Education/Newsletter/June 2015/Highlights
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Uruguay
A Wikipedia project in foreign languages receives a teaching award in Uruguay
Wikipedia as a Learning Community in Foreign Languages Project received a teaching award in Uruguay. (read more→)
Hong Kong
The First Wikipedia Education Program in Hong Kong
Wikimedia Hong Kong is working on the very first Wikipedia Education Program. (read more→)
Greece
Greek adult school graduates learn to edit Wikipedia and inspire their peers
Greek adult school graduates learned to edit Wikipedia and in so doing inspired their peers. (read more→)
Mexico
New video tutorial for Commons created by students
Wiki Learning- Tec de Monterrey students create a video tutorial for uploading into Commons. (read more→)
Swededn
Mid-year Summary from the Wikipedia Education Program in Sweden
Sweden Education Program was able to recruit new students who added massive content to Wikimedia Projects in Spring 2015. (read more→)
Media
Articles of interest in other publications
Education news from Uk, India, Palestine and other countries collected from different publications around the World (read more→)
Argentina
Argentina contributes to a massive cross-border course of free knowledge in Spanish-speaking countries
Argentina joins the efforts of more than 300 educators around the world in a course aiming at raising the the awareness toward Wikipedia in Education. (read more→)
Israel
Education Program Extension enabled on Hebrew Wiktionary
Hebrew Wiktionary enables the Education Program Extension and becomes the first Wiktionary project to request it. (read more→)
Global
New recognition certificates for program students, teachers and leaders
Education Collaborative members develop easy-to-use templates for recognition certificates. (read more→)
Armenia
Wikimedia Armenia New Office, Annual Conference, and WikiCamp 2015l
Wikimedia Armenia opens their new office in Yerevan, hosts their Annual Conference, and kicks off WikiCamp 2015 (read more→)