pd – pru

Today’s agenda at the Barbican is planning the education fringe programme for Wikimania. Along the way I am collecting a heap of useful training materials to look into.

TRAINING RESOURCES

WM-UK Wikipedia training courses on Moodle
How Wikipedia Works (2008) book by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews and Ben Yates.
Crash course in Wikipedianism – is this a word?
The Wikipedia Adventure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure

Action Groups formed around the following topics and notes from participants over the weekend are collated in an Etherpad document.

Lightning talks open space
Instructor / Educators training
Ambassador training
Badge system for Wikipedia
Student panel
Practical resources development/hack session
Sandbox
Development iss
World Cafe sessionues
Local media wikis
Digital literacy
GLAM collaborations
Other collaborations

Referencing and citation issues
Of interest for future development is the idea that citation presentation and formatting could be made much easier, and this would do a lot to make adoption by the education community easier.
Separating citation content from presentation

Scottish schools
My interest in Scottish education was sparked by John Connell’s participation as part of the ASLA conference in Adelaide, as well as the research I was involved in for the Ultranet and e-assessment projects in 2010-11. So it was great to meet Ian Stuart and John Johnston from the Scottish school sector – both working on GLOWScot Scotland’s education sector VLE. Also interested in wiki integration and authentication issues.

Still sorry to be missing Wikimania 2014 but pleased to be part of planning the education pre-conference. The Wikimania pre-conference programme is taking shape following all this hard work.

Wikimania 2015 is announced as Mexico City so perhaps that is something to work for.

Exhausted after two very full days of learning, thinking and networking I find my way back via the Tower of London, All Hallows’ Church and Tower Bridge.