My presentation too is based on Wikimedia in education, but I chose to present it in a "common people" context, to illuminate my audience - adult learners from all walks of life at an evening high school, which from what I gather is unique to Greece - and shift the limelight from academic contributions. These people have made important contributions, some of which have helped preserve "fading" traditions. The techniques we use to document our articles and to substantiate notability are challenging and downright exciting at times:)

Also, I wrote the "Wikipedia Quick Start Guide" for an educators' workshop in Prague last August, and it worked well. I was expecting it to have grabbed more attention for its conciseness. I would be interested in discussing it with fellow educators and troubleshooting/improving it to help newbie educators propagate the Wikimedia concept. There is an interest in the European community for this (otherwise my Wikipedia editing in the classroom poster wouldn't have won first prize at a Science Educators' conference in Brussels!). I think it's time we collaborate to take action:)

Sorry for not inserting any links to all the above, I'm in a rush... they're available on my user page, but I could just add them to this message later on in the day if someone is interested...:-)

Greetings from Greece Mina (Saintfevrier)

----- Original Message ----- From: Craig Franklin To: education@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 7:40 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Education-related ideas for Wikimania

Excellent idea Andrew, while there are many high quality education programmes that now exist in our space, they do seem to be aimed predominately at universities and "traditional" academia. Entire fields of "blue collar" knowledge are being left out. Good to see I'm not the only one that's spotted that gap!

Cheers, Craig

On 24 March 2012 13:46, Andrew Owens orderinchaos78@gmail.com wrote:

I've proposed a talk on vocational education, deliberately designed to be a bit different to some of the other likely talks on this subject so that we can get some new ideas going. It's obviously dependent on whether I can get to Wikimania or not, but if I don't, I'll write it up and upload it somewhere anyway :)

kindest regards Andrew

On 24 March 2012 00:32, LiAnna Davis ldavis@wikimedia.org wrote:

Are you going to Wikimania this year? I'm excited to see so many education-related sessions proposed so far! I've started a list of education-related submissions on this page:

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/Wikimania_201...

But I'm sure the list is missing some -- please add submissions you see! And please click through and add yourself to the interested attendees list for the sessions you think sound interesting.

I'm also trying to coordinate some kind of education meet-up while we're there. There's also a list on that page of people who are hoping to or planning to attend Wikimania; please add yourself and add any ideas you have about the best things we could do as a group there.

LiAnna

-- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 ldavis@wikimedia.org

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