Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Syracuse University/Copyright for Information Professionals (Fall 2018)

Geared for library and information professionals, this course provides a firm foundation in the fundamental rules of American copyright law, and equips them with the tools to make informed decisions about copyright issues.

This WikiEDU site is for the final assignment in IST 735. Please note that the week number in WikiEDU, do not correspond correctly to those in the syllabus. This assignment is due on Dec. 7, the last day of class.

Week 8
In order to complete the Wikipedia assignment, you must create a Wikipedia username and password as well as enroll on this course page with your Wikipedia account. The username can be any name you select. If you have already completed this step...good job!

Week 9
Consult the  guide for detailed information on contributing to Wikipedia.

Week 10
Once you have completed the training (10 minutes), locate an article on your hometown. Most articles on cities and town need corrections or updates. Locate 1-2 places where you can make a correction and do it. That correction could be fixing a typo, adding up-to-date information, or adding a URL.

Your goal is to (1) update the page [even a minor update] and (2) assure that you understand how to edit in Wikipedia.

Week 11
Your Wikipedia assignment is to help create a more robust page. While the page is currently titled &quot;Intellectual property education&quot;, our goal is to increase its content and add materials specifically on copyright education. After our edits are complete, the page will then be named &quot;Copyright and Intellectual Property Education.&quot;

Please go the page, look at what is there, and begin to consider what information you would want to see added to it. We will be discussing this (i.e., what to add) in more detail through the Blackboard LMS. However, consider adding links (and descriptions) to copyright libguides, training videos, webinars, articles, etc. Please aim to add five useful, high-quality resources.

Week 12
Adding content to the Intellectual property education page means locating reputable information, being willing to add it to the page in a way that makes sense (and is useful), and providing a citation for the information. This week continue to work on what you want to add and do the research that is needed. However, do not add your content yet.

So that you can edit without worrying about the public facing page, we have created a sandbox. Editing in this place is like editing a draft. You can work on what you want to add to the page, how you want it to be worded (or look), etc., without fear of doing something wrong on the public Intellectual Property Education page.

Follow this to get to the sandbox.

Week 13
If you have been working in the sandbox, where you can draft/edit without fear, and have your text the way you want it, now is the time to move that text to thepublic page on Intellecual Property Education.

Week 14
Once you had made your changes to the page, please go to Blackboard - under assignments - and write a reflection on this activity. Details on what is expected in the reflects are in Blackboard.