Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Leadership Communication (Lori Britt)/Timeline

Feb. 27, Investigating the Wikipedia Perspective on Leadership

 * In class February 27 (tentative)
 * Explore Leadership related pages on Wikipedia (Leadership theory, Leadership Practices, Leader bios, etc.)
 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Read Five pillars, an explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles
 * Students will start a wikipedia account


 * Campus Ambassador introduces:
 * Basics of editing
 * Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good & bad articles
 * 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

By March 12: Adding a Communication Perspective on Leadership

 * In class
 * Groups will choose an article to focus on, gain instructor approval, and then discuss in their groups how to revise the article to reflect a communicative perspective on leadership.
 * Students will learn how to add sources to a page.
 * Handouts and videos: Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video


 * Assignment, by end of the class
 * Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.

By March 19: Articles Revised

 * In class
 * Student groups present their revised articles and discuss how they added a communication perspective.

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