Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (Michael Mandiberg)/Timeline

Week 1: Wikipedia Essentials

 * In class
 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)


 * Assignment (due week 2)
 * Read Five pillars, an explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles
 * Create user account and make basic edits.

Week 2: Workshop

 * Campus Ambassadors introduce:
 * Basics of editing
 * Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good & bad articles
 * Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments
 * Handouts and videos: Video on creating an account, Talk pages tutorial video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure, Account and user page creation handout, Wikimarkup cheatsheet
 * Handouts and videos: Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video


 * Official slides: Module 1: Introduction to Wikipedia; Module 2: Wikipedia Literacy
 * Supplementary material: User:MalikaZ
 * Goals: introduction, making sure that accounts have been created and usernames have been added to course page, start editing articles, ideas for your own article(s)


 * Assignments (due week 3)
 * (See this and this for example assignments.)


 * Create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page.
 * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to one of the class's Online Ambassadors (via talk page), and leave a message for a classmate on that classmate's user talk page.
 * Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article in your research area, and post a diff to instructor's talk page.


 * Milestone:
 * All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.

Week 3: Assignment Given
In Seminar

Handout: Advice for choosing articles
 * Group Assignment given, with articles decided
 * Begin work on article

In Workshop


 * Campus Ambassador presents additional information

Week 4: Write Article

 * Continue work
 * Workshop #2
 * References
 * MOS:APPENDIX
 * Images
 * uploading non-wiki picturescommons:special:upload
 * Template:Side box
 * Creating the contents box Help:Section
 * Additional resource: Manual of Style

Week 5: Article Due
Assignment is due

Week 6: Blog post
Write a reflective blog post on your Wikipedia contributions.

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