Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Shenandoah University/History and Systems of Psychology (Spring 2013)/Timeline

Week 1: Wikipedia essentials

 * In class
 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)


 * Assignment (due week 2)
 * Read Five pillars, a explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles for Weekly Assessment 1 (1/22)
 * Create Wikipedia account by 1/22.

Week 2: Article quality
Use "Enroll" to add your username to class page Students area. Enrollment token is Hornets
 * In class
 * Enroll in APSWI project after creating Wikipedia account. Use Wikipedia user name & password to sign in APSWI site.
 * Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
 * Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments
 * Handouts: Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, Wikimarkup cheatsheet


 * Assignments (due week 3)
 * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page. (due by start of class 1/29)
 * Find any article at all, but preferably something you're interested in and know a good amount about, and post some suggested edits to its Talk page. (due by start of class 1/29)
 * Start the online student orientation. During this training, you will create an account, make edits in a sandbox, and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.

Week 3: Exploring the topic area, editing basics

 * In class
 * Basics of editing & sandboxes
 * Video resource: Sandbox tutorial
 * Video resource: Editing tutorial
 * Handouts: Advice for choosing articles, How to get help, Wikicode one-page cheatsheet, bigger cheatsheet


 * Assignments (due week 4):
 * Research and list 3–5 articles on your Wikipedia user page that you will consider working on as your main project. (due by start of class 2/5)

Week 4: Using sources

 * In class
 * Handouts and videos: Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video


 * Assignment (due week 5)
 * Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to psychology. Due by start of class 2/14.

Week 5: Choosing articles

 * In class
 * Discuss the range of topics students will be working on and strategies for researching and writing about them.
 * Q&A session with instructor and/or Wikipedia Ambassadors about interacting on Wikipedia and getting started with writing.


 * Assignments (due week 6)
 * Select an article to work on, removing the rest from your user page. Add your article to the class’s course page.
 * Compile a bibliography of relevant research and post it (by start of class 2/21) to the talk page of the article you are working on. Your bibliography should contain at least two scholarly secondary sources (see WP:Scholarship for an explanation of what makes a source secondary and why Wikipedia prefers them over primary sources). When you post on the talk page of your article, feel free to introduce yourself and say what you're doing before listing the sources ("I'm editing this article as part of my History & Systems of Psychology course at Shenandoah University, in conjunction with the APS Wikipedia Initiative..."). Be sure to sign your post with four tildes, which shows your username to other users. Begin reading the sources.

Weeks 6 & 7: Revising articles

 * In class
 * Review of sandboxes and how to use them.
 * Uploading images, and adding images to articles
 * Video resource: Sandbox tutorial
 * Handout: Moving into main space
 * Handouts and videos: Uploading images handout, Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure (handed out originally in week 2), Article assessments video, Evolution of an article video
 * Assignments
 * Continue research in preparation for expanding your article. You should add at least 500 words (note - has been shortened from original requirement of 750) of new text (correctly written, cited, and formatted) to your target article.
 * Finish first round of revisions to your target article; move into main space if in sandbox (by March 7th)

Week 8: Topic Presentations

 * In class
 * You present on your topic, its history, and the evolution of your article.
 * Select two classmates' articles that you will peer review and copy-edit. (You don't need to start reviewing yet.)


 * Assignments (over Spring Break, due by start of class 3/21)
 * Peer review two of your classmates' articles. Leave suggestions on classmates' talk pages based on the "Elements of quality articles" and "Signs of bad quality" sections of this brochure: Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure. If one element doesn't apply to their article (such as if they didn't work on the Lead section of the article), then you don't need to evaluate that part.
 * Copy-edit the two reviewed articles. Make your edits directly to your classmate's article.

Week 9: Getting and giving feedback

 * Assignments (due by start of class 3/26)
 * Make edits to your article based on peers' feedback.

Week 10: All done for now...
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