Re: [Wikimedia Education] student evaluation criteria - bytes

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

I belive Frank will like your approach. You should let him know. :)

Prizes depending on the number of bytes would be really cool and pedagogical.

2014-01-27 Juliana Bastos Marques :
> *NOT a CFP!* ;)
>
> Hello all!
>
> I have been thinking about using the criterion of a minimum number of bytes
> to evaluate the students' edits for my next course - together with content,
> of course. This came up because I noticed some students were editing as
> little as possible, and this time I want the whole group to start new
> articles from scratch.
>
> Has anyone used this approach? Pros/cons? What would you consider a
> reasonable number for the minimum of bytes in the final article?
>
> Juliana.
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[Wikimedia Education] The Royal Society is hiring a wikimedian

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

"The Royal Society is recruiting a Wikimedian-in-Residence to
facilitate closer working with the Wikimedia movement.

We're looking for a Wikipedia editor with experience of delivering
successful events, workshops or training.

The position would suit someone with experience of working with
professional scientists and with the Wikimedia community.

The position is part-time for a fixed term of 6 months. The successful
candidate will be expected to work for one day per week (the day of
the week may change as needed).

The application window closes on 29 September 2013."

More info: http://royalsociety.org/training/wikimedian-in-residence/

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Oficina do dia 15, Re: Autorização do detentor de direitos autorais da DIREITO GV para a Wikipedia

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi all,

I am very sorry and ashamed by this e-mail. It was supposed to go to *
educacao* at wikimedia do org, then I made this mistake because of the
auto-complete and my lack of attention.

Please, block the other people answers to the mailing list. I'll let them
know.

Thanks,

Tom

2013/6/5 Everton Zanella Alvarenga 

> Caros,
>
> como estão? Aqui quem fala é o Tom, coordenador do projeto da Wiikimedia
> Foundation Wikipédia na Universidade <http://educacao.wikimedia.org>. A
> oficina do dia 15 é para a parceria que estamos fazendo com a faculdade de
> administração e não será usado para resolver esse problema específico
> relatado pelo Francisco.
>
> A Wikimedia Foundation é uma organização sem fins lucrativos que apoia os
> projetos Wikimedia, como a Wikipédia, e faço parte do Programa Catalisador
> no Brasil dessa organização com sede em San Francisco.
>
> Achei bastante legal o interesse de vocês em melhorar as páginas
> relacionadas da FGV, mas o nosso foco é o programa de educação - vejam aqui 
> alguns
> exemplos<http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Como_os_professores_est%C3%A3o_ensinando_com_a_Wikip%C3%A9dia.pdf>
>  de
> professores usando a Wikipédia em sala de aula.
>
> Podemos, no entanto, envolver as outras pessoas da FGV que estão fazendo
> essa parceria conosco e com a comunidade de voluntários que estão
> participando do projeto. É importante salientar que todos projetos
> Wikimedia são essencialmente mantidos por voluntários.
>
> Vocês poderiam me ligar amanhã algum horário na parte da tarde? Meu
> celular é (11) 99 242 53 48.
>
> Tom
>
>
> 2013/6/5 Juliana Bernardini 
>
>>  Caro Francisco, estou verificando.
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Obrigada.
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> [image:
>> http://www.fgv.br/mailing/DIREITOGV/ass_direito/logo%20Direito%20GV%20-%20simplificada.jpg]
>> 
>>
>> *Juliana Bernardini**
>> *Imprensa e Comunicação
>> *Press &* *Communication*
>>
>> *DIREITO GV | Escola de Direito de São Paulo | FGV** *
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>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *De:* Francisco Kommisar del Campo [mailto:franci...@vennadcapital.com.br]
>>
>> *Enviada em:* quarta-feira, 5 de junho de 2013 15:24
>> *Para:* permissions...@wikimedia.org; educa...@wikimedia.org
>> *Cc:* Juliana Bernardini
>> *Assunto:* Oficina do dia 15, Re: Autorização do detentor de direitos
>> autorais da DIREITO GV para a Wikipedia
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *Juliana*, 
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Outro usuário do Wikipedia, *ezalvarenga*, me disse que haverá oficina
>> na FGV sobre o Wikipedia e seria importante participarmos.
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Hoje a página da FGV foi alterada por usuário que questionou que DIREITO
>> GV deve ser escrito com minúsculas. Não vejo outra forma a de nos
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>> poderemos ter as informações da DIREITO GV protegidas conforme o que a
>> própria instituição entende por correto, uma vez que a instituição é que
>> detém o conhecimento preciso.
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Em cópia o email que me orientaram a copiar e espero o contato das
>> pessoas que poderão nos orientar e convidar a esse evento (oficina).
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Obrigado, Francisco
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *
>>
>> Francisco Kommisar del Campo*
>>
>> franci...@vennadcapital.com.br
>>
>> +55 11 9 8922 0832
>>
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>>
>> Praça Dia do Senhor, 50 - Vila Nova Conceição
>>
>> São Paulo - SP - CEP 04501-010
>>
>> www.vennadcapital.com.br 
>>
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>>
>>
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>>  
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Oficina do dia 15, Re: Autorização do detentor de direitos autorais da DIREITO GV para a Wikipedia

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

dades.*
>
> *
> *Estou ciente que sempre detenho os direitos autorais de minha obra assim
> como o direito de ser reconhecido como o autor segundo os termos da "GNU
> Free Documentation License". As modificações que outros fizerem à obra não
> serão atribuídas a mim.
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> Estou ciente que a licença livre apenas concede direitos autorais e me
> reservo a opção de entrar com ação contra qualquer um que use esta obra em
> violação à outra lei como restrições a marcas registradas, difamação, ou
> restrições geograficamente específicas.
>
>
> Eu reconheço que não posso retirar este consentimento e que o texto pode
> ou não ser mantido permanentemente em um projeto da Wikimedia Foundation.
> *03/06/2013, Unidade DIREITO GV da FGV (Juliana Bernardini da imprensa e
> comunicação está copiada e o usuário do Wikipedia é EstonianMan)*.
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Profile of professor in Brazil program

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

We should have more professors like Rafael.

He not only jumped into the Wikipedia Education Program in Brazil, as he
support open knowledge broadly and is aware of what he is doing. That is
the kind of professor we should involve and form a strong global network of
them to open up knowledge everywhere!

Tom


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:33 PM, LiAnna Davis  wrote:

> Just posted:
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/08/rafael-pezzi-profile/
>
>
> I love this quote from him:
> “Wikipedia makes it explicit how knowledge is built: a never-ending
> dynamic process with conflicting opinions in a lively discussion. Although
> this process is fundamental, it is ignored in the standard textbook-based
> class where knowledge is just given, considered as an absolute truth.”
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] A suggestion

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
 wrote:
> Hi Tom,

Sorry, I mean "Hi all". No, I am not talking to myself. Not in public.
Yet. I don't kow why I wrote that.

