Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Cal Poly Pomona/LIB 1500 - Information Literacy in the Digital Age (Fall Semester 2018)

LIB 150 assists students in gaining a basic understanding of the concepts of information literacy. Using the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy as its structure, this course explores what information is, what grants it value, how to determine the authority of information, how to search for and find information, and how to use that information to participate in ongoing scholarly conversations.

Week 1
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Helpbutton at the top of this page.

This training is provided to prepare you for our first in-class Wikipedia Lab session: Basic Wikipedia Editing, which will take place on Thursday, August 30th.

Week 3
You will need to have chosen your stub for your Wikipedia final by no later than the start of class on Thursday, 9/12/18. Please consult the list on Blackboard for ideas on which article to pick.

These trainings are preparation for our Second Wikipedia Lab on Thursday 9/13  In addition to this training, please read the &quot;Evaluating Wikipedia&quot; manual (available on Blackboard)

Week 7
These trainings are provided to prepare you for our third in-class Wikipedia Lab: Citing your Work in Wikipedia, on Tuesday, 10/9.

Week 9
This training prepares you for our fourth in-class Wikipedia Lab: Finding Wikipedia-appropriate Images and Adding Them to an Article, on Tuesday, 10/23.

Week 10
These trainings are provided to prepare you for our fifth and final in-class Wikipedia Lab: Writing from a Neutral Point of View on Thursday, 11/1.

Week 16
This week we will be working on our articles in class in preparation for submitting our finals next week. The trainings above are provided to help you make your article live.

Week 17
Your Course Final is due in Blackboard no later than 11:59pm on Wednesday 12/12.