Anna,
Brilliant! I added my endorsement! I am hoping to set up a more long-term
relationship with the WWI museum, and think there are probably a number of
other "volunteer docent" supported organizations that could use the kinds
of broader-public mission-driven activities for their volunteers to feel
invested in the organization's public activities.
Alex Stinson
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Anna Koval <akoval(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks for sharing your experience, Alex. :)
And thanks for sharing your learning pattern, Vojtěch. You beat me to it!
:)
I'm really glad that you captured this there. The Learning Pattern Library
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns> on Meta is a
wealth of experience (both good and bad!) and it's great way to be share
what we've done and discovered with the movement, as well as avoid making
mistakes others have already made!
CC'ed here are three of my colleagues from the Grantmaking group at the
Wikimedia Foundation:
Brett Gibbs <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Bgibbs_(WMF)>,
whom you all may know as User:Pine. :) He mentioned that he was considering
something like this for Cascadia's project list this year, since one of
their interests is contributor diversity.
Winifred Olliff <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Wolliff>, who
has a wealth of knowledge from working with seniors to bridge the digital
divide.
Kacie Harold
<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/November_2014/Welcoming_new_WMF_staff_supporting_education>,
who is currently writing a set of patterns specifically about education.
Working with seniors overlaps with GLAM work and other outreach, but it's
education, too, at least in my mind. :)
Winifred, I hope you'll consider adding to this learning pattern or its
talk page.
Brett and Alex, I hope you'll consider endorsing it or noting your
interest in doing this work too on the talk page.
Here's that learning pattern link once again:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Training_senior_ci…
Anna :)
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Wikimedia Foundation
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Vojtěch Dostál <
vojtech.dostal(a)wikimedia.cz> wrote:
Hi Alex, thanks for the interest, more to read
on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Training_senior_ci…
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Senior_Citizens_Write_Wikipedia/…
we will also be preparing a brochure with the complete lesson plan (in
Czech, but maybe we can get someone to translate it, but this won't be very
soon)
thanks again
Vojtěch Dostál
místopředseda / vice-chairman
Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
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2015-01-15 16:59 GMT+01:00 Alex Stinson <sadads(a)gmail.com>om>:
This quite brilliant! I ran an editathon at the
WWI musuem in Kansas
City that involved mostly senior citizens. They were really recpetive, and
as the primary volunteer group for the museum, had a significant investment
in researching the war. They are very interested in continuing to support
that group in developing the skills and definitely need the regularity that
a multiweek course provides. Could you provide the lesson plans and a
how-to somewhere on-wiki (meta or outreach maybe?)? We could definitely
dessiminate this case study through the Wikipedia Library and I think other
GLAMs could capitalize on the model.
Alex Stinson
On Jan 12, 2015 4:21 PM, "Vojtěch Dostál" <vojtech.dostal(a)wikimedia.cz>
wrote:
Dear colleagues
let me draw your attention to my blog post about our progress in the
senior citizen education program!
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/12/czech-senior-citizens-learn-to-edit/
cheers
Vojtěch Dostál
místopředseda / vice-chairman
Wikimedia Česká republika / Wikimedia Czech Republic
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