Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Oklahoma/Cold War Science (Spring 2016)

HSCI3463 presents the history of offensive and defensive strategic weapons systems from 1945 to the present, examining the political and technological context in which they developed, and their connections to nuclear power and space exploration.

Week 1
All students establish Wikipedia accounts, and begin online training. Students should deliver their username to the Instructors no later than 03-02-2016.

Week 2
Students continue Wikipedia online training and begin to practice editing.

Week 3
All students should complete Wikipedia training by 03-20-2016. This week groups will begin to select pages they will construct or edit. Groups should begin research on their selected topics no later than this week.

Supplementary training module:


 * Sources and Citations

Week 4
Groups should continue research on their selected topics and begin to draft new pages or edits for existing pages. Drafts for exchange with other groups must be completed by 04-04-2016.

Week 5
On 04-04-2016 each group will exchange drafts of its project with another group. On 04-06-2016 groups will return projects materials with suggestions for improvement and discuss them in class.

Supplementary training module:


 * Peer Review

Week 6
Student groups complete work on pages they are adding or editing

Week 7
Individual students complete and submit Wikiportfolios