Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Reading Wikipedia in Classroom

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

The Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program is a professional development training opportunity for secondary school teachers to learn how to integrate Wikipedia into their classrooms to foster media and information literacy (MIL) skills. The curriculum of this program aligns with UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy framework and it connects different approaches and methodologies used in the classroom to leverage the power of Wikipedia as a learning tool. This program has the potential to improve their research skills, such as the ability to make sense of information, the ability to verify, evaluate, and shift reliable information from information chaos, and the ability to use the information to create new knowledge using Wikipedia it will also assist instructors to understand and use Wikipedia as a learning tool. In addition, this training will help to bridge the digital gap by encouraging collaboration among students and fostering better relationships. The program will also assist teachers and students in our local community in improving their ICT skills, media and information literacy skills, content writing skills, reading culture, and providing them with an alternative format for learning new things outside of the regular school curriculum, while improving Wikipedia.

Contact person and Location

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location

• Makinde Ruth Oluwakemi. Lagos State,Nigeria semilo99@gmail.com

Timeline of activities

Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project 1

start date 13th December 2022 and End date 11th January 2023

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

Series of training. One physical training and four online training

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

This is a Wikimedia education project which we use their social media handles for promotion

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify

• User:B.Korlah
• User:Semmy1960

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

Yes they have.

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

Continuous mentoring sessions on Whatsapp

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

It is a continuous education project which the education team has designed to ensure students and teachers can have access to free knowledge

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

1. Number of events One
2. Number of participants 60
3. Number of new editors 60
4. Number of of articles created or improved 50
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) None because it is new in Lagos State. This is the launch.

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? I will use the EDX platform and the outreach dashboard. All assignments will be on the EDX platform and we expect at least a minimum of 30 teachers to complete the training and assignments so that they can be a certified Reading Wikipedia in Classroom teacher. I expect a minimum of 30 participants to be certified after the training

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

* Support from the Wikimedia Education Team
* Gifts, media from First Digital Press
* TESCOM providing teachers for the training

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

• Hall for the event - 50,000
• Food and drinks- 2500 each for 60 people = 150,000
• Total: =N=200,000

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