Wikipedia:Communicate OER/SOO Course/Roster

This is a roster of students and instructors for the Communicate OER project's P2PU School of Open course.

This six-week course (running initially in March and April 2013) will guide students in becoming productive Wikipedians. In addition to a general introduction, please consider addressing (A) What are you hoping to get out of this course? and (B) Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia (or another wiki)?



Pete Forsyth
I am the course instructor. I have been a Wikipedia contributor since 2006, and teaching others to do so in various contexts for most of that time. I am serving as Project Lead for Communicate OER. You can learn more about me at my web site: http://wikistrategies.net/pete-forsyth

Sara Frank Bristow
Hi! I'm the course coordinator. I am mainly an e-learning researcher, focusing on K-12, higher ed and informal learning. I'm very interested in open educational resources and wikis in general, and have been editing Wikipedia since 2006 myself (primarily wrt grammar until ~2010). I'm proud to be project manager for Communicate OER. My twitter handle is @SalientResearch.

Christine Bush
@WebMaps, Skype: christine.bush

I am a writer, Wikipedia editor, and Silicon Valley geek primarily interested in using postmodern and postcolonial analysis to subvert the status quo -- especially the status quo of American higher education. I see Wikipedia as one of the most effective tools in this effort. I support Wikipedia with financial contributions. I use Wikipedia in daily research. I edit Wikipedia and I look forward to learning how to do so more effectively. I have also installed, configured, managed and hosted wiki and swiki software over the years.

Bob Cummings
I am Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi (USA) and a collaborator with Communicate OER. I have studied, and continue to study, the teaching of writing using Wikipedia.

Lisa Dean
I am a consultant in the UK. I have yet to contribute to or edit an article in Wikipedia. I would like to eventually write articles in Wikipedia and edit existing articles.

Kevin Gamble
I am a retired faculty member from North Carolina State University. I have previously edited some Wikipedia articles, and have experience from running our own Mediawiki install. I haven't worked in Wikipedia for a while, and am wanting to get more involved and also refresh my Mediawiki skills. I've forgotten a lot. I continue to work as an IT consultant to a national consortium of 75 Land-Grant universities.

Vika Gardner
I am a professor at Allegheny College in northwestern Pennsylvania. I sometimes use Wikipedia assignments in my classes (in religion and history), but would like a more thorough introduction so that I may better prepare my students to write Wikipedia articles. I edit and write pages associated with my research, which looks at fifteenth and sixteenth century Central Asia. I'm also a computer geek and former programmer.

Sally Hanford
I work in the learning innovation team at the University of Nottingham in the UK. I've made minor edits to existing Wikipedia articles and would like to learn how to contribute more. I have an interest in global justice, fairness and citizen empowerment.

Stephen Judd
I am an IT manager with the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension and Chair of the eXtension Network Literacy Community of Practice. I'm interested in learning more about Wikipedia and also the P2PU course experience. I haven't edited a Wikipedia article before, but have used the Wikimedia software elsewhere. You can learn more about me on my Google+ profile: https://plus.google.com/115209315312652820399/about

Ruth Lewis
I am a librarian at Washington University in St. Louis sometimes supporting students with wikipedia writing assignments in their classes. I'm pretty good at fixing references but there is still a lot about editing that is a mystery. Yes I have edited in a number of wikis.

Jami Mathewson
I work with the Wikipedia Education Program in the US and Canada. I've made small edits to articles, but I'm unsure where to find notable sources for topics I'm interested in, since I don't have access to any university libraries. I'd like to get more experience finding those sources to create/expand articles.

Bogdan Miklusz
I am a Project Co- ordinator in Etnochata Foundation in Poland. I am also Polish Wikipedia contributor.

Margarita Nafpaktitis
I'm the Librarian for Slavic & East European Studies and Linguistics and Instruction Coordinator at UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library. Very interested in Open Access and open educational resources, digital humanities, and anything Slavic (including Russian, Polish, etc. versions of Wikipedia).

Rosemary Powers
I am a professor of sociology at Eastern Oregon University, a small rural institution with half of its students completing degrees through distance education. I am interested in participating in the Wikipedia editing world, and gaining enough skill to assist my students in doing this as well. I am currently on sabbatical, with a major focus on understanding Internet uses for higher education, especially social media (and learning/using these myself). Through participating in a cMOOC facilitated by Alec Couros, I started the blog onepulledthread.blogspot.com, which chronicles that experience.

André Spang
Hello, my name is André Spang. I am a cologne-based Educator and teaching at a high school in cologne, germany. My Subjects are Music and Catholic Religion.

