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From: *Wikipedia Education Program Update*
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Subject: [US-Ambassador-Announce] Two new brochures, Student's work
featured - 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=796&qid=21159>to
bring Wikipedia into higher education classrooms around the world, and
we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you
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New teaching tool brochure
released<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=798&qid=21159>
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Basics]<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=798&qid=21159>A
new brochure, titled "Instructor Basics: How to use Wikipedia as a teaching
tool", is now available from the Wikimedia Foundation and on Wikimedia
Commons. This brochure covers key Wikipedia policies and structures that
educators wanting to do a Wikipedia assignment in their classes need to
understand, best practices on article selection and working with the
community, and sample grading rubrics. Download the
brochure.<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=798&qid=21159>
Sample syllabus brochure
revamped<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=799&qid=21159>
[image: Syllabus]<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=799&qid=21159>The
sample syllabus provided for instructors interested in having their
students write Wikipedia articles as part of the course curriculum has been
updated based on recommendations from more instructors who have
participated in the Wikipedia Education Program. The new version provides a
week-by-week breakdown of how you can incorporate a "write a Wikipedia
article" assignment into your classes. It includes some key milestones that
have proven effective at ensuring that students derive the greatest
educational benefits from editing Wikipedia. Download the syllabus
brochure.<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=799&qid=21159>
<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=800&qid=21159>
NCA conference highlights Wikipedia
initiative<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=801&qid=21159>
[image: NCA booth]<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Education_Program_booth_at_National_Communication_Association_2012.JPG>The
National Communication Association is joining the Association for
Psychological Sciences and the American Sociological Association in calling
for academics in their discipline to improve the content on Wikipedia
through using it as a teaching tool in their classrooms. The Wikipedia
Education Program was featured at the NCA convention in Florida last week,
with a highlighted workshop attended by more than 40 instructors and a
booth in the exhibit hall, pictured above. See more information about the
NCA Wikipedia Initiative.<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=801&qid=21159>
Student's article featured on main
page<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=802&qid=21159>
A student at Davidson College created the article on the psychology of
music preference as an assignment for Professor Greta Munger's course on
Cognition and the Arts, which is participating in the U.S. Education
Program this term. The student's article got accepted into the Did You Know
section on Wikipedia's Main Page last week, where it received more than
2,000 views. Read the
article.<https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=802&qid=21159>
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