Project goal

The Wikipedia course for Igbo language lecturers and students in Alvan Ikoku College of education project will teach them how to use Wikimedia projects as a teaching tool to empower their students to add open educational resources in the Igbo language, as well as add content about Igbos and their culture.

This project will improve the quality of education in the Linguistic department, empower the students and lecturers to be digitally literate and also make knowledge available in the Igbo language for people that are not fortunate to acquire formal education to access knowledge relevant to them.

Project Plan/Strategy

Working with the Wikimedia community on my education project

Designing a strategy to engage the Wikimedia community in our education project

Wikipedia course for Igbo language lecturers in Alvan Ikoku College of education.

The Wikipedia course for Igbo language lecturers in Alvan Ikoku College of Education is a project that will aim at teaching the linguists the following:

how to use Wikipedia to add content
how they can harness it to benefit their students in terms of writing articles, doing research and adding educational content in the Igbo Wikipedia, about their culture and study.

The Wikimedia community to engage with:

I will engage with the Igbo Wikimedians User Group to execute this project

My purpose in engaging with the community:

*To collaborate with them and help facilitate the project.

*To mentor new members of the community.

*To Add their opinion and contributions about the project for a better outcome.

What to do before the education project starts:

*Finalise the event space, dates and time for the pieces of training with the school personnel in charge.

*Create my project page on meta and project dashboard.

*Contact people from the community who have shown interest to facilitate the project.

*Create online flyers for the project and post them in social media platforms.

*Send a program schedule checklist to the school and run it with the personnel in charge to ensure that everything needed for the training is sorted out.

*Prepare survey forms for participants feedback during the event.

What to do while my education project is developing:

*Show participants how to communicate with other Wikipedians online and how to ask for help.

*Collect data and Take surveys for every session.

What to do after the education project is completed:

*Thank the participants through an email or chat group created.

*Analyse and Evaluate the success of the project.

*Write my report to capture the targeted and achieved outcomes and include any additional relevant information about the project.

*Share the result of the project with the Igbo community and blog about it on Wikimedia space and other outreach engagement platforms.

*Follow up on participants and update and motivate them with information about projects and opportunities in the movement.

Problem Tree

The surprising thing is this process helped me understand the assumptions made that need to be sorted out, as well as highlighting possible ways to resolve those assumptions.

What was the most challenging thing about this process?

My brainstorming on the effects of the problems was a bit difficult.

Logic Model

What was something surprising you discovered through this process?

This process helped me improve my project expectations and also eliminated some assumptions.

What was the most challenging thing about this process? The most challenging thing is turning my effects on impacts.

Stakeholders Analysis

You can find my stakeholder analysis here

Budget

Wikipedia course for Igbo language lecturers and students.					Project Duration: 6 Months July 2020 to December 2020
Expense type	Activity	Quantity/ number of Events	Unit cost	Total (Naira)	Total (USD)	Notes
Media and Advert
Media, Advert and Stationaries.	Designing & printing (contractor)	2	60000	120000	332.4099723	Designing and printing roll up banner
			80000	80000	221.6066482	Production of Registration materials and stationaries
		60	2900	174000	481.9944598	Printing completion certificates
		3	35000	105000	290.8587258	Covering of event by media houses
	Media coverage (contractor)		65000	65000	180.0554017	Photography
Total Media, Advert and Stationaries.				544000	1506.925208

Snacks
	Educationist workshop	1	65000	65000	180.0554017	Snacks and beverage for participants
Snacks	Students workshop	1	65000	65000	180.0554017	Snacks and beverage for participants
	Closing/Graduation ceremony (Also winners of contest announcement)	1	100000	100000	277.0083102	Snacks and beverage for participants
Total Snacks				230000	637.1191136

Travels/Transport
			120000	120000	332.4099723	Travels for Project Managers
Travels /Transport	Travels/Transport	5	20000	100000	277.0083102	Transport/Facilitation stipend for Volunteers
Total Travels/Transport				220000	609.4182825

