Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Arab Media (Adel Iskandar)/PostFirstSession

Thanks for attending last night's introductory session. As promised, here's some more information, and of course, homework assignments.

Three simple assignments to do before next Tuesday's class:

Survey
Please take this 10-minute survey:

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22BQTZCHJ4V

From the Wikipedia Foundation:

''Our Wikipedia assignment this term is part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative -- an experimental project to determine the best ways of using Wikipedia in the classroom. A crucial part of this project is to determine what students like you are learning from the assignment, and to do that, we need a baseline at the beginning of the semester.

''Note that when you get to Question 14 -- "Have you worked on a Wikipedia assignment this semester?" you should answer "no" at this point.

It's critically important that every student in the class takes the survey -- please spend a few minutes to answer the questions now.

Create a User Account
There are a couple tutorials for this. If you prefer a very short video with step-by-step instructions:
 * Video

(I noticed the volume is kind of low, but can be heard okay if you crank it up)

If you interested in the details behind the benefits of a user account, you can check out this page. There's also a link to the create account page there:


 * Why create an account?

Add yourself to the list of students
Here is the course page: WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Arab Media (Adel Iskandar). You will see that there is a section called Students. After creating your user account, please add your entry.

Miscellaneous

 * For a brief but oh so powerful understanding of Wikipedia, please read The Five Pillars.


 * Try to start thinking of an article topic. If you have something in mind, you could do some quick initial searches to see if your topic is covered in reliable sources that you will use as citations in your article. Also, you can search Wikipedia to see if the article already exists, or if there are similar topics.  If the topic doesn't exist, you can create a whole new article.


 * Here are slides from the first session. Note that by clicking on these, you can view slideshow embedded in your browser, and there's also a download link about halfway down the page:
 * Campus_Intro_to_Wikipedia_slides.pdf
 * Campus_Wikipedia_Literacy_slides.pdf


 * For more general introductory Wikipedia links, we've added some resources to our course page. The section is titled "Resources".


 * For our contact information, you can find us on the campus ambassador page. Our photos are there, so it shouldn't be too difficult to spot us. An email link is there as well:
 * Rob and Jeff are around here: WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy/Campus_Ambassadors
 * PJ can be found around here: WikiProject_United_States_Public_Policy/Campus_Ambassadors

That's it! Stay warm and dry. --CutOffTies (talk) 04:36, 27 January 2011 (UTC) (Jeff)