Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Ohio University Zanesville/Digital Rhetorics and Literacies (Spring, 2016)
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- Course name
- Digital Rhetorics and Literacies
- Institution
- Ohio University Zanesville
- Instructor
- Matthew Vetter
- Wikipedia Expert
- Adam (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Writing and Rhetoric II
- Course dates
- 2016-01-11 – 2016-04-22
- Approximate number of student editors
- 18
Welcome to Writing & Rhetoric II – Digital Rhetorics & Literacies. The design of this course emerges from the assumption that learning writing and rhetoric in the 21st century should include digital literacies that innovations in technology over the last 30 years have brought about. The goals for this course are centered on improving our writing, reading, and critical thinking abilities, but we will also consider what it means to be "literate" during this time in history when texts, and they ways we write and read them, are undergoing massive changes.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 7 March 2016 | Wednesday, 9 March 2016
- In class - Wikipedia essentials
- Overview of the course
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
Handout: Editing Wikipedia
- Assignment - Learn the basics
- Complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 14 March 2016 | Wednesday, 16 March 2016
- In class - Proposals
Introduce Proposal Assignment.
Explore Wikiprojects, looking for gaps/opportunities to edit.
- In class - Readings on Gender Gap
Cohen, "Define Gender Gap?"
Wadewitz, "Wikipedia's Gender Gap and the Complicated Reality of Systemic Bias"
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 21 March 2016 | Wednesday, 23 March 2016
- In class - Workshop Project 3 Proposals
In-class workshop of student proposals. Review possible edits and sources.
- Assignment - Student Training
Students complete "Sandboxes and Mainspace" and "Sources and Citation" training modules.
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 28 March 2016 | Wednesday, 30 March 2016
- In class - Research
Finding sources for articles; in-class work on Annotated Bibliographies
- In class - Editing
In-class editing on your targeted articles.
- Assignment - Final Edits and Reflection
Final edits and reflection due by class 4/6. Brief presentations on article edits.