Hello all and thanks for signing up.
I have been emailing a lot behind the scenes about September's EduWiki
conference. It is looking like we'll have international involvement,
various different ways in which Wikimedia projects and wikis are being
used for education, and a session or strand on schools. The booking
forms will go online at any moment. If you book but subsequently
give a presentation or run a session, your conference fee will be
refunded.
Jimmy Wales is not likely to be available for the conference, for
understandable reasons which I'm not sure if I can make public. He's
supportive of the project, though, and I hope to get a supportive quote
that we can use in publicity.
Speaking of publicity, there are two areas where I could do with your
help. Firstly, I'm looking for recommendations for events and
conferences at which we can publicise EduWiki, for example by sending
some flyers.
I have been working on leaflets about Wikimedia for scientists and
for arts and humanities academics. These will be printed in time for the
conference and I've been thinking of doing a third one, for educators,
based on the education strategy which is still in progress.
So from the participants here who are educators, I'd like to know; what
is the main point that encouraged you to consider working with
Wikipedia, or in fact to sign up to this list?
Was it the idea of Wikimedia projects being free and open? The
information literacy/ critical thinking angle? Giving learners an
experience of publication? Wikipedia as a way to teach good scholarly
habits such as neutrality and reliable sourcing?
Answers welcome at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_for_Educators
or, if you're reluctant to lose your wiki-virginity, in email.
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Dr Martin L Poulter
ICT Manager, The Economics Network http://economicsnetwork.ac.uk/
Wikipedia contributor http://enwp.org/User:MartinPoulter
Volunteer, Wikimedia UK http://uk.wikimedia.org/
EduWiki Conference, 5-6 September 2012, University of Leicester
http://bit.ly/eduwiki
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