Dear Laura,
I never really thought about having an education program on Wikinews but it just seems
like a wonderful idea. I can envision a university project during a class for young
journalists. Each week, one student writes a Wikinews article on what he thinks is the
most important news of the week. This could be a refreshing way of recruiting new
contributors to sister projects :-).
I will share your project page with colleagues from the Czech community to see if anyone
would be interested in something similar to this. Alas, I don't know any potential
class from the English-speaking world.
thanks for inspiration,
cheers
Vojtech Dostal, WMCZ
(
http://studenti.wikimedia.cz)
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Vojtěch Dostál
Mail vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz <vojtech.dostal(a)centrum.cz>
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Od: Laura Hale <laura(a)fanhistory.com>
Komu: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Datum: 27.09.2013 22:18
Předmět: [Wikimedia Education] English Wikinews installation of EducationProgram
extension
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…
<https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Education_Program:The_Wikinewsie_Group/New_reporters_(2013)>as
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
<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
-- twitter: purplepopple
blog:
ozziesport.com <http://ozziesport.com/>
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