Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Seneca College/INC301 - The Tangled Web (Fall 2018)

From the Internet of people to the internet of things – the world wide web is a tangled system of connections and disconnections. It provides endless opportunities for learning and sharing information, enables ways to communicate and connect and empowers individuals and communities to work together for individual, mutual and social good. It is also used to intentionally manipulate fact and reality, incite violence and promote hatred. The communities and tools that connect us are also a threat to our privacy and security and are used to spread misinformation and cause distrust. While building digital skills, this course explores the potential benefits and challenges of our hyper-connected lives and examines the threats as well as the opportunities that the world wide web enables.

Course Learning Outcomes:

• Reflect on our relationships with networked spaces, services and objects and the ways in which they knowingly and unknowingly affect our perceptions, condition the choices we make and shape our experiences

• Analyze ways in which information and misinformation is spread across the web enabling connections, facilitating discord and influencing our daily lives and world view

• Evaluate the benefits and challenges of the ever-expanding web of internet connected devices on our societies, our psyches and our identities

• Examine the ways in which online actions affect individuals, groups and entire communities, in both digital and physical spaces

• Debate the ethical and responsible use of technology tools and online spaces

• Discuss societal issues that have emerged in the digital world and the challenges and benefits that these present

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.

''For this Assignment, you will be expanding a shorter Wikipedia article, on a topic related to the course. You will choose from a list of selected topics.''

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

While there is no scheduled class this week, because of the Labour Day Weekend, please take a look at the resources below and create an account so you can join this course page. The Wikipedia Assignment is the major assignment of the course. There are several parts, due at different times during the semester, and it is worth 40% of your final grade.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Week 2
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.)

You are required to complete the Wikipedia Policies and Sandboxes, Talkpages and Watchlists training modules by Monday September 17th.

If you have any questions we will answer them in class on Monday (17th). Our Wikipedia Content Expert Shalor Toncray will join us in class via Google Hangouts.

Week 3
Thinking about sources and plagiarismYou are required to complete the Plagiarism Module by Friday September 21st and join the Discussion on My.Seneca aboout'Thinking about Sources and Plagiarism

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This Module shows you how to naviagate and edit articles on Wikipedia. You will need this informatipon for next week when you have to evaluate an article and add a source to it.

Exercise
Evaluate an article - due Sunday Sept 29thThisThis exercise will guide you in evaluating a Wikipedia (or any) article. The article you choose to evaluate must be related to one of the course topics or learning outcomes of the course. Please confirm that the article is relevant before evaluating it. We will discuss this in class.

Post the link to your article along with your evaluation on the &quot;Evaluating Articles&quot; blog on My.Seneca. Highlight the source that you added to the article.

Exercise
Add a citationIn this tutorial, you'll learn how to add citations to an article using the Visual Editor and Wikicode. You must complete this module before adding the source to the article.

Week 5
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

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6
Peer Review Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

Week 7
We will discuss the guidelines for leaving feedback for your peers;  what makes a good contribution to a wikipedia article; and how to evaluate your peer's work.

Week 8
The article that you have to peer-review will be assigned by the professor. Check the peer-review article list posted on My.Seneca. Review the Peer Review Training Module before completing the peer review of the 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.

During Class on Monday November 5th -we will have a Show and Tell about the progress of your editing of the Article.

Week 10
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

Nominating your article for Did You KnowFor new articles or qualifying expansions of stubs, compose a one-sentence “hook,” nominate it for “Did you know,” and monitor the nomination for any issues identified by other editors. Wiki Education staff can provide support for this process. Take a look at the information about this to see if your work qualifies.

Add  links to your article
Add links to your articleNow's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. Reorganize the text to communicate the information better and/or add images, links and other media.

Week 11
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format what you are adding to your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Make sure that you review these guidelines. Additional details about the Reflective Essay and In-Class Presentation will be posted on My.Seneca. The In-Class Presentations will be done in the form of a &quot;Gallery Walk&quot;.

Week 12
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!
 * Your final article is due on Fri, Nov 30th.

Week 13
You will write a reflective essay based on what you learned about the topic that you worked on and on your experience of the Wikipedia Assignment. During the last week of class each person will have  3 minutes - to present what they reflected on. Each person is also required to provide peer feedback on the presentations of 5 class mates. The peer-reviews will be included in your class presentation grades.

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.