Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Present/Genetics in Everyday Life (Tom Haffie)/Timeline

Week 1: Wikipedia Essentials

 * In class
 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Handouts and Videos: Welcome to Wikipedia,Video on creating an account


 * Assignment (due Jan. 17)
 * Read Five pillars, an explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles
 * Create a Wikipedia account and create a user page.

Week 2: Editing basics

 * In class
 * Campus Ambassadors introduce:
 * Basics of editing
 * Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good & bad articles
 * Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments
 * Handouts and videos:, Talk pages tutorial video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure, Account and user page creation handout, Wikimarkup cheatsheet
 * Assignments
 * Sign up on the list of students on the course page.
 * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to one of the class's Online Ambassadors (via talk page), and leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page.
 * Free Edits Exercise is due March 13. See WebCT for details.


 * Milestone:
 * All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.

Week 3: Group Project Topic Selection Workshop

 * Assignment
 * Group Controversy Proposal due February 7. See WebCT for details.

Week 6: Term Test and Information Literacy Workshop

 * Assignment
 * Annotated Bibliography for March 13. See WebCT for details.

Week 7: Wikipedia Sandbox Workshop

 * Handouts and videos: Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video
 * Assignment
 * Team Function Form for March 6.
 * Milestone:
 * All students have added information to UserPages and started a Sandbox.

Week 9: Working in Mainspace Workshop I

 * Handout: Moving into main space, Submitting articles to Did You Know

Uploading images, and adding images to articles

 * Handouts and videos: Uploading images handout, Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons video

Week 13: Final Exam Review
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