Hello, everyone.
I would like your input on an idea we at the Wikimedia Foundation have been exploring as one possible model of outreach activity in South Africa: a two-day "train the trainer" event in Pretoria for (mostly campus) librarians from South Africa, to enable them to go back to their respective institutions and communities and deliver two-hour and one-day talk and workshops on Wikipedia. The training event would be funded by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.
More details: the participants are to be carefully selected for good existing computer literacy and relevant skills (but a Wikipedia background won't be required), and the training event would include a balance of "theory" (free knowledge, free licenses, NPOV), background ("How does Wikipedia get written?"), user training (navigation, categories, Commons, talk pages, portals, WikiProjects, ...), and basic editor training (user accounts, basic markup, where to get help, how to interact on talk pages). Ideally, the trainee-trainers would be able to deliver a two-hour "introduction to Wikipedia" or "How to Make the Most of Wikipedia" module, and/or a one-day "Introduction to Editing on Wikipedia" workshop, in their respective communities, as opportunity and conditions permit.
This specifically seeks to address a "bootstrapping" difficulty, i.e. the short supply of Wikipedians available to deliver that sort of training. No attempt will be made to make these trainers pose as veteran Wikipedians; the focus is clearly to be along the lines of "Wikipedia is tremendously useful, and we can share some useful information about it that would let you use it more effectively and explore it further on your own".
We are looking into partnering with a Pretoria-based non-profit named ITOCA -- Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa -- which specializes in conducting training events for librarians, teachers, and IT personnel in sub-Saharan Africa. (Ms. Blessing Chataira of ITOCA is subscribed to this list.) ITOCA can handle the logistics of holding this event -- recruiting and selecting participants, booking and providing accommodations and refreshments for the training event, preparing physical materials, collecting feedback and providing follow-up with participants in their respective communities after the event, etc. What ITOCA certainly cannot do is _prepare and deliver_ such training. That would certainly require a veteran Wikipedian!
I would therefore ask if any of you might be interested in working with the WMF on designing the curriculum for such an event, and/or in delivering such training, once a curriculum is available. The Wikimedia Foundation would gladly cover travel expenses (i.e. Wikipedians outside Gauteng can certainly help!) and provide a "per diem" budget for meals and incidentals.
I welcome feedback about the idea, whether or not you're able to help out.
Cheers,
Asaf
I definitely have the ability to present the material. I'd have to find a day when I'm actually in the country, and schedule time to prepare. If it's feasible to do this over a weekend, that would be great, but I realize that it might be harder to find participants. Please, everyone, work the peer pressure! I'm eager to get involved, but I need a prod sometimes.
David
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I would like your input on an idea we at the Wikimedia Foundation have been exploring as one possible model of outreach activity in South Africa: a two-day "train the trainer" event in Pretoria for (mostly campus) librarians from South Africa, to enable them to go back to their respective institutions and communities and deliver two-hour and one-day talk and workshops on Wikipedia. The training event would be funded by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.
More details: the participants are to be carefully selected for good existing computer literacy and relevant skills (but a Wikipedia background won't be required), and the training event would include a balance of "theory" (free knowledge, free licenses, NPOV), background ("How does Wikipedia get written?"), user training (navigation, categories, Commons, talk pages, portals, WikiProjects, ...), and basic editor training (user accounts, basic markup, where to get help, how to interact on talk pages). Ideally, the trainee-trainers would be able to deliver a two-hour "introduction to Wikipedia" or "How to Make the Most of Wikipedia" module, and/or a one-day "Introduction to Editing on Wikipedia" workshop, in their respective communities, as opportunity and conditions permit.
This specifically seeks to address a "bootstrapping" difficulty, i.e. the short supply of Wikipedians available to deliver that sort of training. No attempt will be made to make these trainers pose as veteran Wikipedians; the focus is clearly to be along the lines of "Wikipedia is tremendously useful, and we can share some useful information about it that would let you use it more effectively and explore it further on your own".
