Education/Newsletter/March 2018

This Month in Education

Volume 7 | Issue 3 | March 2018

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

Featured Topic

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Education Programs Itinerary

A short guide for new Education Program leaders is up for discussion. Please comment and improve! read more...

From the Community

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Animated science educational videos in Basque for secondary school students

The Education Program in the Basque Wikipedia has secured a commitment to release a considerable number of video licenses, including those put together by the Elhuyar Foundation. We have uploaded over 32 animation clips devised for the scientific series Teknopolis, and we are now working on embedding them in the relevant different articles. This series aired in a Basque public channel is the first one to be released on a Creative Commons license. read more...

Beirut WikiClub: Wikijourney that has enriched our experiences

This is an inspirational story of a teacher who could gather her students around the idea of Wikipedia. read more...

Students of the Faculty of Biology in Belgrade edit Wikipedia for the first time

Within the Center for Scientific and research work at the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, a workshop on editing Wikipedia was organized for the first time. read more...

The role of Wikipedia in education - Examples from the Wiki Education Foundation

Teaching critical thinking, digital literacy, and academic writing with Wikipedia with resources from the Wiki Education Foundation. read more...

Multilingual resource for Open education projects

Take the opportunity to reuse and adapt this open resource for planning and communicating OER-projects. read more...

Educational projects on Wikipedia: examples of curricular integration in Portugal

Wikipedia, an open educational resource (OER) par excellence, can and should be integrated curricularly into elementary or basic education and higher education. read more...

From the Education Team

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Resources and Tips to engage with Educators