Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Oklahoma/Cold War Science (Spring 2017)

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 3:00pm Tuesday March 21. 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.

Week 4
Groups should continue research on their selected topics and begin to draft new pages or edits for existing pages.

Week 5
On 04-04-2017 each group will exchange drafts of its project with another group. On 04-06-2017 groups will return projects materials with suggestions for improvement and discuss them in class.

Week 6
Groups should continue research on their selected topics, and edit draft new pages or edits for existing pages, taking into account suggestions from last week's peer review.

Week 7
Individual students complete and upload new and edited pages no later than 3:00pm Thursday April 20.

Week 8
TBA