We are looking into partnering with a Pretoria-based non-profit named ITOCA -- Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa -- which specializes in conducting training events for librarians, teachers, and IT personnel in sub-Saharan Africa. (Ms. Blessing Chataira of ITOCA is subscribed to this list.) ITOCA can handle the logistics of holding this event -- recruiting and selecting participants, booking and providing accommodations and refreshments for the training event, preparing physical materials, collecting feedback and providing follow-up with participants in their respective communities after the event, etc. What ITOCA certainly cannot do is _prepare and deliver_ such training. That would certainly require a veteran Wikipedian!
I would therefore ask if any of you might be interested in working with the WMF on designing the curriculum for such an event, and/or in delivering such training, once a curriculum is available. The Wikimedia Foundation would gladly cover travel expenses (i.e. Wikipedians outside Gauteng can certainly help!) and provide a "per diem" budget for meals and incidentals.
I welcome feedback about the idea, whether or not you're able to help out.
Cheers,
Asaf
Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation
WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
I definitely have the ability to be a participant trainee, assist where necessary and pass on the news to interested parties....
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:52 AM, David Richfield davidrichfield@gmail.comwrote:
I definitely have the ability to present the material. I'd have to find a day when I'm actually in the country, and schedule time to prepare. If it's feasible to do this over a weekend, that would be great, but I realize that it might be harder to find participants. Please, everyone, work the peer pressure! I'm eager to get involved, but I need a prod sometimes.
David
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I would like your input on an idea we at the Wikimedia Foundation have
been
exploring as one possible model of outreach activity in South Africa: a two-day "train the trainer" event in Pretoria for (mostly campus)
librarians
from South Africa, to enable them to go back to their respective institutions and communities and deliver two-hour and one-day talk and workshops on Wikipedia. The training event would be funded by a grant
from
the Wikimedia Foundation.
More details: the participants are to be carefully selected for good existing computer literacy and relevant skills (but a Wikipedia
background
won't be required), and the training event would include a balance of "theory" (free knowledge, free licenses, NPOV), background ("How does Wikipedia get written?"), user training (navigation, categories, Commons, talk pages, portals, WikiProjects, ...), and basic editor training (user accounts, basic markup, where to get help, how to interact on talk
pages).
Ideally, the trainee-trainers would be able to deliver a two-hour "introduction to Wikipedia" or "How to Make the Most of Wikipedia"
module,
and/or a one-day "Introduction to Editing on Wikipedia" workshop, in
their
respective communities, as opportunity and conditions permit.
This specifically seeks to address a "bootstrapping" difficulty, i.e. the short supply of Wikipedians available to deliver that sort of training.
No
attempt will be made to make these trainers pose as veteran Wikipedians;
the
focus is clearly to be along the lines of "Wikipedia is tremendously
useful,
and we can share some useful information about it that would let you use
it
more effectively and explore it further on your own".
We are looking into partnering with a Pretoria-based non-profit named
ITOCA
-- Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa -- which
specializes
in conducting training events for librarians, teachers, and IT personnel
in
sub-Saharan Africa. (Ms. Blessing Chataira of ITOCA is subscribed to
this
list.) ITOCA can handle the logistics of holding this event --
recruiting
and selecting participants, booking and providing accommodations and refreshments for the training event, preparing physical materials, collecting feedback and providing follow-up with participants in their respective communities after the event, etc. What ITOCA certainly
cannot do
is _prepare and deliver_ such training. That would certainly require a veteran Wikipedian!
I would therefore ask if any of you might be interested in working with
the
WMF on designing the curriculum for such an event, and/or in delivering
such
training, once a curriculum is available. The Wikimedia Foundation would gladly cover travel expenses (i.e. Wikipedians outside Gauteng can
certainly
help!) and provide a "per diem" budget for meals and incidentals.
I welcome feedback about the idea, whether or not you're able to help
out.
Cheers,
Asaf
Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation
WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
-- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985
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Great! Maybe you can even be a test audience once I have set up the material.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Charlene Foster afrastocracy@gmail.com wrote:
I definitely have the ability to be a participant trainee, assist where necessary and pass on the news to interested parties....
