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Week A: Wikipedia essentials

 * Overview
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation), and Wikipedia Template provided in-class.
 * Start the online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.


 * In-class Assignment
 * You will receive Wikipedia templates that we will use extensively in our class. It will be used to transfer the psychopathology portfolios from the current PDF format onto Wikipedia.
 * Create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page.
 * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to the Wikipedia Ambassador (either frankcjones or ongmianli).


 * Homework
 * Move material from graduate student assessment material portfolios into sandbox, using Wikipedia template provided here.


 * Milestones
 * All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
 * All students have learnt how to communicate on Wikipedia by introducing themselves to the Wikipedia Ambassador.


 * Extra Help
 * Handouts: Advice for choosing articles and How to get help
 * Template: Psychopathology Template

Week B: Troubleshooting

 * In class
 * Continue to work on your portfolios in your groups. Your Campus Ambassador and Instructor will go around troubleshooting any issues that you might have.


 * Assignment
 * Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the psychopathology portfolio.

Upload your section of work onto your Group Sandbox. You will not be graded on completeness; rather, you will be graded on effort.
 * Homework


 * Extra Help
 * Template: Psychopathology Template

Week C: Choosing articles

 * In class
 * Discuss the range of topics students will be working on and strategies for researching and writing about them. Review textbook against content of pages in Sandbox, and do PubMed and Google searches and discuss.
 * Handout: Moving out of your sandbox


 * Assignments
 * Move sandbox articles into main space.
 * Entire group will proofread the entire portfolio for completeness and correctness.
 * Optional: For new articles or qualifying expansions of stubs, compose a one-sentence “hook,” nominate it for “Did you know,” and monitor the nomination for any issues identified by other editors.
 * Optional: Update psychopathology portfolio with updated assessment information.


 * Extra Help
 * Template: Psychopathology Template

Week D: Class presentations

 * Assignments (due by last class)
 * Write a one page reflective essay on your Wikipedia contributions, specifying (a) what you liked about the exercise, (b) suggestions for improvement, and (c) overall impressions.


 * Milestone
 * Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading, and have submitted reflective essays.
 * Celebrate with a Pizza Party!

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