about next steps

Hi, thank you Sage Ross for your comments on my recent posts. I indeed had a meeting today morning at Math Department of Brasilia University. The teacher who I met is a phD who cares a lot about what exactely will they do, he and his pupils, after getting introduced in the wikipedia enviromennt and how this will benefit them as a classroom. I've asked him and he let me know the topics they will cover on this semester. I've beeen wondering how could I help them finding ways. I've shared this on brasilian chapter mailing list and some volunteers have given suggestions. One of these is building courses on wikiversity putting there tutorials and exercises and their resolutions and making links with wikipedia, where, according their suggestion, will be the theoric portions. What do you think of that? Any other suggestions and/or hints?

PS - Although being willing to work with me to run Wikipedia assignments in his classes, the teacher wants to know exactly what those assignments will be before adding hinself as an "Interested instructor" on the list for Brasilia University.

Sorry for bad english and grammar mistakes.

Best regards, --Nevinho (talk) 22:01, 29 September 2010 (UTC) x

Yeah, using Wikiversity is one good approach. Wikiversity is a little more open to new kinds of educational projects and experimentation (e.g., using wikis for original research or analysis), whereas Wikipedia would be a more appropriate home base for the class if the wiki assignments would mainly be about improving articles.

As for "exactly what those assignments will be", that's very, very open. Our approach has been to try to work with professors to create assignments that fit their educational goals and course needs. So basically, it would fall to a Campus Ambassador to work with a professor (as well as the relevant wiki community) to figure out what would be appropriate. You can get a very rough idea of some of the possibilities by browsing through the courses we're working with now at Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses. But those represent only a fraction of the possibilities.

The Campus Ambassador training is designed to give ambassadors a little bit of guidance in how to help professors design good Wikipedia assignments, but knowledge of Wikipedia and its policies and culture is the main thing. We plan on bringing a small number of people from outside the US to the next training event, and this will be done through the chapters (I think). So if you are strongly interested in coming to the December training, there may be an opportunity to do so through your chapter.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 14:16, 1 October 2010 (U

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