Sharing Your Skills on wikiHow
From making meat loaf to taking the T, everyone knows how to do something that they can share with the rest of the world. wikiHow enables people to help others by sharing their solutions to everyday problems. Started in 2005, wikiHow currently contains volunteer-written and edited 50,000+ articles, some of which are shared with people in the third world (that would normally lack access to this information) through partnerships with Unicef and One Laptop per Child.
details
- when: saturday, april 18th, 2009, from 2:05 pm - 3:35 pm
- to attend: Please see the info page for more information on attending any of the workshops at the 2009 Boston Skillshare.
- facilitated by: Nicole Willson
lesson plan
1. Overview of wikiHow
2. Editing wikiHow
3. Writing for wikiHow
4. Adding pictures to wikiHow
5. Adding video to wikiHow
facilitator experience
Nicole Willson has been editing wikiHow for over 3 years. She has been a wikiHow administrator for 2 and a half years.
intended audience
People who are interested in sharing their skills with the world. Workshop is kid friendly. No prerequisite wikiwork or wiki skills required.