Education/Newsletter/October 2014/Highlights
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Israel
9th grade students in Be'er Sheva, Israel conclude a year-long project on Wikipedia
9th grade students in Be'er Sheva, Israel write Wikipedia articles about their city and region to strengthen their sense of belonging and responsibility. (read more→)
Greece
Greek university giving credit for translation of Wikipedia articles
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki students in a postgraduate course will translate Wikipedia articles from Italian to Greek for academic credit. (read more→)
Greece
Wikipedia in Secondary and Adult Education: presentation at CIE2014 in Corfu, Greece
Three educators demonstrate how Wikipedia editing in adult education settings can generate interesting content while boosting self-confidence of learners. (read more→)
Catalonia
Education Program Extension enabled on Catalan Wikipedia
Catalan Wikipedia becomes the 13th Wikipedia to enable the Education Program MediaWiki extension. (read more→)
Sweden
Swedish teacher wins national award for teaching with Wikimedia projects
Teacher awarded with national honorary prize for using Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. (read more→)
Serbia & Hungary
Wikicamp 2014 in Serbia and Hungary brings chapters together
Three days, two countries, and many highly-motivated participants, resulted in hundreds of photographs and 32 articles. (read more→)
Global
Data Collection Round II has started: be part
WMF data collection continues through November 3. Education program leaders urged to report program impacts. (read more→)
Ukraine
Education Program Extension enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia
Ukrainian Wikipedia becomes the 12th Wikipedia to enable the Education Program MediaWiki extension. (read more→)
Global
Articles of interest in other publications: Poland, Philippines, United States, WikiProject Medicine, Jimmy Wales, and more
Worldwide media coverage of Wikimedia projects in education. (read more→)
Mexico
New classes and activities at Tec de Monterrey
Eight classes, video documentation, over 1000 photos and a photo contest at Tec de Monterrey. (read more→)
Bulgaria
Bulgarian college students will explore Wikipedia in a new lecture course on "New Media and Participatory Culture"
Bulgarian university offers a Wikipedia research course. (read more→)
Bulgaria
Bulgarian college teachers "became nodes" in the Wikipedia Network
Bulgarian telecommunications professors learn about the network aspects of Wikipedia. (read more→)
Netherlands
Education Program Extension enabled on Dutch Wikipedia
Dutch Wikipedia becomes the 11th Wikipedia to enable the Education Program MediaWiki extension. (read more→)