Dear Laura,
I never really thought about having an education program on Wikinews but it
just seems like a wonderful idea. I can envision a university project during a
class for young journalists. Each week, one student writes a Wikinews article
on what he thinks is the most important news of the week. This could be a
refreshing way of recruiting new contributors to sister projects :-).
I will share your project page with colleagues from the Czech community to see
if anyone would be interested in something similar to this. Alas, I don't know
any potential class from the English-speaking world.
thanks for inspiration,
cheers
Vojtech Dostal, WMCZ
(http://studenti.wikimedia.cz)
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Vojtěch Dostál
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Od: Laura Hale <[email protected]>
Komu: Wikimedia Education <[email protected]>
Datum: 27.09.2013 22:18
Předmět: [Wikimedia Education] English Wikinews installation of
EducationProgram extension
On English Wikinews, we recently requested the Education Program extension be installed with
the idea of making it easier to recruit classes to participate. We've set up a
"course" for new project participants at
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Education_Program:The_Wikinewsie_Group/New_reporters_(2013)
<https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Education_Program:The_Wikinewsie_Group/New_reporters_(2013)>as
a way of testing this. Any feedback on our test course would be appreciated. :) How useful
is it for potential modeling by instructors? How useful is it for new project participants?
That sort of thing. Feedback would be really, really appreciated as we want to be able to see
how this works so we can better assist existing contributors and classes that may use English
Wikinews.I've talked to a couple of contributors on English Wikinews and we'd really love to
engage more with high school and university courses. We just lack the people power to do the
outreach to attract them at
the moment. Currently, David Blackall at the University of Wollongong has a class
using the Wikinews as part of coursework. He made a video about this available at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StudentsInWikinews.ogv
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StudentsInWikinews.ogv> . If anyone
knows any university instructors or high school teachers who might be interested in
doing work on English Wikinews, please get in touch with me. :)Sincerely,Laura Hale
-- twitter: purplepopple
blog: ozziesport.com <http://ozziesport.com/>
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