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] A suggestion

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi Tom,

I would like to suggest that each group try to cover also its measure
of success, if any. If there is not, no problem, but let us know. I
also think it is important to mention planned activities and a high
leve roadmap for them (like: in the next 6 months we will do that in
the year try to expand in this or that way). Thus I'd change Sophie's
suggestion for each group cover the following:

A) Structure of the programme and measure of success (if any)
B) Current activities and planned ones (high level roadmap)
C) Successes
D) Mistakes (or rather, things to learn from)

By the way, if you have some report page (learning, structure etc.),
similar to what I tried to do here

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Program/Education_program

There is a general page for learnings and one for each phase of the
pilots here in Brazil

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Program/Education_program/Learning

Please, add on the google docs Sophie has started our links - adding mine later.

Tom


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Re: [Wikimedia Education] A suggestion

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

I started adding my own e-mail, the country I am based and the
organization I work to. People reading this thread could do the same,
if you don't mind to have your e-mail there.

Otherwise, we can start a closed document later. From my group I only
have the e-mail of Leigh, but I'll try to find the other two.

Tom

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Sophie Österberg
 wrote:
> Sure!  I'm out and about in Stockholm at the moment but will be in the
> office in a few hours and can start a contact list then, or please someone
> start straight away if you have time atm.
>
> /Sophie
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] A suggestion

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Thank you for doing that, Sophie. This is what I think we can call peer to
peer collaboration. :)

I hope the seniors people from WMF (I mean specificaly the learnings group
inside the organization and the education program director) can hear you to
learn from this initiative and how we can improve it. I think this is a
good way to decentralize the program and an excelent way to learn from each
other. I can commit myself to meet people from my group in May, sure!

I am going to e-mail them as soon as possible to see when we can discuss
these topics (SusikMkr, Kiril and Leigh - just changed LiAnna to another
group where was Leigh, since LiAnna has been collaborating a lot with
Brazil). I need their e-mails as well and we should create a closed page to
gather all these contact.

By the way, as I talked to some of you (WMF colleagues and friends from the
movement working with education), my best experiences in sharing learnings
was when we had smaller meetings with 2 or 3 people discussing their
programs. When we had those meetings full of people when each one had only
5 to 10 minutes to speak, they seemed usually useless, mainly we need to go
deep and you had to say important things in a hurry.

Let's each other be proactive and try to set our meetings in May.

P. S. I am not sure everybody from these groups are participating of this
mailing list.

P. P. S. I will propose a similar *motto* for the international council of
local groups of Open Knowledge Foundation. Thanks again, Sophie!

Tom

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Sophie Österberg <
sophie.osterb...@wikimedia.se> wrote:

> I just did this doc, which I hope may be useful!
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pHrsPGGspOw9tVVyMxlhfJQryJhPFx3DXJy-jS1pcjI/edit?usp=sharing
>
> / sophie.
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimini, the Children's Encyclopedia has reached 10 000 articles (word cloud inside)

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>
>>>>> On this very special occasion, our aspiring encyclopedists were asked
>>>>> to
>>>>> choose 3 words that would best describe the project in their eyes. A
>>>>> word
>>>>> cloud was built using the words we had received and their frequency. I
>>>>> wanted to share it with you, so I translated it in English:
>>>>>
>>>>> ==> http://stock.wikimini.org/w/images/7/7c/EN-Wikimini_in_75_words.png
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope you'll find it interesting and inspiring.
>>>>>
>>>>> Laurent
>>>>> http://wikimini.org
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Pad of the education meeting in Milano

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Thehelpfulone
 wrote:

> The pad has been restored at
> http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/eduleadersworkshop. I've pasted a copy below
> too. Ops strongly recommend to avoiding using etherpad, it's very
> unreliable, so please use an alternative in the future.

Thanks, Thehelpfuone!

Note: I usually use this other pad server and I've never had problems
<http://okfnpad.org/>. There is another Wikimedia pad that seems more
stable, but I cannot find it now.

Since I've seen from a long time WMF pad was not that reliable, I
tended to use the OKFN one. Although I always saved on meta wiki for
archiving purposes independently of the server.

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Pad of the education meeting in Milano

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Thanks, James. Better than nothing. Although since I and others made a good
effort to take notes, it is a pity if we lost it.

I don't who to ask to solve this pad server problem. Unfortunatly when I
tried to save on meta, the Internet at the conference didn't allow it. I
was going to use the hostel Internet, which luckly is better than the
hotel, but I couldn't access the pad.


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:42 PM, James Salsman  wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
>  wrote:
> > Is Wikimedia pad server down? Yesterday I tried to access and it didn't
> > load. I was going to save on the wiki. I tried to do at the conference,
> but
> > my Internet access was not allowing me to edit wikis.
> >
> > Have someone saved it?
>
> My last version is below.
>
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Sophie Österberg
> >  wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> /Sophie
> >>
> >> (skickat ifrån en alldeles fantastisk Android)
> >>
> >> Den 18 apr 2013 09:13 skrev "Everton Zanella Alvarenga"
> >> :
> >>>
> >>> http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/eduleadersworkshop
> ...
>
> Education Program Leaders Worskhop, April 2013
> Around 35 participants.
>
> Agenda:
> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program/Education_Program_Leaders_Workshop_2013#Agenda
>
> * Rod Dunican Global Education Program Director
> **Main topics: Wikipedia and Education
> * LiAnna Davis Global Education Program Communications Manager
>
> 9:15-10:30 Introductions
> 5 minutes to introduce yourself.
>
> # Gabriel Thullen, Wikimedia CH. Professor in junior highschool.
> Students use Wikipedia and I teach them how to use it, how it works,
> how Wikipedia is a reference. Students can contribute themselves to
> understand how it works. Teacher training and explaing how teachers
> can use Wikipedia. WMF wants to know the metrics of what we do; I
> don't know. One year it can be 120 students; but students forget their
> username, password, you have difficulties to monitor the results.
> # Charles Andrès. Wikimedia CH, chair. Professor in university
> (Biology, University of Neuchâtel); teachining Wikipedia to students,
> how to use wikipedia but also how to edit wikipedia as a new suport
> for school work. The chapter Wikimedia CH is supporting Wikimini. We
> receive a lot of requests from schools and universities and we are
> planning to recruit a person to take care of it.
> # Fernanda Campagnucci. Wikimedia Brazil / Ação Educativa.
> Journalist, coordinator of the Observatory on Education - a program
> held by the NGO Ação Educativa - and researcher in education at the
> University of Sao Paulo. We are discussing with WMF to become a local
> partner; as an office and as a partner to develop joint projects. We
> have been working as an association for 20 years (advocacy, public
> policies, literacy, collaborations with schools/teachers/students). We
> identify with the Wikimedia mouvment with which we share principals.
> # Eva Lepik. Wikimedia Estonia. We just started our programme. We are
> discussing with the ministry, to see how to integrate Wikipedia in the
> Estonian education policies.
> # Daniel Mietchen (for Wiki Project Med). We are all involved in
> education: lectures in universities, collaborations with journals
> (scientific journals), collaborations with professional societes
> related to medicine.
> # Iolanda Pensa, Wikimedia Italy/Wikimedia CH. Developing projects
> with Creative Commons and Wikipedia. Wikipedia Primary School.
> # Mathias Damour, Wikimedia France. I am one of the promoter of
> Vikidia, http://vikidia.org an encyclopedia for 8-15 years old kids
> (at the moment French, Italian and Spanish). Articles are written for
> a specific target. I proposed on meta ([[m:Wikikids]]) that the
> project is recognised among the Wikimedia projects. Some people say
> that Wikipedia is too difficult for children; so vikidia can be a good
> tool for younger readers. Children provide their feedback on the
> vikidia.
> # Jeromy Yu Chan, Hong Kong. Very wide use of Wikipedia but there is
> the need to have more contributors, to better understand how Wikipedia
> works. References and footnotes are an effective way to involve
> students. Now all the volunteers in Hong Kong are trapped in the
> Wikimania organisation. Potential collaborations: Government subsidide
> programme; support for digital disadvantage students; ICT teacher
> association in the directly subsidied schools (private scate schools
> with support of the government).
> # Claudia Garad, Wikimedia Austria. Managing director at Wikimedia
> Austria. Collaboration with 

