TL;DR:

* Learning and Evaluation workshops at CEE Meeting 2015 [1]

* New resources: kits for Storytelling and Fail Fest workshops [2]

* New blog series: What I Learned [3]

Greetings Program Leaders and Evaluators!

Important updates from Learning and Evaluation:

== Find L&E workshops at CEE Meeting 2015 [1] ==

In a joint action with community members, the Learning and Evaluation team will host a series of workshops in the upcoming CEE Meeting, to take place from September 10 - 13, in Tartu (Estonia) [1]. Find the following workshops and join us for these new learning experiences:

* Friday Sept 11, 14:00 - 15:00. Wikimedia Program Toolkits: Overview workshop (and practical session) for using program toolkits for education, writing contests, and photo events and how to help them grow.

* Saturday Sept 12, 14:00 - 15:00. Tools to Measure & Track (Tools Rotations): A roundtables session with three break-out group choices to learn about a handful of tools available for measuring work across the wikis. Tools include: GLAMorous, CatScan, Education Extension, Wikimetrics and Quarry.

* Saturday Sept 12, 20:00 - 21:00. Fail Fest – Learning Together: A very brief overview about learning from failure including a useful strategy for framing failure stories.

* Sunday Sept 13, 12:00 - 13:00 - Storytelling to Advance the Wikimedia Movement: A workshop with brief presentation followed by applied group learning activity for telling a story. The workshop will focus on the key types and aspects of storytelling as well as provide a framework for developing stories so that we might learn together from participants experiences.

== New resources: Storytelling workshop and Fail Fest implementation guides [2] ==

These new Workshop Kits are aimed at helping community leaders lead peer and volunteer training. In each kit you will find all the steps you need to take to host a Learning and Evaluation workshop, as well as infrastructure needed, and all the resources to present. All kits have a learning journal, for workshop hosts to be able to document their experience and share with other community members across the movement. We hope to expand this collection soon, with other workshop kits forthcoming.

If you are interested in hosting one of these workshops, get in touch with the Learning and Evaluation team. Train the Trainer sessions will be hosted at regional and global conferences and via Google hangouts. We look forward to working with community leaders in workshop kit updates, facilitation and translation as we work to build specific examples and case studies from across the movement.

== New blog series: What I Learned ==

As of September this year, we are inviting community members to share a lesson they learned while running a Wikimedia program or activity. The goal of this series is to both showcase a the work done on a community, as well as promote reports as learning resources. We aim at co-editing blogs with community members, and we will publish one story a month, on the third week of every month. If you would like to take part, please reach out directly to María at mcruz@wikimedia.org, or leave a message on her Talk Page for more information [3].

As always, stay up to date with upcoming news and events by following our events page [4]!

*María Cruz * \ Communications and Outreach Coordinator, L&E Team \ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz@wikimedia.org | : @marianarra_ https://twitter.com/marianarra_

[1] L&E Workshops at CEE Meeting:

* List of all workshops: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/News

* CEE Meeting 2015 Homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2015

* CEE Meeting 2015 Programme: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2015/Programme

[2] L&E Workshop Kits:

* Landing page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/L%26E_Workshop_Kits

* Storytelling workshop: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/L%26E_Workshop_Kits/Storyt...

* Fail Fest: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/L%26E_Workshop_Kits/Fail_F...

[3] Reach out to take part on the blog series “What I Learned”:

* María’s Talk Page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MCruz_(WMF)

* email: mcruz@wikimedia.org

[4] Upcoming Events Section in Evaluation Portal:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/News#upcoming-events