Hi all, I just created this page; http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools with the intention of encouraging all those interested in liaising with educators / schools directly to jump in and whip up a few project pages formalising what we might do / info. we can share etc. etc. (it's a wiki process, of course, so please get involved!) Liam's a constant source of inspiration to me, and I've recently been involved in correspondance with a few other wiki folk all over the globe about furthering the 'glam' approach to include schools - ie. talking with them about what schools' needs for wiki projects are, how we're currently doing at meeting them, how we as a project (wikimedia, not just wikipedia) fit in to their programmes etc. I've spoken at medium length to one head teacher and one head of department on a personal level which has further convinced me that it would be both fun and useful for a cadre of volunteers to consider preparing a few talks / workshops etc. etc. to take to schools in the vicinity of wherever volunteers happen to be! - This project is intended to get that ball rolling :-) Whilst the mailing list is a fantastic platform for sharing news - it's probably not quite as good as a wiki for actual development work, so please consider just diving in at http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Schools or http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Talk:Schools - my vague, and quite likely to shift, intention is for this to be in shape to follow 'GLAM' - so we'd be looking offer some workshops to schools by September... help! best, Peter, PM. ps. an online donation service would still be a 'good thing' :-) pps. I'd like to offer teachers the opportunity to edit the wmau pages related to schools work - would that be cool? ppps. I also just put the fantastic wikisource book http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_specimen_of_the_botany_of_New_Holland as our 'featured content' - check it out!
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