Tom,
Well recently I have been trying to build relationships at the University
level in order to make Wikipedia more accessible along the lines of the
Wikipedia Ambassador program in the US (Wikipedia Ambassadors UK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors/UK ). We have had
particular success in discussion at Imperial College and in Bristol, and
have possible leads in Cambridge and Durham. We are going to be training 4-5
ambassadors mid June on those issues and will likely be doing a second round
of training sometime closer to the fall . The training is focused on
communicating Wikipedia in a University/Education setting and how to do
successful outreach and class projects at that level.
When I checked in on the Schools project in December/January,
I couldn't find anyone that was still actively doing that stuff. I would be
interested in talking to you, because I am actually helping a couple of high
school professors integrate the Ambassador program techniques into AP
Classes (similar to IB) in the fall in Virginia, when I go back to the
states.
Alex Stinson
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas(a)googlemail.com
wrote:
Hey all,
What is the status of our work with schools/education?
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project seems to be a
little stagnant, there are references to other School interactions on the
Wiki (including a link to a hidden office page about the educational
budget).
Is any of this still active?
I only ask because I've been approached locally to do some in-school work
relating to Wikipedia and it occurred to me that this is a major area we
could be focusing on.
I've got a decent amount of experience working with children, schools and
educators and it would be great to contribute that on a wider scale.
If none of those projects are particularly active, would anyone be
interested in working on this (including volunteering to go into schools and
youth groups)?
Tom / ErrantX
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