Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/California State University East Bay/INFO210 Introduction to Information Literacy Skills (Spring 2020)

This is a 7-week compressed online 1 credit course in Gen. Ed. area E (Lifelong learning), in which students will develop ability to determine appropriate info sources for a specific purpose, assess sources, evaluate those sources, use them to create a resource guide relevant to their own major/field of interest, apply information ethics to the whole process. Their Wikipedia assignment will come in their 2nd week. My learning outcomes for them with Wikipedia are: 1. understand criteria for high quality information in Wikipedia; 2. locate and evaluate articles relevant to their major/field of interest; 3. gain basic understanding of editing in Wikipedia in order to contribute (e.g., links to sources &amp; citations) to those relevant articles; 4. and to discover the joy of participating in the Wikipedia community (that last is not so measureable, but I'm hopeful always!).

Week 1
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 Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Begin a blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.