Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Marquette University/Cellular Neurobiology (Spring)

Cellular Neurobiology is a 3-credit lecture course taught at the mastery level. The course will consider the structure and function of the nervous system from the molecular and cellular levels and how these relate to function on a systems level. The course will cover the biophysical properties of neurons, basic signaling mechanisms, sensory systems, and motor systems. The overall goal of the course is to provide students with an appreciation of the current state of knowledge in neurobiology and an adequate background for further study in the field. As part of the course students will participate in a Wikipedia assignment to improve and expand biographies of well known neuroscientists.

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.

Wikipedia  is an online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. Our course is part of the Wikipedia Education Program consisting of professors using Wikipedia in their classrooms. The Society for Neuroscience has set a priority to expand and enhance neuroscience content on Wikipedia. This year our class will be writing biographies of the presidents of the Society for Neuroscience. For this assignment, groups of 3-4 students will work together on a single article with the goal to bring it up to the quality of a &quot;Wikipedia Good Article&quot;. The neuroscientist pages that need to be created or are in need of major revision will be handed out in class. There is an additional short paper due at the end of the semester based on a single publication of &quot;your neuroscientist&quot; or another publication that has sparked recent media attention.

The learning objectives of this assignment are:


 * 1) Increase scientific writing skills, particularly for a lay audience
 * 2) Improve critical thinking and research skills
 * 3) Foster the ability to work in a collaborative environment
 * 4) Gain in depth knowledge in a small area of neuroscience
 * 5) Learn about the career paths of famous neuroscientists

Create a username prior to beginning the assignment in order to receive any credit for the work that you do. The username does not need to be your real name if you prefer not to have it public but I will ask you to provide it to me for class. When creating an account, be sure to include an email address. This will not be visible to other users. It will be used in case you need to retrieve your password. It will also be possible for others to email you without knowing your email address and is necessary to receive notifications from Wikipedia. When working on any portion of the class, you must log into your account to receive credit. If you do any page editing or contributions to talk pages without logging in, I will not be to see it. You should also sign any contributions to talk pages.

Please use your sandbox or a private user subpage  to work on edits before making them live.


 * '''Do not create another mainspace Wikipedia page separate from your user account to practice editing or to claim a topic.****

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Article selection'''

'''The topics this year will be biographies of the presidents of the Society for Neuroscience. A list will be handed out in class of the presidents with no existing page or presidents with pages that are classified as a stub or start on Wikipedia. '''

'''Once you have identified a lyour neuroscientist, it must be submitted to the professor to claim that person. The first team to claim a specific person will get that person so have a backup when you ask for someone.

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Reviews

'''As part of the assignment each student must act as a primary reviewer on one article and a secondary reviewer on two articles. The specific instructions for the reviews can be found at user:MMBiology/Review instructions.'''

Grades

The assignment will be graded on a 100 point scale according to the provided rubric.

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Important point to remember'''

'''Please remember that this is a “public” assignment where you are representing Marquette University. It is imperative that you follow the Wikipedia policies and guidelines.

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.)

By Friday January 17, everyone should be enrolled in the class on Wikipedia and have a Wikipedia account.

Week 3
Biographies

Medicine

Week 5
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 6
Guiding frameworkM

Week 8
As you work on your page, begin to look at primary literature for your &quot;neuroscientist&quot; that you may want to use for your additional assignment.

Week 9
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.

Week 10
This week in discussion you will have a brief meeting with your group and the professor to make sure you are ready for mainspace.

Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards.

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 13
Review the articles assigned to you, two as a secondary reviewer and one as a primary reviewer according to the guidelines found here user:MMBiology/Review instructions.

Week 14
All of your responses to reviews and the final edits must be complete by April 25th for grading.