[Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools

[Craig Franklin]

Oh, definitely.  Unfortunately most of my contacts in Education Queensland 
are off on holidays right now, and probably won't be back until the new 
year.  I'd imagine this is probably the case in all of the other state 
education bureaucracies.  Still, doing this groundwork can be useful for 
other things, namely, identifying that the articles on some of our earlier 
Prime Ministers could use a bit of spit and polish.

And yeah, the proposed audience for this is different to that of the 
original SOS Children selection; because I think that Australian students 
(and Australian teachers and educators!) could make good use of this 
resource as well.

Cheers,
Craig


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia-au" <wikimediaau-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:19 AM
Subject: [personal] Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Wikipedia and schools


> 2008/12/13 Craig Franklin <craig at halo-17.net>:
>
>> Well, I just went through all the Australian Prime Minister articles to 
>> see
>> what state they were in - I expect that we'd ideally want to include all 
>> of
>> these if possible.  It took me about half an hour to do, although some of
>> that was spent messing with templates and the like.  The results are 
>> here:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australia/Australian_Schools_Selection/Article_Assessment_Workspace
>> In addition to seeing what we ideally should include, it also gives a 
>> good
>> idea on how good our coverage on this topic is (my verdict: good, but 
>> could
>> be better).
>
>
> Might be worth asking some schools and teachers: "Look, would this be
> useful for you?"
>
> The impetus for the SOS Children selection was to make an encyclopedia
> for them to use in their own schools in third-world countries, i.e.
> they had a specific use in mind. The choice of the English National
> Curriculum was just as a handy standard to work to.
>
> So "who's this for" would be useful to check :-)
>
>
> - d.
>
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