Re: [Wikimedia Education] Pad of the education meeting in Milano

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Is Wikimedia pad server down? Yesterday I tried to access and it didn't
load. I was going to save on the wiki. I tried to do at the conference, but
my Internet access was not allowing me to edit wikis.

Have someone saved it?


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Sophie Österberg <
sophie.osterb...@wikimedia.se> wrote:

> Thanks!
>
> /Sophie
>
> (skickat ifrån en alldeles fantastisk Android)
> Den 18 apr 2013 09:13 skrev "Everton Zanella Alvarenga"  >:
>
>> http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/eduleadersworkshop
>>
>> It is happening now.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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[Wikimedia Education] Some photos of the workshop in Milano

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Education_Workshop_2013

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[Wikimedia Education] Pad of the education meeting in Milano

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/eduleadersworkshop

It is happening now.

Tom

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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: Join us for Online Learning Day

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

I think there might be people here interested. Tom

-- Forwarded message --
From: Stephanie Borg Psaila 
Date: 2013/4/9
Subject: Join us for Online Learning Day
To: ig...@diplomacy.edu


Dear friends,

Have you 
registeredyet
for next week’s
*Online Learning Day*, on 17 April? No matter where you are located, we
would like to invite you to join our morning online debate. If you are
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Online Learning Day is part of the Geneva E-diplomacy
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   - opportunities and limitations of massive open online courses (MOOCs)
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The evening session will be an informal meet-up style gathering at Diplo’s
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Geneva-based providers of online learning will briefly present their
training programmes, and participants will have the opportunity to discuss
and ask questions in an informal setting. We will also hear directly from
participants who have attended some Geneva-based online learning courses.

This event is intended for anyone interested in online learning in the
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikikids/Vikidia

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi, Mathias.

I've sent your e-mail to the Brazilian volunteers. If someone if
interested, I hope they will contact you.

Tom

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Mathias Damour
 wrote:
>
> Hi, I have updated and better again the proposal:
>  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids
> It refers in particular to the 2010 /Wikimedia Study of Controversial 
> Content/.
>
> I added : 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Review_of_current_existing_wikis_akin_to_Wikikids
> and I may write a /*Wikikids/Questions and answers 
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikikids/Questions_and_answers&action=edit&redlink=1>*/
>  to anserw the questions and concerns this proposal can raise.
>
> One next step it certainly to draw up a project plan/potential 
> schedule/roadmap for a migration to WMF hosting and for the first months... 
> And to have your remarks on the proposal !


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[Wikimedia Education] SlideWiki - sharing education resources

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Hi,

a friend just shared this tool with me

*"SlideWiki aims to exploit the wisdom, creativity and productivity of the
crowd for the creation of qualitative, rich, engaging educational
content.* With
SlideWiki users can create and collaborate on slides, diagrams, assessments
and arrange this content in richly-structured course presentations."

Tt seems interesting

http://slidewiki.org/#about

An example

http://slidewiki.org/deck/1472#tree-1472-deck-1473-1-view

I'll try it on my next presentation. :)

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[Wikimedia Education] Open Education 2030: European Commission Call for Visionary Papers on the Future of Open Education Fwd: [okfn-discuss] Fwd: [OPENNESS]

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-- Forwarded message --
From: Cable Green 
Date: 26 March 2013 07:36
Subject: [OPENNESS] Open Education 2030: European Commission Call for
Visionary Papers on the Future of Open Education
To: openn...@listserv.educause.edu


In case you missed this call for papers:
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/openeducation2030/

   - (a) Lifelong Learning (Submission deadline: 31 March 2013)
   - (b) School Education (Submission deadline: 28 April 2013)
   - (c) Higher Education  (Submission deadline: 7 May 2013)

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s) about Wikipedia

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

It was not approved.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=5352785&oldid=5305686

May we could look for funding on more innovative places?

Tom

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Request for speaker in Rio De Janeiro

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Count on me, Ju. That is really cool.

Interesting she didn't hear about the Wikipedia Education Program here
in Brazil. I have actually send e-mails to people of this university
when we made an open call last June. Good learning.

I've just spoken today with another professor from Rio using Wikipedia
with 2 successful experiences, Edivaldo Santos. :)

Tom

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Oona Castro  wrote:
>
> Awesome, Martin and Juliana!
> Thank you so much!
>
> Ju, let's follow up off list to coordinate this? I think it's great to have 
> you there talking about the work it's been done, and I'm happy to provide 
> anything to support it.
>
> best
>
> Oona


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[Wikimedia Education] New member of staff for WMUK Education Fwd: [Wikimedia-l]

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Cool. :)


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Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New member of staff for WMUK Education
To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org


Hello!

Some of you may already know me, but I thought it would be good to send out
a message to this list to let everyone know that I'm a new member of staff
at Wikimedia UK working on Education matters.

A blog post announcing this can be seen here:
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/03/toni-sant-joins-wikimedia-uk-as-education-organiser/

Best regards...

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimedia Education Program

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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Lars Aronsson  wrote:

> If someone can write a petition to change
> the name from Wikimedia Foundation to
> Wikipedia Foundation, I will be the first to sign.
> Maybe the 10th anniversary of the foundation
> (June 20) could be a good target date to get
> rid of this confusing name.

If this happens, more than half of the news in Brazil would become
more precise after the name change!

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikimedia Education Program

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi, James.

That is a good idea. Actually, volunteers of the Wikimedia movement in
Brazil have just been doing that. Their mailing list is copied here. I do
think using other Wikimedia projects can bring people to Wikipedia as well
and make the movement stronger.

Wikimedia Brasil friends, please, let James know everything you have been
doing with Wikimedia Commons, Wikiversity, Wikibooks etc..

Best,

Tom

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:57 AM, James Neill  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to reach out and say hello. I'm James Neill (jtneill).
>
> I've sketched out the beginnings of an outreach project:
> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_Program
>
> which is simply to expand the Wikipedia Education Program to focus on all
> sister projects rather than just Wikipedia.
>
> Perhaps you already have something like this in mind, hence I'm touching
> base to see what you think.
>
> Sincerely,
> James
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[Wikimedia Education] Pizza, Wikipedia and Education!

