Wikipedia:Meetup/Ireland NUIG CELT15 Editathon

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About the Symposium - Getting Real about Virtual Learning
Online Learning suffers from no shortage of hype. Witness the media frenzy over MOOCs and tales of avalanches, tsunamis and 'disruption.' However, universities and other organisations have been running successful online learning programmes, providing flexible and stimulating educational experiences to students across the world. Classroom pedagogies have arguably also evolved, with increasing 'blending', 'flipping' and emerging 'hybrid pedagogies'. It hasn't been easy, especially when resources and time are constrained. Nor is it clear that such approaches are 'better,' rather than different and better-suited to different types of students, subjects or approaches to learning. There's still plenty of scope for research, for experimentation and, indeed, for creativity.

At this symposium, we'll try to explore these issues from the perspective of the theoretical and the practical. Colleagues will share their experiences, challenge pre-conceptions and collectively reflect on the possibilities as well as the challenges that digital technologies provide to higher education.

The Editathon
As part of the symposium, Wikimedia Community Ireland is proud to present a workshop and editathon on Scholars and Scholarship. The event aims to help turn participants into active users and contributors to Wikipedia. Participants will be able to hone their editing, writing and research skills.

At the moment, there is a debate whether Wikipedia has a place in third-level education. The Guardian newspaper provides an interesting piece on regarding the appropriate use of Wilipedia in HE. Should students feel ashamed when using Wikipedia to check facts or dates of a particular historical event? Should teachers encourage students to read only reputable published sources and to avoid consulting Wikipedia? Or can Wikipedia be a useful teaching and learning tool? The Scholars and Scholarship editathon will explore these and other questions while working to enrich the available corpus of articles.

Participants will be introduced to the basic Wiki-editing techniques. Participants will identify their topic of interest and related articles. Trainers will help them to identify information gaps or other areas of improvement. Participants will identify published sources that will help them improve the existing articles.

The symposium and editathon are free to all, no editing experience is necessary. Please register in advance for the symposium at. All are welcome.

How to Prepare

 * 1) Sign up for the symposium
 * CREATE A WIKIPEDIA ACCOUNT (if you don't already have one)

Please set up an account before the event if at all possible. Very few details are needed: a Username, password, and we recommend giving your email, if only to be reminded of your password when you forget it. The short Tutorial/Registration explains why this is a good idea.

If you like, you can also learn a little about editing ahead of time here: w:en:Wikipedia:Tutorial, or see Getting started on Wikipedia for more information

'''The event takes place in a computer lab. You do not need to bring your own device'''

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 * Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha
 * S. M. Cyril
 * Tomás Ó hÍcí
 * Sinéad de Valera
 * Seán Ó Neachtain (poet)

Needs sections

 * Thomas Barton (divine)
 * Áine Hyland
 * Patrick Masterson
 * Séamus P. Ó Mórdha
 * William English (poet)
 * William Duckett (United Irishman)
 * Teresa Ellen Dease
 * Fintan Cullen

Needs expansion

 * Joseph Barron
 * Thomas Barton (divine)
 * Edward Berwick
 * Margaret Skinnider cleanup
 * Áine Hyland
 * Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha
 * Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha
 * Peter Flood
 * Raymond Piper
 * Patrick Masterson
 * S. M. Cyril
 * John Carey (classical scholar)
 * Séamus P. Ó Mórdha
 * Paul Rowe (Irish educationalist)
 * William O'Reilly (educator)
 * William English (poet)
 * Matthew O'Donnell
 * William Duckett (United Irishman)
 * Teresa Ellen Dease
 * James Brontë Gatenby

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