Hi Amir

Thanks for the interest, and my apologies for the confusion, the main tasks require pairs to collaborate. Because you need to be able to work at the same times, and to keep things simple I don’t want to ‘assign’ partnerships – so participants should sign up in pairs.

 

The relevant part of the signup now reads:

“Please give the name of a colleague or friend who has agreed to participate with you. We can only send usernames and passwords out once both of you have registered, and identified you'll be working together.

Please make sure you ask your partner's permission first before giving their name, and that they know where they need to register.  This should be someone you're prepared to work with, who will also sign up to the study. You don't need to work in the same location, but you should be able to work at the same time.”

Do let me know if this is still unclear, and I hope you do feel able to signup.

Kind regards

Simon

From: education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:education-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Amir E. Aharoni
Sent: 14 May 2014 10:49
To: Wikimedia Education
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Request for participants

 

This sounds curious, but when I tried to fill the sign-up form it asked me for a name of another participant. Do I have to find one myself? Either your email didn't make it clear, or I missed it.



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2014-05-10 16:33 GMT+03:00 Simon Knight <sjgknight@gmail.com>:

Hi all

I umm’d and ahh’d over whether this was an abuse of the mailing list – so my apologies if you’re of that view (please let me know), and obviously just ignore it!

 

Essentially, I’m looking for participants to take part in some PhD research, if anyone has a spare afternoon I’d really appreciate your help (sadly gratitude is all I can offer in return). The study is of broad relevance to Wikimedians in that it involves collaborating to find information, and writing a short shared piece based on that information.  I can obviously provide further information particularly after the study is complete.

 

I’m currently looking for participants to take part in some PhD research. The study is of broad relevance to Wikimedians in that it involves collaborating to find information together, and writing a short shared piece based on that information. I thought this community might be interested in two ways:

1)      take part yourself, if anyone has a spare afternoon I’d really appreciate your help (sadly gratitude is all I can offer in return),

2)      working with a student group, the task would be a great task for students (undergraduates or above) to think about how they work together to find and evaluate information

 

The study involves two collaborative tasks, the first of which involves reading a set of assigned texts, and the second searching on the web. So to do that:

·         It involves downloading and using a firefox addon

·         to work with a partner (someone you know, but it’s better if they’re not in the same location – you can schedule this at your own convenience)

·         to read some documents and write a short piece together

There are two tasks (total time 2.5-4 hours) but if you wanted to just sign up to 1 in the first instance and then decide on the 2nd that’s possible. More information on the website, so I’ll leave it with you.  The research findings would of course be shared back to you.

 

Your help would be much appreciated!

 

If you’re interested in signing up, please check out the website at http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/edusearch/  If you do sign up where your role is asked, it’d be great if you could put whatever you consider your main role to be, + ‘Wikimedian’


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