This is good news, and good work, Brianna! Your tireless efforts at outreach are laudable.
I should also point out that Pia Waugh, the Linux Australia lady, is also the OneLaptopPerChild Australia branch project leader - an organisation that I would consider a cousin to WM-Au. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_Waugh Along a similar vein, I too will be presenting this week at the English Teacher's Association annual conference in Sydney. These are the people who will be taking the Wikipedia module in the HSC so I'm looking forward to meeting them. And hopefully this will lead to us being invited to present at schools to both staff and students. http://www.englishteacher.com.au/calendar.php (session 1.3 on the first day). I will be co-presenting with Darcy Moore - the fellow who did all the work to get WP on the curriculum in the first place. As the song goes - "Look out world we're on our way/ Nothing can stop us nooooow!" -Liam On 11/25/08, Brianna Laugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > So yesterday I gave a little workshop at the VITTA conference in > Preston, Melbourne. VITTA = Victorian IT Teachers Association. Here is > a brief report about how it went. > > The session I ran was a hands-on workshop in a Mac lab called > "Wikipedia in Schools: An Unexplored Potential". > (<http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2008/programme.php?day=1> > session 1202) Basically I went through the things that I think are > important about Wikipedia (eg not for profit, multilingual, > wiki/community, free content), then we did some hands-on exploring a > Wikipedia article stuff, then I talked about some different types of > classroom projects that I thought might be possible. That was a very > solid 45 minute session. > > It was the first time I have done a "hands on" session in a lab, and I > have mixed feelings about how it went. Basically I pulled up the > article [[Preston, Victoria]] and asked them to pull up the article on > their school or town or whatever and do the same stuff. But because > the room was so cramped there was no way I could walk around to see > what they were doing, and I couldn't really gauge if they were having > trouble with it or whatever. I think in future for *really* hands-on > workshops it makes more sense to be like 1 person to maybe 3 or 4 > students and just work in small groups rather than have one person at > the front of the room. > > Anyway, people looked pretty engaged and not too confused, and it was > a full session (20 people), so I feel reasonably confident it went > well. :) > > Afterwards I went to the Linux Australia exhibition in the tradeshow. > They were getting really good traffic, it's great to see so much > interest. I left some Wikipedia brochures and stickers on their desk > too. > > Pia Waugh from Linux Australia also did Monday's closing keynote, > called Open Source Futures > (<http://archive.vitta.org.au/conference/2008/programme.php?day=1> > session 1601). It was a really interesting overview of openness in > education and why it is important. I recorded it and hopefully will > get it uploaded somewhere soon. > > I also caught up with Pru Mitchell (hi! ;)) from education.au and we > did some more testing with their browser-based "Live Classroom" thing. > It's basically like an augmented chat room, that you can use you to > talk to slides, or do a kind of webcast, with people logged in from > wherever around the world or Australia. But I still can't get the > audio to work properly on my machine which is a bit of a dealbreaker. > I'm going to try a few more things, hopefully we will do a bit of a > test-run in early December, and if it works well then next year we > could do a bit of a series which would be awesome. > > Oh and I mentioned a while ago I was going to talk at a VCAL > conference, that was actually cancelled. It is likely to be > rescheduled for April or so next year. > > Another Victorian event: I found out there is a conference called ICT > in Education Victoria (ICTEV) which will be held on 30th May in > Melbourne. <http://www.ictev.vic.edu.au/event/conference.htm> > Submissions close 19th December. If you are a Victorian and are > interested in doing a workshop or talk please speak up! > > cheers, > Brianna > > > > -- > They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: > http://modernthings.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > -- Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone - +61 (0)434 056 914 Skype - Wittylama Wikipedia - [[User:Witty lama]]
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