Hi, Princess! How are you?

Glad to read your message. I was just thinking about something like a virtual student club for my course. Almost all teachers mention Wikipedia (sometimes like a reference) but they don't use it as a learning tool. I wrote a post in http://castelowiki.wordpress.com/ on that experience at James Madison University, and some of them became interested in talk a little bit more, but I was not be able to find such an experience in distance learning.

Aditionally, I was in a congress in São Paulo last month about Social Media in Education, they talked a lot about using Wikipedia (and also Facebook, Wordpress, Twitter, YouTube, SlideShare) in classroom or in making educational resources. I was thinking about talk to my teachers about that.

Do you know any initiative like this in e-learning? Do you think it could work?

Regards,

CB

Em 22/04/2011 18:35, Jessie Wild escreveu:

cross-posting (as I've seen lots of university students on these mailing lists:))

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Calling all students: student club IRC Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:33:55 -0700 From: Jessie Wild jwild@wikimedia.org Reply-To: education@lists.wikimedia.org To: education@lists.wikimedia.org

Hello!

If you are a student and want to become more involved with Wikimedia, be a leader and organizer on your university campus, and interact with a global network of like-minded students, starting a STUDENT CLUB could be a great opportunity for you!

As many of you know, Wikipedia focused university outreach is begin to take more and more active forms.[1] I was hoping that you would all be the first to begin the conversations about how students clubs can effectively become part of the larger Wikimedia movement.[2]

I would love to schedule a time on IRC for us to get together and brainstorm ways to move forward with the student movement of Wikip/media. Specific agenda items, time, and channel can be found on the talk page: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_student_clubs.

Please spread the word! All are welcome – specifically current university& college students :)

Jessie

[1]http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_University_Program [2]http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_student_clubs

-- Jessie Wild Special Projects Manager Global Development Wikimedia Foundation

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