Education/Newsletter/December 2017
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Volume 6 | Issue 11 | December 2017
This monthly newsletter showcases the Wikipedia Education Program. It focuses on sharing: your ideas, stories, success and challenges. You can see past editions here. You can also volunteer to help publish the newsletter. Join the team! Finally, don't forget to subscribe!
In This Issue
From the Community
In November, Wikimedia Serbia established а cooperation with the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Belgrade and Teacher Education Faculty of the University of Belgrade, which had not previously been included in the Wikipedia Education Program. read more...
A few updates on what is being improved in the Programs & Events Dashboard (you know, the tool you need for all your editathons, training, indicators for reports and such). read more...
Wiki Camp Berovo 2017 took place on the weekend of 15-17 December 2017, in Berovo, Republic of Macedonia. The participants were 55 underage students from 10 different schools all over Macedonia. As a result: two new Wiki Clubs were started and more than 200 new articles were created. read more...
WM User Group Greece organises Wikipedia e-School for Educators for second time this January. read more...
CorfuPedia, a school project with the main purpose of introducing students to Wikipedia, via creating new articles about the local history of the island of Corfu, was organised in cooperation with Wikimedia Community User Group Greece. read more...
TUMO center in Stepanakert has proposed to the Stepanakert WikiClub Coordinator Irina Safaryan to manage the Wikipedia learning lab for 10 TUMO students. read more...
Wikimedia Switzerland has participated to the second edition of "Media in Piazza" (Media on stage) organized by the Faculty of Pedagogy of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) experimenting a virtual treasure hunt as a "gamification" of Wikimedia projects. The format has been successful and the feedback of the teachers has reported a high level of appreciation. read more...
From the Education Team
Main points from sessions attended at the BETT 2017 Leadership Summit, and a full text response to the questions asked during the panel "Creating digitally minded educators". read more...
In the News
Jake Orlowitz shares a series of links that make very strong cases for the use of Wikipedia in Education. Definitely worth sharing with that teacher that says that "Wikipedia doesn't belong in education". read more...
On June 18, 2018, at Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland: “Academia and Wikipedia: Critical Perspectives in Education and Research” is a one-day conference that aims to investigate how researchers and educators use and interrogate Wikipedia. The conference is an opportunity to present research into and from Wikipedia; research about Wikipedia, or research that uses Wikipedia as a data object. We welcome proposals from scholars (advanced postgraduates, early career faculty, and senior faculty) in all fields who use Wikipedia in the classroom or tap it as a primary source. Submissions are open until February 28. read more...
A one hour video of the presentation (at Harvard, by an MIT professor) of the paper "Science Is Shaped by Wikipedia: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial" which demonstrates there is causation between contents available on Wikipedia and science development. Please share it to every phd program manager you talk to. read more...
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