Local history societies are good sources of enthusiastic amateurs who have lots of resources for any area (& they often meet in the back rooms of pubs :-). I have found they generally want to share the fruits of their labours.
I did a short paper for their journal a few years ago, (see http://www.balh.co.uk/lhn/article.php?file=lhn-vol1iss81-4.xml for un formatted version) and they are often looking for speakers willing to attend their meetings.
Rod
-----Original Message----- From: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of WereSpielChequers Sent: 03 June 2011 14:48 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Schools projects - evening courses
My Mum is active in her local branch of the University of the third age, they struck me as a perfect partner for such an evening course. Especially if the UK chapter were to offer the U3A a grant for hiring in approved Wikipedians to deliver said course.
But please call it something other than "creating your own wiki page". Aside from winding up the deletionists, that risks letting people think they own a page, or that they can create a page about them. Your hobby/profession/neighbourhood and Wikipedia would be OK, someone else will I hope come up with something snazzier.
But this definitely has legs.
We could also make use of a photographers version to explain commons to local photography clubs.
WereSpielChequers
On 1 June 2011 22:36, Roger Bamkin victuallers@gmail.com wrote:
Two minor threads: Martin Poulter and I discussed how we could put
together
a teaching plan so that someone like yourself could organise an enevening course in "creating your own wiki page" ... not sure whether Martin made
any
progress. I know he was investigating ... I suspect there are a lot of people who would like to put their local history work into Wikipedia ...
if
we just explained it and demo ed it at the same time.
Other thread. I teach secondary ICT. I'm planning to teach intro to Wiki editting next week. I have still to find some resources. Any help appreciated.
regards Roger B
On 1 June 2011 17:34, Alex Stinson stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu wrote:
There is an education list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education%C2%A0which appears
to
be one of the better ways to contact people because not everyone
regularly
checks outreach wiki (including myself). I invite people to join who want
to
work with Education and Wikimedia projects, it include a fair number of Campus Ambassadors who are doing innovative stuff at universities as well
as
a number of other people in various chapters involved in education
stuffs,
Alex
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
Hey Alex, Yes a lot of that has been my starting point. FWIW there is a lack of content for the younger age groups (say 14-16) which is where my current focus is; the "beginner" guides are more suited (at least in my
experience
of teaching) to older students. I'd also like to see some more material
on
the goals/ideals of Wikipedia (as that seems a better start point before leaping into account creation :)).
Also I noticed that a lot of the focus is on editing or contributing Wikipedia. I've approached this from a slightly different perspective - which is that most of the kids I will be talking to aren't interested in writing (and probably aren't yet capable of doing so) a Wikipedia
article.
On the other hand I aim to teach them about using WP as a resource (and
the
potential pitfalls) as well as trying to get them to treat it with
respect
(i.e. quit the vandalism). Is there a place on Outreach where discussion of education/teaching materials is happening? Tom On 1 June 2011 17:15, Alex Stinson stinsoad@dukes.jmu.edu wrote:
"High school professors." Yikes! Meant teachers, not professors. I thought I fixed that in a second read. Been working with universities
for
too long. Tom, that sounds like something that could really use some development in the way of documented techniques or presenting the information. You
may
want to check out the stuff on the Wikimedia Foundation bookshelf
project
for materials you can destribute instead of making all of them yourself (http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf). We also have been
developing
a fair amount of stuff at the education portal on outreach, though
still a
work in progress (http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education).%C2%A0Alot
has
already been developed in fairly professional ways, it just needs to be applied in the class room, Alex
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
Chris, Yes, that was my impression too - I have some ideas/proposals to try and bring into play but didn't want to step on top of an active
project that
I'd missed :P I'm based in Lincolnshire.
Alex, I've been keeping a close eye on the Ambassadors project - it looks like some great work (yet another reason to wish I was a student again
:)).
Expanding that into schools is a major project, but one that I think
would
net us some massive gains long term. I'd be really interested in
hearing
about your work with the high school professors. In general: I've been interested in education for a while; I'm a scout leader here & my parents have their own business doing educational visits to
schools on
the topic of astronomy (so I have fairly extensive experience of that
sort
of "business model"). The reason I have a specific interest now is
that I've
been approached to look at doing an evening class on computers and the internet at a local secondary school. One of the topics I want to
cover is
Wikipedia and WP editing. I could put together some teaching material & release it for others to use on an ad-hoc basis, but I think there is loads more we could
expand into
if WMUK were behind it - stuff like working with the teaching bodies
to get
WP recognised as a resource, and perhaps even worked into the
curriculum (at
the very least work with them to provide useful material for teachers/students about Wikipedia). In fact, something like the
training
events Cancer Research people (but for teachers) would be really
interesting
to explore. Another off-hand idea; it would be great to try and team up with some of the GLAM institutions to run educational days (i.e. have groups of
kids
turn up to learn about stuff using local and Wikipedia content, and to
get
an introduction to Wikipedia). And more; we could use WMUK resources to train up and support
Wikipedia
volunteers who want to go into the classroom - because teaching kids
can be
damned hard! There's a lot to focus on, but I think it is one of our most important outreach areas in the UK. Tom
On 1 June 2011 16:40, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com
wrote:
I think it's been hibernating for a while. I haven't heard it mentioned at all since the new Board took office. Of course, if someone wants to pick up the ball and run with it, that would be very welcome. Whereabouts are you, Tom? Regards, Chris
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote: > > Hey all, > What is the status of our work with >
schools/education? http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Initiatives/Schools_project%C2%A0 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 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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