Hi Tom, The idea behind this is that it is not necessarily for *professors* but for *program organizers* -- in other words, 1-2 people per country, people like you. :) I think generally professors have a lot to offer in the discussion of things like "what kinds of content students can add" or "should we work in sandboxes?", but we are looking for this to be a higher-level discussion of things like "How can we be better about documenting what we've learned in Egypt so that program leaders in other countries can follow what we've done?"
I should have made this distinction clearer, sorry. LiAnna On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, LiAnna. > > Thanks for sharing this, that is a good idea. I just sent to all > Brazilian professors of our network to sound their interest, but I > really think 24h is not enough time for they to answer, from my > experience of the time professors usually take to answer e-mails. At > least this happens with academics in Brazil, not sure how it is in > other places (in physics it is the same everywhere). > > I also think most professors have no idea what a chapters meeting is, > neither what a Wikimedia chapter is. Thus, if I was a professor, I > would first wonder what is it and, since I would likely not have time > to read all pages to discover it, I would say "no" or simply do not > answer. > > Then, as a suggestion, maybe try to rephrase to something like this > would be good "there will be a global meet up that happens every year > among wikimedians and we want involve professors involved in the > Wikipedia Education Program etc.". > > My to cents. :) > > Tom > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:23 PM, LiAnna Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Are you running an Education Program in your country? Do you want to > start > > working with instructors and students to improve Wikipedia? Are you > > interested in helping shape a global community of program leaders to grow > > Wikipedia's use in education worldwide? > > > > We are thinking about convening an Education Program Leaders Workshop, > > where 20-30 program leaders worldwide will gather for one day to build a > > global community to share learnings and help each other overcome > challenges. > > We're considering having this all-day workshop in conjunction with the > > Chapters Meeting hosted by Wikimedia Italia on April 19-21 in Milan, but > > before we finalize the details, we wanted to see if this would be a > > convenient time with enough people to make it worthwhile. > > > > If you are interested in meeting with other program leaders worldwide, > > would you take 5 minutes to fill out a quick survey? > > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T-1KvPYJQwtRMauHk6Xypm733CUmB0wUi3NRZkkp3g8/viewform > > > > We need responses within 24 hours if possible so we can confirm dates. > > More information will be coming later this week. > > > > Thanks so much for your quick reply! > > > > LiAnna > > > > > > -- > > LiAnna Davis > > Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager > > Wikimedia Foundation > > http://education.wikimedia.org > > (415) 839-6885 x6649 > > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Education mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > > > -- > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) > "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful > than a life spent doing nothing." > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 x6649 [email protected]
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