That's really great! Thanks for sharing and good luck with your course! Shani.
----------------------------------------------- *Shani Evenstein Sigalov* EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University. Lecturer, Tel Aviv University. Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>. Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>. Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society <http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>. Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>. *+972-525640648* On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 8:08 PM Alexandre Hocquet < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Education listers, > > As a historian of science in higher education, I have been developping a > course focusing on Wikipedia in recent years, and some may have heard of > the WikiMOOC I presented at Wikimania MOntreal (though I only played a > modest role in the WikiMOOC saga) > > My course is pedagocally relying on anecdotes that say much about > Wikipedia principles, Wikipedia comunity and how Wikipedia is regarded. > > I am today very happy that my first anecdote in English has been > published. It's about OLivia Colman's birthdate and how the press likes > to ridicule Wikipedia, yet fact checking is actually done by Wikipedians > instead of journalists, so I can't resist to self promote it here: > > > https://theconversation.com/no-wikipedia-didnt-get-actress-olivia-colmans-birthdate-wrong-111848 > > Comments welcome > -- > *********************************************** > Alexandre Hocquet > > Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré > [email protected] > http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet > *********************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
