Thanks for sharing your experience, Alex. :)
And thanks for sharing your learning pattern, Vojtěch. You beat me to it! :)
I'm really glad that you captured this there. The Learning Pattern Library https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns on Meta is a wealth of experience (both good and bad!) and it's great way to be share what we've done and discovered with the movement, as well as avoid making mistakes others have already made!
CC'ed here are three of my colleagues from the Grantmaking group at the Wikimedia Foundation:
Brett Gibbs https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Bgibbs_(WMF), whom you all may know as User:Pine. :) He mentioned that he was considering something like this for Cascadia's project list this year, since one of their interests is contributor diversity.
Winifred Olliff https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Wolliff, who has a wealth of knowledge from working with seniors to bridge the digital divide.
Kacie Harold https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/November_2014/Welcoming_new_WMF_staff_supporting_education, who is currently writing a set of patterns specifically about education. Working with seniors overlaps with GLAM work and other outreach, but it's education, too, at least in my mind. :)
Winifred, I hope you'll consider adding to this learning pattern or its talk page.
Brett and Alex, I hope you'll consider endorsing it or noting your interest in doing this work too on the talk page.
Here's that learning pattern link once again: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Training_senior_cit...
Anna :)
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Vojtěch Dostál <vojtech.dostal@wikimedia.cz
wrote:
Hi Alex, thanks for the interest, more to read on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Training_senior_cit...
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Senior_Citizens_Write_Wikipedia/M...
we will also be preparing a brochure with the complete lesson plan (in Czech, but maybe we can get someone to translate it, but this won't be very soon)
thanks again
Vojtěch Dostál
místopředseda / vice-chairman Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic http://www.wikimedia.cz Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR | Twitter https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR | Newsletter http://eepurl.com/FsHJr
2015-01-15 16:59 GMT+01:00 Alex Stinson sadads@gmail.com:
This quite brilliant! I ran an editathon at the WWI musuem in Kansas City that involved mostly senior citizens. They were really recpetive, and as the primary volunteer group for the museum, had a significant investment in researching the war. They are very interested in continuing to support that group in developing the skills and definitely need the regularity that a multiweek course provides. Could you provide the lesson plans and a how-to somewhere on-wiki (meta or outreach maybe?)? We could definitely dessiminate this case study through the Wikipedia Library and I think other GLAMs could capitalize on the model.
Alex Stinson On Jan 12, 2015 4:21 PM, "Vojtěch Dostál" vojtech.dostal@wikimedia.cz wrote:
Dear colleagues
let me draw your attention to my blog post about our progress in the senior citizen education program!
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/12/czech-senior-citizens-learn-to-edit/
cheers
Vojtěch Dostál
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