Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Present/Introduction to Psychology, Part I (Steve Joordens)/Timeline

Introduction to Wikipedia assignment, Sept 28, 2011

 * In class
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course (see below for some of the details mentioned)
 * Communication now and throughout: A separate thread in the discussion forum will present links to support material, and will become the primary context for interactions between the students and the campus ambassadors.
 * Note: This assignment is for bonus marks, and you can do it anytime between now and the final due date. We have linked up some resources in the discussion forum, and others are provided below.  We leave it largely up to you to learn and employ what you need to in order to do this assignment (i.e., constructivist learning rocks!) but the discussion forum is there for any questions you might have as you do so.


 * Useful resource as a general intro to Wikipedia
 * Read Five pillars, an explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles


 * Wikipedia Editing basics


 * Handouts and videos: Video on creating an account, Talk pages tutorial video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure, Account and user page creation handout, Wikimarkup cheatsheet


 * Referencing in Wikipedia


 * Handouts and videos: Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video


 * Did you know


 * Handout: Submitting articles to Did You Know

Due date ... December 1
This is the due date for the Wikipedia assignments ... your work up until this point will be the work that counts towards you grade. To be clear you will receive bonus credits as follow:
 * 1% for creating a Wikipedia username and linking it to the Canadian Education Program, Registering with the APS Wikipedia Initiative, and linking your student number to your Wikipedia username as Steve highlighted in class
 * 1% for editing any psychology-related article in the English language Wikipedia (an article either pulled from the list on the APS website, or one you found yourself) to include at least one sentence expanding on the article and including an appropriate citation to back up the claim made in the sentence.
 * 1% for editing an additional article on a psychology-related topic either in the English version of Wikipedia or, preferably, in another language version you feel suitably proficient to edit.

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