a little more info on our blog: Wikipedia - support for schools
The Wikipedia Adventure game is great - I'll be sure to pass on the link and your contact details to the team appointed (if they aren't already aware of them).
Many thanks! Josie
From: Alex Stinson <sadads@gmail.com>
To: Josie Fraser <josie@josiefraser.com>; Wikimedia Education <education@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, 11 June 2015, 16:27
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikipdia information literacy resources for secondary school/K12 learners
Hi Josie,
That sounds like a really interesting project. At the Wikipedia Library, we have been thinking a lot about readerly literacy in Wikipedia (and hope to build a portal to expose people to research literacy information), and the age group that you are targeting these materials for, would be fairly good for a public audience as well. Will this work product/game based learning material have to be in an on-wiki format?
It would be awesome if we could distribute it more broadly, while keeping people on Wikipedia. I am thinking the game-architecture used for the The Wikipedia Adventure ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure ) would allow for such a piece of information to be shared with members of the editing community and become a standard link on things like welcome templates.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Josie Fraser <josie@josiefraser.com> wrote:
For those of you who haven't seen it, Leicester City Council are currently tendering for a team to work on a short games based learning project with schools and 13/14 year olds, to create games to support Wikipedia use and engagement: http://www.sourceleicestershire.co.uk/contracts/show/id/12580Please do pass on to people you know who the work might suit. For those outside the UK, the outputs will of course all be shared under an open licence and I'll post an update to the list.Best, Josie Fraser@josiefraser
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