User talk:Ryanjmiller

Greetings,

I've used Wikipedia since its inception and I've always planned on contributing. Fortunately, I'm finally starting.

During the 2009 summer, I'll be teaching a botany class at the University of Washington. Historically, this class has always included a term paper on a plant family. Increasing student interest on assignments has always been a primary goal for me and I thought that incorporating a public contribution to the assignment (like making a wikipedia page) could spur greater interest among students.

helpme (1) Do you have any suggestions on how I should set up a system to allow college students to contribute wikepedia pages as a class writing assignment? (2) Does the idea even seem workable to experienced wikipedia editors?

I've looked around and haven't found any resources or past projects discussing college classes creating wikipedia pages, although I doubt this idea hasn't been implemented before...

Thank you very much, Ryanjmiller (talk) 20:00, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Read up on WikiProject_Classroom_coordination and School_and_university_projects. Good luck!  Cheers,  Jake Wartenberg Talk 20:06, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Ahh, just the links I was looking for! Thank you very much, Ryanjmiller (talk) 20:40, 14 January 2009 (UTC)