Chris, what I understand by schools outreach is getting the educational benefits of WM projects into schools - via teachers. Hence still an adult audience.
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com>wrote: > > >> Pitching this stuff is hard; kids at different ages see things >> differently, and kids in different areas age at different speeds. >> > > I think you've hit one of the main challenge of schools outreach on the > head. > > We are starting to have a "recipe" for introducing adult organisations to > Wikipedia which will basically work for charities, universities, museums > and the like - we would need several, for schools. > > Plus our adult outreach model is based on people coming to events of their > own free will, not because they've been told to! I imagine that a room full > of schoolkids is a much more difficult audience than what we're used to. > > I think this is part of the reason why we're focusing more on universities > and GLAMs at the moment. But clearly schools need to be part of the > long-term plan... > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > -- Dr Martin L Poulter ICT Manager, The Economics Network Based at the ILRT, University of Bristol: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ The full experience: http://infobomb.org/ Wikipedia contributor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MartinPoulter Board member of Wikimedia UK: http://uk.wikimedia.org/ "Creating a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge"
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