Hi Shani,
Thank you for suggesting the creation of a video! I think a video is going
to be a great resource, especially for outreach. I love the idea of being
able to show a video to inspire students (and faculty) to join the
Wikipedia Education Program. A cost-effective solution for this would be to
have the respective chapters and liaisons film the video locally. The
interviews could be done during Collab meetings or during Wikimania while
in Italy, when most of us are likely to get together.
In mid- December, we in India will have a regional Wikimedia conference for
Malayalam (ml) Wikimedians. We are anticipating a handful of students and
teachers as participants. I am thrilled by the idea of videographing
them,recording their experiences about how they started using Wikipedia as
a resource for education. If we can lay down a plan for the video by early
December, I will be able to get relevant shots from India for adding on to
the video.
Best
Netha
On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for your input, Vojtech!
I agree regarding trickiness of filming various programs, but it can be
worked around creatively, by filming locally, interviewing online and
editing everything later to one video. The bigger challenge I see is
deciding what goes into such a video.. But before we get there, let's see
if others agree it's necessary.
As for 10 min vs. 15+5 for questions -- no doubt, 10 is better than
nothing. However, the reason for propoding a longer time is to allow people
time to get into the details of *how* exactly they run their programs.
It seems to me that we talk a lot about best practices and documentation,
but bedises metrics (that the FDC also requires), the level of details is
such that if you really want to understand how a specific program works,
actually learn from their experience and say try to "duplicate" the
experience, you won't know what to do because all you know it that "X had a
great experience with 5th grade pupils", "Y created a successful university
course", "Z have an inspiring senior citizen program". In other words, I
find that other than this shallow knowledge *of* programs, the actual
knowlege of *how* they really run is very little.
Now, it may as well be something that only bothers me. If so, I'll
continue to do what I can on my personal capacity. But if it's not, and
other share the need for more details, then let's do something about -
let's collabotatively think of standars for effectively reporting a project
/ initiative and change the discourse. These videos can be a step in the
right direction. :-)
Cheers,
Shani.
Hello Shani, thanks for your work on this!
As for the in-depth discussions, my view is that 20 minutes is too much to
explain and discuss a single program. I'd give it a maximum of 10 minutes
but that's just my personal view.
It would be very nice to have and official promotional video featuring the
global education activities. At the same, the global nature of our projects
means that it will take a lot of time and cost a lot of money to capture
more than just 1-2 programs.
Vojtěch Dostál
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Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
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2015-11-28 16:42 GMT+01:00 Shani <shani.even(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hello, Collab enthusiasts!
1 - I've just sent out a doodle for the coming *2 hangouts for December
& January*.
Since part of Dec includes holidays and some of us will be vacationing,
it would be good to schedule these two dates advance.
Please fill out the doodle by next Saturday (Dec 6th) so we can schedule
a final meeting time as soon as possible.
2 - Following a remark Paola made during our last meeting about a need
for an in-depth discussions about various topics, I'd like to propose using
our monthly meeting in a new way. I was thinking we can use the first 20
minutes of each meeting to showcase a specific project / initiative from
around the world. Something in the lines of a 15 minute explanation about
the project and 5 minutes for questions.
I believe having more than a minute to share our experiences will benefit
everyone.
I also suggest that at least these parts of our meeting will be recorded
and then uploaded as a YouTube video. Recording doesn't have to be via
"hangout on air". We can simply use a screen-capture software for that part
of the session. The idea is that we have a growing database of wiki-edu
case reports, some might probably be best practices, but even if they are
not, people can learn from anything that happens, from things that do not
work as well as things that do work. In short, videos are an important
educational tool. There is no reason why we should document only in a
written form on outreach. We can use other sources and link them on
outreach. I think this is something practical the collab can do to promote
awareness.
*What do you say..? Is this something you'd like us to do during our
meetings?*
3 - And one last suggestion, which is *practically directed at the WMF
team, but again, I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts about* -- with
Education been such a focus globally in many chapters and the WMF itself,
would it be possible to harness Victor, the WMF's official story-teller, to
create a sort of "formal" video about what the Wiki Education program is?
Similar to what was done for Wikipedia Zero, or a few days ago for the
Erasmus prize? I think it's something we really need and can be used
worldwide (with subtitles) to promote what it is that we are doing here.
Thanks for bearing with me with all my thoughts today.. :)
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Shani.
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