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
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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(a)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(a)dukes.jmu.edu> wrote:
>
> There is an education list
> at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education which 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(a)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(a)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
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(a)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(a)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(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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