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This page gives ambassadors and professors the opportunity to share what's going on in the classroom with the community. The US Education Program has grown to include so many Campus Ambassadors, Online Ambassadors and courses that ambassadors may not know what's going on in other regions. Here, we can all collaborate to improve communication and indicate any significant milestones or issues. Let's also use this page to document some common problems in the classroom, but let's please use the USEP talk page or the Ambassador talk page to suggest improvements for the program itself. If there is an incident that requires action, such as a copyright violation or conflict of interest, that should be posted at the Education Noticeboard
Class timeline milestones[edit]- This page got started! Annie Lin (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 00:04, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I discovered the Teahouse and left a comment, and a host responded. I really did not understand what usefulness the teahouse would have or who would want their services. The next day I started talking to this class who had started their Wikipedia project and needed review, and I was thinking, "How am I going to get people to check out these students' work?" Later in the day I put it together and thought of asking the Teahouse to help... but before I made the request, I saw that a teahouse host had already found the class and invited all the students there. Not only did a solution throw itself at me, but when I was too dense to notice it immediately it even threw itself at my problem. Thanks, Teahouse team! Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:57, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Our Ball State course students have been coordinating their topic proposals with me. Some great ideas for viable new articles and article expansions. My favorite: a proposal for an article on the new Kurt Vonnegut Public Library in Indiana (I'm a huge Vonnegut fan!) Good communication (prof Webster Newbold has been communicating through email as well). The Interior (talk) 16:50, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I just reviewed my subregion's goals set at the beginning of fall last semester-- start up activities in Milwaukee (done) and double the activity in the region (done). In fact, the professor in Milwaukee has stuck with us for two semesters now, so that's exciting! Goals for the upcoming 2012-2013 calendar year: expand to the next largest city in each state (Detroit, Louisville, and Green Bay), as well as the best university (according to Forbes) in each state (Centre College, Hillsdale College, and Lawrence University). Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 00:55, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Problems & what we are doing about them/learning from them[edit]Class timeline milestones[edit]- Thanks Jami! I was going to post it but you beat me to it. My students and I felt very successful about the Wikipedia project we did in Writing & Rhetoric II at Ohio University. We did research at the University Library's Special Collections/Archives and updated University related Wikipedia articles based on this and other research. In the process, we increased student/public awareness of the Library Archives (a goal of the Librarians/Academic Archivists at Ohio U), improved Wikipedia articles, and increased awareness among academics (esp. in the library but due to the article-across campus) about the possibilities for pedagogy Wikipedia offers. So thrilled! Matthewvetter (talk) 00:54, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Problems & what we are doing about them/learning from them[edit]- Some ambassadors and community members are concerned about the Online Ambassador selection and removal process. As this page should act as an overview of in-the-classroom problems/issues/successes for ambassadors to quickly review, I am moving the discussion to the Ambassador talk page. Please continue your conversation there. Thanks! Jmathewson (talk) 20:58, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I am one of those community members. I've posted this multiple places but received no satisfactory reply. I reviewed a good article nomination by one of your Online Ambassadors who is on the Online Ambassadors Steering Committee. The article failed because the ambassador doesn't understand what copyvio/plagiarism/close paraphrasing was. See Talk:Douglas W. Owsley/GA1. The ambassador attacked me for my review. Now a second reviewer has failed the article today for the same reasons. See Talk:Douglas W. Owsley/GA2. This Online Ambassador does not understand how to write an article without misusing sources. Please address this issue. Thanks, MathewTownsend (talk) 21:34, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Rob, I'm having trouble accessing the link. IvyLaw (talk) 21:29, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- The site was down yesterday for several hours; it's up again. Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 17:18, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Still not working :-( IvyLaw (talk) 20:34, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- It appears down right now, but it really isn't. Try [1]. Someone has been working on fixing the structure of the URLs, and that's having adverse effects on the link I spammed all over the place.
 Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 21:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
 Resolved! Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 21:12, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Class timeline milestones[edit]- It seems like some of these are still in the sandbox, none of them have gotten community review, and for the writer's block article, the student wrote completely original content for an existing article. Hmm... Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:56, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I believe their links are to their sandboxes, but you can find the work they added to the main namespace if you search for those articles. That's how I looked over some of what they added. Jmathewson (talk) 21:56, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Problems & what we are doing about them/learning from them[edit]- A professor asks me: "maybe there's a way that the teachers can communicate more effectively with the ambassadors / editors when there will be a mass exodus to main space?" Maximilianklein (talk) 16:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- You might be able to coordinate with the OAs on this if you plan far enough in advance. Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:09, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Class timeline milestones[edit]Problems & what we are doing about them/learning from them[edit]Class timeline milestones[edit]Problems & what we are doing about them/learning from them[edit]Class timeline milestones[edit]Problems & what we are doing about them/learning from them[edit]Class timeline milestones[edit]Problems & what we are doing about them/learning from them[edit]Class timeline milestones[edit]Problems & what we are doing about them/learning from them[edit]Thanks, MathewTownsend (talk) 18:24, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Can you please elaborate on why this is a problem? The folks at WP:DYK have been providing very helpful reviews, and the articles the students are creating are often much better candidates than those created by your average new editor. Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:54, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I spoke with Laura Hale over IRC and she was able to clear up what the issue is here. I agree; we can't have WP:DYK submission as a requirement in a course without making sure students understand and follow the rules of DYK. This is being addressed. Rob SchnautZ (WMF) (talk • contribs) 21:41, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Class timeline milestones[edit]Students working on affective science articles in the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University added their content to the live versions of the articles! So far, these are Emotional expression and Emotion classification. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 17:13, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
An article that had been significantly improved by one of my students, Structuration, received GA status this week. MyNameWasTaken (talk) 22:28, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Cool! Pine(talk) 07:45, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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