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===Program 1===
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Educational program of Wikimedia Serbia consists of several different projects, for which we will give key objectives.
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**'''EduWiki Conference''': This is a conference with the goal of getting educational and scientific institutions acquainted with Wikimedia projects, creating two-way communication, introducing Wikimedia projects in the curriculum of Serbia’s educational institutions and informing state institutions about positive aspects of free knowledge, which is a foundation of Wikimedia projects.
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**'''EduWiki Learning Day''': This is a one-day event which would happen after EduWiki Conference. The key objective is exchanging experiences between project managers (both local and guests from abroad) regarding leading and realization of educational programs in the global community and strengthening partnerships.
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**'''Wikipedia in Schools''': WMRS has a long tradition of conducting lectures and workshops within projects for all types of educational institutions: elementary, high schools and university faculties. The goal is to use Wikimedia projects in educational purposes as a free platform that could be used in many ways. One of those ways is writing articles (seminal papers) on Wikipedia, which help increase quality and quantity of this project. Thanks to the lectures and workshops, new editors and users will be informed about the ways Wikimedia projects work.
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**'''Seminars and Trainings''': This is a project that includes training teachers and professors to work on Wikipedia, so that they would be able to edit on their own and later train their pupils or students and use Wikipedia in their curriculum.
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**'''Professional Development''': This is a project that deals with including seminars and training in the system of professional development of teaching staff through attending obligatory courses and seminars. In contrast to the “Seminars and Trainings” project, which isn't compulsory and is conducted as an extension to the cooperation with an educational institution on a specific Wikipedia article writing project, “Professional Development” is a project where teachers and professors from all over Serbia attend a seminar because they are required to attend several of such seminars throughout a year, with the goal of professional development.
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**EduWiki conference: The conference will be considered successful if at least 50 people from Serbia’s educational sector attend and participate in the program. Some effects of the conference might not be visible at first, but we do intend on creating new cooperations after the conference, so having two or more new partners in educational projects could also be considered a success.
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**Wikipedia in Schools: The expected output of this project depends on the number of institutions we will be working with, as well as their size. All in all, we plan on having at least 400 new articles by the end of the project.
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**Seminars and Trainings: Seminars are tied to the number of educational institutions which we will cooperate with in the project “Wikipedia in Schools”. We expect cooperation with teachers/professors from at least 5 educational institutions.
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**Professional Development: Organizing at least one seminar for teachers from all over Serbia, with at least 20 participants, will be considered successful.
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EduWiki Conference: It was a good turnout of planned speakers from Serbia and abroad. As the entrance was free, there was a great number of listeners from Serbia. Because of the working day (Monday) and bad weather, attendance was slightly lower than we expected, so careful choice of terms, as well as better media promotion is something that we might work on in the future. Conference involved staff and several volunteers who had experience in organizing similar events.
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EduWiki Learning Day: Seven visitors from abroad and several representatives of Wikimedia Serbia attended very rich program that was designed for this event. Many experiences have been exchanged, and everybody learned something. Staff and several volunteers assisted with the preparation and implementation of events, and we will try to implement what we’ve learned in our future work and development of educational activities of Wikimedia Serbia.
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Wikipedia in Schools: This quarter had a very intense educational activity at several colleges and high schools in Serbia. According to number of the workshops, involved institutions, students and volunteers, this period goes on beyond the same period of last year. Similar trend is expected in the coming period, which requires additional resources for better monitoring and coordination of the event. As this is a period of starting the projects, number of written articles will be known when the projects conclude in the next quarter.
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Seminars and Trainings: A large number of secondary school teachers, college professors and teaching assistants with whom we have worked has undergone training work on Wikipedia, and promotional materials and other resources were available to them. Most of them are planning to engage themselves in the educational projects in the coming years, and one part of them has so far cooperated with us in these activities. By the end of the year we will have accurate data on the number of professors with whom we have collaborated on these projects because their number is constantly growing.
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Professional Development: This project has not been realized yet. Preparations were made to make organization better.
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EduWiki Conference: Preparations for the conference began several months ago. The team had been formed and they started designing concept of the event. The site for educational programs was created (and also for the conference), promotional materials were prepared. In cooperation with the representatives from local education projects and colleagues from abroad we worked 5 months on the planning of programs and thematic units. All ideas and suggestions were respected to the final layout. In the past months the most extensive preparations had been done which included completing the program, preparing participants (teachers, volunteers, organizers), preparation of maintenance (Belgrade Youth Center), various types of materials (promotional, print, furniture), press releases and public invitation, presentations, catering, refreshments, etc. The conference was held on the 24th of March in 2014 within the Youth Center of Belgrade. Rich full-day program was divided into several units, representatives of Wikimedia Serbia presented their activities, history, ideas , plans, and so on. Representatives of the institutions with whom we had cooperation, colleges, secondary schools, institutes and University Library, shared their experiences and examples of successful cooperation with the Wikimedia Serbia. After that, the guests from abroad presented to all participants educational projects which they exercised and their perception of it. At the end of the event Rod Daniken was interviewed for Wiki news in Serbian language .
