Hi Tom,
The idea behind this is that it is not necessarily for *professors* but for *program organizers* -- in other words, 1-2 people per country, people like you. :) I think generally professors have a lot to offer in the discussion of things like "what kinds of content students can add" or "should we work in sandboxes?", but we are looking for this to be a higher-level discussion of things like "How can we be better about documenting what we've learned in Egypt so that program leaders in other countries can follow what we've done?"
I should have made this distinction clearer, sorry.
LiAnna
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga < ezalvarenga@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, LiAnna.
Thanks for sharing this, that is a good idea. I just sent to all Brazilian professors of our network to sound their interest, but I really think 24h is not enough time for they to answer, from my experience of the time professors usually take to answer e-mails. At least this happens with academics in Brazil, not sure how it is in other places (in physics it is the same everywhere).
I also think most professors have no idea what a chapters meeting is, neither what a Wikimedia chapter is. Thus, if I was a professor, I would first wonder what is it and, since I would likely not have time to read all pages to discover it, I would say "no" or simply do not answer.
Then, as a suggestion, maybe try to rephrase to something like this would be good "there will be a global meet up that happens every year among wikimedians and we want involve professors involved in the Wikipedia Education Program etc.".
My to cents. :)
Tom
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:23 PM, LiAnna Davis ldavis@wikimedia.org wrote:
Are you running an Education Program in your country? Do you want to
start
working with instructors and students to improve Wikipedia? Are you interested in helping shape a global community of program leaders to grow Wikipedia's use in education worldwide?
We are thinking about convening an Education Program Leaders Workshop, where 20-30 program leaders worldwide will gather for one day to build a global community to share learnings and help each other overcome
challenges.
We're considering having this all-day workshop in conjunction with the Chapters Meeting hosted by Wikimedia Italia on April 19-21 in Milan, but before we finalize the details, we wanted to see if this would be a convenient time with enough people to make it worthwhile.
If you are interested in meeting with other program leaders worldwide, would you take 5 minutes to fill out a quick survey?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T-1KvPYJQwtRMauHk6Xypm733CUmB0wUi3NRZkkp3g8...
We need responses within 24 hours if possible so we can confirm dates. More information will be coming later this week.
Thanks so much for your quick reply!
LiAnna
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