Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University at Albany, SUNY/Information Literacy in the Humanities and Arts (8W2)

Information literacy is often considered to be synonymous with the ability to do research, but it encompasses a great deal more. This course will address information literacy through the lens of metaliteracy, a wider conception that emphasizes your role as both information consumer and information creator in a collaborative, open environment. Expect to examine and expand your conception of how you interact with information. Metacognition, or thinking about one’s own thinking, is a critical component of being metaliterate, and will be emphasized throughout the course.

Week 2
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

Content from this and all modules will be included in the weekly quizzes.

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.)

Content from this module will be included in the weekly quiz.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

If you have set yours up, you will be awarded 20 points.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Exercise
Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6

Exercise
Add a citation

You will be adding the citation to the Wikipedia article you will be editing, as per the topic selection assignment of last week. You will most likely need to write text that you will place within the Wikipedia article based on your reputable source, and then you will cite the source. If you plan to create a new article from scratch, you will place the text and citation in a new section in your Sandbox.

Finalize your topic / Find your sources: I will be looking for three quality sources

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

You might find this page on writing your first article helpful.

Biographies

Cultural Anthropology

Sociology

Women's Studies

There aren't guides in all areas. I've selected the ones that potentially might be used for your articles.

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts in their sandboxes.

Depending on the quality of your work to date, you will be awarded up to 40 points.

Week 6
Guiding framework

Please read this document very carefully, and follow the suggestions it makes closely. You will be assigning an article to yourself to review, creating a section in that student's sandbox, and writing your review there. It should be a substantive review. Be sure you have read the Metaliteracy quests before engaging in this. Then, you will go to the student's Talk page (not the article Talk page) to let the person know your review is done. This assignment is worth 50 points.

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned article, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 7
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.

You will earn up to 30 points depending on the quality of your response to the peer review.

Exercise
Add links to your article

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.

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 8
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

It's the final few days 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!

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading. Don't forget to check the grading rubric in Blackboard.