Preservapedia:WikiProject Preservation Education

Welcome to WikiProject Preservation Education, an online collaborative amongst preservation professionals and students dedicated to adding content to Preservapedia, ranging in categories from case studies, preservation organizations, and museums, as well as many others. Preservapedia encourages users to create new articles, or add to existing ones, with primary research, so consider this WikiProject a place to publish student work for the benefit of the preservation field at large.

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[[Image:Nuvola apps korganizer.svg|30px]] Goals
WikiProject Preservation Education hopes to engage emerging preservation professionals by giving graduate students a place to contribute their work to. The goal is that the process be beneficial to both students and professionals. By giving students access to the preservation field, their work can be assessed, commented on, and bettered by preservation professionals from around the country. Also, student's work expands the content of Preservapedia and allows preservation professionals greater access to practices, policies, and organizations that are preservation success stories from around the country.

[[Image:Nuvola apps korganizer.svg|30px]] Top 10 Reasons for Graduate Schools to Implement Preservapedia in the Classroom

 * 1) Preservapedia encourages contributors to use primary sources in article pages. As graduate students complete research assignments, their work can be added to Preservapedia as an online database of preservation practices and policies.
 * 2) Preservapedia promotes the potential for multidisciplinary study since the medium inherently requires new skills, and the online nature is conducive for separate teams or individuals to work on one project.
 * 3) As graduate students are the frontier of change in their prospective fields, it is important to embrace technological advances that will spread the word of the field's mission and information. Learning to contribute to wikis is also an IT skill that students can reference on their resumes/CVs.
 * 4) Student work is rarely published in a largely accessible medium. Preservapedia takes classroom learning and practical knowledge and shares it with interested users.
 * 5) Preservapedia holds students accountable at the scale of the preservation field since projects will be in the public domain.
 * 6) Preservapedia also holds students accountable within the classroom. Instructors are able to verify what users edited, added, or deleted content from pages.
 * 7) Preservapedia encourages interactive, collaborative spirit of the classroom beyond standard class discussion and readings.
 * 8) Preservapedia offers a medium that can quickly be updated to reflect the most current policies and practices in preservation.
 * 9) Preservapedia can also provide out-of-classroom learning experiences that can be applied to distance learning and online programs, enhancing the curriculum of developing programs.
 * 10) Creating Preservapedia content helps students evolve from learners to teachers. Education does not have to be a passive endeavor.