Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Rowan College at Burlington County/Society, Ethics, and Technology (Spring 2019)

This course provides a framework for understanding the ways in which technology has transformed society and for assessing the social ethical global environmental and professional issues associated with these changes. Students will also have the opportunity to conduct investigations into the following areas: professional responsibility ethical implications respect for diversity and the need for life-long learning.

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' workspaces.

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.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 2 Training and exercise will help you to know the criteria for a good article. Further, you will learn ways to create or work on your own articles for submission to Wikipedia. Finally, you will able to evaluate Wikipedia articles as good or not based on certain criteria, which are explained in the training.

For this week, you are required to choose an article in Wikipedia that is related to the themes of the class such as Technology, Society, and Ethics. Then, create a section in your sandbox titled &quot;Article Evaluation&quot; where you will leave notes about your review of the article considering based on the assignment rubrics (Evaluate an Article).

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

This is the right time to settle on the Possible topic for your final project. This can be based on one of the articles you elect to review in Wikipedia or it can also be a product, concept, or idea pertaining to the topics discussed in this class such as technology, society, and ethics. However, there is no right or wrong answer to this question.

Exercise
Add a citation

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

This week's assignment is more practical because you will learn how to add citations to an article that you have selected in week 3 based on the topics discussed in this class such as technology, society, and ethics. You will be required at the end of the training to apply what you’ve learned by adding a citation to one of your selected articles. After that, please go into your sandbox and create a new section titled “assignment 5”, where you will also leave the citations you have added to your articles. This really important.

Week 6
For your contribution to a Wikipedia article, add a 500 words as paragraphs to the article you selected in your Wikipedia sandbox and post this along with a brief description of your plans on the article’s talk page.

Begin working with other editors to polish your addition and fix any major issues.

Continue research in preparation for expanding the article.

Compile a bibliography of relevant research and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources.

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page. Review the Wikipedia on the course menu on Blackboard for more details on the requirements. Wikipedia Project Details

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Biographies

Books

Political Science

Science Communication

Sociology

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 7
Guiding framework

I hope everybody is comfortable with her/his selected article by now. This week focuses on how to critique an article created by a classmate. At the end of the week, every student should finish reviewing their assigned articles.

Here below are the steps to follow in reviewing your fellow learner’s article and to complete assignment 7.

Firstly, click on the “students” tab on your course page. You will see the list of your peers’ articles, in front of their names. Then select the article you will mostly like to review.

Secondly, when you are ready to perform the peer review, click on the “sandboxes” tab of whose article you selected. You will find the “sandboxes” right below his/her name. Then successively,


 * Go to the talk page.
 * Click &quot;New section&quot;.
 * Add a subject, something like &quot;Samantha's peer review&quot;.
 * Leave your notes in the space below. ( in the guiding framework of  assignment 7, you have a set of information that explains in details how to effectively  evaluate your peer's work)
 * Save the page by pressing on “ Publish Changes”

Once it is done, you successfully reviewed your peers' article.

Finally, go in your own sandbox and create a section titled: “Peer review Assignment 7 completed”:  where you will a note something like: “Samantha peer-reviewed John’s article”. This is very important.

PS: If you didn’t receive any feedback from your fellow classmates, you have the option of seeking assistance from Wikipedia’s staff to eventually receive valuable point of views about your work. The feedback can serve you to gradually improve your article.

Week 9
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 10
<span style="font-family: 'Georgia',serif;">Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace&quot;. Please follow the step by step instruction in the training section to learn how to move a new article out of the sandbox and how to move your page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Nominating your article for Did You Know

Exercise
Add links to your article

Now it's 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 13
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!

Week 14
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!

Guiding questions

Add to the paper going beyond your Wikipedia article to advance your own ideas, arguments, and original research about your topic for your final project paper. Please review the requirements for the final project on Blackboard.

Week 15
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready to submit their final paper on Blackboard. Please make any last revision to the draft you submitted on Wikipedia, and go to Blackboard to upload your draft to be graded for your final project requirement.