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi all,

I would like to suggest a meetup soon in Milan for those interested in
the Education Program following the workshop that is going to happen
there. There will be a workshop already most of the day, then we could
have a meetup later in the night with Wikimedians from all over the
world e, naturalmente, i nostri amici italiani! :) I have made a
proposta on the talk page of the Education Workshop

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_Education_Program/Education_Program_Leaders_Workshop_2013#Pizza.2C_Wikipedia_and_Education.21

Please, if you have suggestions of places to go (pizza?! :D) to gather
lots of Wikimedians interested in education or know people who might
be interested, comment above and share this link.

Arrivederci!

Tom

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s) about Wikipedia

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Hi, Martin.

May you share with us who is this education consultant?

Tom

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Martin Poulter  wrote:
> Yes, very exciting to see progress.
>
> MOOCs are just taking off here in the UK and there's a lot of interest, a
> lot of both good and bad experiences being reported. Institutions are keen
> to get on the bandwagon. I think news of a Wikipedia MOOC would generate a
> lot of interest from the UK.
>
> One very influential education consultant told me recently that Wikimedia
> would be the ideal, credible entity to *provide* MOOCs, being
> institution-neutral and noncommerical, but as the proposal discussion notes,
> we don't really have the infrastructure ourselves yet.
>
> On 8 March 2013 00:53, Everton Zanella Alvarenga  wrote:
>>
>> Good grades for a conservative minded movement. :)
>>
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants_talk:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Courses&curid=2202378&diff=5305686&oldid=5270318
>>
>> Congrats, Sage.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Blog post from Quebec

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Agreeing with Mina, yeah, really interesting. :) We have a professor with
an interesting proposal to work with his last year high school students,
whom I put the community in touch.

I hope we will have an interesting pilot here in Brazil also.

Tom

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:41 PM, LiAnna Davis  wrote:

> Just wanted to draw your attention to this guest post from Simon
> Villeneuve, a professor from Quebec who has been teaching with Wikipedia
> since 2008! Enjoy:
>
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/07/quebec-school-project-improves-french-wikipedia/
>
> LiAnna
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s) about Wikipedia

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Good grades for a conservative minded movement. :)

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants_talk:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Courses&curid=2202378&diff=5305686&oldid=5270318

Congrats, Sage.

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[Wikimedia Education] Students for Free Culture annual conference

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Dear professors, please, let your students know. Thanks, Tom



-- Forwarded message --
From: Students for Free Culture 
Date: 2013/3/5
Subject: [FC-discuss] Register for FCX2013!
To: disc...@freeculture.org


Students for Free Culture will be having its annual conference at [New
York Law School][1] on April 20-21st!

The Students for Free Culture Conference is an annual gathering of
student and non-student activists, thinkers, and innovators who are
dedicated to advancing discussions on technology, law, and public
policy. Through panels and keynote speakers, FCX 2013 will focus on
current issues in intellectual property law, open access to educational
resources, maker culture, and technology policy. Through workshops, the
conference will revisit the core pillars of the free culture movement,
examine the success stories from our movement, and identify new ways in
which Students for Free Culture can advocate for a more free, open, and
participatory digital environment.

For more information about the conference, visit the conference
[website][2].

Registration is [open][3]!

Through the generosity of our sponsors, [Students for Free Culture][4]
is once again able to offset student travel costs for this year’s
conference in NYC. Our first priority is to provide funding to at least
one student from every active chapter in the organization – but funding
is available to _all_ student activists and leaders who would like to
attend FCX2013.

If you can’t afford the cost of traveling to NYC next month, please do
not hesitate to fill out this [form to request travel funding][5]. We
have some money and we want to give it to you.

If you have friends at schools that do not currently have an active SFC
chapter but you think they should be at the conference, please pass
along [this link][5] to them, too. Sometimes attending the conference is
just the spark that someone needs to get out there and start a new
chapter on their campus!


   [1]: https://www.google.com/maps?q=new+york+law+school&hl=en&sll=40.6
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   [2]: http://freeculture.org/feed/fcx2013.org

   [3]: http://fcx2013.eventbrite.com

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   [5]: http://bit.ly/fcx2013_travelfunding

URL: http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/03/06/register-for-fcx2013/
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Two more posts

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

That is so cool.

Congrats, LiAnna!

Tom

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:08 PM, LiAnna Davis  wrote:
> I've just published a wonderful post from Mina Theofilatou
> (User:Saintfevrier) about her project in Greece working with high school
> students to contribute photographs of the island of Kefalonia to Wikimedia
> Commons -- she has some inspiring ideas, and I encourage you to check it
> out!
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/21/education-program-greece/
>
> I also published a profile on Doaa Seif, one of our Campus Ambassadors in
> the Egypt program, which you may also be interested in:
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/20/doaa-seif-profile/
>
> Enjoy!
> LiAnna
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s) about Wikipedia

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

I am really glad to see all this and I am sure you will rock!

Tom

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Piotr Konieczny  wrote:
> Good news. I am curious if you see a synergy between the course and my Prezi
> lectures I developed?
>
> --
> Piotr
>
>
> On 2/19/2013 11:03 PM, Sage Ross wrote:
>>
>> The proposal is a little more fully baked now, and has progressed
>> considerably since my first message. Most importantly, it looks like
>> we've found a professor to head it, and we're shooting to develop the
>> content beginning in June and start the course around September, on
>> Coursera.
>>
>> The format we're looking at is one where different modules are
>> delivered by various guest lecturers with particular expertise in some
>> aspect of Wikipedia. So if there's something Wikipedia-related that
>> you're keen on sharing with a few thousand students, let me know (or
>> sign up on the grant page).
>>
>> The community discussion phase of the grants process goes on until
>> February 22, so if you'd like to see it go forward, please leave a
>> message explaining why. (Likewise, if you think it's a terrible idea,
>> now's the time to have your voice heard.)
>>
>> -Sage
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Sage Ross
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey folks! I just put up an Individual Engagement Grant proposal for
>>> an idea I've been kicking around for a while now: getting a course
>>> about Wikipedia onto one of the big 'massive open online course'
>>> systems that have been so successful lately (Coursera, Udacity, edX).
>>> Coursera classes typically have tens of thousands of students, so
>>> there's huge potential for recruiting new Wikipedians and bringing
>>> together a lot of the knowledge we've developed about teaching *about*
>>> Wikipedia.
>>>
>>> If you're interested, have a look at the proposal:
>>>
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Courses
>>>
>>> And if you have an interest in *leading* a MOOC, let's talk.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sage Ross (in a volunteer capacity)
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s) about Wikipedia

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Hi, professor Piotr.

I am really glad to see you here. I remember a few months ago when I
suggest the use of Wikipedia at Coursera or some MOOC and discussed
with Sage, I mentioned your name (because of your article on the use
of Wikipedia ; ) as a good example that could make this trial!

