Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/West Virginia University/ULIB300 Film and Media Literacy (Summer 2016)

ULIB300: Film and Media Literacy is a 12- week online film course introducing media and information literacy, film vocabulary, criticism, research databases, conventions, clichés, and characteristics of genre films to guide evaluating and critiquing films. In the context of Quentin Tarantino films, we study gangster films, dark comedy, Blaxploitation, slasher films, westerns, themes of revenge and historical revision. Media and information literacy concepts are practiced in media object analysis and Wikipedia article editing.

Week 1

 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
 * 1 Hour training (Wikipedia Adventure)

Handout: [http://wikiedu.org/editingwikipedia Editing Wikipedia ]

Week 2

 * Begin the training modules assigned for your course. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.

Week 3

 * Add a sentence
 * Look for appropriate articles to cite

Week 4
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