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Wikimedia Education Pre-Conference 7th August 2014, Barbican

Session 1 =Education Pre-Conference/Education Programmes: Organisations and Practice= http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Pre-Conference/Education_Programmes:_Organisations_and_Practice

Oona Castro

 * education programme in brazil
 * started 2011
 * wmf brazilian catalyst program
 * universities:
 * wikipedians and proffessors
 * (wikipedia concerns are different to education concenrs)
 * schools: worked off line to improve an articel and teacher updates page
 * free knowledge and human rights course
 * not retining editors through training... want top retain proffesors as they continue with their students
 * higher retention through editorthons by grpoups eg feminist group

Jami Matthewson

 * (not a wikipedian - employed by wmf)
 * usa
 * started 2010
 * wmf
 * outreach to universities
 * providing a link between wikipedians and educators...gap
 * outside funding... alot of funding available for wikipedia education..???
 * - statten foundation funding for first year - can't talk about corporate funding
 * ford foundation funding "diversity" in brazil
 * wikied aim to retain professors not students (not interested in student retention)- student work improves more - less work to *support a professor
 * turning editors into ambasadors

Filip Maljkovic

 * serbia
 * started 2005 - no money for 5-6 years
 * got 1st employee 2 or so years ago
 * scrum = agile organising technique - used for lessons...

Heinz

 * austria
 * german speaking wikipedia -
 * 9/10 wikipedians leave v quickly
 * community is not very friendl,y noobies ha
 * created a simplified regional wikipedia (regiowiki) - friendly - everyone gets a mentor
 * 800 students in schools all over austria - lectureers at univs
 * aim: to find editors - learning to edit
 * standard of wikipedia is too high?
 * we have to change the way we work together


 * ????ip editors (without account) ??????

their position is that ip editors should not be allowed to suggest articles for deletion told of how all school ip addresses were blocked for 1 year!!!! agreed in need for change in attitude towards how naked ip edits are handled...
 * spoke to beppo later at german wikipedia meetup at william blake pub:


 * also reminded of heinz regiowiki.at (See above)


 * difference between new and more established groups?
 * egypt - good editor retention

Other
eduwiki - scotland in november education.wikipedia.org

Charles Matthews

 * moodle vle - 400 quizzes
 * can use these outside using wikilab tool using wikicode

=wikipedia education program=

university faculty members assign to coursework in usa - grown to 60 countries

outcomes:

 * 1) writing skills
 * 2) research skills
 * 3) media literacy
 * 4) critical thinking
 * 5) collaboration

Timetable
13:30-14:00 About	the	Wikipedia	Education	Program

14:00-14:30 Lightning	talks	from	others	in	the	room

14:30-14:45 Support	materials	available	from	the	Wikimedia	Foundation

14:45-15:00 Break

15:00-15:20 Case	studies	of	using	Wikipedia	as	a	teaching	tool

15:20-16:00 Workshop:	Create	Wikipedia	assignment	for	your	class

16:00-16:30 Present	your	assignment	to	the group

16:30-17:00 Wrap-up:	Additional	questions,	pluses	and	deltas

syria
wikipedia is blocked

spanish
teacher training for secondary http://eduwiki.me resources in spanish to teach how to use wikipedia

egypt
increading content on wp and arabic content on web training teachers

bulgaria
started a uni course on wikipedia in 2010 tried to have programming in it too given 3 times a year 200 students a year? only 1% active long term (1 was the brother of a student!) creating multimedia translating templates/ articles/ file names... how to mark/grade??? test

wikimedia foundation resources
education.wikimendia.org

writing an article: syllabus booklet - 12 week assignment to write a wikipedia article

NAACE
drew at buddie.plus.com

Conference in nottingham 25-26/3/15

OER Links

 * School of Open: schoolofopen.org


 * Open Africa: http://schoolofopen.p2pu.org/school-of-open-africa-to-launch-in-september/


 * Open knowledge / open Education:http://education.okfn.org/
 * Mailing list: https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-education/