Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation 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 education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you would prefer not to receive these messages, simply reply to the email and ask for your address to be removed. Learn more about subscribing or read the archives.
Come to an Education Meet-Up at Wikimania 2012!
Are you going to Wikimania? Come to an Education Meet-Up! Anyone from any country in the world is welcome to join -- Ambassadors, professors, students, program organizers, people interested in starting a program in any country worldwide, etc. We'll even provide T-shirts and some food! Here's where we need some input: when would be a good time for the meet-up, and what kinds of activities would you like to do at the meet-up? Please fill out this Google Form if you're interested in connecting with other volunteers interested in education around the world at Wikimania!
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6…
Students in Mexico use Wikipedia for IB requirements
Seven students at ITESM-CCM in Mexico are part of a pilot program led by Wikipedian Leigh Thelmadatter to use Wikipedia editing to fulfill the community service requirements of their International Baccalaureate diplomas. The students needed to put in 80 hours of community service, which they did first through English-to-Spanish translations, then with creating articles on their own. Students also worked at an edit-a-thon at the the Museo de Arte Popular in Mexico City. Learn more about the project on the Wikimedia Foundation blog.
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Cairo outreach event encourages students to edit
Campus Ambassadors in Cairo, Egypt, led an outreach event on May 2 to encourage students to edit the Arabic Wikipedia. Ambassadors and students from the British Engineering Institution in Egypt taught Cairo University engineering students to contribute to engineering-related articles. Students who are participating in the Cairo Pilot joined the event as well. See more about the event, including some photos.
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Working Group members announced, Kick-Off meeting in July
Seven Wikipedia Ambassadors and seven academics who have used Wikipedia in their classrooms have been announced as members of the Working Group for the U.S. and Canada Education Programs. These 14 people, along with Wikimedia Foundation staff, will meet July 16–17, 2012, in Washington, D.C., to determine the new structure that will lead the programs after spring 2013. See more information and the list of Working Group members.
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Are you going to Wikimania? I'd like to arrange an Education Meet-Up
while we are all in D.C. this year. Anyone from any country in the
world is welcome to join -- Ambassadors, professors, students, program
organizers, people interested in starting a program in any country
worldwide, etc. We'll even provide T-shirts and some food! Here's
where we need some input: when would be a good time for the meet-up,
and what kinds of activities would you like to do at the meet-up?
Please fill out this Google Form [1] if you're interested in
connecting with other volunteers interested in education around the
world at Wikimania!
Hope to see you there!
LiAnna
[1] https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGtmYk…
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LiAnna Davis
Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
http://education.wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885 x6649
ldavis(a)wikimedia.org
Ambassadors,
Most of you have seen the plans for the new Working Group[1] that we sent
out two weeks ago. The deadline is getting closer, so I wanted to send a
reminder to all of you to take a look and submit a proposal if you're
interested in being considered to join this group, which will be integral
in planning the future of the Education Programs in the United States and
Canada.
A lot of people have indicated interest (and there are already a good
number of proposals[2]), but please note that we have added a tab[3] about
the current and future role of the Wikimedia Foundation [3]. This short
list should give many of you an idea of the role the new Education Program
Structure should serve as of May 2013.
Since we have just recently added this information for your own perspective
when submitting a proposal, we're *extending the deadline* to apply for the
Working Group until this *Monday, May 7th*. The Selection Committee will
begin reviewing proposals the following Tuesday and will still announce the
Working Group members on May 14th.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_Working_Group
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Education_Program_Structure_proposals
[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_Working_Group/Wikimedia_Fo…
Please reach out to any of us if you have questions, concerns, or comments!
Thank you,
Frank Schulenburg, Wikipedia Education Program Director
Annie Lin, Wikipedia Education Program Manager
Jami Mathewson, U.S./Canada Program Associate
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Jami Mathewson
U.S./Canada Education Program Associate
Wikimedia Foundation
jmathewson(a)wikimedia.org
http://education.wikimedia.org
Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation 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 education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you would prefer not to receive these messages, simply reply to the email and ask for your address to be removed. Learn more about subscribing or read the archives.
Students benefit, survey results show
Students at universities in the United States and Canada found that contributing to Wikipedia as a class assignment through the Wikipedia Education Program improved their media literacy and technology skills, according to survey results from the fall 2011 term. About two-thirds of the respondents agreed that doing a Wikipedia assignment was a beneficial experience, with almost 20 percent of them strongly in favor of a Wikipedia assignment in place of a traditional term paper. See more of the survey results.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6…
Canadian class adds two Good Articles
University of Alberta - Augustana Psychology Professor Paula Marentette asked her students to expand two articles on course-related topics this year for her Language Acquisition class. The result? The seven students in her class worked together to get two articles, vocabulary development and joint attention, to Good Article status on the English Wikipedia. In a blog post published on the Wikimedia Foundation blog, the students describe their reaction to the assignment, and Dr. Marentette describes the learning outcomes for her students. Read the post.
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Cairo Pilot student writes French election article
A student in Professor Hoda Abaza's French class at Ain Shams University, one of the courses participating in the Cairo Pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program, has created an article on the French presidential elections in 2012 from scratch. The student's work is part of an extracurricular assignment, and the article has attracted attention and praise from editors in the Arabic Wikipedia community. The page received more than 2,000 hits, most of them on the day of the election last week. See the article.
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Brazil students start editing in sandboxes
Five courses at two universities in Brazil are participating in a pilot this year, and students have already started editing in their sandboxes for some classes, including an electromagnetism class taught by Professor Edivaldo Santos. Professor Santos chose 14 articles for students to improve on the Portuguese Wikipedia, and already, students have started making edits to the articles in sandboxes, such as the Helmholtz Theorem (https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6…). See a full report on the current status of the Brazil pilot for more information.
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