Logistics
	Equipment rental	3	45000	135000	373.9612188	Computers for training
				120000	332.4099723	Prices for the Winning team of the contest.
		3	7000	21000	58.17174515	Hiring of projector
		3	6000	18000	49.86149584	Hiring of projector board
Logistics	Internet	3	25000	75000	207.7562327	Internet connection fees for the training rooms (monthly subscription)
				20000	55.40166205	Internet fee for pre-event cordinations
				40000	110.8033241	Internet for post-event (for report writing, evaluation, etc.
Total Logistics				429000	1188.365651

Project Management
Project Management	Fee		0	250000	692.5207756	Fee for Project Management
Contingency
Contingency (10%)				167300	463.434903
Grand Total				1840300	5097.783934

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

Monitoring matrix

Outcomes (Objectives)	Indicators	Data collection method	Timing	Owner
Design an interesting and practical course/module for the teachers on how to use Wikipedia as a learning and teaching tool as well as train them.	1. How many participants can explain how they can use Igbo Wikipedia. 2. The number of participants that added or edited an article in Igbo Wikipedia.	1. Questionnaires and Interview 2. Use the project outreach dashboard page that keeps the log of all participants editing activities during the project.	After the two series of training for teachers and students. During the contest and the edit-a-thon	Project team
To harness community members skills to achieve an impactful project as well as extend our community to include more educationists and students.	The number of participants that added their usernames to our membership page on meta.	1. New membership list or form. 2. The User Group’s membership page on meta.	After:- 1. The series of training 2. The contests and the Edit-a-thons.	Volunteers

Evaluation Plan

Evaluation plan
Logic model	Evaluation questions	Indicators of success	Data collection method	When?
Impact (long term impact)
- Have empowered teachers and students with the skills and devices needed to access OERs and edit Wikipedia.	1. Did the project empower the College educationists and students with the skills of contributing content to Igbo Wikipedia?	60% of project participants added content to Igbo Wikipedia.	1. The project Outreach dashboard.	After the series of trainings and contest.
	2. How many articles did they add or edit?		2. The User contribution logs in Igbo Wikipedia.
- Increased community engagement and collaboration skills among volunteers In the User Group and expand to have Wikiclubs in institutions of learning.	1. What skills did the community members that volunteered learn?	50% of volunteers learnt a new skill.	1. Questionnaires/ Survey	3 weeks after project completion.
	2. Are there participants of the Education project that are currently members of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group.	40% of participants joined the Igbo Wiki User Group	2. User Group’s website
Objectives (short term and intermediate-term outcomes)
- Design an exciting and practical course/module for the teachers on how to use Wikipedia as a learning and teaching tool, train them.	1. On a scale of 1 to 10, how interesting and practical was the training?	60% of trainees chose scale 6 and above to the question of “How interesting and practical the training was”	1. Questionnaire/Survey	After the 4 series of training for Educationists and Students.
	2. Can the Educationists teach their students subsequently how to use Wikipedia and give them assignments to add content in Wikipedia?	50% Educationists that participated in the training admitted that they can give their students assignments that required editing Igbo Wikipedia.	2. Interviews	During the graduation ceremony, after the series of training and contest.
To harness community members skills to achieve an impactful project as well as extend our community to include more educationists and students.	Did members of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group take part in the project? If yes, in what capacity?	Five number of volunteers and above from the Igbo Wiki UG volunteered in different capacity during the project.	1. Volunteer forms	A month after the project completion.
			2. Interview with the Volunteers.

Problem statement/Advocacy message

Statement

Igbo language and culture is our identity; Our history, culture and language should not disappear. It should be documented and freely accessed by anyone. Also, the less privileged in the remote areas of Igboland should know about the world and be literate through access to all forms of knowledge in Igbo, the language they understand.

Evidence

The Igbo Wikipedia has approximately 1500 articles, and most of them are biographies, which does not sum up the world knowledge, neither does it reflect our history and culture. Also, it is predicted by UNESCO that the Igbo language will go into extinction in the year 2050 if we don't embrace our language and culture.

Example

The Igbo Wikimedians User Group, an affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation is making efforts to promote Igbo language and culture through projects targeted at adding content in Wikimedia platforms to provide Online Educational Resources in the Igbo language.

Action Desired

So as educationists and students in Igbo language discipline. We must learn how we can harness Online Educational Resources (OERs) as well as contribute to OERs using the Igbo Wikipedia as our platform.