Fyi... especially "Open Professor call... "
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From: "Wikipedia Education Program Update" <ldavis [ at ] wikimedia [ dot ] org>
Date: Aug 8, 2012 2:29 AM
Subject: [US-Ambassador-Announce] Brazil open call, UK conference - a
newsletter from Wikipedia
To: "Wikipedia Ambassadors" <ambassador-announce-l [ at ] lists [ dot ] wikimedia [ dot ] org>
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia
Foundation that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each
month. Someone
from our staff has talked with you about our Wikipedia Education
Program<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=728&qid=17159>to
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Open professor call answered by 36 in
Brazil<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=730&qid=17159>
[image: logo]<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=731&qid=17159>A
pioneering initiative was held by the Brazil Education Program for the
second semester of 2012: from an open call for professors, we received 36
proposals from all regions in Brazil in less than one month. Professors
showed strong interest in joining the Wikipedia Education Program. We have
selected an initial group of 8 proposals; the professors will attend a
workshop organized by the Wikimedia Foundation on August 11 in São Paulo.
Wikipedia Education Program Director Frank Schulenburg will be present at
the workshop. More professors will be invited to join the program during
the semester and to attend a second workshop that will be held in Rio de
Janeiro. The Wikipedia community is also eager to participate — we've
received more than 80 applications from volunteers to support education
activities as Ambassadors. See the open
call.<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=730&qid=17159>
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Wikimedia UK hosts upcoming Edu Wiki
Conference<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=733&qid=17159>
Wikimedia UK is running an event September 5-6, 2012, in Leicester, UK,
looking at Wikipedia, Wikiversity, and related charitable projects in terms
of educational practice. It's a chance to talk about innovative work in
your classroom, your institution or online community, and shape the future
of Wikimedia UK's work in this area. This is useful for educators,
scholarly societies, contributors to Wikipedia and other open education
projects, and students. Guests from around the world are welcome. Learn
more and register to
attend!<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=733&qid=17159>
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Cairo professor's work featured on Wikimedia
blog<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=735&qid=17159>
Dr. Abeer El Hafez, a Spanish professor at Cairo University, participated
in the Cairo Pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program last term, and her
work was highlighted in a post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. Dr.
Abeer's 13 students worked on 31 articles on both the Arabic and Spanish
Wikipedias, in some cases doing translations and in others writing articles
from scratch. The students all wrote on Latin American authors. Read more
about Dr. Abeer's work.
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Ambassador blogs about transnational
scholarship<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=736&qid=17159>
Georgetown University Campus Ambassador Kelsey Brannan wrote a post for the
Wikimedia blog highlighting the work she's done with Professor Adel
Iskandar to promote transnational scholarship between the United States and
the Arab world. Professor Iskandar's students write articles for the
English Wikipedia on media figures from the Arab world, and he's hoping
that courses in the Cairo Pilot will expand the work by translating his
students' articles into the Arabic Wikipedia. Read the
post.<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=736&qid=17159>
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