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EduWiki Learning Day: Parallel with the preparations for the Conference, the preparations for Learning Day flowed as well. Three to four months before the conference all interested guests from educational projects abroad were contacted. They actively participated in the development of ideas and thematic units for the Learning day. After all proposals, final shape of the program was made. In the past month preparation coincided with them that followed the conference day. This was a one-day event that was realized on the 23rd of March in 2014 at Wikimedia office in Serbia. A rich and interesting program was created with key issues in the field of educational projects, on which we were trying to come up with an answer and share the experience with others.
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Wikipedia in Schools: In this period some entries were completed that started last year on project Viki student. Entries were completed at the School of Computing, as well as for students of master studies at the Faculty of Mathematics. The project Wiki Gymnasium was completed in the Third Belgrade Gymnasium.
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This year we started the implementation of new projects. Wiki Gymnasium was realized for the first time in the Mathematical Grammar School, with the 2nd class pupils. In the Mathematical Grammar School there are 7th and 8th grade of elementary school so for the first time the project Wiki school was realized. In addition, a new generation of 2nd year students of the Faculty of Mathematics launched a new implementation of the project in the same two cases as last year at this time.
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Launching the project Wiki student at the University of Nis, at the Teachers College in Vranje, particularly stands out. This was the first implementation of this project outside of Belgrade. University of Nis is running a project called “Unipedia”, focused on local issues from Nis. The University of Belgrade started a project at Faculty of Mining and Geology, similar to last year at this time. New partner in this quarter is School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Applied Studies in Belgrade. Students of Spanish language of the Faculty of Philology extended their project which was completed in December. Most of the new projects will end in the next quarter.
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Seminars and Trainings: During the lectures and workshops for students in the majority of cases their professors have been trained as well. Part of the training was carried out through special meetings and conversations that had been organized separately from the workshops with the students. This was helpful because professors were able to help students in the process of coursework on some issues. Some of them were involved in the implementation and practical workshops with students.
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Professional Development: Wikimedia Serbia has applied for permission to organize accredited teacher training seminars. Results are expected in a few months, and this realization is expected in the second half of the year. Also there is the idea to apply for a similar seminar to deal with the training of librarians.
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EduWiki Conference: Wikimedia Serbia gave its best for the conference to succeed in the best way, and the general impression is that we did that. Numerous technical details were needed to design and organize and the help of volunteers was invaluable. Simultaneous translation made following of events for all participants easier.
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EduWiki Learning Day: All of the participants were able to share their observations and comments, and although we tried to stick to the proposed timetable, everyone were able to participate. The meeting was closed only for people who are very intensively engaged in educational projects, and the experiences and conclusions were on very professional level. Numerous of photos that documented the event were made. This event was an opportunity to get to know people who are engaged for years with educational programs in various countries, and as such it was good introduction for EduWiki Conference.
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Wikipedia in Schools: Practical workshops and lectures about what is Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Educational program etc. were made with groups of students. Students got promotional materials, and all the necessary tools and other materials related to rules about seminal papers were provided. We started to follow and detailed statistics of the project. Also, we gave the survey for students to fill out. We delivered regular feedback to Faculty of Philology, who worked at skram technology. Although we thought about setting a wiki ambassadors of Philology to suit the students and help them in their work, we haven’t done that yet.
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Seminars and Trainings: Teachers who had collaborated with us in educational projects are most interested in and ready for long-term cooperation and therefore their personal training have significance for better project success. This project was partly overshadowed by other projects, because it is difficult to measure its success, because teachers are not expected to write articles, but only to help students to better manage the work.
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Professional Development: Some other educational projects, especially EduWiki conference and collaboration with universities and schools, help the growing number of teachers hear about the educational projects of Wikimedia Serbia. We expect that this will have positive affect on the attendance of the planned seminar. The plan of official school program is to handle the wiki topics in 2nd year of high school, which we consider quite useful and it goes in our favour.
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Wikimedia Serbia also created a new evaluation form for students who are participating in our educational program. The goal is to have age and gender statistics, statistics about their previous knowledge and experiences about Wikipedia, and their satisfactions about the workshop they participated in.
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