Chris, what I understand by schools outreach is getting the educational
benefits of WM projects into schools - via teachers. Hence still an adult
audience.
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Chris Keating
<chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Pitching this stuff is hard; kids at different
ages see things
differently, and kids in different areas age at different speeds.
I think you've hit one of the main challenge of schools outreach on the
head.
We are starting to have a "recipe" for introducing adult organisations to
Wikipedia which will basically work for charities, universities, museums
and the like - we would need several, for schools.
Plus our adult outreach model is based on people coming to events of their
own free will, not because they've been told to! I imagine that a room full
of schoolkids is a much more difficult audience than what we're used to.
I think this is part of the reason why we're focusing more on universities
and GLAMs at the moment. But clearly schools need to be part of the
long-term plan...
Chris
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