Yes, I do. The trick is to partner with some other organisation (the local library, community association, chamber of commerce, etc), and advertise well in advance. People are interested, you've just got to let them know that it's on, and get them through the door. Of course, success in a small community is often "getting a dozen people", but if that's 10% of the town's population it can be better than filling an entire auditorium! Cheers, Craig On 18 October 2011 21:22, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>wrote;wrote: This is a case where we found community college equivalents who will find teachers for us to work, where we will have set dates to go into their classrooms and work with students to assist them in learning about Wikipedia/wikiNews in a way that will help the instructor meet course learning objectives. We wouldn't go there with out that commitment. :) http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Outreach_Oceania has some of the details. As we've gotten the commitment from three schools, hence the next step of trying to design materials. If people had designed learning resources for in classroom training, I'd love to take advantage of them , as opposed to having to create materials from scratch. (And then possibly try to get them translated into Japanese at the very least. Local languages have very few speakers so attempting to find one to translate in advance would be difficult.) -- mobile: 0412183663 twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com

I have find out that the major problem in the Czech republic is that most of the public education sector doesnt have an interest or motivation. This could be find out in some private schools. Once there we do teachers training. The importance of developing classroom realted training seems not to be important for the teachers now, but Reo would be able to say more about that. I personaly dont think, there is a need of that - just working on the guidance to teachers telling them something is not possible and something could work. Juandev

2011/10/19 Juan de Vojníkov <juandevojnikov(a)gmail.com> There was a mention of outreach in the classroom. Have you created a page about this on either your chapter wiki, Outreach, Meta or Wikipedia? We're unlikely to be able to easily return and want to make sure that we have guides that they can keep and use for future reference when we leave, in addition to providing on wiki support and support through the chapter where a few members are coordinating this. That's why I have the desire to make sure we have something in print. And then probably something on wikipedia. Anna has done a good job with creating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Classroom_coordination/S… terms of making sure classroom related editors get guidance, and something like that in print… *babbles* That's kind of along the lines of what I was thinking: Wikipedia can be used in English to help with writing goals. Commons can be used for photograph for art related classes. Wikinews would be good for business, journalism, English, marketing… (so long as all edits are done with in the rule set of both wikis.) -- mobile: 0412183663 twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com

2011/10/19 Juan de Vojníkov <juandevojnikov(a)gmail.com> Had not seen this link before. :) Thanks. Some of the links on there are ones I had not seen. Contextualised into lesson plans, they make things make more sense. Some stuff that may be useful in terms of ideas for writing something of my own, as I think I'm looking for something that can be put on library shelves. No chapter. One country I think has a population of 110,000, with the largest population centre being 55,000. One of the places we are going there has a population of around 5,500 on the island. The other has a population of 68,000 with the capital having around 25,000 people. Not sure an independent chapter would be viable. We should have support from Wikimedia Australia, and we'll probably be looking for WMF support in the coming weeks. We just need a better grasp on our timelines and budget. -- mobile: 0412183663 twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com