I hope everything will go well and we will improve and learn with
possible mistakes during these first experiments.

Tom

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Piotr Konieczny  wrote:
> All right, for those interested, you can find my Prezis at
> http://prezi.com/user/piotrus/
>
> Please note that they are still not finished! They need prettifying, inner
> slides; and such don't expect the existing slides to show you all content. I
> am certainly open to any comments - from style to missing content. Hope you
> find them useful.
>
> I expect the v.1 will be ready around summer, after I finish testing the
> beta on my spring students.


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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Massive open online course(s) about Wikipedia

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Good, Sage! Spreading your proposal to the Portuguese speakers community!

Tom

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Sage Ross  wrote:
> Hey folks! I just put up an Individual Engagement Grant proposal for
> an idea I've been kicking around for a while now: getting a course
> about Wikipedia onto one of the big 'massive open online course'
> systems that have been so successful lately (Coursera, Udacity, edX).
> Coursera classes typically have tens of thousands of students, so
> there's huge potential for recruiting new Wikipedians and bringing
> together a lot of the knowledge we've developed about teaching *about*
> Wikipedia.
>
> If you're interested, have a look at the proposal:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Courses
>
> And if you have an interest in *leading* a MOOC, let's talk.
>
> Cheers,
> Sage Ross (in a volunteer capacity)
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Post from Lila Pagola

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Most posts of LiAnna have a great history behind them. I think we
always should share here.

Who knows we begin to *discuss* education? :) It is a good start
within a plethora of possibilities.

By the way, I wonder, how many professors from the Wikipedia Education
Program do we have here? Just curiosity.

Tom

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:58 PM, LiAnna Davis  wrote:
> At Tom's urging, I'm trying to be better about sharing the posts our
> wonderful education leaders worldwide add to the WMF blog on this list. :)
>
> I have just published a post from Lila Pagola of Argentina -- many thanks,
> Lila!
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/07/creating-local-content-for-wikipedia
>
> If you're interested in contributing a post to the WMF blog on your
> education project, please let me know off-list!
>
> LiAnna
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[Wikimedia Education] We Need a New Kind of Learner

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Hi all,

I would like to share this article by Ainissa Ramirez (going to see
her TED Talk later when I have time)

* We Need a New Kind of Learner
<http://bigthink.com/experts-corner/we-need-a-new-kind-of-learner>

This reminds me when I accepted to coordinate the education program in
Brazil and why I think Wikipedia can be useful in education. In
Brazil, I think the description of professor Feynman about our
classroom is still valid [1] in a large extent. Once I gave an
interview to a French radio about Wikipedia (in 2011, a few days
before Wikimania in Gdansk) and I just mentioned these points, that
Wikipedia could be used as a potential tool for students learn how to
make research and develop their critical thinking. On the curiosity
point, I think Aaron Swartz was a great example, and I think we can
see this on his article "How to get a job like mine"
<https://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget>.

Since we have here in this list professors from a lot of places in the
world, I would love to know if you see also problems like those
pointed out in [1] on schools. Culturally, it could be interesting for
us to share these experiences and stress the global nature of the
Wikipedia Education Program.

Best,

Tom

[1] Richard Feynman on education in Brazil
http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Interested in a global meet-up?

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Hi, LiAnna.

I understood now, no problem. Even so with my misinterpretation, I
think it was interesting to send to all professors, let me know if
they will answer. Since we need to create a program self-sustainable,
I do believe we have to find professors who canI also have a
leadership role in expanding the program, like Juliana Bastos (one
example we know).

I have noticed other professors from our expansion in the second phase
of the pilot here in Brazil that could also do this, and the idea of
this meeting just made me think we should think on ways on how to
estimulate professors willing to perform this role in a national or
regional level. For instace, after the open call in Brazil and having
discovered the work of professor Yuri
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/14/professor-yuri-leite-brazil/>,
from the same state of other two professors, I believe on the
importance of forming this local network of professors so that they
can even develop their own solutions and ideas on how to expand the
program and help themselves in the local level. :)

Tom

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:49 PM, LiAnna Davis  wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> The idea behind this is that it is not necessarily for *professors* but for
> *program organizers* -- in other words, 1-2 people per country, people like
> you. :) I think generally professors have a lot to offer in the discussion
> of things like "what kinds of content students can add" or "should we work
> in sandboxes?", but we are looking for this to be a higher-level discussion
> of things like "How can we be better about documenting what we've learned in
> Egypt so that program leaders in other countries can follow what we've
> done?"
>
> I should have made this distinction clearer, sorry.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Interested in a global meet-up?

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Hi, LiAnna.

Thanks for sharing this, that is a good idea. I just sent to all
Brazilian professors of our network to sound their interest, but I
really think 24h is not enough time for they to answer, from my
experience of the time professors usually take to answer e-mails. At
least this happens with academics in Brazil, not sure how it is in
other places (in physics it is the same everywhere).

I also think most professors have no idea what a chapters meeting is,
neither what a Wikimedia chapter is. Thus, if I was a professor, I
would first wonder what is it and, since I would likely not have time
to read all pages to discover it, I would say "no" or simply do not
answer.

Then, as a suggestion, maybe try to rephrase to something like this
would be good "there will be a global meet up that happens every year
among wikimedians and we want involve professors involved in the
Wikipedia Education Program etc.".

My to cents. :)

Tom

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:23 PM, LiAnna Davis  wrote:
>
> Are you running an Education Program in your country? Do you want to start
> working with instructors and students to improve Wikipedia? Are you
> interested in helping shape a global community of program leaders to grow
> Wikipedia's use in education worldwide?
>
> We are thinking about convening an Education Program Leaders Workshop,
> where 20-30 program leaders worldwide will gather for one day to build a
> global community to share learnings and help each other overcome challenges.
> We're considering having this all-day workshop in conjunction with the
> Chapters Meeting hosted by Wikimedia Italia on April 19-21 in Milan, but
> before we finalize the details, we wanted to see if this would be a
> convenient time with enough people to make it worthwhile.
>
> If you are interested in meeting with other program leaders worldwide,
> would you take 5 minutes to fill out a quick survey?
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T-1KvPYJQwtRMauHk6Xypm733CUmB0wUi3NRZkkp3g8/viewform
>
> We need responses within 24 hours if possible so we can confirm dates.
> More information will be coming later this week.
>
> Thanks so much for your quick reply!
>
> LiAnna
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Global Wikipedia: International and cross-cultural issues in online collaboration

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On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Juliana Bastos Marques
 wrote:
> Here's a call for chapters for an incoming book. I'm very interested in
> writing something about different local education scenarios and their
> influences on the current results of the Wikipedia Education Program in two
> (or perhaps three) Global South countries. If any of you are interested in
> joining forces, please let me now (asap, since the deadline is a bit close).

I support Juliana great idea and it would be great to see people
collaborating on this.

Tom

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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Blog: Virtual Learning Environment

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-- Forwarded message --
From: Stevie Benton 
Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:41 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Blog: Virtual Learning Environment
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Hello everyone,

I hope you're having an enjoyable Friday.