You can find more Information on this site: About.me You can also look on my wiki: André's Wiki or Follow me on twitter: @Tastenspieler

Questions? Answers: First, I hope I get deeper into the Wikipedia-Editing and Understanding since I am using Wikis for my school and I was participating in the creation of a open Wiki for all Schools in Cologne and at least I run a own Wiki. But all I know was "learning by doing". Second, I hope to learn more about the P2PU because I like to run a own open-course with my students at school or at university. Maybe I will do that on my wiki or as a course within the P2PU - we will see.

Andrea Spang
I'm a Cologne based IT Consultant working at German Development Bank. I'm a Wikipedia 'beginner' and want to learn more about it. Up to now I've only edited some smal articles on a media Wiki. I'm very interested in the possibilities and prospects OER can offer to the world. You can follow me on twitter: @yelliorange

Fabrizio Terzi Italy
| Fabrizio Terzi

Inventor, Designer, Translator

I am involved in social and educational projects related to public access to knowledge and cultural diversity. I am an active member of FSF.org and Co-fonder | Free Technology Guild FTG — working on Free/Open Culture.

My Wiki P2PU Project: Translation of Peeragogy handbook into Italian (OER) here:

--Fabrizio Terzi P2PU (talk) 10:49, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

--Peeragogia (talk) 07:04, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Ben Wilson
I'm a software developer based in New Zealand. I'm interested in learning more about editing Wikipedia, as I've used the content for years, but never contributed anything back.

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Luke Lynch
I'm a London based Freelance IT Consultant working currently working at a Japanese Investment Bank. I'm a Wikipedia novice and would like to learn more about the Wiki* to become a life-long editor, not just a consumer. I'm also excited about the prospects of furthering my education with P2PU.

Maura Lerga
I'm sociologist and I work as a research assistant in the Open University of Catalonia, UOC. We are working in a research project on educational uses of Wikipedia in higher education. The project focus on (1) perceptions and attitudes of faculty members about Wikipedia, and (2) experiences on educational uses of wikipedia in higher education. You can read an explanation of the research project in the blog Wiki4HE. I also work as a freelance consultant for public administration. You can see my public profile in Linkedin.

Mary Jane
I'm an instructional designer at a public community college in upstate NY. I've poked around in Wikipedia before but never took the time to learn how to do it properly. I'm hoping to make the time to learn more about how Wikipedia works so that I can help make faculty understand what it is and what it is not. Students are going to use Wikipedia no matter how many thou shall not messages faculty make. By understanding Wikipedia better, I can help faculty, and therefore students, to use it properly.

Michael D. Johas Teener
@gofw

I'm a system architect currently working for Broadcom Corporation, but I've been around the block a few times (see my LinkedIn profile). I authored the Wikipedia Audio Video Bridging page, which involved creating a WP:disambiguation page for AVB and dealing with all that entails (done back in 2009, so I just remember that it was somewhat difficult to go through all the process). I also did a bunch of edits to the Firewire / IEEE 1394 page(s) over the years to try to keep hearsay and unjustified folklore from creeping in. I have to update all the AVB stuff in the next few weeks, and add references to a bunch of new work going on in the IEEE, so it's time to update my meager skills.

Ushir Shah
I am an avid learner. I am interested to write articles in wikipedia.

Giorgio Guzzetta
I am a researcher in comparative literature and cultural studies, involved in a Digital Humanities project. I am learning to use Wikipedia as part of a digital pedagogy/open access class project.

Minja Kim
I am a researcher in technology enhanced education in a higher education institution and particularly interested in OER and mobile learning. I am looking forward to learn basic knowledge of Wikipedia editing. I made several editing on Wikipedia but I think after this course I can contribute more.

Andrea West
I am a college professor and researcher on Wikipedia & composition/rhetoric, especially in the spheres of metacognition and genre theory. I have done some minor editing, but I am always learning to learn more!

Harriet Deacon
I am a historian with interests in African history, heritage studies and medical history, a consultant based in the UK. I have not yet tried editing Wikipedia but would like to start.

Mihaela Ghisa
I'm a Romanian young researcher in the field of foresight - futures studies. I would like to write wiki articles with the basic concepts of the field. I believe wikipedia has few articles about this and the field has a very rich literature. I hope the course will help me for my initiative. I've been a wiki beneficiary so far, not yet an author.

Stephen Farrell
Hello, everyone.

I'm situated in the United Kingdom, I work part time at Bromley College and am relatively new to Wikipedia.

I'm afraid that sometimes I lack sufficient time online to do as much as I'd like so please bare with me as I hope to change the dilemma that is my life. I'm very much fond of open source information on a whole and am looking forward to this course and meeting everyone here, so please, feel free to message me or discuss the course, although if you're seeking second opinions or comments on prior things done by Pete then I think you'll find I'll too be at a loss.