Wiki training

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The idea: training people to give courses about Wiki[pm]edia, wikis, free licensing, and collaborative work, at libraries and universities.

  • What wikis and like communities are out there, how can people use them for research and how can they participate?
  • What tools are available; how can people start their own wikis, on the internet or intranet; and what recommendations can we give them (technically and community-wise)?
  • How these tools and communities can be used for collaborative research, for preserving local cultural information, documents, minority languages.


And meta-courses to help people start giving such courses:

  • How to approach unis and libraries; who to contact at each location and what kind of sessions to suggest.
  • Presentation guidelines; Tufte thoughts on how to present and what to leave the audience with; combinations of chalk talks, paper handouts, and slides; coordination of materials available on the wiki (or some other site that supports the uploading of a variety of file formats).

Interested people[edit]

  • +sj+
  • I'm working on such a course concept myself at the moment, and would help organising such a project in Germany. --Kurt Jansson 09:19, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Eloquence also expressed interest in this during the Feb 13 grant meeting
  • I'm very interested, and would like to start a training program for k-12 teachers and administrators. Can contact me at steve at hargadon dot com.
  1. Vibhijain 15:49, 8 May 2011 (UTC) I am interested[reply]