User talk:Mike Cline/Articles Under Contemplation/Articles By MSU students

The following list is a partial list of WP articles contributed to by students at Montana State University under the mentorship of Campus Ambassadors in the Wikipedia US Education Program. Also included in the list are major outreach efforts by Montana State University Campus Ambassadors.
 * Mike Cline - Non-MSU associated volunteer
 * Bonnie McCallum - MSU Library Digital Archivist
 * Kelly Polacek - MSU Library Reference Librarian

Article list
The articles listed represent new articles created by students, expansion of stub articles, addition of references and/or articles where the content improvement resulted from research and writing accomplished by students.

The articles resulted from work done with the following Montana State University classes.


 * US101 University Studies, First Year Seminar- PREREQUISITE: First year students (less than 30 credits) only. -- This multi-disciplinary course, presented in seminar format, draws from the disciplines of psychology, sociology, history, and philosophy and encourages students to explore issues critical to their academic goals and objectives. The course emphasizes verbal communication, critical thinking, intellectual development, and academic choices.  Fulfills university seminar requirement of the core curriculum.


 * WRIT 101W College Writing I-- Studies in the discovery and written expression of ideas, stressing organization, support, audience awareness, clarity, and persuasive presentation. Taught around a particular topic or theme varying with each offering. (6 sections, ~150 students)


 * NASX 530 Federal Indian Law and Policy -Graduate standing. -- Advanced analysis of theories, doctrines, case law, and legislation with a focus on key legal and policy concerns for contemporary Native America including treaties, criminal jurisdiction, land, environmental regulation, water rights, fishing and hunting, child welfare, gaming, taxation, repatriation, and religious freedom. (2 terms)
 * San Gil
 * Single track (mountain_biking)
 * Acanthamoebidae
 * War economy
 * Eagle Mount
 * Doug Ammons
 * Homies
 * Jamie Pierre
 * Music software
 * Garden of 1,000 Buddhas
 * Diana's Baths
 * Swan Lake (Martins)
 * Liu Huan
 * Formica lugubris
 * Paleozoology
 * Guo Jingming
 * Dinan Cars
 * Bear spray
 * Psychology of art
 * Deep-sea dragonfish
 * Steve Romeo
 * Lake Iliamna
 * Blackfoot mythology
 * Horror film
 * Commercial fishing
 * Dream telepathy
 * Chambira River
 * Waste in the United States
 * Disability robot
 * Naturalism (arts)
 * Speech delay
 * Autoimmune thyroiditis
 * Revolt of Ahmet Anzavur
 * Year-round school
 * Cognitive disorder
 * Kirbys Pig Stand
 * Trauma Systems Therapy
 * Tyler Bradt
 * Dynamics of the Golf Swing
 * LJ Strenio
 * Chico Hot Springs
 * 819th RED HORSE squadron
 * Outline of United States federal Indian law and policy
 * Native American Languages Act of 1990
 * Montana v. United States
 * Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife v. Klamath Indian Tribe
 * Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective 485 U.S. 439 (1988)
 * Ronnie Lupe
 * National Indian Youth Council

Outreach

 * Wikipedia presentations at the The Tribal College Librarians Professional Development Institute
 * Wikipedia presentations at the School of Film and Photography
 * Wikipedia presentations to the Montana State University library staff (includes Reference Librarians who already teach Wikipedia skills outside the perview of the Wikipedia Education Program) MSU Campus Ambassadors
 * Establishment of an MSU Wikipedia Student Club
 * Wikipedia booth at Catapalooza 2012

Studies

 * Academic journal proposal by Kelly Myer Polacek on results of Writing 101 classes
 * Title: A novel approach to teaching information literacy skills to freshman writing students: Wikipedia contributions as course assignments
 * Proposal: We describe a unique assignment in which freshman writing students contribute new content to Wikipedia. Survey data reveal that students gain valuable information literacy skills including the ability to differentiate among source types, understand the diversity of library resources, and properly cite materials. Contributing to Wikipedia meets most of the ACRL information literacy standards and allows freshmen to contribute to a larger body of knowledge where their work can serve a greater purpose. Freshman writing students are regularly challenged to write expository essays that incorporate scholarly and popular resources typically available in university libraries. Librarians are often recruited to provide traditional bibliographic instruction in accessing and utilizing these resources, after which students go off to write their essays with no audience other than the writing instructor. Our unique instructional team designed a writing assignment that united traditional and novel learning goals by inviting Wikipedia into the classroom. Wikipedia is the 5th most visited web site worldwide and is used by students for a variety of academic and non-academic purposes. Telling students to avoid Wikipedia eliminates an opportunity for students to think critically about information, an important component of the information literacy skill set. We created an assignment based on Wikipedia contribution practices that met a variety of ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Our primary goal was have students gain experience in expository writing (specifically, encyclopedic writing style). Additional goals for students included: achieving competence using library databases; differentiating between scholarly and popular resources; understanding and respecting the boundaries of copyright and plagiarism; and learning to contribute in a novel Web 2.0 medium. The assignment instructions were simple: Students were to identify a topic of interest from the list of Wikipedia stubs and expand the stub by 800 words. Students were to cite at least one academic journal article, one book, and one popular news item; additional sources and source types were encouraged. We assessed students' use of library and internet resources, as well as their engagement in several Performance Indicators described in the ACRL Information Literacy standards. Our instructional team included: a Writing 101 instructor, a reference librarian, and two Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors. Student report via surveys found that most students referred to journal articles (69%) and utilized library databases (67%) when researching their Wikipedia topic. Other resource utilization included: books (31%), print newspapers or magazines (26%), and online news sites (14%). In terms of Performance Indicators, 61% of students understood the difference between copyleft and copyright materials (5.1.d); 57% of students applied the same search strategy in multiple databases (2.2.e) demonstrating an understanding of the limitation of a particular resource; and 81% of students cited multiple types of sources (1.2.c) and 69% of student differentiated between popular and scholarly resources (1.2.d), together demonstrating an understanding of the variety and quality of available resource types. Our research is an example of how librarians, faculty, and community constituents can unite to design instructional content that offers students experiences writing and collaborating in new ways while simultaneously enhancing their information literacy skills. Finally, creating content for Wikipedia offers students the opportunity to contribute to a larger body of knowledge, where their work can be viewed, improved, and serve a greater purpose.
 * Authors: ACRL 2013 Proposal, May 2012, Kelly Myer Polacek, MLS, MS, WCA, Bonnie McCallum WCA, Mike Cline, WCA
 * Accepted for publication in ACRL conference proceedings.