Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Michigan/SI 110: Introduction to Information (Winter 2014)/Course description

SI 110 is an undergraduate introductory course in the School of Information. In this class we will learn lessons from earlier social transformations and use those lessons to chart a path toward intellectual and practical mastery of the emerging world of information. Issues will range from the theoretical (what is information?), to the cultural (is life on the net a qualitatively different phenomenon from experiences with earlier distance-shrinking and knowledge-building technologies such as telephones?), to the technical (what are the basic architectures of computing and networks?).

For this assignment, students will work collaboratively in small groups to edit and improve "stub" articles on information technology and Internet-related topics. A stub is an article that is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, and that can be expanded to provide more information. Each student must add 1 credible reference on the topic, and add at least a sentence to the article.

You are not expected to create a full-length, expert-level article. You are expected to improve the quality and expand the coverage, including adding sources. The final article should have three or more sections (which automatically generates a table of contents) and 5-6 cited sources. Here are some examples of the type of article your group should create:
 * Digital_economy
 * Broadcast_network
 * LibraryThing

Students will also give feedback on another group's edits. This peer feedback must be constructive and based on how much that group's edits improved the article and meet Wikipedia's quality guidelines.

Grading
Everyone receives a group grade based on:
 * 25%: Meeting the minimum requirements of the assignment (following instructions on this page)
 * 25%: Group participation
 * 25%: Quality of Wikipedia revisions
 * 25%: Quality of peer review comments

Resources

 * Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia
 * Online student orientation
 * Handout: Wikimarkup cheatsheet
 * Handout: Evaluating Wikipedia article quality
 * Handout: Using talk pages
 * Handout: How to get help
 * Tips on expanding a stub: Article development
 * Examples of | Featured articles

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