Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Adolescent Literature Spring 2012 (Adrianne Wadewitz)/Timeline

Jan 9: Wikipedia essentials

 * Presentation by myself and Campus Ambassador (~15 minutes)
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia

Jan 16: Exploring Wikipedia

 * Assignment 1 due
 * Create a Wikipedia account, play in the public sandbox, create a userpage on the Simple English Wikipedia, sign up on the list of students on the course page, and read Five pillars.

Jan 23 or 25: Basic editing, part 1

 * Presentation by Campus Ambassador and myself in a computer lab (~1 hour)
 * Basics of editing: sandbox, headers, bulleted and numbered lists, internal and external links, bold and italics, preview, edit summary, history, talk pages, basics of help
 * Handouts and videos: Video on creating an account, Talk pages tutorial video, Wikimarkup cheatsheet

Jan 30: Practicing wiki skills, part 1

 * Assignment 2 due
 * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to one of the class's Ambassadors and leave a message for a classmate on their talk pages.

Feb 8: Sourcing and community norms
Due date for choosing a Wikipedia article. Choose one of the Wikipedia articles from the list provided by the instructor. Add your username and article to the table below, following the sample.
 * Presentation by myself (~45 minutes)
 * Overview of sample article, neutral point of view, no original research, verifiability
 * Handouts and videos: Referencing handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality

Feb 13 or 15: Basic editing, part 2

 * Presentation by myself and Campus Ambassador (~45 minutes)
 * Basics of editing: Adding images to articles, uploading images, adding references, reliable sources
 * Handouts and videos: RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Uploading images handout, Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons video

Feb 20: Practicing wiki skills, part 2

 * Assignment 3 due

Mar 5: Bibliography

 * Assignment 4 due
 * Research the topic of your article and create a bibliography of at least 10 scholarly peer-reviewed books and articles that could potentially be used as sources for your article. Place this list of sources on the talk page of the article, alerting the editing community there that you plan on improving the article.

Mar 19: Outline

 * Assignment 5 due
 * Post an outline of your planned revisions to the article to the talk page.

March 20 – Apr 9: Editing

 * Add material to the the article per your outline, following the conventions of Wikipedia. Be sure to post to the talk page to alert the community to your intentions. Try to edit in small increments to avoid procrastination. By the end of the semester, you need to have added at least 1500 words to the article.

Apr 9: Peer review

 * Due date for peer reviewing two of your classmates' articles.  Sign up for articles to review in the table below. eave suggestions on the article talk pages.

Apr 16: Copyediting

 * Due date for copyediting two of your classmates' articles.

Apr 23: Wikipedia contributions due

 * All work to be considered for grading should be completed by 11:59pm.

Apr 30: Reflective essay due

 * Turn in your reflective essay on Oncourse.

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