Talk:EduWiki Conference 2012

LoopZilla (talk) 20:44, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

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Hello,

I am Adethya Sudarsanan from India. I am a computer software engineer specializing in testing. I have made a few proposals to be presented at EduWiki Conference at UK. I want to know about the schlorship opportunities which cover airfare basically.

I have also contacted Martin with a proposal on 6th May, 2012, which is still under consideration by him.

Reply awaited.

Thanks in advance,

Ade.S

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Hi, Along with a few others I am involved in starting a Wikiversity learning project relating to the science behind Parkinson's disease. I, and possibly a colleague, am planning to attend the EduWiki Conference 2012 and we hope that the conference will be worthwhile for us. We wish to pick up information, advice and tips for making our project a success. We also wonder whether there would be the opportunity to look at our prototype with others and gain helpful feedback and advice. Can one the organisers respond to this and advise us on what we can expect? The entry page of the project is at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/The_Science_Behind_Parkinson%27s.

Droflet (talk) 13:06, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi Droflet and welcome. Yes, the conference is about the intersection of Wikimedia and education, including Wikiversity, which will have its own session. There will be speakers from formal education but also from online communities or projects like yours aimed at the public. I hope the conference will help these different sectors to collaborate more productively. See the guidance I've written for speakers. We'll be discussing the practicalities of running different kinds of educational project as well as some big-picture stuff about open education. Looking forward to meeting you in September, MartinPoulter (talk) 15:45, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

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A brilliant idea but with work committments I will not be able to attend. The subject is dear to my heart as a full time employed museum educator who's job it is to enable people to learn through the collections and to gain another understanding of those same collections by how new users interpret them. Will there be some form of feedback to others like myself? I wish you an interesting, informative and fun learning time. Opps forgot I was not logged into this wiki! Edmund Patrick (talk) 06:35, 4 August 2012 (UTC) or me on wiki [[1]]

We will try to capture as much as possible in terms of video, social media commentary and presentation materials, and keep as much as possible under open licences. I'm sure there will be blog posts by Wikimedians and by educators. There's no substitute for taking part in person, I'm afraid, but I do hope we'll see you at a future event: sounds like your work overlaps both the education projects and cultural partnerships aspects of Wikimedia UK activity. Your good wishes are welcome! Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 15:33, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Great idea, but seriously...

As an educator and Wikipedian I would have definitely attended this - I have a lot of Wiki-related learning material that I've created and use with my students and would've been happy to share ... except that the date, for 90% of the UK, is the first two working days of the new school year!! Did no-one consider this? Black Kite (talk) 14:13, 8 August 2012 (UTC)