Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Rio Grande/Intro to Information Technology (Summer 10 Weeks)

This course is a general introduction to computers and how they operate. Operating systems will be discussed as well as hardware and software.

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.

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

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.)

Begin a blog. If you have never created a blog, some suggested sites would be tumblr.com, blogger.com, wordpress.com or you can do a web search for &quot;how to create a free blog&quot; (or look at this page: 2526.us/free-blog ). Create your blog during week 1 and post your impression about the wikiedu project based on your initial training. If you are not provided with more guidance/direction on Blackboard in the weekly assignment, you will be adding at least one post to your blog each week to reflect on the wikiedu project itself (the training, what you decide to select as your topic, etc.). For week 2, there will be an assignment to post the URL or address to your blog.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 3
Choose your topic / Find your sources

Thinking about sources and plagiarismThis is your weekly discussion topic in Blackboard. Submit your response there as this week's &quot;content post&quot;.

Science Communication

Week 4
What's a content gap?

Exercise
Add a citation

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
Guiding framework

Thinking about Wikipedia

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, 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.

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

Nominating your article for Did You Know

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.