I’m pleased to announce a new hire at the Wiki Education Foundation this week. Ryan McGrady will be the interim Classroom Program Manager this spring while Helaine Blumenthal is on maternity leave. Ryan earned a masters in digital media studies at Emerson College, and is completing his PhD dissertation with North Carolina State University on … Continued
Wiki Ed will be rolling out a new system for connecting volunteers and courses this week. As part of this shift, Wiki Ed will no longer accredit individual volunteers as Wikipedia Ambassadors. Instead of a complicated application process, we want to make supporting students more Wikipedia-like and open to anyone in the community. We want to … Continued
Fan signs are an honored tradition in the weekly College GameDay football pre-game show on ESPN. Today’s Yale vs. Harvard matchup featured a sign that got a lot of traction on social media and the college football blogosphere: “Yale Cites Wikipedia“. As the organization that bridges Wikipedia and academia, we agree with the sentiment of … Continued
I am pleased to announce the hire of two new staff members. Helaine Blumenthal is the new Classroom Program Manager and Eryk Salvaggio is the new Communications Associate. Both joined the Programs team on September 29. Helaine, a native New Yorker, completed her PhD in European and Jewish history at UC Berkeley in 2012. She … Continued
We’re back from an amazing trip to London! Last week, four Wiki Education Foundation staff and three board members were in the thick of the global Wikimedia community at the annual Wikimania conference. This year Wikimania had a strong focus on education, and it drew large crowds of people from all over the world who were interested … Continued
1. Highlights After meetings with representatives of American Sociological Association (ASA), the Association for Psychological Sciences (APS), and the National Communication Association (NCA) this spring to establish their goals for their Wikipedia initiatives, we embarked on a strategy of strengthening our educational partnership support, with a reorganization of the programs department. Jami Mathewson has moved … Continued
1. Highlights As part of our ongoing work to develop a visual identity for our organization, we rolled out a new logo, which you can see at the top of this report. It was designed by David Peters of EXBROOK, who has done work with the Wikipedia Education Program, Wikimedia Foundation, and Creative Commons in … Continued
Last month, the Wiki Education Foundation doubled in size from three to six employees — and we’re at it again! We’ve just posted two new positions: Classroom Program Manager and Communications Associate. Both positions will support our growing programs department in expanding our mission to support university faculty members in the United States and Canada … Continued
Last weekend, Program Manager Jami Mathewson and I traveled to London to facilitate the Future of Education Workshop, part of the Fringe events before Wikimania 2014. The four years we’ve spent working on the Wikipedia Education Program give us a unique ability to facilitate workshops like this, which was designed to develop the content of the Education … Continued