Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/California State University East Bay/INFO 200 Topics in Information Literacy - Wikipedia (Fall 2020)

Wikipedia as a model environment for information creation, valuation, and dissemination; Students will undertake the full training offered by Wikipedia, and contribute to articles, following best practices of Wikipedians. Primary focus will be on improving existing articles. I expect very few, if any, to begin articles. My emphasis is for them to understand the community interactions in Wikipedia. Students completing this course (i.e., the SLO's) will be able to:


 * 1) Determine appropriate information sources for a specific information need
 * 2) Effectively access appropriate information sources
 * 3) Critically evaluate found information sources in context of specific information need
 * 4) Effectively use information sources both in and outside the classroom
 * 5) Understand and apply information ethics appropriately in context of situation

This course fulfills the 3 required units of General Education Area E (Life Long Learning).

Week 3
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.)

Write about your impressions of Wikipedia so far. FYI, most weeks your Wikipedia Blog post will be from the Discussion prompts, but on the few weeks (like this one) when there is not a Discussion prompt, write an entry of your own devising.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 4
This short training will help you know how to track the coursework you are doing in Wikipedia. Please remember that is you have questions about doing this, or run into puzzles, you can ask me or our Wikipedia staff helpers.

You'll post your responses to these prompts in your Wikipedia Blog entry 3 in our Bb course. For full credit, add a comment to at least one other student's blog entry.

Week 5
You'll post your responses to these prompts in your Wikipedia Blog in our Bb course. For full credit, add a comment to at least one other student's blog entry. (As you consider this topic, consider how oppression leads to invisibility in dominant culture information sources. If that's a puzzle, email me or stop by my office hours.)

Now is the time to consider whether you prefer to work as an individual or a group. For our purposes a &quot;group&quot; is two or more people. Take these trainings and see which approach appeals to you. In the Bb session for this week, I'll guide you in finding collaborators for work together if you wish to.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Week 6
Here's a list of articles that need copyediting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_articles_needing_copy_edit I recommend choosing one of these.

Read the instructions in this exercise, click OK when done. Next click on &quot;Students&quot; then on your Username. Then you will be able to see the link titled &quot;Assign myself and article.&quot; That link is on the right side of the page.

Write an entry in your Bb Wikipedia Blog about your experiences with these exercises this week. For full credit, add a comment to at least one other student's blog entry.

Week 7
Schedule and complete a Zoom meeting wth Tom to discuss any questions you have, your progress in this course, etc.

  Write an entry in your Bb Wikipedia Blog about your experiences with this course. For full credit, add a comment to at least one other student's blog entry.

Week 8
Art History

Biographies

Chemistry

Cultural Anthropology

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Films

Genes and Proteins

History

LGBT+ Studies

Medicine

Psychology

Science Communication

Sociology

Species

Women's Studies

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Write an entry in your Bb Wikipedia Blog about your preference for individual or group work. For full credit, add a comment to at least one other student's blog entry.

Week 9
Guiding frameworkIn this training it instructs you to &quot;Navigate to the My Articles section and click on the 'Review an article' option.&quot; To find that in our Wikipedia course, from Home, click on Articles, then on Available Articles. You'll then see the Review an article button. You can then click on the classmates' articles you wish to peer review.

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Post your responses to these prompts in your Wikipedia Blog in our Bb course. For full credit, add a comment to at least one other student's blog entry.

Week 10
Write an entry in your Bb Wikipedia Blog describing the benefits and difficulties with peer-review in general. For full credit, add a comment to at least one other student's blog entry.

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 11
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Write an entry in your Bb Wikipedia Blog describing your experience in moving your work to Wikipedia.  For full credit, add a comment to at least one other student's blog entry.

Week 12
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

<span style="padding: 0in; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; text-indent: -24px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #2c2c2c; border: 1pt none windowtext;">Write an entry in your Bb Wikipedia Blog describing at least one way you improved your work on your Wikipedia contribution. <span style="padding: 0in; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; text-indent: -24px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: #2c2c2c; border: 1pt none windowtext;"> For full credit, add a comment to at least one other student's blog entry.

Week 13
<span style="padding: 0in; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #2c2c2c; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-indent: -24px; border: 1pt none windowtext;">Write an entry in your Bb Wikipedia Blog: 1 indicate your use of the check list and 2. describe your state of mind and how you can support your own well being. <span style="padding: 0in; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #2c2c2c; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-indent: -24px; border: 1pt none windowtext;"> For full credit, add a comment to at least one other student's blog entry.

It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 14
Create a presentation using Google Slides. The content must address the prompts in the &quot;In-class presentation&quot; information, though these will be made available via BlackBoard, since this is an asynchronous course. These presentations will be linked from your Wikipedia Blog

Briefly describe your work in Wikipedia and provide a link to your Google Slides presentation, in which you provide a fuller description guided by the prompts in the In-class presentation link above.

Week 15
<span style="padding: 0in; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #2c2c2c; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-indent: -24px; border: 1pt none windowtext;">Write a comment in another student's Bb Wikipedia Blog entry 13 <span style="padding: 0in; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; color: #2c2c2c; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-indent: -24px; border: 1pt none windowtext;"> providing a constructive comment about their Google Slide presentation. In your own Wikipedia Blog entry 14 put the name of the student whose work you commented on in their Blog post 13. For additional credit, add a farewell comment to all of us in this course in your own Blog entry 14.

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading. The rest of the course consists of your Self-Evaluation*, completion of the Survey of Student Learning Experience* and your Post-Course Survey*. The items marked with an asterisk (*) are available on in our Bb course site.