Dear Wikimedia & Education community, I hope this finds you well, safe and healthy! This crisis has been challenging us all personally and professionally in many different ways, and you all have our solidarity and support.
Over the last couple weeks the Education Team has been staying busy creating new #EduWiki challenges and lesson plans, and working on supporting the UNESCO Global Education Coalition. Not only that, but we joined the World Scouts for their emergency "Jamboree on the Internet" April 3-5 https://www.jotajoti.info. We hosted 2 webinars and took part in "Joti Live." You can see the "Joti Live" episode with our very own Sailesh Patnaik here: https://www.facebook.com/WOSM.OMMS/videos/joti-live-show-4/2606615196249791/ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFhI5ufCDi0. Through this event we engaged over 21k youth around the world! The original Joti event will be held in October this year, and we will start engaging the community soon for their ideas on how we can play an even bigger role at that time. We want to get our whole Wikimedia & Education community involved! Now, for the main reason I'm writing to you today. We are hoping those of you with time and energy can help us support teachers, guardians, and students with activities that help students learn with the Wikimedia projects. You can help by translating and sharing this week's #EduWiki challenges and lesson plans in your networks, or by creating your own and sharing them with us. You can find everything you need you need at this link: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/COVID-19_response/Comms_toolkit You can create your own and share them with us here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeC574xkmZjWwizs-3qMf0VKPoz8SszV-RaMRokfgqntJNlmg/viewform . Finally, don't forget to let us know what your community is doing to support education during this time https://forms.gle/z3Hj4n5NX3wphamk6. If you have questions or other ideas on ways we can support learners let us know at educat...@wikimedia.org or join us at the next office hours event on April 23 from 12:30-13:30 UTC. sincerely, -- *Nichole Saad* Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Program Manager, Education ns...@wikimedia.org user: NSaad (WMF) _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
