User:Hectorm07/sandbox

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"Wikipedia Training For Students"
After reading the "Wikipedia Training For Students" I learned many things; but I will just the most infoarmative to me. I learned who to edit a sandbox. Can can bold any text by highlighting it with the mouse and then click on the B. I also learned about wiki links, which are links that we can use on Wikipedia to go to another page. On this training I also practice with the word BOLD to link to another page. The traing also explains that everytime that we edit the sandbox we need to write a note about the edits we made on the "Edit summary).

It was easy to edit the Dona Ana Community College paragraphs, I just added some extra information about the college. I liked to practice new things and also edit another page sandbox. --Hectorm07 (talk) 18:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Plagiarism-from Wikipedia's perspective
This article explains that Plagiarism is when people use another's work without cite it. When people are creating articles on Wikipedia,they need to create their own work to avoid plagiarism. Two important circumstances where the editors needs to use quotation marks are: when the words are expressive, and when they use the identical  sentences.

Close paraphrasing-from Wikipedia's perspective
This article explains that when editors change or modify just some words from a original source it is called close paraphrasing. Close paraphrase is accepted ff the source is public domain, or available under a CC-By-SA-compatible free license; also close paraphrase is accepted when there't options to explain the same information. In order to do an adequate writing, editors needs to take notes in their won words of all the source, then editors need to write summary of those source and finally double check the information.

Copyright violations-from Wikipedia's perspective
Copyright violation is when editors copy material without the authorization of the copyright holder from sources that are not public domain. We can check the page history if all the information of the page appear to be a copyright infringement.

Tabs
Talk: this page is used to talk about any changes to the articles. Edit this page:This tab is to make some change to the page. History:this tab shows all the changes made the article or page. Move:Moving a page is when the page is moved to another article. Also when the title is not correct, that page can be renamed. Some editors do not have the Move tab on their account; they need to request a page move at Wikipedia Request moves. Watch:This is the star tab. With this tab we can add or remove any page from our watchlist. We can use it to see the recent changes made to the watched pages. While the start is blue, it is indicating that the page is on the watchlist of the user. --Hectorm07 (talk) 05:14, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

What I Practiced:
While I was reading the Wikipedia articles to edit or create, I was practicing several things; for example I practiced how the links include on the article works, and what the infobox include. I also practiced the article history tab where I can find additional information about older edits. we can compare selected revisions. Once we select an edit, we can click on its date to view it. The page history tell us the order in which edits were made to the article.

Article that I read:

 * Anthony, NM
 * Las Cruces, NM
 * Dona Ana County, NM
 * Pima Community College
 * New Mexico State University

What I am thinking:
It is easy to find an article and make some edits to it, but I don't sure on how to create one. --Hectorm07 (talk) 16:14, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Using Sources
On this assignment we have a lot of readings but all of those were very informative. Some of those explains that there are many articles that night not be credible; we have to be very alert with hose. There are some editors that create articles just because they likes to write, but those are without credible source. I also read about Academic use. It explains that if people get citations from Wikipedia from their research papers, those citations could be unacceptable; this is because Wikipedia is not a credible source. I also read about identifying an using primary and secondary source. While primary sources is when we get original material that is not yet modified, the secondary source involves context, analysis, commentary, evaluation, and interpretation. The assignment's reading also explain us how to insert a citation; it gives us step by step to insert a citation. Finally, we examined the citation inserted on edit page(all the information before the cursor, including the symbols). I think that we,as students, should be very carefully while we are making a research paper because there are many Wikipedia's articles that are not a credible source. We need to do our research appropriate,and we have to considerate primary and secondary source. I really liked how clearly the cite option help us to insert a citation. --Hectorm07 (talk) 21:07, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

The following Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park entry is an example that I mostly copied from Oklahoma City. The example is for this course. I added some additional information without references for now.

Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park
Oklahoma City has a skate park named after Mat Hoffman - a famous BMX rider. The skate park is now Mat Hoffman Action Sports Park and allows skateboards, bmx bikes, scooters, and roller blades. It was named in a National Geographic Travel guide as one of the 10 best in 2009.

"Writing ideas and outlines about articles to edit or create"
The following sandbox entries relate to this course.

Six Ideas

 * Create a new article: including the town's name, history, education, traditions, etc.
 * Columbus NM: This article needs additional information.
 * Translation opportunities: Learn how to translate Wikipedia articles from a foreign language.
 * Indent sentence or phrases: how to align text inside an article.
 * Business Office Technology programs: I am interested on the BOT program.
 * Las Cruces NM: I think that there is needed some information about the most common jobs that accessible on this area.

Most favored today
I would choose on creating a new article;I would like to write it about my hometown, Ojocaliente. I choose this item of my list because i look for some information about my town on Wikipedia and there's nothing about it. I would look for any information that can find about this town, Ojocaliente. Maybe in another places I can find information.

Next most favored today
For the next most favored today i would choose translation opportunities. I consider this a helpful tool to translate any article. Most of the time I use Google translate but now I would like to learn to use this new tool. --Hectorm07 (talk) 17:34, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

"Receiving approved/assigned articles to edit or create"
Once I selected my article :Columbus, New Mexico, I will expand and edit the history section. This section actually explains the Pancho Villa raid, and I would like to focus on the town's history (when and how it was established). I plan to go to the local library to see if I can get a book explaining the Columbus's history. I also will look for additional source to find some extra information.

While I was checking the talk pages, I found some discussion about an article mistake, the editor provided confused information in the Geographic section but it is already edited. There were't comments about the section of history.

--Hectorm07 (talk) 14:30, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

"My Recommendations to Improve the Course LSC 255"
Provide less readings: In the instructions’ assignments there were a lot of information but also in most of the paragraphs there were many links that we had to visit and read the information. I think that some of those additional links weren’t necessary because too much information gets us confused and we can lose the main idea. I had to take several hours on reading every assignment’ instructions and also on the links’ information. Sometimes I had to go back to the assignment’ instructions because I got confused of so much information.

Use a course’ textbook: Although the instructor was very clear in every assignment, it could be good if we use a textbook. I think that if we use a course’ textbook, it will be easier for us to understand quicker the assignments. Most of the textbooks show the information or steps that we need to do with images. In my personal opinion I think that we can understand better a lesson when we see pictures related to the lesson. If for some reason we don’t understand the instructors’ instruction, we could have the option to investigate additional information in our textbook. The last semester I took a PowerPoint class, and the textbook we used was really easy to understand because it explains every step with pictures and examples.

Set one assignment for week: I think that it could be better if the instructor provide us just one assignment for week. I am full time worker and full time student, so I need to do a big effort to do well on both activities; I think that there are several students in the same situation like mine. If we do one assignment for week, it will help us to get relaxed, and feel less pressure.--Hectorm07 (talk) 14:07, 7 March 2014 (UTC)