---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jane Park &lt;janepark(a)creativecommons.org&gt; Date: Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:10 AM Subject: [school-of-open] Fwd: "Writing Wikipedia Articles" Course Now Open for Registration To: &quot;school-of-open(a)googlegroups.com&quot; &lt;school-of-open(a)googlegroups.com&gt; woohoo! go Sara and Pete! :) please help spread the word to your friends new to Wikipedia. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jane Park &lt;janepark(a)creativecommons.org&gt; Date: Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM Subject: "Writing Wikipedia Articles" Course Now Open for Registration To: school-of-open-announce(a)googlegroups.com For the first quarter of 2014, we are launching School of Open courses on a rolling basis in February, March, and April. The first course to open for sign-up is "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond." See the full announcement below and at https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41933. *Below, Sara Frank Bristow invites you to join "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics & Beyond". Sara is a co-organizer of the course and a member of WikiProject Open <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OPEN>. Both projects are part of the School of Open.* ------------------------------ The School of Open will offer its popular "Writing Wikipedia Articles<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKISOO>" course (WIKISOO) starting *25 February, 2014*. This free introductory online course, now in its fourth incarnation, runs for six weeks. Enrollment is open to all. [image: WikiSOO_Burba]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKISOO_badges> WIKISOO Burba Badge WIKISOO students learn about the values and culture that have driven hundreds of thousands of volunteers to build Wikipedia. Through their work in the course, they join an effort that has generated millions of free articles in hundreds of languages since 2001.The course covers the technical skills needed to edit articles, and also offers practical insights into the site's collaborative norms and social dynamics. Students graduate with a sophisticated understanding of how to use Wikipedia both as a reader and as an active participant. The course focuses on articles about openness in education: open educational resources<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources>(O…;(OER), MOOCs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOCs>, Creative Commons<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons> licenses <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license> and more. Students will forge connections with WikiProject Open<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OPEN>EN>, a community of volunteers focused on this topic area. Upon successful completion, students earn the WIKISOO Burba Badge<http://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/view/22/> . The course is sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the University of Mississippi. Course instructors are: - Pete Forsyth, Wikipedia trainer & consultant (Wiki Strategies) - Sara Frank Bristow, OER and online education researcher (Salient Research) - Dr. Robert Cummings, Associate Professor (University of Mississippi) Course registration is now open! - More course information: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO - Enroll: http://enwp.org/WP:WIKISOO/NOW -- Jane Park Project Manager <http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark> Creative Commons the School of Open, a collaboration with P2PU: http://schoolofopen.org/ Like what we do? Donate: https://creativecommons.net/donate/ -- Jane Park Project Manager <http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark> Creative Commons the School of Open, a collaboration with P2PU: http://schoolofopen.org/ Like what we do? Donate: https://creativecommons.net/donate/ -- http://schoolofopen.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "School of Open" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to school-of-open+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to school-of-open(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/school-of-open/CAEWbjdGP-zhyGsDa_Hafg8Q42… . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- John Vandenberg