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:52 AM, David Richfield davidrichfield@gmail.com wrote:
I definitely have the ability to present the material. I'd have to find a day when I'm actually in the country, and schedule time to prepare. If it's feasible to do this over a weekend, that would be great, but I realize that it might be harder to find participants. Please, everyone, work the peer pressure! I'm eager to get involved, but I need a prod sometimes.
David
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I would like your input on an idea we at the Wikimedia Foundation have been exploring as one possible model of outreach activity in South Africa: a two-day "train the trainer" event in Pretoria for (mostly campus) librarians from South Africa, to enable them to go back to their respective institutions and communities and deliver two-hour and one-day talk and workshops on Wikipedia. The training event would be funded by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.
More details: the participants are to be carefully selected for good existing computer literacy and relevant skills (but a Wikipedia background won't be required), and the training event would include a balance of "theory" (free knowledge, free licenses, NPOV), background ("How does Wikipedia get written?"), user training (navigation, categories, Commons, talk pages, portals, WikiProjects, ...), and basic editor training (user accounts, basic markup, where to get help, how to interact on talk pages). Ideally, the trainee-trainers would be able to deliver a two-hour "introduction to Wikipedia" or "How to Make the Most of Wikipedia" module, and/or a one-day "Introduction to Editing on Wikipedia" workshop, in their respective communities, as opportunity and conditions permit.
This specifically seeks to address a "bootstrapping" difficulty, i.e. the short supply of Wikipedians available to deliver that sort of training. No attempt will be made to make these trainers pose as veteran Wikipedians; the focus is clearly to be along the lines of "Wikipedia is tremendously useful, and we can share some useful information about it that would let you use it more effectively and explore it further on your own".
We are looking into partnering with a Pretoria-based non-profit named ITOCA -- Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa -- which specializes in conducting training events for librarians, teachers, and IT personnel in sub-Saharan Africa. (Ms. Blessing Chataira of ITOCA is subscribed to this list.) ITOCA can handle the logistics of holding this event -- recruiting and selecting participants, booking and providing accommodations and refreshments for the training event, preparing physical materials, collecting feedback and providing follow-up with participants in their respective communities after the event, etc. What ITOCA certainly cannot do is _prepare and deliver_ such training. That would certainly require a veteran Wikipedian!
I would therefore ask if any of you might be interested in working with the WMF on designing the curriculum for such an event, and/or in delivering such training, once a curriculum is available. The Wikimedia Foundation would gladly cover travel expenses (i.e. Wikipedians outside Gauteng can certainly help!) and provide a "per diem" budget for meals and incidentals.
I welcome feedback about the idea, whether or not you're able to help out.
Cheers,
Asaf
Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation
WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
-- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985
WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
-- Charlene Foster +27 82 850 5740
"At the feast of Ego everyone leaves hungry"
Look forward
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, David Richfield davidrichfield@gmail.comwrote:
Great! Maybe you can even be a test audience once I have set up the material.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Charlene Foster afrastocracy@gmail.com wrote:
I definitely have the ability to be a participant trainee, assist where necessary and pass on the news to interested parties....
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:52 AM, David Richfield <
davidrichfield@gmail.com>
wrote:
I definitely have the ability to present the material. I'd have to find a day when I'm actually in the country, and schedule time to prepare. If it's feasible to do this over a weekend, that would be great, but I realize that it might be harder to find participants. Please, everyone, work the peer pressure! I'm eager to get involved, but I need a prod sometimes.
David
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I would like your input on an idea we at the Wikimedia Foundation have been exploring as one possible model of outreach activity in South Africa:
a
two-day "train the trainer" event in Pretoria for (mostly campus) librarians from South Africa, to enable them to go back to their respective institutions and communities and deliver two-hour and one-day talk and workshops on Wikipedia. The training event would be funded by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.
More details: the participants are to be carefully selected for good existing computer literacy and relevant skills (but a Wikipedia background won't be required), and the training event would include a balance of "theory" (free knowledge, free licenses, NPOV), background ("How does Wikipedia get written?"), user training (navigation, categories, Commons, talk pages, portals, WikiProjects, ...), and basic editor training
(user
accounts, basic markup, where to get help, how to interact on talk pages). Ideally, the trainee-trainers would be able to deliver a two-hour "introduction to Wikipedia" or "How to Make the Most of Wikipedia" module, and/or a one-day "Introduction to Editing on Wikipedia" workshop, in their respective communities, as opportunity and conditions permit.
