Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Colorado College/Introduction to Global Climate Change (Block 1)

Within this course students will write a biography of a woman scientist whose research examines the climate change or global change more broadly. The list of potential biographies was crowdsourced via Twitter and Facebook discussion boards.

Course meets for 3.5 weeks, over 18 in class meetings.

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

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

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.)

Do you already have an account? Please sign in, via this module!

Ideally you have a Wikipedia account by Wednesday!

Exercise
Evaluate an article

During this evaluation exercise, please look over the very complete and thorough biography of Rachel Carson and then read two of the following biographies of women scientists. Each has their strengths and weaknesses. Compare and constrast what is included (as well as what isn't included). Of the two you chose, which biography do you think is stronger and why?

Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig

Dr. Ruth DeFries

Dr. Monica Turner

Exercise
Choose a topic

Please review the list of scientists on the shared Google Doc - this list was crowd sourced on Twitter and Facebook discussion boards. I have done fairly preliminary searches on all the names and I feel fairly confident they meet the Wikipedia  Notability Guidelines for academics.

Please also review these guidelines this week as they provide an excellent checklist of things to look for when gathering information about the subject of your biography.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

Week 2
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Biographies

Books

Chemistry

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Films

History

Science Communcation

Species

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 3
Your first draft is due on Friday of week 3 (9 AM). Have it ready in your Sandbox for peer review.

Review the Guiding Framework here to help you complete your peer review

Peer Review Guiding framework

You probably have some feedback from other students. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes. You should implement your peer review notes by Monday.

Resources:


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

Thinking about Wikipedia

Exercise
Add links to your article

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. Once you're done, r ead  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 4
Guiding questions

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading (your page should still be in sandbox). I will edit all biographies, if necessary before posting.

DO NOT make your page live.