I wanted to drop you a line to let you know about a blog that Wikimedia UK
published today at
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/01/virtual-learning-environment-making-good-progress/

It's about our Virtual Learning Environment, providing an update on how the
work is progressing and detailing some next steps.

I hope you find it interested and do let me know if you have any comments
or suggestions.

Thanks and regards,

Stevie

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Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).

*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal
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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia in the classroom" in Guarani language

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-- Forwarded message --
From: Osmar Valdebenito 
Date: Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:05 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia in the classroom" in Guarani language
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


This week, Wikimedia Argentina published the first edition of "Vikipetã
mbo'eha kotýpe" [1], "Wikipedia in the classroom" in Guarani, an indigenous
language spoken in Northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. It is the
first Wikipedia related publication made in an American indigenous language.

The goal of “Wikipedia in the classroom”, made originally in Spanish, is to
help teachers to understand what is Wikipedia, how it works and how they
can use it in an useful way. Most students already use Wikipedia so it is
really important that teachers know what to do.

“Wikipedia in the classroom” is an initiative launched in 2010 by Wikimedia
Argentina with the support of different institutions, including the
Education portal of the Argentine government, educ.ar. They released an
special website about the project.[2] Wikimedia Argentina will print 500
booklets of the Guarani edition to be distributed in schools and other
educational institutions, and we expect to publish new editions in other
indigenous languages in 2013.

Kind regards,

Osmar Valdebenito G.
Director Ejecutivo
A. C. Wikimedia Argentina

[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vikipet%C3%A3_mbo%27eha_kot%C3%BDpe.jpg
[2] http://wikipediaenelaula.educ.ar/
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[Wikimedia Education] Wikipedia Education Program Sweden kicks off

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http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/17/wikipedia-education-program-sweden-kicks-off/

Awesome.

Tom

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[Wikimedia Education] How college students find and use information

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See the infographic in the blog post bellow

http://blog.reyjunco.com/how-college-students-find-and-use-information-infographic

7 out of 10 students use Wikipedia, according to this reseach.

I haven't checked the details and reliability of the research.

Tom

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] How will we adapt the education program to the future of education?

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On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Sage Ross  wrote:

> I've been thinking about exactly this, and doing some preliminary planning
> with pair of Wikipedian educators. If done right, Wikipedia MOOCs could
> really move the 'active editor' needle and bring in a new generation of
> 'natural-born Wikipedians' for whom it hasn't been as easy to dive into
> Wikipedia as it was 5 years ago.
>
> At this point, it seems like Coursera is the only MOOC platform that has the
> technology to do the sorts of peer evaluation that would be necessary for
> running a Wikipedia course with thousands of students; it has a number of
> humanities and arts classes, as well as open-ended technology classes, where
> all the grading is done by peers. I've taken one class that had peer
> grading, and it was--if not smooth--at least usable for peer evaluation.
>
> Unfortunately, Coursera professors have to be at universities that are
> signed on with Coursera at the institutional level, which means that
> bureaucratic and political barriers will be in the way unless the professor
> is already at one of the participating universities.
>
> If any professors on this list have a strong interest in doing a MOOC with a
> Wikipedia component, let me know.

Awesome to have other people already thinking on that! I've started a
draft on meta for those interested in developing the idea

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course_using_Wikipedia

Best,

Tom

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[Wikimedia Education] Fwd: Online courses about Wikipedia

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Talking about adapting the education program to the future, please,
see the links bellow with the courses about Wikipedia. I've contacted
the author of the course, Max Klein. Let's see how can we improve it.
:)


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Date: Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Wmfall] Wikipedia course at Coursera? (it was WMF
Orientation: Nov 26-29, 2012)
To: Staff All , supportstaff



On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Pau Giner  wrote:
> There is a Wikipedia-related course at the P2PU community:
> https://p2pu.org/es/groups/wikipedia-aim-for-featured-article/

Wow, that is great! Thanks for sharing, Pau.

There is also this course, which is quite interesting! And even better
that P2PU uses an adequate license, differently from Coursera, which
needs to login to access its classes.

Another course in this School of Open

https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-access-wikipedia-challenge/

> This course has very few content compared to the assignment material
> prepared for the Orientation sessions.
> If the assignment material is shared with them, they will probably
> appreciate it.

We definetly should find ways to improve P2P courses remixing both
resources and talk to them. In the other course I link above, Open
Acess Wikipedia Challenge, the instructor uses a really nice software
to show him and the screen while teaching how to edit.

For the education program in Brazil we have decided to improve online
tutorials for sustainability and scalability reasons, thus that is a
first step for what we had in mind! I can talk to them later.

Tom

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] On-line education is using a flawed Creative Commons license

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Ciao, Nemo!

Thanks for pointing this out again. I saw it through the blog post of
Rufus Pollock

http://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/04/making-a-real-commons-creative-commons-should-drop-the-non-commercial-and-no-derivatives-licenses/

:)

Tom

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
 wrote:
>
> This is why some are suggesting this:
> http://freeculture.org/blog/2012/08/27/stop-the-inclusion-of-proprietary-licenses-in-creative-commons-4-0/
> (already passed on our lists).



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[Wikimedia Education] On-line education is using a flawed Creative Commons license

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 under
free/libre licenses only.

*Educators, and all those who wish to contribute to on-line educational
works: please do not to let your work be made non-free. Offer your
assistance and text to educational works that carry free/libre licenses,
preferably copyleft licenses so that all versions of the work must respect
teachers' and students' freedom. Then invite educational activities to use
and redistribute these works on that freedom-respecting basis, if they
will. Together we can make education a domain of freedom.*
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Dear professors, why not to make a video?

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Tack, Harald. I think this is also an important point and I like your idea.

>From the list I've sent, we can see only a few women (two names I've
recognized are co-workers, so that is not fair now :).

I strongly believe we need humanize more Wikipedia and I believe such
videos can help a bit with that, mainly if we find women for helping
us.

Best,

Tom

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Harald Andersson  wrote:
> This sounds good Tom,
>
> Today I had a workshop at a Swedish High School about Wikipedia, and we
> discussed some about the difference between men and women on wikipedia. In
> the same time my collegue said it would be good if we could find famous
> persons who could be "Wikipedia-embassadors" (willing to say "I am editing
> on Wikipedia"). You (and Axel on the video) have good idéas.
> What I was thinbking was that maybe we should try to find famous women who
> could say what they think about wikipedia. This would be good for all the
> women and girls who needs to find people to look at and see "They can, and
> so can I!"
>
> Best regards,
> Harald
> Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden)

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Dear professors, why not to make a video?