This specifically seeks to address a "bootstrapping" difficulty, i.e. the short supply of Wikipedians available to deliver that sort of
training.
No attempt will be made to make these trainers pose as veteran
Wikipedians;
the focus is clearly to be along the lines of "Wikipedia is tremendously useful, and we can share some useful information about it that would let you
use
it more effectively and explore it further on your own".
We are looking into partnering with a Pretoria-based non-profit named ITOCA -- Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa -- which specializes in conducting training events for librarians, teachers, and IT
personnel
in sub-Saharan Africa. (Ms. Blessing Chataira of ITOCA is subscribed to this list.) ITOCA can handle the logistics of holding this event -- recruiting and selecting participants, booking and providing accommodations and refreshments for the training event, preparing physical materials, collecting feedback and providing follow-up with participants in their respective communities after the event, etc. What ITOCA certainly cannot do is _prepare and deliver_ such training. That would certainly require
a
veteran Wikipedian!
I would therefore ask if any of you might be interested in working
with
the WMF on designing the curriculum for such an event, and/or in
delivering
such training, once a curriculum is available. The Wikimedia Foundation would gladly cover travel expenses (i.e. Wikipedians outside Gauteng can certainly help!) and provide a "per diem" budget for meals and incidentals.
I welcome feedback about the idea, whether or not you're able to help out.
Cheers,
Asaf
Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation
WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
-- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985
WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
-- Charlene Foster +27 82 850 5740
"At the feast of Ego everyone leaves hungry"
-- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985
I would not mind being a test audience at all, let me know when.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Charlene Foster afrastocracy@gmail.comwrote:
Look forward
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:45 PM, David Richfield <davidrichfield@gmail.com
wrote:
Great! Maybe you can even be a test audience once I have set up the material.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Charlene Foster afrastocracy@gmail.com wrote:
I definitely have the ability to be a participant trainee, assist where necessary and pass on the news to interested parties....
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:52 AM, David Richfield <
davidrichfield@gmail.com>
wrote:
I definitely have the ability to present the material. I'd have to find a day when I'm actually in the country, and schedule time to prepare. If it's feasible to do this over a weekend, that would be great, but I realize that it might be harder to find participants. Please, everyone, work the peer pressure! I'm eager to get involved, but I need a prod sometimes.
David
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I would like your input on an idea we at the Wikimedia Foundation
have
been exploring as one possible model of outreach activity in South
Africa: a
two-day "train the trainer" event in Pretoria for (mostly campus) librarians from South Africa, to enable them to go back to their respective institutions and communities and deliver two-hour and one-day talk
and
workshops on Wikipedia. The training event would be funded by a
grant
from the Wikimedia Foundation.
More details: the participants are to be carefully selected for good existing computer literacy and relevant skills (but a Wikipedia background won't be required), and the training event would include a balance of "theory" (free knowledge, free licenses, NPOV), background ("How does Wikipedia get written?"), user training (navigation, categories, Commons, talk pages, portals, WikiProjects, ...), and basic editor training
(user
accounts, basic markup, where to get help, how to interact on talk pages). Ideally, the trainee-trainers would be able to deliver a two-hour "introduction to Wikipedia" or "How to Make the Most of Wikipedia" module, and/or a one-day "Introduction to Editing on Wikipedia" workshop, in their respective communities, as opportunity and conditions permit.
This specifically seeks to address a "bootstrapping" difficulty, i.e. the short supply of Wikipedians available to deliver that sort of
training.
No attempt will be made to make these trainers pose as veteran
Wikipedians;
the focus is clearly to be along the lines of "Wikipedia is tremendously useful, and we can share some useful information about it that would let you
use
it more effectively and explore it further on your own".
