Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Wikipedia: Aim for Featured Article/Timeline

Timeline
Here's some encouraging news! It's been done before--in Spring 2008 at the University of British Columbia led by JB Murray: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MMM

Brief Outline of Schedule:
 * 1) Student introductions, expectations, peer-assessment, collaboration. Exploring the Wikipedia world, looking at examples.
 * 2) *WEEKLY GOALS: Reading some documentation, making some first contributions.
 * 3) Where to Improve, Finding Articles.
 * 4) *WEEKLY GOALS: Exploring content areas, articles, wikiprojects, etc. and making one's presence known (posting on talk and discussion pages).
 * 5) Ways of editing: subject matter experts, editors/contributors, and gnomes!
 * 6) *WEEKLY GOALS: Selecting extremely specific area(s), article(s), or section(s).
 * 7) Verifiability, sources, references.
 * 8) *WEEKLY GOALS: Contributing research and content.
 * 9) Peer-assessment, collaboration.
 * 10) *WEEKLY GOALS: How to improve? Do it!
 * 11) More peer-assessment, collaboration.
 * 12) *WEEKLY GOALS: How to improve? Do it!
 * 13) Feedback from community
 * 14) *WEEKLY GOALS: Solicit feedback specifically from the Wikipedia community
 * 15) More peer-assessment, collaboration.
 * 16) *WEEKLY GOALS: Get article closer to a steady state though it's "never finished."
 * 17) Final Review by everyone!
 * 18) *WEEKLY GOALS: More updates on whole group's feedback.
 * 19) Self-assessment, reflecting, sharing experiences.
 * 20) *GOALS: Share your experience with someone outside the class ;)

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