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that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each month. Someone from our staff has
talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher
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Wikipedia Ambassadors trained in Cairo
The Cairo Pilot is gearing up for the start of the term in Egypt. Local Arabic Wikipedians
led a training of 10 new Campus Ambassadors in Cairo in mid-January, and another 10 Campus
Ambassadors will be trained later this month. Another 16 Online Ambassadors have signed up
to help students on-wiki. Seven classes are participating, and all of the professors
participated in a faculty orientation in January led by two local Arabic Wikipedians and
U.S. program professor Rochelle Davis. Only 3-15 of the best students from each class will
be participating this term, limiting the number of students to a manageable number. See
more information (in Arabic) on the course page:
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6…
U.S. program features 40 classes this term
The U.S. Education Program will feature about 40 classes, a slight decrease over last term
thanks to the stricter participation requirements in place for this term (see the last
issue of the Update newsletter for more on those). Students in many courses are already
registering user accounts and selecting articles they will be working on. Many Campus
Ambassadors have already visited classes to make their first presentations. Learn more
about the courses participating this term by checking out the list of courses:
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5…
Blog post features classroom project in Mexico
Regional Ambassador for Mexico Leigh Thelmadatter wrote a blog post in both English and
Spanish on the Wikimedia Foundation blog highlighting her efforts to bring Wikipedia
assignments into classrooms in Mexico. Leigh's students have been actively translating
English Wikipedia articles to the Spanish Wikipedia, and the interested students have
joined a new student club on campus. Her students even collaborated on an edit-a-thon with
the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Read Leigh's post:
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5…
Ambassador leads online workshop about Wikipedia
Louisiana State University Campus Ambassador Rebecca Burdette is leading an online
workshop through Educause about using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education
classrooms. Rebecca, the associate director of LSU's Communication across the
Curriculum department, will cover how to integrate Wikipedia into the curriculum. Learn
more about the online workshop:
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=5…
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