User:Klortho/Education Program Notes

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Here are my notes related to the Wikipedia Education program and the Ambassador Training Modules.

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JHU Molecular Biology, Spring, 2014

 * Calendar: 1/22 - 5/6, except spring break 3/17 - 3/23 (set end date to 5/7)

Course pages:


 * Section 81
 * Section 82

Templates:


 * USEP/Courses/JHU_MolBio_Ogg_SP14/Common
 * USEP/Courses/JHU_MolBio_Ogg_SP14/Articles_81
 * USEP/Courses/JHU_MolBio_Ogg_SP14/Articles_82

JHU Molecular Biology, Fall, 2013
Course pages:
 * Section 81
 * Section 84

JHU Molecular Biology, Spring, 2013
Course pages:
 * Section 81
 * Section 82

These both transclude this common page

Dates: 1/19/2013 - 5/7/2013

The most excellent Keilana helped as an OA.

We did evaluations and other things on Google docs. Here is a spreadsheet that I used to assign review articles to students: spreadsheet.

JHU Molecular Biology, Fall, 2012
The education program's official course list for this semester is here.

The course pages for our Molecular Biology course (two sections) are here: section 81 and section 83.

Resources to help set up course pages
Here are some sample (and real) course pages, you can steal information and ideas from:


 * Biolprof's course on signal transduction, Spring, 2013
 * Rhetoric and Composition
 * For grading rubric, look at these case studies. In particular, this one on milestones.

Other links:
 * Sage Ross's amazing Template:Course_page, which is actually a wizard interface to let you create your course pages.
 * Wikipedia Education Program
 * Instructor Basics - How to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool (brosure)
 * Sample syllabus

Other
need to sort the following


 * I went through that wizard, accepting all the defaults, and the result is here. Note that, in particular, the "resources" tab is chock-full of goodies.
 * Ambassadors orientation resources
 * In particular, the classroom resources
 * Welcome to Wikipedia
 * Sample Syllabus
 * Ambassador training program - editing slides. These could be a source of tutorial info for teaching the students to edit.

Tips, notes
One very nice set of resources is the amazing Template:Course_page, by Sage Ross. Here is an example of the results of going through the wizard interface. Note that one drawback is that a lot of the content is transcluded from sub-pages (see the template documentation for a list) so it would not be straightforward if, for example, a student wanted to edit something there. I think it's a big drawback, because we really don't want student's to be intimidated when they click the "edit" button on any given page.

Education program

 * Special:MyCourses - Live feed from my courses

The organization of all of these pages is still (Jan., 2013) a bit of a mess. Some are on outreach, some are on enwp. I *think* the ones on outreach are old.


 * Education noticeboard - central point for communicating with the community.
 * Education working group proposal - need to read this.

Any of the following Education extension special pages has links to all the others:


 * Institutions
 * Courses
 * Students
 * Online Ambassadors
 * Here's where I can edit my own OA profile.

I think these are out-of-date:


 * Main page (outreach)
 * Wikipedia Education program hub (outreach)
 * The Wikipedia Education program for the U.S. and Canada (outreach)
 * US Education program (enwp). Because this is on Wikipedia (not outreach) this has information that is relevant only to english-language editors. Note that the US and Canada programs used to be separate, but are in the process of consolidating, which is why it's kind of a mess right now.
 * For reference, here's the Canada education program

Education extension, related help pages

 * Institutions - the main entry point (?), lists all of the institutions registered with the extension.
 * Course pages - explains what a course page is
 * SpecialPages - Education - lists all of the "Special:" pages associated with the Education extension.

Training modules

 * Training home
 * Training for newcomers
 * Training for students
 * Training for educators
 * Training for Wikipedia Ambassadors

The old versions of these:


 * All training modules
 * Ambassador training
 * Educators training

For motivation

 * List of incentives for using Wikipedia as a teaching tool
 * One professor's story of her experiences
 * Excellent blog post which is one professors experiences

People and other help resources

 * Current Regional ambassadors
 * Our current RA is Rob Pongsajapan
 * Education noticeboard, for discussion of collaboration issues
 * Sherry Ogg
 * Doc James
 * Dr. Murray - Doc James suggested we get in touch with him, but we haven't yet.
 * See also the Wikipedia Education program contact page.
 * Rob Schnautz - Online communications contractor for the Wikipedia Education program
 * Sage Ross - Works for WMF as a contractor in support of the Education program.
 * Jami Matheson - runs the US/Canada education program.
 * IRC
 * Overview (wikipedia-wide)
 * Help page specific to ambassadors
 * Channels related to ambassadors:
 * #wikipedia-en-classroom
 * #wikipedia-en-ambassadors
 * #wikimedia-outreach
 * #wikipedia-en-help

Ambassador program

 * Ambassadors program
 * Ambassador-Announce mailing list
 * Campus ambassador program
 * General
 * U.S.. At the bottom of this page are links to the application form
 * Resources tab - lots of links to videos, brosures, handouts, etc.
 * Online Ambassador program
 * General
 * Wikipedia Online Ambassadors home
 * Or, this seems to be mostly the same thing
 * How to apply

Out-of-date links:
 * U.S., including a list of current online ambassadors - this has been replaced by Special:OnlineAmbassadors.

Other

 * Case study, "Write a Featured Article", about one specific course assignment, similar to what we're going to try.
 * My blog post, Wikis in Science and Education, 6/13/2011.

Wikipedia course pages
See also the education program's official course list for this semester.

Each section of the course has its own course page on Wikipedia itself: section 81, section 83.

Welcoming students
When students have created their accounts, add this to their talk pages (don't forget to change the section number to match. See the documentation):

Hi, name, welcome to Wikipedia!

Here are some other pages that you might find useful:
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please don't forget to sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question.

We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished!

Find articles to work on
We need to identify an adequate number of articles (~ 20) that need work, and then let the students choose among those.

Places to find them:
 * WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology, under "How you can help",
 * [Comprehensive list of stub-class articles
 * The project's list of stubs (not sure how this relates to the above link), and
 * Their worklist.

Suggestions:
 * Chromothripsis (suggested by User:AlexBateman)

When articles have been assigned, we should mark each one, on the talk page, with one of these templates (described here):

Goals
''We should express these goals to the students at the start of the course, somewhere, either on the syllabus, or on the course page. At the end of the course, the feedback form should give them a chance to say whether or not these goals were met.''


 * Introduce students to online collaboration in the most successful crowdsourcing enterprise ever conceived.
 * Expose them to the concept of a literature review, and how this fits into the spectrum of scholarly publishing
 * Help them learn to identify reliable sources, and to properly cite sources for the content they write,
 * Introduce them to the concepts of liberal licenses and open content, and help them to appreciate their value
 * To take the work that the students would do for this class anyway, and apply it to an enduring resource that others can benefit from
 * To introduce the students to editing Wikipedia, which, by itself, is a worthy goal.
 * More suggestions at the Ambassador training slides.
 * TBD

Text for the syllabus
''Overall modification to the existing syllabus: this Wikipedia project will take the place of the three "group assignments" from last year. The "individual assignments" will remain the same.''

Draft for the text to be included in the syllabus:

TBD

Blackboard discussion forum
Within Blackboard, add one discussion forum for this project.

Title: Wikipedia project discussion

Description: Use this forum to ask questions about the course Wikipedia project.

''Make sure students are encouraged to help each other out, rather than just relying on the ambassadors. They should know that the ambassadors are volunteering their time.''

Student feedback form
Provide a form for students to fill out so they can provide feedback on how well this project met its objectives, and how useful it was.

... TBD