Hello everyone,
First of all extremely sorry for the delayed response. It took us a little while to put
this together.
We understand there were a lot of questions about the agenda of train the trainer program.
We have put together a rough draft which we wanted to share with you all. [1] Just want to
mention that this the very first draft and is open to any kind of changes. We will also
write to each of the participants to know what aspects they'd like to cover and
incorporate those in our sessions.
We are happy to share that so far we have received significant number of applications from
most active Indian language Wikimedia communities including Odia, Malayalam, Telugu,
Tamil, Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Assamese, Kannada and more. It's good to know that
the community sees value in our work and we would like to thank each applicant for
applying for the program. We'll soon write to the candidates to communicate about
their selection and finalize logistics.
As you would see from the schedule final dates for the program are from 3rd - 6th
October.
If you have any further suggestions, comments or questions please feel free to write to us
at a2k(a)cis-india.org or drop a note on the program's talk page. [2]
Thanks
Nitika Tandon
Program Manager
Access to Knowledge
The Centre for Internet & Society
[1]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjHXxJd1jwTedDlFUldWaTlKMl9NTG…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train…
On 08-Sep-2013, at 5:48 PM, Vishnu T wrote:
Hi Shyamal,
Thanks for sharing the deck and for stating the importance of Information literacy and
research techniques. Could not agree any more about their importance. However, as you
have rightly noted the focus is more on doing a successful outreach. Would try to
incorporate some of these skill set into the program design.
Best,
Vishnu
On 7 September 2013 08:43, Shyamal L. <lshyamal(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I see that core editing related matters are included only in point 5 and 6. I was
recently examining some statistics related to BSNL dynamic IP addresses since I quite
frequently see a new message for me when I log in in the morning on the en.wiki and the
message turns out to be in almost all cases warnings against poor editing, vandalism and
so on. On some IP ranges, about 1-6% of all IP talk pages have warnings and an analysis
shows that the most common problem is poor sourcing, self-promotion and other forms of
advertising.
In my (limited) experience working with advanced students (MS + levels) on Wikipedia
editing, I have found it very useful to cover Information Literacy and research
techniques. Information Literacy skills are taught in very few higher learning centres in
India (I may be wrong though since such courses were available to me both at undergrad and
postgrad levels) I would suggest that it is vital that people know about what research is
and how sources are evaluated. I also think there needs to be coverage of technical
writing (which includes reviewing literature, structuring, brevity, balance, avoiding
closed paraphrasing and plagiarism, inline citation with templates, citation styles -
Harvard, MLA, APA, use of bibliographic tools like Zotero )
best wishes
Shyamal
PS: will check if i can find the slides that i use, only able to find my internet
research slides at the moment
http://www.slideshare.net/muscicapa/information-literacy-and-internet-use-f…
1) Public Speaking and Engaging the audience
2) Presentation Skill and Body language
3) Basic Video editing skills
4) Leveraging mainstream and social media
5) Basics of Copyright and Creative Commons for Content Donation and
Digitization
6) Technical session on complexities of Indian Languages on Computers (or
based on majority participants need)
7) Wikimedia India Chapter - History and Present
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