Wikipedia:School and university projects/ITESM Campus Toluca/Syllabus

This will be an abbreviated syllabus for reference to both students and mentors in regards to Wikipedia-related assignments. You will also be able to see how Wikipedia fits in with the overall course.

The semester begins on Aug 6 and end in mid-Nov. The semester is divided into 4 periods/partials. The syllabus is separated by such below

Weekly Schedule (Subject to change)
Week 1 (1/28-2/1): Presentation of the Course / Introduction to the Wikipedia Community Week 2 (2/5-2/8): Wikiprojects and Contact with Wikipedians Week 3(2/11-2/15): Wikipedia First Article Week 4(2/18-2/22): Cultural Analysis and Writing (sentence) / Cultural Analysis of Movie Week 5(2/25-2/29): Cultural Analysis and Writing (paragraph) Week 6 (3/3-3/7): Wikipedia Policies – Cultural Analysis Week 7(3/17-3/21): Student Reports on projects (draft portfolios due) Week 8 (3/24-3/38): Student Reports on projects Week 9 (3/31-4/4): Class analysis and revision of 2 Wikipedia articles Week 10 (4/7-4/11): Professional Articles Week 11(4/14-4-18): Student presentation of Wikipedia article topics Week 12 (4/21-4-25): Student presentation of Wikipedia article topics Week 13 (4/28-5/2): 5 paragraph essay (persuasion) / Final reflective essay Week 14 (5/5-5/7): Finishing Portfolio

Portfolio Projects
I would like your portfolios to be divided into 4 major sections:

I. Annotated readings (to be read/annotated at home in preparation for classroom discussion II. Handouts (information given as reference such as sentence and paragraph structures) III. Wikipedia Projects
 * a. Userpage
 * i. Biography
 * ii. Userboxes
 * b. Collection of Wikipedia pages (like Category:Mexico), terminology (like “stub”) and codes (like reflist) (in English and Spanish)
 * c. Contact with Wikipedians (on your talk page and/or the discussion pages associated with your WikiProjects and articles (on these pages, highlight your conversations))
 * d. Project pages highlighting your contributions
 * i. WikiProject Mexico
 * ii. WikiProject related to your field
 * e. Town page (using “cheat sheet”)
 * f. Annotated Wikipedia policies
 * i. Neutral Point of View
 * ii. Verifiability
 * g. “small” contributions
 * i. Revise 2 articles
 * ii. Translate article for Spanish Wikipedia
 * h. 3 new or extended articles
 * i. Related to Mexico
 * ii. Related to your field
 * iii. Your choice

IV. Other Projects
 * a. Cultural Analysis of 1 movie (from list)
 * b. 2 Reflections on 2 different professional journal articles in your field.

V. Reflective essay on your experience in the course

Partial 1 (Aug 6 - Aug 31)
Major Assignments (There are no assignments directly related with Wikipedia for this period but if students want to chat with anyone on the mentors list (I require voice chat for this assignment.) that would be great.)
 * Writing Assignment (summary and analysis of readings for the period)
 * Individual Project (chatting with non-Spanish speakers)
 * Lab Assignments

Partial 2 (Sept 3 - Sept 28)
Major Assignments
 * Writing Assignment (Business Letters)
 * Networking Assignment (Directly Related with Wikipedia)

Partial 3 (Oct 1 - Nov 2)
Major Assignments
 * Lab Assignments (Work with Wikipedia)
 * Individual Assignment (Chat - What do foreigners know or don't know about Mexico?)