Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Pomona College/Introduction to American Politics - POLI 3 (Spring 2014)/Timeline

Project Groups
1 - FairVote (stub)

2 - Clean Diamond Trade Act (2003) (stub)

3 - Federalist No. 70 (stub)

4 - Consent decree (stub)

5 - Bob Jones University v. Simon (1974) (stub)Bob Jones University v. Simon (1974) (stub)

6 - First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978)

The assignment has three components (or deliverables):
1)	Rough Draft & Group Outline w/ Bibliography (10 %) Turned in to Professor Hollis-Brusky in class on Mar. 25th and reviewed by/ discussed with CUC Librarians in group meetings at the library the week of Mar. 24-31st

2)	Wikipedia Entry (15 %) Uploaded to Wikipedia.org and “live” no later than Mon, Apr 21 at noon. One person will be chosen as the Content Coordinator (for extra credit toward his/her participation grade). This person will be responsible for collecting all drafts from members’ Wikipedia Sandboxes and uploading them as one entry.

3)	Group Presentation (10 %) Groups will report on their findings and present their Wikipedia entries to the class during class periods on Apr 29, May 1 and May 6. Groups should be prepared to present for 20 minutes and also be prepared to guide discussion and/or field questions from classmates on their assigned topics.

In addition, there will be three librarian course visits/workshops to support your Wikipedia assignment:

 * In-class visit Feb 4
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course


 * Library workshop Feb 20 during class time in the Library's Keck Learning Room

Preparation for Workshop:
 * Library workshop March 13
 * Complete the online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
 * Sign up on the list of students for this class by clicking the "enroll' button in the upper-right of this page. The code is politics.


 * Handouts: Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet

How to get help

 * Handouts: How to get help

Using sources

 * Handouts: Referencing on Wikipedia and Reference coding and Avoiding Plagiarism

Adding images and evaluating article quality

 * Handouts: Uploading images and Evaluating Wikipedia article quality

Moving articles to the main space

 * Handout: Moving out of your sandbox

([ Click to return to your main course page and continue.])