wikimedia conference tokyo

The case for WikiEducator in Japanese

Or how you can learn how to edit a wiki

Nadia El Borai Ph.D.

Talk

What is WikiEducatorHow is it usefulWhat can be done Personal experienceConclusion and suggestion for a

Japanese version

What is WikiEducator

WikiEducator Course enables one to learn wiki skills with the help of facilitators.

Learn how to edit a wiki without any previous knowledge

Funded by the Commonwealth of Learning and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

The motto

Tell me and I will forget,

show me and I may remember,

involve me, and I’ll understand.

Welcome pagehttp://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

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http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page

What is it for?

Development of free content

For Open Educational Resources

How I became involved

After a UNESCO online discussion about Open Educational Resources

Received an email informing me of the existence of WikiEducator and the course they offered.

Registered for an online workshop

http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration



Help Contentshttp://wikieducator.org/Help:Contents



Instructions for getting started



My user pagehttp://wikieducator.org/User:Nadia_El_Borai



http://wikieducator.org/User:Nadia_El_Borai

My user page

Skill development

Can repeat the course with instructions and facilitators

Wikineighbours help Get certification



Certification levels

QuickTime™ and a decompressorare needed to see this picture.Apprentice 1Apprentice 2WikiBuddy

WikiArtisanWikiTrainerWikiMaster

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Datatarget for 2015 vs status 2009

Initial Target (January 2008)

Conduct 160 workshops

Train 2500 teachers/educators

All Commonwealth countries

Status (June 30 2009) Conducted 88

workshops 58 face-to-face& 31 onlineTrained 3349

teachers/educators (Sep 2009)

Now in all countries

WikiEducator Data

Conducted 89 workshops58 face-to-face

31 online

Conduct 160 workshops

Trained 3349 (Sep. 2009)

Train 2500 teachers/educators

All Countries

All Commonwealth Countries

Intial Target (Jan. 2008 for 2015)Status (June 2009)

Copyright

WikiEducator only permits two copyright licences under Creative Commons.

Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike (CC-BY-SA)

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)

http://creativecommons.org/about/what-is-cc

What I learnt

How to make a wiki page How to editBenefitsAdditional skills by copying others and

being encouraged to start embedding pictures, videos and also started a blog

My contribution on WikiEducator



Example Arabic Page on Ikebana TeachingExample Arabic Page on Ikebana Teaching





WikiEducator Community

Group DiscussionsActive Projects (e.g. Parenting,Physics..)Active Community Workgroups Country Projects 9 countries (e.g.Otago

Polytechnic)

Related Projects (e.g. Wikiversity, Connexions, ZUM-Wiki, Free-reading. Net)

What can be done in Japan?

Many people who would like to share their knowledge could learn the skills

Bilingual individuals could take the course and then translate it

Educational Institutions might be interested

For young people

Look for what they would like to do

by checking the courses

OR

Learn from the content pages

Learn how to edit and become involved in their future.

Why is it possible now in Japan

Since July 2009 WikiEducator funded by OER foundation

2 full time staffPossible to install localisation for

Japanese

http://wikieducator.org/OERF:FAQs/Background

OER foundation The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Commonwealth of Learning contributing towards the

serversAthabasaca University in Canada who will be

hosting the serversContract work, for example the OERNZhelping the Ministry of Education in New Zealand

build a national commons in support for reusable and portable content for New Zealand Schools

THANKS• Facilitators Dr. Wayne Mackintosh Patricia Schlicht Leigh Blackall Randy Fisher Peter Rawthorne• Fellow learners/teachers

Links• http://wikieducator.org/User:Nadia_El_Borai/

Seasonal_pictures_of_Japan• http://wikieducator.org/User:Nadia_El_Borai/

%3DSubject:Simple_rules_to_write_a_paper%3D• http://wikieducator.org/User:Nadia_El_Borai/

publications• http://wikieducator.org/Paper_on_Infertility• http://wikieducator.org/User:Nadia_El_Borai/

Ikebana_Teaching• http://wikieducator.org/Wikimania_2008_experience• http://wikieducator.org/User:Nadia_El_Borai/OER

For Future generations