Wikipedia:USEP/Courses/Landscape Design V (Sharky)

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Course information

 * University: Louisiana State University
 * Course title: Landscape Design V
 * Professor name: Bruce Sharky


 * Campus Ambassador:Becky Carmichael and Vincent Cellucci
 * Online Ambassador:
 * Course start date: August 20, 2012
 * Assignment due date: November 5


 * Students to make 10 edits of their Wiki page including brief biography, set up two sandboxes, one each for their diagram assignment. Due September 28.

Course description
This advance topic studio will focus on park planning and design at different scales.

The first half of the course we will be working on a new visitors center complex at Exit Glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward, Alaska. The semester will begin with a field trip to Alaska and the project site. Students will have the opportunity of working with National Park Service Park Planners to Investigate master planning of visitor facilities at a National Park Service Cultural and Historical Site. Students will travel to Anchorage, AK to participate in a one-week investigation of master planning outdoor recreation facilities for park visitors in a National Park. The field trip will include seminar and presentations in the Regional Offices of the National Park Service located in Anchorage, AK. NPS park planning and design professionals will introduce students to the multi-faceted process of park master planning using the Kenai Fjords National Park as the course project site. The purpose of the field trip is to provide the students the opportunity of working on a real project with an actual professional client. The fieldwork will provide the basis for the first half of the semester project and set objectives focusing on the topic of park planning and site design for visitor facilities and outdoor recreation.

The second half of the course students will select one park planning and design project located in Louisiana. The projects will involve the redesign of existing parks that no longer serve the needs of the changing demographics of the neighborhood they once served. In most cases, each project is a real project requiring students to interface with a real project.

Timeline
ASAP: Conservation Biology students provide proposed information to be displayed graphically to their Landscape Architecture partner via Conservation Students' user talk pages and/or email.

Nov 20th: Landscape Architecture students email proposed image to Conservation Biology partner and Professor Sharky. Please note once an image is uploaded to Wikipedia, the image          cannot be manipulated, including in sandboxes.

Nov 27th: Conservation students provide feedback to Landscape Architecture partner for revision of imagery and/or accuracy of information via Conservation Students' user talk              pages and/or email.

Nov 29th: Conservation Biology students' final draft of their article is due in their sandboxes.

Dec 5th: Landscape students images revision due.

Dec 6th: Conservation Biology students go live with text of article. Landscape Architecture students add revised illustrations to live articles.

Articles
Conservation Biology hot topics

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Student resources
For on-wiki help, please refer to this student orientation and this brief resource page.

Past Course
Re-imagining Lost Space: Community Planning and Design (Bruce Sharky)

Printable guides
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 * Wiki markup quick reference – This one-page quick reference (included in the Welcome to Wikipedia brochure) helps you to remember the most frequently used wiki markup codes.
 * References – This handout explains why references are important, what the expectations for sourcing on Wikipedia are, where to place references, and the basics of adding "ref" tags.
 * Reference formatting – This handout explains in more detail how to create footnotes for citing sources, and how to cite the same source multiple times.
 * How to get help – explains the recommended way to get help and feedback. It also includes a glossary of additional help resources you can avail yourself of.
 * Plagiarism – explains what plagiarism is on Wikipedia&mdash;including "close paraphrasing"&mdash;in addition to why and how to avoid it.

On-wiki tutorials

 * Tutorial - General introduction to Wikipedia
 * Article wizard - Walkthrough of the requirements for articles, including notability and sources
 * Uploading images - Explains how to upload pictures into Wikipedia articles
 * Picture tutorial - Explains how to insert pictures into Wikipedia articles using wikitext
 * Graphics tutorials (advanced) - advice about advanced image editing

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