Re: [Wikimedia Education] Dear professors, why not to make a video? The video does not play. On 22/11/2012 07:37, "Axel Pettersson" &lt;axel.pettersson(a)wikimedia.se&gt; wrote: I agree, great idea. Also, if you haven't seen it before, have a look at this interview I did last year: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel-interviews_2011.ogv It might come in handy if you ever need a quote from a Nobel laureate who's using Wikipedia. /axel ==================================== Axel Pettersson Projektledare GLAM/Outreach Wikimedia Sverige jobb/work +46 (0)733 96 55 65 axel.pettersson(a)wikimedia.se ojobb/non work +46 (0)730 59 58 13 haxpett(a)hotmail.com Twitter: @Haxpett <https://twitter.com/#%21/haxpett> Wikimedia.se <http://www.wikimedia.se> - Stöd fri kunskap! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:08:02 -0800 From: alin(a)wikimedia.org To: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Dear professors, why not to make a video? I really like this idea. Thanks Tom! Annie On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga &lt;ezalvarenga(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: Dear professors, I would like to invite you all to make a short video using your own computer saying why you have joined the Wikipedia Education Program and the benefits you have found for your students. During my last presentations to professors around Brazil, I've started to show these two short videos, one of professor Juliana Bastos in a TV news, and the other of professor Pablo Ortellado I made with my mobile: http://noticias.cancaonova.com/noticia.php?id=285520 http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Pablo_Ortellado_-_Wikipedia_na_Univer… I can always see the positive reactions on the other professors faces. I don't believe it needs to be too professional, just say with your heart. I remember the first time I publish one video of professor Juliana on my facebook, 5 professors came talk to me. I think that would be a good way to persuade other professors on all the important issues involved in building an free encyclopedia. Best, Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Wikimedia Brasil Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education ************************************************** To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://www2.hull.ac.uk/legal/disclaimer.aspx ************************************************** _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education

Hi, Alex. On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Axel Pettersson &lt;axel.pettersson(a)wikimedia.se&gt; wrote: That is AWESOME. I didn't know it. :) You just gave me another idea. We could try to make these short interviews with some wikipedians with articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_with_articles Last semester a friend invited me to give a lecture on the Wikipedia Education Program at his university, the same of professor Marcelo Gleiser, [1] and I though it would be a great opportunity to invite him to the program or even make short comments about Wikipedia. Since he has made a program for popularizing science in a big TV news here in Brazil, I think that would be really good to raise awareness about Wikipedia and the program. Some friends from Wikimedia Brasil have made in 2010 also videos with Lawrence Lessig and Sergio Amadeu, the later a famous activit on copyright reform and free software here in Brazil: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ALessig_sobre_a_Wikipe… http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AS%C3%A9rgio_Amadeu_fa… We should explore more this possibility as well! I hope this semester in Brazil we can invite some prominent professors and make videos of them commenting Wikipedia articles and wikipedians learning from their comments and improving the articles while we debate the subject. Tom [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Gleiser -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Wikimedia Brasil Wikimedia Foundation

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This sounds good Tom, Today I had a workshop at a Swedish High School about Wikipedia, and we discussed some about the difference between men and women on wikipedia. In the same time my collegue said it would be good if we could find famous persons who could be "Wikipedia-embassadors" (willing to say "I am editing on Wikipedia"). You (and Axel on the video) have good idéas. What I was thinbking was that maybe we should try to find famous women who could say what they think about wikipedia. This would be good for all the women and girls who needs to find people to look at and see "They can, and so can I!" Best regards, Harald Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden)