Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/American Federal Government (Nate Vanden Brook)/Timeline

Week 1: Introduction: What is Wikipedia?

 * In class assignment: Read and discuss the Five Pillars of Wikipedia
 * Homework: Wikimedia Foundation (2010). Evaluating Wikipedia Article Quality. Evaluating_Wikipedia_brochure.pdf
 * Homework: Brizee, Allen, & Driscoll, Dana Lynn (2010). Evaluating Sources of Information. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/01/
 * Homework: Journal Response To Evaluating Article (to be completed in ANGEL)

Week 3: Evaluation of Articles

 * In class assignment: Read and and evaluate articles for neutrality
 * Homework: Read and evaluate and assigned Wikidpedia entry
 * Homework: Journal Response to Article Evaluation (To be Completed in ANGEL)
 * Due September 9, by 11:59 PM: Journal Response to Evaluating a Wikipedia Article

Week 4: What is Research?
Friday, September 16: Meet with Dana Tuley- Williams in the Library

Week 5 and 6: Annotated Bibliography
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/PlagiarismHandout.pdf Resource: Bisignani, Dana, & Brizee, Allen (2006). Annotated Biblographies. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
 * In class: What is an annotated bibliography
 * Assigned: Annotated Bibliography (rough draft due week 8; final draft due week 11)
 * Assigned: Wikipedia topics to be edited
 * Homework: User:Awadewit, et al. (2009).Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
 * Homework: Avoiding Plagiarism Quiz (available on ANGEL) (10)
 * Due September 30, by 11:59 PM : Journal Response to Article Evaluation

Week 8: Using Wikipedia

 * In class assignment: How to set up a Wikipedia user account
 * In class: Meet On Campus and Online Ambassadors
 * Due October 14, at the start of class: Annotated Bibliography Rough Draft (20)
 * Homework:Leave a message on your group members talk pages

Week 10: Using Wikipedia

 * Due October 28, by 11:59 PM: Leave a message on your group members talk pages

Week 11: Using Wikipedia
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Welcome2WP_English_Flap_081810.pdf
 * In class: Using your sandbox
 * In class: Editing a wikipedia page the basics
 * Due November 4 at the start of class: Annotated Bibliography Final Draft (35)
 * Homework: Make at least two edits to your assigned Wikiepdia article in your sandbox
 * Homework (to be read by week 6): Leuchtenburg, William E. (2006).New Faces of 1946. Smithsonian Magazine, November 2006. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/newfaces.html?c=y&page=1
 * Resource: Logan, Darren W, et al. (2010). Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. PLoS Comput Biol 6(9). http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Ten_Simple_Rules_for_Editing_Wikipedia.pdf
 * Resource: Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki Markup Quick Reference.

Week 12: Using Wikipedia

 * Due November 11, by 11:59 PM: Make at least two edits to your assigned Wikiepdia article in your sandbox

Week 15: Using Wikipedia

 * In class: Discuss article: New Faces of 1946.
 * In class assignment: Evaluate Wikipedia entry: United States House of Representatives elections, 1946.
 * Due December 2, by 11:59 PM : Assigned Wikipedia Articles edited and ready to go live from the sandbox (50)

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