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 work in progress (
>
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education). Alot 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;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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