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P. S. as a personal comment, I remember when I was a physics student I
liked very much John Baez because of his clever contributions to
things I like to study. [1] Now I discover that his is a wikipedian!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/John_Baez

That can have a huge influence on students. Or even foster WMF plans
to make online citation simpler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=522019127

He lives now in California, according to Wikipedia. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez#External_links

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
 wrote:
> Hi, Alex.
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Axel Pettersson
>  wrote:
>
>> Also, if you haven't seen it before, have a look at this interview I did
>> last year: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel-interviews_2011.ogv
>> It might come in handy if you ever need a quote from a Nobel laureate who's
>> using Wikipedia.
>
> That is AWESOME. I didn't know it. :)
>
> You just gave me another idea. We could try to make these short
> interviews with some wikipedians with articles
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_with_articles
>
> Last semester a friend invited me to give a lecture on the Wikipedia
> Education Program at his university, the same of professor Marcelo
> Gleiser, [1] and I though it would be a great opportunity to invite
> him to the program or even make short comments about Wikipedia. Since
> he has made a program for popularizing science in a big TV news here
> in Brazil, I think that would be really good to raise awareness about
> Wikipedia and the program.
>
> Some friends from Wikimedia Brasil have made in 2010 also videos with
> Lawrence Lessig and Sergio Amadeu, the later a famous activit on
> copyright reform and free software here in Brazil:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ALessig_sobre_a_Wikipedia.ogv
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AS%C3%A9rgio_Amadeu_fala_sobre_Wikipedia.ogv
>
> We should explore more this possibility as well! I hope this semester
> in Brazil we can invite some prominent professors and make videos of
> them commenting Wikipedia articles and wikipedians learning from their
> comments and improving the articles while we debate the subject.
>
> Tom
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Gleiser
>
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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Dear professors, why not to make a video?

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Hi, Alex.

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Axel Pettersson
 wrote:

> Also, if you haven't seen it before, have a look at this interview I did
> last year: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel-interviews_2011.ogv
> It might come in handy if you ever need a quote from a Nobel laureate who's
> using Wikipedia.

That is AWESOME. I didn't know it. :)

You just gave me another idea. We could try to make these short
interviews with some wikipedians with articles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_with_articles

Last semester a friend invited me to give a lecture on the Wikipedia
Education Program at his university, the same of professor Marcelo
Gleiser, [1] and I though it would be a great opportunity to invite
him to the program or even make short comments about Wikipedia. Since
he has made a program for popularizing science in a big TV news here
in Brazil, I think that would be really good to raise awareness about
Wikipedia and the program.

Some friends from Wikimedia Brasil have made in 2010 also videos with
Lawrence Lessig and Sergio Amadeu, the later a famous activit on
copyright reform and free software here in Brazil:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ALessig_sobre_a_Wikipedia.ogv

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AS%C3%A9rgio_Amadeu_fala_sobre_Wikipedia.ogv

We should explore more this possibility as well! I hope this semester
in Brazil we can invite some prominent professors and make videos of
them commenting Wikipedia articles and wikipedians learning from their
comments and improving the articles while we debate the subject.

Tom

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[Wikimedia Education] Dear professors, why not to make a video?

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Dear professors,

I would like to invite you all to make a short video using your own
computer saying why you have joined the Wikipedia Education Program
and the benefits you have found for your students.

During my last presentations to professors around Brazil, I've started
to show these two short videos, one of professor Juliana Bastos in a
TV news, and the other of professor Pablo Ortellado I made with my
mobile:

http://noticias.cancaonova.com/noticia.php?id=285520

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Pablo_Ortellado_-_Wikipedia_na_Universidade.ogv

I can always see the positive reactions on the other professors faces.
I don't believe it needs to be too professional, just say with your
heart. I remember the first time I publish one video of professor
Juliana on my facebook, 5 professors came talk to me. I think that
would be a good way to persuade other professors on all the important
issues involved in building an free encyclopedia.

Best,

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[Wikimedia Education] How will we adapt the education program to the future of education?

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I just read this article

* College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/education/colleges-turn-to-crowd-sourcing-courses.html>

which reminded me Asimov futuristic view (1988) on self-learning and Internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI5NKP1y6Ng (REALLY inspiring)

Some food for thought. :)

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[Wikimedia Education] Pilot comparing Wikipedia with other encyclopedias in English, Spanish and Arabic

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Hi all,

a really interesting pilot

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/02/seven-years-after-nature-pilot-study-compares-wikipedia-favorably-to-other-encyclopedias-in-three-languages/

I don't have time for reading the fulll report[1], but it must be
worth. I still want understand how were these 22 articles of the
studied sample choosen.

Best,

Tom

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EPIC_Oxford_report.pdf

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[Wikimedia Education] How professors are teaching with Wikipedia

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An interesting case studies brochure

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Education_Program_Case_Studies.pdf

In wiki format

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Case_Studies

Congrats for all people involved to have this good document done.

Tom

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[Wikimedia Education] The future of WEP in US and Canada

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Interesting thread!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors#The_future_of_our_program

This is the main challenge in my opinion for the second semester for
WEP in Brazil, multiply the number of ambassadors -  there is some
progress here in the pilot. To convince professors on the importance
and need of this program after showing successful cases seems easier
than to have enough campus ambassadors for the demand. A key step of
the project when we are thinking about expanding in any place.

Tom

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[Wikimedia Education] Program name: Wikipedia vs. Global Education

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

I have a question:

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_Education_Program#Program_name:_Global_vs_Wikipedia_Education

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[Wikimedia Education] Bringing academia to Wikimedia projects and events (it was Education Digest, Vol 10, Issue 3)

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

(Adapting the subject to an adequate one)

Hi all,

this is a very important issue and we all involved in the global
efforts to involve universities to improve Wikipedia - and, if I may
add, raise awareness on the Wikimedia movement, which we could go
deep, but let's retrict ourselves to the apparently solely goal at the
moment.

Wikimania is far from an academic event. Fact. Only a few academics
would be interested in attending to it or, if they would be
interested, would have time for it. Fact.

The first time I've heard about Wikimania was during my masters
studies, in 2005. I was already somewhat involved with Wikipedia, but
even as a masters student, I would never think about going to what
I've read at that time what is this event about. Instead I would go to
a summer school (as I did in a previous year) or an academic
conference that would be regarded by funding agencies. This is the
view of a MS student, you can imagine a researcher who has to give
number of papers/conferences/books and so on to survive inside the
academic world (well, the well know publish or perish
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish_or_perish>)

Frank has asked me to see with the five professors in Brazil who
joined the Wikipedia Education Program if they would be interested in
a meeting in the mid of the semester to share their, his and
ambassadors experiences with the program. I've asked three of them
until now (one is Juliana who raised the subject we are discussing
here, who already gave the nice idea to transform the event in an
academic meeting) and my feeling is that they will attend when they
have time, which is not that much - waiting other professors answers
and reactions to Juliana's proposal.

I don't know very much about Wikipedia Academy
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Academy> and I'd love to
hear more details about it and if it's aligned to the purpose of
bringing attention of the academic world to Wikimedia projects, not
only as a research field (indeed, a very interesting one, as Benkler
teach us, for instance), but maybe as a source of inspiration from
interesting peer production process that academia has a lot to learn -
I believe that in a ideal world, if most forms of knowledge was freely
shared, raw reserarch data, for instance [1], the processos of
building new knowledge would be much faster (this is far from
happening, if it will).

