User:Jskarlin/sandbox

Wikipedia Assignment for ITP Core II 2016
User:ObscuraScientia I figured I'd get our work plan started here per the instructions on the assignment page.

Check-in points:

March 7th: Complete the Orientation for New Instructors. Draft your work plan on one of your group member’s sandbox page. We want to draft
 * 1) Mission statement: The purpose of this assignment will be to introduce students to proper citations for sources using Wikipedia. Students will learn to identify improperly cited references in articles and will seek out the resource in order to have it properly cited.
 * 2) Course objectives: Show students how to use proper citations for a variety of source material.
 * 3) Weekly lesson assignments: Starting with most basic and ubiquitous - book, journal article, and web resources. Then, more complicated things, like eBooks, translated texts, blogs. Moving on to primary source citations, including archival material, interview transcripts, personal correspondence, etc.
 * 4) What we will ask for: Students will need to demonstrate an understand of how to use proper citations in Wikipedia. This competency will be shown based on [... still working on this part...].
 * 5) Grading rubric: [Work in progress]

March 14th: Begin initial contributions on sandbox. I think we can easily get this going.

For next week, March 14, we can sketch the main trajectory and overarching goals

ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW

OPERATION MISSION:

Immediate goals: Bigger picture:
 * 1) get students to explore and contest the citations of the information they read daily
 * 2) get students to improve a minimum of 3 citations (by fixing or adding citations) for an article they would trust
 * 1) get students to engage with citation
 * 2) get students to talk about how to trust internet content
 * 3) get students to investigate the transmission of knowledge through citation

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS

Week 1: RECON

MISSION:
 * For this first lesson recon mission, I think that we could have students start by trying to answer the questions "What is a citation?", "Why is it important? What is problematic about having no citations in an article? Why are incorrect citations in an article also problematic?", "What are typical citation formats?", and "How do you add citations to Wikipedia?". The focus should really be on addressing the latter question, and the former questions just serve as scaffolding. Some possibel starting points, if only for fun:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing_sources

Introduce students to Wikipedia

TERRAIN: What is Wikipedia? Set up accounts :I wonder if the setting up of accounts should actually be done earlier as part of the first assignment? ObscuraScientia (talk) 21:11, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia
 * Wikipedia has a neutral point of view
 * Wikipedia is free content
 * Wikipedians should interact in a respectful and civil manner
 * Wikipedia does not have firm rules
 * For this second assignment, we should also get students to think about what sources we choose to use are suitable for Wikipedia articles. Emphasis on secondary sources (if only because citing them is less of a struggle). If we can incorporate a lesson about intellectual property and the CC license and what it means at differnet levels, this could be helpful as well, especially if students might be interested in incorporating non-textual material into their edits.

AGENTS: Who are Wikipedians?
 * niche editors who build articles in a particular subject area
 * "WikiGnomes" who work quietly formatting pages
 * vandal fighters who fix bad edits
 * reviewers who help run Wikipedia's peer-review processes
 * administrators who clean up messes and block disruptive editors
 * policy wonks who analyze how Wikipedia works and discuss ways to improve it
 * For this third assignment, I think there should be an emphasis on contributing to a community of users, writing in neutral point of view, and trying to create and sustain a knowledge base that aims to be accessible and verifiable.

TIME AVAILABLE: 4 weeks

Week 2:

STAKE OUT YOUR TERRITORY

- find an article with numerous citations

- write a paragraph describing the sources used

Week 3:

UNDERTAKE YOUR MISSION

- research at the library

- find three citations that might not be up to snuff

TRUST NO ONE. EVERY FACT IS SUSPECT.

INTERROGATE YOUR SUSPECTS

- investigate better citations, find corroborating evidence

Week 4:

DEBRIEF

Turn in 2 page summary of the mission's success and or failure.

- Outline your understanding of knowledge production through bibliography

- Describe your grounds for verifying sources

- Document at least three instances (attach 3 diffs) in which you improved INCOMPLETE citations or found better citations

- Describe how this might influence your research projects in the future

For the week after, March 21, perhaps we could probably each draft two assignments

The week of March 21st we can spend revising together (I will be out of town Wednesday through Easter Sunday)

March 28th: Finish complete draft of assignment. Begin peer review (post a link to the sandbox on our course group forum).

April 4th: Peer review phase ends. Begin final work on assignment and writeup.

April 11th: Final assignment and writeup due to me — post a link on my talk page to the group member’s sandbox that hosts the assignment.

Useful links from the Orientation:
 * 1) Training Library
 * 2) For Instructors Page

Jskarlin (talk) 05:26, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

-ObscuraScientia (talk) 05:44, 7 March 2016 (UTC)