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- Course name
- INFO 200 Selected Topics in Information Literacy - Wikipedia
- Institution
- California State University East Bay
- Instructor
- Tom Bickley
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Information Literacy
- Course dates
- 2022-01-19 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-05-21 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 30
This course will be team taught by CSUEB Library Faculty members Daisy Muralles and Tom Bickley, as an asynchronous online course.
Wikipedia as a model environment for information creation, evaluation, and dissemination; Students will undertake the full training offered by Wikipedia, and contribute to articles, following best practices of Wikipedians. Primary focus will be on improving existing articles. We expect very few, if any, to begin articles. Our emphasis is for them to understand the community interactions in Wikipedia. Students completing this course (i.e., the SLO's) will be able to:
- Determine appropriate information sources for a specific information need
- Effectively access appropriate information sources
- Critically evaluate found information sources in context of specific information need
- Effectively use information sources both in and outside the classroom
- Understand and apply information ethics appropriately in context of situation
This course fulfills the 3 required units of General Education Area E (Life Long Learning).
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 25 January 2022
- Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
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
[CLO 2,3,4 F b,c,d,f]
- Blog entry 1
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, "Please introduce yourself! Make sure to tell us:
- your name & pronouns
- your major or field of interest
- your favorite season of the year
- your favorite food
- your experience with using/interacting with Wikipedia
- one question on your mind now
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 4, F e]
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 1 February 2022
- Get started on 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.)
[CLO 2, F a, c, f]
- Blog entry 2
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, "Find, cite, and write an annotation for a scholarly article about Wikipedia. Use the CSUEB Library's Databases A-Z to locate your article. You may use the "cite" button in the database to generate a citation. In your annotation, in the first paragraph, describe the author's qualifications for writing the article, and in the second paragraph, describe the information provided in the article."
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 1,2,3,5 F b,d,f]
- Keeping track of your work in Wikipedia
This short module will help you know how to track the coursework you are doing in Wikipedia. Please remember that is you have questions about doing this, or run into puzzles, you can ask us or our Wikipedia staff helpers.
[CLO 2,4 F b,c]
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
- Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
[CLO 1,2,3,4,5 F b,d,e,f]
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 8 February 2022
- Blog entry 3
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, "Reflect on the Wikipedia module, Thinking about sources and plagiarism”
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 5, F a,c,e]
- Review the rules for health topics
[CLO 1,2,3,5 F a,c,e]
- Individual workflow on Wikipedia
This module guides you in the process of drafting the improved version of your chosen Wikipedia article.
[CLO 2,4 F a,b,c,e]
- Assignment - Email Daisy & Tom your proposed topic
Please send us a brief description of the topic you are interested in for this course. Email 
csueastbay.edu daisy.muralles csueastbay.edu & csueastbay.edu tom.bickley csueastbay.edu.
Please sign up for a check in/save the date with us for the Professor check-in on this spreadsheet. During this short 15min meeting we will review your article selection, and check on your progress on the course.
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 15 February 2022
- Blog entry 4
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, “Reflect on the Wikipedia module, What's a Content Gap? Consider how oppression leads to invisibility in dominant culture information sources.”
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 3,5 F a,b,c,d,e,f]
- Assignment - Add to an article
[CLO 3,4,5 F c,e,f]
- Assignment - Exercise
Read the instructions in this exercise, click OK when done. Next click on "Students" then on your Username. Then you will be able to see the link titled "Assign myself and article." That link is on the right side of the page.
[CLO 1,2,3,4 F b,c,d,e,f]
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 22 February 2022
- Blog entry 5
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, “Consider how our course learning objectives are being met by learning about Wikipedia and how it is used, edited, and changed. Below are three of our learning objectives to use for this blog entry.
- Determine appropriate information sources for a specific information need
- Effectively access appropriate information sources
- Critically evaluate found information sources in context of specific information need
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 4 F a,b,e]
- Online meeting with Daisy and Tom
Schedule and complete a Zoom meeting wth Daisy and Tom to discuss any questions you have, your progress in this course, etc. Please sign up for a time to meet with us using this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/163YunMTJav_S0YJNxZppZPMfViSwh0dW7YZNNJjL3fo/edit?usp=sharing
[CLO 4,5 F a,b,c,d,e,f]
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 1 March 2022
- Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area
Reviewing the Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area connects with these Course Outcomes and Information Literacy Frames: [CLO 1,3,4,5 F a,b,c,e]
- Start drafting your contributions
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
[CLO 1,2,3,4,5 F a,b,c,d,e,f]
- Blog Entry 6
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, “Thinking further from last week's prompt, consider the following learning objectives and how these are being met by learning about Wikipedia and how it is used, edited, and changed.