I belive that professors joining these global education efforts are
usually those commited to education. Those I've choose are.* I thnk
one way to bring more attention from academia would be to invest more
thoughts (I am not saying it was not invested) on how would
professors, key figures in this program, together. The program is
expanding now. How will professors, with such scarce time, share their
experiences and how would they benefit from it?

I believe those are a few and important challenges to make the program
expand inside academia.

Best,

Tom

*Besides most public universities in Brazil have education as one of
their pillars, research comes first. I've seen a lot of professors who
produce amazing educational resources, but they are treated in the
same way as those professors who simply copy and paste American or
European books on the blockboard, instead of using some of their time
to do what is written in the contract with the institution he or she
works.

[1] http://pantonprinciples.org/

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Bart  wrote:
> In other words, for academics to take it seriously (ask for time off,
> volunteer time to write a paper, spend money to travel out there, stay
> at a hotel, eat, etc.), it has to be run like a "real" academic
> conference.  I could go present a topic and speak for an hour at my
> local Rotary club (and I have), but it's not really going to mean much
> professionally and I wouldn't be putting it on either my resume or
> curriculum vitae.  Presenting a topic in a somewhat competitive forum
> where the speakers are vetted and the presentation topics have
> generally been run through some basic fact checking to make sure
> they're not complete bunkum would be something of a "feather in my
> cap", something that I would definitely put down on at least my
> curriculum vitae.
>
> So, the question should be, is Wikimania a "real" academic conference,
> or a fan convention (or both)?  I'd argue that, in its current state,
> Wikimania is basically a fan convention, designed as a big
> meet-and-greet for Wikipedia editors, with some presentations given
> that likely haven't been put up against any sort of test other than
> "It's not Time Cube, right?"  That's cool, I enjoy fun conventions,
> but it's going to be difficult to attract "serious" academics to come
> as presenters.
>
> Bart User:Banaticus


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[Wikimedia Education] Why are we using Webex?

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi,

I've just asked this here

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_Education_Program_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting#Why_are_we_using_Webex.3F

Any input you'll be appreciated. Thanks,

tom

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Youtube for schools and ambassadors program

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi, Jessie.

2012/1/3 Jessie Wild :

> I would recommend that you feel free to make the channel, if you so desire.
> But I suppose it might be worthwhile reaching out to the social media group
> to see if something like that exists (CC'd here) already?

Thanks for that. How can I join thi social media mailing list? I
couldn't find it here

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Hug,

Tom

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Wikipedia Ambassadors, Wikiversity and possibility other WMF projects

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi, Andrew.

Em 25/12/2011 00:41, "Andrew Owens"  escreveu:
>
> I'm an educator and tried to get involved with Wikiversity, but almost
anything I looked at in my home area was complete but chronically
sub-standard, focused away from the needs of my students, and it was not in
any way clear how I could contribute or what was acceptable or
unacceptable. In the end I simply gave up - there are others doing the same
sort of thing much better (eg WikiEducator). I've heard similar stories
from many other educators across a range of fields.

May you, please, show me the Wikiversity page where you have tried that?

I havent't thought about WikiEducator, that's a good idea to analyse,
thanks to remeber! I'll see if we have a community there in Portuguese as
well.

My impression: Wikiversity -> too horizontal. WikiEducator -> the
tradiciontal hierarchy.  Besides that, it seems [[user:solstag]] has been
using pt.wikiversity succefully on a course on cultural centers and
universities here in Brazil.

At least in Brazil, if you let students on a place where they can do
anything, they will do nothing. For instance, at wiki.stoa.usp.br, a wiki
platform, integrated with Moodle and Elgg, for the University of São Paulo
community, was succefully used by a professor of the school of
communication and arts. Students just did what the professor said they to
do and they had very specific tasks.

Thanks,

Tom
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[Wikimedia Education] Wikipedia Ambassadors, Wikiversity and possibility other WMF projects

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi all,

I'd like to point out a discussion I've just started on Wikiversity
asking if they are using this project as part of the Wikipedia
ambassadors program

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#Wikiversity_and_Wikipedia_Ambassadors_program

and ask you if you know of any other Wikimedia Foundation project,
beyond Wikipedia, involved in the Ambassadors program. If some case
you know to tell us is not in English or some Romanic language, I'd
like to read your experience about it.

Also, a short comment bellow about a point of Juan's nice description
(thanks!) about Czech Republic situation of its educational sector.

2011/12/19 Juan de Vojníkov :

> Other "problems" comes when newbies coming to the Czech Wikipedia. There is
> a luck of mentors for them and they have to face both technical (wikisyntax,
> templates, standards) and social problems (unpleasant users, lack of social
> interaction, just templates on their discussion page). Thus we have agreed
> to focus on setting up some features from en.wp such gadget Cite[2] or
> Wikilove. At this time User:Vojtech.dostal comes up with the information
> that Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) developers is close to WYSIWYG editor for
> Wikipedia, but user Chmee2 is afraid that most of the good tools from WMF
> might be reject by the local community.

What about using Wikiversity in Czech  for
these social problems you mention? I've seen similar comments on
Wikiversity to be more hospitable than Wikipedia (see, for instance,
the last note in blue here ), from volunteers
of both English and Portuguese languages projects.

Best wishes,

Tom

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[Wikimedia Education] Youtube for schools and ambassadors program

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Hi,

I've just discovered this YouTube for Schools
 and saw a easy way to navigate on
educational videos  on this popular
video site. I was wondering if wouldn't be good to have a channel just
for the ambassadors program, such as the Stanford channel
, TED  or
even WMF ? It can be a
useful too to penetrate on schools.

I've started making some videos [1] with professor Juliana Bastos and
I believe it's very appealing to other professors to see such videos -
when I posted them on my facebook, some professors of my network have
already become interested.

I believe videos with interviews of ambassadors, mainly the most
motivated, would also be good to attract other ambassadors.

Do we already have a central place where I can find videos of
professors in other countries involved with the ambassadors program?

Best wishes,

Tom

[1] In Portuguese

Juliana Bastos sobre embaixadores da Wikipédia (sorry for the wind)
http://youtu.be/sSoxiGwoWQ0

Embaixadores da Wikipédia no debate sobre Recursos Educacionais Abertos
http://youtu.be/WosEVULbU2A

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Re: [Wikimedia Education] Getting together to coordinate university outreach activities

[Everton Zanella Alvarenga]

Hi,

I've just signed the list. Have you decided which technology are we
going to use? An IRC channel? For the number of atendees, it seems the
better one...

Best,

Tom

2011/10/5 Frank Schulenburg :
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to invite you to the first "Global Education Program Metrics and 
> Activities" meeting on October 25, 2011. The meeting is a monthly gathering 
> of people interested in the global Wikimedia outreach activities at 
> educational institutions. First and foremost the meeting aims at sharing our 
> experiences in the field of university outreach. We want to ensure that best 
> practices and lessons learned get shared across different countries.
>
> More information:
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/05/measuring-and-coordinating-wikipedias-university-outreach-the-wikipedia-way/
>
> Sign up for October 25:
> http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Education_Program_Metrics_and_Activities_Meeting
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank

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