Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Cognition and the Arts (Greta Munger)

Course information

 * University: Davidson College
 * Course title: Cognition and the Arts
 * Professor name: Greta Munger
 * Professor's Wikipedia username:
 * Online Ambassador:
 * Course start date: August 27, 2012
 * Assignment 1 due date: September 28, 2012
 * Assignment 2 due date: November 20, 2012

Course description
Students will be reading psychology reports on various aspects of the Arts, including how we appreciate and understand art, as well as how art affects us emotionally. Assigned articles are from a wide range experimental psychology journals, including Brain and Cognition; Cognition; Consciousness and Cognition; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Journal of Cognitive Psychology; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition; Journal of Neuroscience; Music Perception; Perception; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; and Visual Arts Research

The major writing project will be contributing to Wikipedia on a topic related to cognitive psychology and the Arts, inspired by the assigned articles.

Wikipedia handouts & videos

 * Welcome to Wikipedia
 * Five pillars, a explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles
 * Video on creating an account
 * Talk pages tutorial video
 * Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure
 * Account and user page creation handout
 * Wikimarkup cheatsheet
 * Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout
 * Plagiarism handout
 * Citing sources tutorial video
 * RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video, Sandbox tutorial
 * Uploading images handout
 * Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons video
 * Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure
 * Article assessments video
 * Evolution of an article video

Assignment 1
Partners will update sections of Psychology of art page to reflect recent psychological research.

Getting started -due 8/31/12


 * After you register at Wikipedia, put these items on your userpage.  You can look at mine as an example.
 * External link to Davidson College
 * Internal link to course page
 * APS template
 * Infobox user template (make it pretty!)


 * Places you need to register (after userpage is done)
 * Add your name to the list of students on our course page (at the bottom)
 * Register at APS


 * Finally, you should try interacting via the talk pages.
 * Talk to fellow classmate on their userpage
 * Introduce yourself to Smallman12q (our online ambassador) under the topic on his talk page (Davidson Class meet and greet, towards the bottom of his talk page)

Serious draft -due 9/14/12

Peer reviews -due 9/21/12

"Final" wiki 1 -due 9/28/12

Assignment 2
Individuals will find a topic connecting psychology and art to update.

Serious draft -due 11/2/12

Peer reviews -due 11/9/12

"Final" wiki 2 -due 11/20/12

Wikipedia style is really direct
Typical student sentence
 * “In a study done by Brown and Munger (2010), they manipulated whether the camera was rotating or translating through the scene and found larger representational momentum for rotations.”

APA rewrite
 * “Brown and Munger (2010) found larger representational momentum for camera rotations compared to translations.”

Wikipedia rewrite
 * “More representational momentum occurs for camera rotations compared to translations through a scene. ”

Example using journal article and secondary source (textbook)
Cite the journal article first, and then a textbook to back up a particular interpretation or conclusion. Preferably a specialized text, not from Psy 101. Here's an example of an opening definition of mental rotation.


 * Mental rotation is the ability to manipulate mental representations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects about various axes of rotation, with larger orientation differences require more processing time.

Quote boxes
Quote boxes can be used to add insightful and relative quotes using the Quote box template.


 * Sample usage:

This quote is used in Cyberculture.

Wikitext:

For the technically inclined, you may change the background color (bgcolor) to a different web color. The hex codes may be found at Web_colors. Examples:
 * 1) FFFACD
 * 2) B0C4DE
 * 3) 7FFFD4
 * 4) 3CB371
 * 5) E6E6FA

To use, simply copy paste the above quote box, changing the quote and source. If you have any problems, provide the quote and source to User talk:Smallman12q along with the target article and section and he'll add it in.

You may see sample quotes, albeit made without the quotebox template, at iLoo, Fedspeak, and Nayirah (testimony) (all written by smallman12q).

Articles
These tables will list each article that a student is working on, and which other students will be peer reviewers for the article.

Assignment 1, factors adding to Psychology of art

Assigned reviews for Psychology of art sections

Assignment 2, individuals working on articles

Talk Page Banners
To mark each article the subject of a student project, add the following code at the top of the talk page for each article:

The banner will make it easier to track participating articles via categories. It will also let other editors know that the article is part of the project.

Student usernames
Student usernames should follow the ExampleUser format below.