We are looking into partnering with a Pretoria-based non-profit named ITOCA -- Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa -- which specializes in conducting training events for librarians, teachers, and IT
personnel
in sub-Saharan Africa. (Ms. Blessing Chataira of ITOCA is subscribed to this list.) ITOCA can handle the logistics of holding this event -- recruiting and selecting participants, booking and providing accommodations and refreshments for the training event, preparing physical materials, collecting feedback and providing follow-up with participants in
their
respective communities after the event, etc. What ITOCA certainly cannot do is _prepare and deliver_ such training. That would certainly
require a
veteran Wikipedian!
I would therefore ask if any of you might be interested in working
with
the WMF on designing the curriculum for such an event, and/or in
delivering
such training, once a curriculum is available. The Wikimedia Foundation would gladly cover travel expenses (i.e. Wikipedians outside Gauteng can certainly help!) and provide a "per diem" budget for meals and incidentals.
I welcome feedback about the idea, whether or not you're able to help out.
Cheers,
Asaf
Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation
WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
-- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985
WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
-- Charlene Foster +27 82 850 5740
"At the feast of Ego everyone leaves hungry"
-- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985
-- Charlene Foster +27 82 850 5740
*"At the feast of Ego everyone leaves hungry" *
WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
To me this sounds like a good idea and definitely supports it. I will help to develop a curriculum and so on for the event, but it will be a little challenging for me to help with the physical event itself. Should the event be over a weekend I will sometimes be available to help with the physical side.
Lourie
From: David Richfield davidrichfield@gmail.com To: Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org; wikimediaza wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Train-the-trainer events in Pretoria?
I definitely have the ability to present the material. I'd have to find a day when I'm actually in the country, and schedule time to prepare. If it's feasible to do this over a weekend, that would be great, but I realize that it might be harder to find participants. Please, everyone, work the peer pressure! I'm eager to get involved, but I need a prod sometimes.
David
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I would like your input on an idea we at the Wikimedia Foundation have been exploring as one possible model of outreach activity in South Africa: a two-day "train the trainer" event in Pretoria for (mostly campus) librarians from South Africa, to enable them to go back to their respective institutions and communities and deliver two-hour and one-day talk and workshops on Wikipedia. The training event would be funded by a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation.
More details: the participants are to be carefully selected for good existing computer literacy and relevant skills (but a Wikipedia background won't be required), and the training event would include a balance of "theory" (free knowledge, free licenses, NPOV), background ("How does Wikipedia get written?"), user training (navigation, categories, Commons, talk pages, portals, WikiProjects, ...), and basic editor training (user accounts, basic markup, where to get help, how to interact on talk pages). Ideally, the trainee-trainers would be able to deliver a two-hour "introduction to Wikipedia" or "How to Make the Most of Wikipedia" module, and/or a one-day "Introduction to Editing on Wikipedia" workshop, in their respective communities, as opportunity and conditions permit.
This specifically seeks to address a "bootstrapping" difficulty, i.e. the short supply of Wikipedians available to deliver that sort of training. No attempt will be made to make these trainers pose as veteran Wikipedians; the focus is clearly to be along the lines of "Wikipedia is tremendously useful, and we can share some useful information about it that would let you use it more effectively and explore it further on your own".
We are looking into partnering with a Pretoria-based non-profit named ITOCA -- Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa -- which specializes in conducting training events for librarians, teachers, and IT personnel in sub-Saharan Africa. (Ms. Blessing Chataira of ITOCA is subscribed to this list.) ITOCA can handle the logistics of holding this event -- recruiting and selecting participants, booking and providing accommodations and refreshments for the training event, preparing physical materials, collecting feedback and providing follow-up with participants in their respective communities after the event, etc. What ITOCA certainly cannot do is _prepare and deliver_ such training. That would certainly require a veteran Wikipedian!
I would therefore ask if any of you might be interested in working with the WMF on designing the curriculum for such an event, and/or in delivering such training, once a curriculum is available. The Wikimedia Foundation would gladly cover travel expenses (i.e. Wikipedians outside Gauteng can certainly help!) and provide a "per diem" budget for meals and incidentals.
I welcome feedback about the idea, whether or not you're able to help out.
Cheers,
Asaf
Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation
WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza
-- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985
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