Grants:Project/Rapid/UG GLAM Macedonia/Wiki conference for teachers in October
Project Goal[edit]
Briefly explain what are you trying to accomplish with this project, or what do you expect will change as a result of this grant. Example goals include, "recruit new editors", "add high quality content", or "train existing editors on a specific skill".
- The project goal is to organize an one day Wiki conference for teachers in Skopje. The framework of the program is all about useful of Wikipedia into the education process. The last session will include a workshop on how to edit Wikipedia for beginners. This will be the second Wiki conference for teachers in Skopje, as the first one was very successful.
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing?
- This is an one day Wiki conference for teachers in Skopje. As a speakers, we already invited and we have their confirmation, Wikipedians who are also teachers. Preparations will go as this:
- Before August 10 = Negotiation with a several conference halls which are suitable for this purpose. We found the one which we will be able to get with discount on the rent price. We already had confirmation from four Wikipedians who are also teachers, to speak on the conference. Preparing a framework of the program.
- 10 August - 31 August = preparing the grant request; continue working on the program.
- 1 September - 18 October = We will work on promotion before the event at schools in Skopje. Besides media promotion, we are going to send volunteers to visit secondary schools and High schools in Skopje, in order to talk with teachers and answer the questions they'll have. Also, one of our volunteers will have to maintain a list of interested teachers who will attend the conference. At the same time, we are going to work on: design and printing of the promotional materials; pursue the office supplies, catering for the event, etc.
- 19 October = The day of the Wiki conference.
- 20 October - 20 November = Writing reports, and evaluating the event.
How will you let others in your community know about your project (please provide links to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions)? Why are you targeting a specific audience?
- In April 20, we had Wiki conference for teachers in Skopje for the first time. There was a big interest for this conference. We were unable to accept all interested teacher last time, and we expect the same interest in October. We found that there is a need to teach the teachers on how to use Wikipedia in the classroom. As this will be the second conference of this kind in Skopje, we expect a lot of interested teachers to participate. We target the specific audience, because the speakers will talk mostly about using Wikipedia in education process. We will announce the event on the Facebook and in the media, as we did it the first time.
What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?
- We are going to survey after the event with questions as: Do the teachers find the conference useful and which part? Do they learn something new, and what is it they learned? Do they have more clear picture about Wikipedia and how to use Wikipedia in the classroom? etc. At the end, we plan to give the teachers all our contacts: e-mail address, Facebook page, even phone numbers, in order to assist them in the further questions.
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more specific to your project:
- Number of total participants
- maximum 70 (+5 speakers and several Wikipedians volunteers who will help before and on the conference day).
Resources[edit]
What resources do you have? Include information on who is the organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).
- The organizer of this Wiki conference is GLAM Macedonia, with a number of 67 members and at least 15 active volunteers. Volunteers will help with most of the activities while organizing this event.
Speakers on the conference:
- Matilda Bajkova - teacher in three secondary schools in Skopje, and also Coordinator of education program at GLAM Macedonia user group
- Виолетова - High school teacher
- MB - teacher at international high school in Skopje
- Wikimk - University professor in Skopje
As for in-kind donations, we managed to get the conference hall with a great discount, including using of video beam, microphones, projector, lap top, internet, etc. We managed to have a professional photographer for free, which is an issue if we need photos with good quality. Also, there is no honorarium for the speakers and for the volunteers.
We have roll up banner from the previous conference for teachers.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:
- Printed materials (including booklet How to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool for teachers only, black and white with color cover - 70 x 1.23 = 86€), program sheets, for teachers only (70 x 0.314 = 22€), certificates for participants/teachers and for the speakers (75 x 0.25 = 19€), stickers with logo, for all (100 x 0.45 = 45€), set of notebook and pen, for teachers only (70 x 0.71 = 50€), name tags only for speakers and organizers-volunteers (10 x 0.5 = 5€), one pack of transparent files (100 x 0.08 = 8€) - 235€
- Hall rent (with discount) - 100€
- Coffee breaks (four coffee breaks, including refreshments and one break with mini bar lunch) - 250€
- Transportation (for volunteers and materials) - 20€
- Promotion before the event (telephone costs and city transport for volunteers) - 26€
- Office supplies (paper clips, papers, pens, etc) - 6€
- Unseen costs (including bank fees) - 50€