Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Language Development (Cecile McKee)/Timeline

by 26-Jan (Week 3): Wikipedia essentials

 * on your own
 * Read Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Read Five pillars, an explanation of Wikipedia's principles
 * Create a user account
 * Read Username policy and decide how anonymous you’d like to be on Wikipedia. [Note: I need your Wikipedia user name and your real name for evaluation purposes, but you don't have to use the latter for this assignment.]
 * Then follow the instructions in this video on creating an account to make your account.
 * Add your handle to our course page - the page you're reading - see the "Student" main section, below (which is listed in the page contents, at top of page).


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

by 2-Feb (Week 4): Editing basics

 * on your own
 * Learn from User pages, Wikimarkup cheatsheet, and Talk pages tutorial video.
 * Edit your user page
 * Practice by writing a brief bio about yourself on your own user page.
 * Practice using the talk function by
 * leaving a message for a classmate on their user talk page, and
 * responding to one left on your user talk page.
 * Think about the context for this assignment by reading About Wikipedia, especially these subsections:
 * Strengths, weaknesses, and article quality in Wikipedia
 * Editing Wikipedia pages
 * Wikipedia content criteria


 * milestones:
 * Each student has used the talk function and done some minor editing.
 * All students appreciate how Wikipedia's Five pillars relate to article quality.
 * Your comments on Week 3 readings must be uploaded into our D2L Dropbox by 3-Feb.

by 16-Feb (Week 6): Exploring our target article

 * on your own
 * Learn about article quality on Wikipedia
 * Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure
 * Article assessments video
 * Evolution of an article video


 * Read language acquisition, the start-class article we'll work on this semester.
 * Upload to 341's D2L Dropbox a file with these two parts:
 * your own list of five problems that you see with 'our' article (it'll help to refer to the Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure and our "language acquisition" article's talk page),
 * and a work plan adding up to 40 points. See instructions: Wikipedia work on D2L for an example.


 * milestones
 * Each student has analyzed our target article in terms of Wikipedia's rating system.
 * Each student has earned the 10 points for preparation activities.

by 1-Mar (Week 8): Initial improvements to our target article

 * on your own
 * Every sub-part of this project involves evaluation of plagiarism and licensing issues. So everyone should learn about plagiarism, citations, and references from
 * Plagiarism handout
 * Referencing handout
 * Referencing: Wikicode handout
 * RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video
 * Citing sources tutorial video


 * You don't have to use your sandbox. But it's a safe place to start. Watch a tutorial about your sandbox here.


 * Start work on sub-parts at 5- and 10-point levels.
 * Coordinate with classmates and Online Ambassadors to polish your work and address Wikipedia norms.


 * milestones
 * All students have read about plagiarism and learned some citation and reference code.
 * All students have started editing the target article on Wikipedia.

by 22-Mar (Week 11): Steady progress

 * on your own
 * Finish work started in Week 8.
 * If you're going to help with audio and/or video media for our article, learn about adding images to articles
 * Uploading images handout
 * Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons video
 * Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure(read by week 6),


 * If you're going to help with biographies related to our article, learn about adding writing them
 * Biography_standards
 * Biographies_of_living_persons


 * milestones
 * All students have finished work started in Week 8.
 * All students have started 20- and 30-point level work.

by 12-Apr (Week 14): Wrapping up

 * on your own
 * Finish work started in Week 11.
 * This should include giving and responding to feedback on each other's work. (Figure out reference to table on course page earlier.)
 * Start designing presentation for 26-Apr. It might be necessary to organize your collection of screenshots for that.


 * milestone
 * All students have contributed to the target article.
 * Each student has contributed to some review of their classmates' work.

by 24-Apr (Week 16): Class presentations

 * on your own
 * Finish preparing your in-class presentation(s) about this project.


 * with teaching team
 * Practice Thursday's class with Professor McKee and relevant TA(s) and preceptor(s).

on 26-Apr (Week 16): Ta dum!

 * Present to class.

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