Steve Virgin wrote:
As a Board member I personally believe we should be attempting to
promote our Schools Project here and that should sit at the heart of
any release. Feel free to wrap any or all your very valid points below
inside and around the idea/goal of the project, should you agree with me.
To refresh: the Board has been looking for opportunities to 'work with
teachers' or 'trainers' or 'academics' to help them see the
advantages
of Wikipedia in terms of use with students. This could be in terms of
collaborative research projects that can put these skills into
practice. In could be in terms of helping teachers or trainers build
additional skills in the groups they train. The bigger objective is to
lead to new volunteers for Wikpedia and new content.
I suggested writing a concise
guide for teachers and posting it on the
WMUK site for two reasons, firstly because the point had been raised on
this list in December, and secondly because I know how to get that
written, having done a book chapter on this in 2007. If there is a need
to integrate with other work, by all means put forward a way to fit it
all together. I'm sure it is right to 'migrate' the message from a
rebuttal of what journalists have to say, to our own ground. I see no
inconsistency here, in fact, just a discussion of ways and means.
Charles