GLAM-EDU PROPOSAL

Legal name of organization or individual requesting this grant: Oarabile Mudongo; For organizations: Are you a for-profit entity? No
Grant contact name: Oarabile Mudongo
Grant contact username or email: Oarabile Mudongo and mudongo.oarabilegmail.com
Grant contact title (position): Project lead
Project lead name: Oarabile Mudongo(User:Oarabile Mudongo)
Project lead username or email: mudongo.oarabilegmail.com
Full project name: GLAM-EDU - 2014 (Botswana)
Provisional target start date: March 2014
Provisional completion date: September 2014

Project goal

The aim of this project is to introduce schools to support,recruit and engage them on Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia and Wikiversity.
This project will also aim at introducing teacher to students interaction in developing and maintaining the quality of articles on Wikipedia.
The project aims at improving active interaction of wiki medians online,sharing and disseminating knowledge between each user on Wikimedia Projects.
Collaborating GLAM institutions with the community to meet cultural needs of each user hence improving active participation.

Abstract

The aim of this program is to build on the work of the Mobile GLAM Service and intensify the GLAM’s relationship with schools by demonstrating to teacher’s practical ways in which GLAM institutions could serve as an educational resource for learners. This programme is also a way of bringing real time collaboration between teacher to Students participation also on Wikipedia Projects such as (Wikipedia, Wiki Loves Monuments and Wikiversity), that is to say the knowledge they grasp from touring GLAM Institutions will be enough for them to share it with the globe on Wikipedia hence promoting active involvement,life time engagement on Wikimedia projects.

Background

To be posted soon