Training

Contributing to Wikimedia projects, such as Wikipedia, Wikiversity and Wikibooks, is an educational opportunity in the fullest sense, developing sophisticated collaboration, scholarly writing and critical thinking skills at the same time as subject knowledge. Improving an article can be a demanding project in either formal and informal education, for a talented student or a whole class. Wikimedia UK is working with some of the country's most respected and innovative institutions to explore how Wikimedia projects can benefit UK education. In partnership with universities and support bodies, we are gradually establishing Wikimedia as part of the landscape of higher education, secondary education, and lifelong learning. The Wikimedia Foundation has an extensive set of educator resources, including reasons to use Wikipedia, case studies and teaching materials. Training/box-footer Want Wikipedia or Wikimedia training? If you or your organisation would like to be trained in using Wikipedia, then we have well trained and kindly people ready to come and work with you at your events. Our aim is to guide people through the early stages of editing and then offer support as they become contributors. We are happy to travel whenever necessary to meet your needs. There is generally no charge for this. We have trainers who can support you in English and Welsh. Please contact us for more information Keep an eye on the events calendar and Wikimedia UK's Twitter feed; there may already be a training event in your area that you can ask to join. We are especially keen to work with: cultural institutions such as museums or libraries scholarly societies and charities universities, schools and education-sector bodies learners of every age community groups Training/box-footer Template:Training/box-header Education/Strategy Training/box-footer Template:Training/box-header Wikimedia volunteers can help educational projects by meeting with teaching staff, librarians or support staff to raise awareness, using the many resources for educators already created. With notice, we can provide supporting materials and may be able to support with funding for travel and subsistence in accordance with Wikimedia UK's Expenses Policy. If you're interested in getting involved in education activities, get in touch with us or sign your name on the Education Portal People Page. If you want to be more heavily involved in the strategy, and board/operations side of things, you could join the Education Committee. There are also other ways to Get Involved, and do help work on the tasks list Portal Here are some Education related tasks you can do: Help develop our Education strategy Contribute to discussions around how we develop an Open Badges strategy Contribute to our Digital Literacy discussion, and help us develop resources in this area Support our partners in delivering Wikipedia assignments Contribute technical expertise to the development of our Open Learning Platform work Help us develop sets of material for the Open Learning Platforms Improve this portal - visually, and the content (it's all up for grabs!) Collaborate: Coordinate with m:Wikiversity (on Meta; also on Wikibooks), Coordinate at the Wikipedia:Education noticeboard based upon Wikipedia:Student assignments, More... 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Training/box-footer Template:Training/box-header There are a number of ways of keeping in touch with the education projects activities: Sign up for the Wikimedia UK Newsletter Join the Education Committee if you want to be more involved Get in touch with individual members of the committee, or give Toni Sant an email with specific queries or suggestions Outside of our activities you might also be interested in: The Jiscmail Wikimedia Mailing List for educators interested in the potential of Wikipedia or its sister projects, or for Wikimedians interested in supporting education. This is a low-traffic list. The Wikimedia Foundation Education mailing list, offering an online forum for people directly involved in Wikimedia-related education projects around the world. Training/box-footer

Wikimedia UK education projects

Annual Conference — Campus Ambassadors – Student Societies — Schools — Committee — VLE

Want to train others?

Our materials for trainers include session plans, materials, advice on training methods and details of past events.

If you see an event in the calendar that you'd like to help with, get in touch with Wikimedia UK's contact person for the event.

We have an ongoing Training the Trainers programme for our volunteers. Any upcoming events will be listed on the events calendar. To register an interest, email daria.cybulskawikimedia.org.uk

Want to improve Wikipedia or Wikimedia?

Anyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia or its sister projects straight away, and there are resources to help you start. We provide Markup guides/cheat sheets, Wikipedia Guides, guidance for Commons, and more.

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