Education/Newsletter/March 2017
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Volume 6 | Issue 2 | March 2017
In This Issue
Featured Topic
Educational institutions in Taiwan have been asking students to write Wikipedia as one way to learn and make a contribution to society. In 2016 there were high growth of institutions working on Chinese Wikipedia. Here are 3 online interviews with Wikipedians that worked with those institutions. In the mean time of excitement, they also share what they learned from outreach setback. read more...
From the Community
Twenty collegiate students from the University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College (UPVTC) and twenty one high school students from the Philippine Science High School Eastern Visayas Campus (PSHS-EVC) contributed to Waray Wikipedia during edit-a-thons held at their schools on November 18–19, 2016 and March 10, 2017, respectively, which added 22 articles during the UPVTC edit-a-thon and 31 articles during the PSHS-EVC edit-a-thon. read more...
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On 1 March 2017, semi-edit-a-thon-workshop was held in Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz to help teachers and students of History department understand Wikipedia. read more...
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Here is the story of 80 students from a village school of Ayaş district of Ankara who have contributed to Turkish wikipedia articles about woman in science, technology and sports. Actually, this was not parf of an Education Program organized in an education instutition but a Art+Feminism event in Ankara organized with quite large and very unusual attendance. read more...
As part of the Wikipedia Education Program, students at a Jerusalem college wrote articles about Shtetls that were destroyed in the Holocaust. read more...
From the Education Team
On February 28, 2017 8 University of California San Francisco (UCSF) students paid a visit to the WMF Office to learn more about the foundation’s work as they embark on a month long elective course in March 2017. The students attended sessions given by WMF staff about the education program, and reading products followed by a live streamed presentation by their professor Dr. Amin Azzam, Clinical Professor at the UCSF School of Medicine. read more...
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The education team interviewed each other, so you can get to know us a bit better! read more...
In the News
(In Swedish) This link is for one of the major newspaper for teachers. It covers the education program with the Nordic museum and is about a visit in one of the classrooms when the students are working in their sandboxes. read more...
Check back next month for new featured topics, community stories, and WEP news! And don't forget to submit your news :)