So, you want to know how to edit Wikipedia? There's a course for you.
We are delighted to announce a new round of our free online course, "Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics & Beyond" (#WIKISOO). The course runs from 25 February - 8 April 2014, and is now open for enrollment.
As many of you know already, WIKISOO teaches the nuts and bolts of Wikipedia. We focus on building and improving articles related to Open Education. Enrollment is open to all. We'd especially like to invite past students to re-register: your knowledge and experience will be valuable to your fellow students, and it's also a great opportunity to deepen your learning about Wikipedia and OER.
WIKISOO students learn about the values and culture that have driven hundreds of thousands of volunteers to build Wikipedia. Through your work in the course, you will join an effort that has generated millions of free articles in hundreds of languages since 2001. The course covers the technical skills needed to edit articles, and also offers practical insights into the site's collaborative norms and social dynamics. You will graduate with a sophisticated understanding of how to use Wikipedia both as a reader and as an active participant.
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Tom Bigglestone, who explores the benefits of Philosophy for Children (P4C).
Chris Healey, who write about homework in the digital Age.
John Pearce, advocates that teachers pledge a pedagogical oath.
James Abela gives us a global perspective, writing about his experience in Thailand.
Andy Knill waves the flag for the SOLO Taxonomy.
UKEdChat Exclusive feature asked teachers what jobs they do if quit the profession.
Martin Burrett tells of various highlights observed at BETT this year.
Sharon Jones debates how debating can benefit pupils.
David Moody shares some Stickmen without Arms!
Tina Watson explains how she supports pupils to fill the blank pages.
Leon Cych gives tips on how to produce professional video and audio with pupils.
We review the book "The Philosophy Shop", edited by Peter Worley.
February 11, the Special Interest Group for Mobile Learning #sigml will be hosting tweetchats during the day about a variety of topics. Sylvia Martinez and I will be talking about the maker movement at 5 pm that day. Sylvia is coauthor of the amazing book "Invent2Learn" -- a must read for those interested in the maker movement. There are many others including Scott Merrick, Susan Wells and more who are sharing that day.
CO14 is happening this weekend and so many great people are presenting. It runs from February 7-9 and is free. My session is sharing how writing has been reinvented as I share the 9 tools that have changed how we teach forever (a sneak preview of my book coming out in May.) If you teach writing, work with curriculum or teach, feel free to join in. The session is at 8 am EST on Saturday morning, February 8. Anyone can join.
Lots of amazing presenters are speaking so check it out.
Digital Learning Day is February 5. Here are resources and how you can celebrate this in your school this week. There will be many live seminars and webinars online as well as live broadcasts. Join in!
A report by the US Department of Education Technology from February 2013 (anyone know why this is still a draft?) that shares how we should measure and promote non cognitive factors like grit, tenacity and perseverance. This is one paper to share and discuss.
Some rules have changed as I've been reading up on having Kindles at schools. (Back in February I read a spate of posts mentioning that Amazon said that having 6 kindles share one account was just for "personal use" and that libraries can't do it.) But Amazon does have information on Whispercast which lets you handle distributing books. It is a "free self-service online tool" and I'm thinking that it is something we need to be using. It looks like you can also distribute many of the free ebooks onto Kindles.
Kyle Dunbar is running a virtual book club. The first book is Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds. This website includes a blog that talks about the takeaways and the recordings that they are discussing. Please feel free to join in and mark your calendars - they are meeting on Tuesdays at 7:30 pm. I hope you'll join in.
It is vital that you and I both connect with other classrooms around the world. Students are the greatest textbook ever written for each other - they need to connect and learn from each other. You'll meet other educators and model the kind of learner you want your students to be. If you want your students to innovate YOU must be innovative. If you want your students to collaborate YOU must be collaborative.
Here's the schedule:
January 7th - Meet the Flat Classroom, Chapters 1 & 2
January 21st - Connection and Communication, Chapters 3 & 4
February 4th - Citizenship, Contribution and Collaboration, Chapters 5 & 6
February 18th - Choice and Creation, Chapters 7 & 8
March 4th - Celebrating, Designing, Managing a Global Project, Chapters 9 & 10
March 18th - Rock the World
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