Happy 2013, GLAM and WikiDC!
I decided to try presenting my first editing workshops while visiting family in a small town over the holiday break. Worked out great, and was really fun, so here's an e-mail to inspire you to try it yourself.
We just finished the first Wikipedia Loves Libraries event of 2013 today, out in Missoula, Montana, at the Missoula Public Library Main Branch, with a satellite event for staff yesterday at the Mansfield Library of the University of Montana.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Missoula /Wiki_Loves_Libraries_2013#Results_.2F_Outcomes
Results were encouraging, for two 2 hour events:
1. Nine new users! 2. Thirty-five attendees at the public library! 3. Satellite event for staff at Maureen and Mike Mansfield Libraryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_and_Mike_Mansfield_Library 4. New article: Albert May Househttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_May_House 5. Copyediting of Bently Spanghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bently_Spang, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Libraryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_and_Mike_Mansfield_Library, Cheyenne people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_people 6. Two new photos uploaded!
The local librarians here in Missoula really knocked themselves out, and got us two stories in the local newspaper.
http://www.missoulapubliclibrary.org/events/370-wikipmeetup
http://missoulian .com/entertainment/books-and-literature/shelf-life-eager-editors-can-improve- wikipedia/article_2b0eafd8-510e-11e2-a536-0019bb2963f4.html
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/missoula -residents-offered-crash-course-in-wikipedia -editing/article_bb96a0de-5545-11e2-a8d6-001a4bcf887a.html
A big thanks to everyone!
Happy New Year, and happy editing!
Kristin Anderson User:Djembayz
Wikimedia DC http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Home
Great job, Kristin. That's awesome :)
Sincerely, Nicholas Michael Bashour
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Am 06.01.2013 um 20:09 schrieb Kristin Anderson andersonster@gmail.com:
Happy 2013, GLAM and WikiDC!
I decided to try presenting my first editing workshops while visiting family in a small town over the holiday break. Worked out great, and was really fun, so here's an e-mail to inspire you to try it yourself.
We just finished the first Wikipedia Loves Libraries event of 2013 today, out in Missoula, Montana, at the Missoula Public Library Main Branch, with a satellite event for staff yesterday at the Mansfield Library of the University of Montana.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Missoula/Wiki_Loves_Libraries...
Results were encouraging, for two 2 hour events:
Nine new users! Thirty-five attendees at the public library! Satellite event for staff at Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library New article: Albert May House Copyediting of Bently Spang, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, Cheyenne people Two new photos uploaded! The local librarians here in Missoula really knocked themselves out, and got us two stories in the local newspaper.
http://www.missoulapubliclibrary.org/events/370-wikipmeetup
http://missoulian.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/shelf-life-eager-ed...
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/missoula-residents-offered-cra...
A big thanks to everyone!
Happy New Year, and happy editing!
Kristin Anderson User:Djembayz
Wikimedia DC http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Home
GLAM-US mailing list GLAM-US@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam-us
Dear GLAM folks,
At the University of Memphis, faculty are encouraged to come up with proposals for teaching one credit hour courses to incoming Honors Freshman. Usually about 20 faculty take this up. Last year I developed a course around Jane McGonigal's Reality is Broken book. For this coming Fall, I am going to create an offering that will be something like Wikipedia as a Tool for Scholarly Research. I suspect the class will fill very quickly and will provide an opportunity to raise the visibility of this discussion across the campus – hopefully flushing out the naysayers in the process. The course will meet officially for 15 one hour sessions. I envision that the course will include a thorough exploration of Wikipedia, review of networks such as GLAM, create some pages, Wikispaces, conduct edit-a-thons and so forth. Questions – Do you all have any thoughts on this? Know of other folks who have created similar classes/studies? Suggestions for topical foci for the course? Or anything else?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.
Best,
Robert Connolly
Robert P. Connolly, PhD Director, C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa 1987 Indian Village Drive, Memphis, Tennessee 38109 901-785-3160, ext. 15
Associate Professor, Anthropology The University of Memphis 38152 901-678-3331
http://www.memphis.edu/chucalissa/ http://rcnnolly.wordpress.com/
The mission of the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa, a division of the University of Memphis, is to protect and interpret the Chucalissa archaeological site’s cultural and natural environments, and to provide the University Community and the public with exceptional educational, participatory, and research opportunities on the landscape’s past and present Native American and traditional cultures.
Hi Robert!
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Robert Patrick Connolly (rcnnolly) rcnnolly@memphis.edu wrote:
Dear GLAM folks,
At the University of Memphis, faculty are encouraged to come up with proposals for teaching one credit hour courses to incoming Honors Freshman. Usually about 20 faculty take this up. Last year I developed a course around Jane McGonigal's Reality is Broken book. For this coming Fall, I am going to create an offering that will be something like Wikipedia as a Tool for Scholarly Research. I suspect the class will fill very quickly and will provide an opportunity to raise the visibility of this discussion across the campus – hopefully flushing out the naysayers in the process. The course will meet officially for 15 one hour sessions. I envision that the course will include a thorough exploration of Wikipedia, review of networks such as GLAM, create some pages, Wikispaces, conduct edit-a-thons and so forth. Questions – Do you all have any thoughts on this? Know of other folks who have created similar classes/studies? Suggestions for topical foci for the course? Or anything else?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.
This sounds like a very cool course!
I don't know of any courses that specifically focus on Wikipedia as a research tool, but there have been a number of courses that focus on Wikipedia in various ways. There were two terms of "Wikipedia and Public Policy" at Syracuse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli...
If you're looking for general resources for putting together your course, these are some good places to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_educators http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Assignment_Design
Cheers, Sage (User:Ragesoss)
Hey Robert,
Max Klein (Wikipedia Loves Libraries) developed a School of Open challenge on Wikipedia for Open Access Week - which involves education about OA to research. Might be a nice introduction to incorporate into one of your sessions, or have your students do as an extra credit or pre-course exercise: https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-access-wikipedia-challenge/. I'm sure Max is open to improvements or alternate versions of it as well.
Cheers, Jane
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Robert!
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Robert Patrick Connolly (rcnnolly) rcnnolly@memphis.edu wrote:
Dear GLAM folks,
At the University of Memphis, faculty are encouraged to come up with proposals for teaching one credit hour courses to incoming Honors
Freshman.
Usually about 20 faculty take this up. Last year I developed a course around Jane McGonigal's Reality is Broken book. For this coming Fall, I
am
going to create an offering that will be something like Wikipedia as a
Tool
for Scholarly Research. I suspect the class will fill very quickly and
will
provide an opportunity to raise the visibility of this discussion across
the
campus – hopefully flushing out the naysayers in the process. The course will meet officially for 15 one hour sessions. I envision that the
course
will include a thorough exploration of Wikipedia, review of networks
such as
GLAM, create some pages, Wikispaces, conduct edit-a-thons and so forth. Questions – Do you all have any thoughts on this? Know of other folks
who
have created similar classes/studies? Suggestions for topical foci for
the
course? Or anything else?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.
This sounds like a very cool course!
I don't know of any courses that specifically focus on Wikipedia as a research tool, but there have been a number of courses that focus on Wikipedia in various ways. There were two terms of "Wikipedia and Public Policy" at Syracuse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli...
If you're looking for general resources for putting together your course, these are some good places to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_educators http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Assignment_Design
Cheers, Sage (User:Ragesoss)
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