User:JMitchell (WMF)/Sandbox/Learning Days Wikimania 2017
We are happy to inform that we will be hosting Learning Days at Wikimania! In addition to the core-conference, the Learning and Evaluation team at the Wikimedia Foundation organizes pre-conference Learning Days. During these days, there will be workshops on program design, evaluation, and communities learning. The event will be held on Wednesday, August 9th and Thursday, August 10th. This year, participants will be selected along two tracks according to practice and knowledge:
If you would like to focus on developing programs for the first time in your community and have never attended a Learning Day before, we will have options prepared for you. Alternatively, if you have attended Learning Days before in past conferences and have already accrued experience in implementing Wikimedia Programs, we need your help! Aside from having advanced workshops for experienced program leaders focused on leadership development, we also want your help in co-hosting trainings and presenting what you know to others. Registration & Selection editRegistration for Wikimania 2017 opens on Friday, May 5th. In the registration form, you will only be asked for your general interest in the pre-conference Learning Days. By stating your interest, you are not automatically registered, as only a limited number of slots are available. Selection will begin on June 5th, for the best opportunity at selection, please register by June 11. Qualification does not guarantee participation. Participants who apply prior to June 5 will be selected based on the extent to which they demonstrate the selection criteria. Following June 5th additional qualified applicants may be approved until there are no open slots remaining. Should demand be less than expected, restrictions may be loosened. Follow-up communications and notifications will be sent beginning June 5. If you have any questions, please reach out to Maria Cruz (eval@wikimedia.org). Selection Criteria: editThe selection criteria for Learning Days include that all participants must be endorsed to participate by their affiliate group and demonstrate evidence of at least 3 of the following to qualify for participation:
Restrictions: editNo more than one participant per affiliate group with exception of relevant teaching partners from the host affiliate and/or people associated with an affiliate group but acting as representative of a committee or other movement body.
Looking forward to a new day of Learning Together! Agenda editComing Soon Participants editIf you have already registered for Wikimania, and have interest in participating, sign up below Instructions for sharing knowledge editPosters editEstimated preparation time: 3 - 5 hours.
The maximum dimensions for your poster size A1. Following are the technical specifications for the poster:
In terms of content, the kind of poster we are looking for is academic poster [1], a presentation of information that is educational to others, and serves a learning purpose, rather than a promotional or marketing end. Once you chose the topic you want for your poster, lay out the story in a way that lets other people know what happened, what were the key results, and what is your key advice to them, if you have any. You can also use the ABCDs of Storytelling as a guide to creating your poster. Find more detailed guidance on this Learning Pattern, and also looking at posters submitted by others in previous Learning Days:
There are many programs you can use to create a poster. We have found that Microsoft PowerPoint, LibreOffice Presentation, and LibreOffice Draw are the most easy to use, and make good looking posters. Other programs like Adobe InDesign & Illustrator have more features, but they are also more difficult to learn, and they are expensive. Another option is to use Google Draw. Whichever program you choose, make sure to set the size of your poster file before you start adding words and pictures. This will help you make sure that the fonts you are using are the right size, and that the pictures you include have a high enough resolution to print properly. Here are some links that may help you create a poster of the correct size:
Once your poster is complete, please print it to PDF format and open it in a PDF reader to make sure that everything is displaying correctly. Are your pictures blurry? Is your text aligned? Once you are happy with the way your PDF looks, please send the PDF to eval@wikimedia.org.
Please email eval@wikimedia.org. Remember that the deadline for submitting your poster for printing is Sunday, February 26. If you have questions or requests for us to help you, please email no later than Monday, February 20.
Lightning Talk editEstimated Preparation Time is 1-3 hours.
There will be time for questions at the end of your talk. |