- Effectively use information sources both in and outside the classroom
- Understand and apply information ethics appropriately in context of situation
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 4 F a,b,e]
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 8 March 2022
- Milestones
Hello INFO 200,
We hope you have all been taking care and making good progress on all of your courses. Here is a brief overview of where we should be in the course. By the end of today you should have completed:
- Blogs 1-6
- Week 1-6 trainings and exercises
- Meet with Tom and I for a 15min consultation on your article of choice (if you have not met with us, please email us ASAP to set up a time for this week, contact info below)
If you have not completed these steps, that is alright. To help students get up to speed we have decided to postpone week 7 blog to next week (week 8) so that you can focus on catching up on the course content both on the Wiki course and on Blackboard. See the updated course schedule in the syllabus. Notice that we are making Blog #8 optional and will count as extra credit should you participate.
Announcement: Students for Quality Education seeking members. Learn more about this student organization by watching this video, follow them on Instagram, or on Twitter. Apply to be a Student Organizing Intern at CSUEB.
Announcement: Week 7 content is now up. Please watch the week 7 video on Blackboard. It also describes how you can be ready for peer-review activities which have been postponed to week 8.
CONTACT INFORMATION (Please CC both instructors in communication regarding course work, thank you!)
Daisy C. Muralles (she/ella)
- Email:
csueastbay.edu daisy.muralles csueastbay.edu - Office Hours: Mondays 10-11 am, Fridays 4-5pm
- Zoom Room: https://csueb.zoom.us/my/dmuralles, or
- Make an appointment: https://csueastbay.libcal.com/appointments/dmuralles
Tom Bickley
- Email: csueastbay.edu tom.bickley csueastbay.edu
- Office Hours: Mondays 10-11 am, Tuesdays, 2-3pm
- Zoom Room: https://csueb.zoom.us/my/tombickley, or
- Make an appointment: https://csueastbay.libcal.com/appointments/tombickley
Thank you,
Daisy & Tom
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 15 March 2022
- Blog Entry 7
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, “Describe your experience working on a project with others, whether in Wikipedia, or group work, or any context. What was challenging, and what was satisfying about it?”
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 1,4,5 F a,b,e]
- Peer review an article
Guiding frameworkYou will be randomly assigned a classmate's article to review.
[CLO 3,5 F b,e,f]
- Respond to your peer review
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.
[CLO 3,4,5 F e,f]
- Blog entry 8
This blog post is optional and if you complete work on this blog it will count as extra credit. Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, “Reflect on the Wikipedia module, Thinking about Wikipedia.”
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 3,5 F a,b,c,d,e,f]
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 22 March 2022
- Blog entry 9
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, “Describe the edits you've made to your chosen article in Wikipedia: what citations did you add? what wording did you edit? etc. (Share the details!) And describe your experience in moving your work to Wikipedia.“
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 2,4,5 F b,c,e]
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
- Move your work to Wikipedia
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
[CLO 4 F b]
- Assignment - Exercise
[CLO 3,4,5 F c,d,e]
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 5 April 2022
- Blog entry 10
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, “Describe the benefits and difficulties with peer-review in general.“
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 3,4,5 F a,b,c,e]
- Assignment - Continue improving 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.
[CLO 3,4,5 F b,d,e,f]
- Polish your work
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
For those uploading new images to their Wikipedia articles, Illustrating Wikipedia: A guide to contributing content to Wikimedia Commons
[CLO 3,4,5 F b,e]
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 12 April 2022
- Final article
It's the final week to develop your article.
- Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
- Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!
[CLO 1,2,3,4,5 F b,c,d,e,f]
- Blog entry 11
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, “Describe at least one way you improved your work on your Wikipedia contribution.”
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 1,3,4,5 F b,d,e]
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 19 April 2022
- Blog entry 12
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, “Describe your use of the Final review checklist. How far along are you in completing your work on your chosen article? Do you need help completing your work? How can we support you? And also, how are you supporting your own well being (i.e. eating, sleeping, exercising)?”
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 1,2,3,4,5 F a,b,c,d,e,f]
- In class - Presenting your work ("In-class" presentation)
Create a presentation using Google Slides. The content must address the prompts in the "In-class presentation" information, though these will be made available via BlackBoard, since this is an asynchronous course. These presentations will be linked from your Wikipedia Blog
Use this tool to complete this assignment: INFO 200 Google Slides
[CLO 2,3,4,5 F c,e]
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 26 April 2022
- Blog entry 13
Go to Blackboard to complete your blog. This week's prompt is, “Describe your work in Wikipedia and provide a link to your Google Slides presentation, in which you provide a fuller description guided by the questions in the In-class presentation link in Week 13 of our Wikipedia course.”
For full credit on a blog entry please be sure to:
- Submit a 4-5 sentence blog post in Blackboard
- and, comment on at least one other student’s blog post
[CLO 1,2,3,4,5 F a,b,c,e,f]
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading. The rest of the course consists of your Self-Evaluation*, completion of the Survey of Student Learning Experience* and your Post-Course Survey*. The items marked with an asterisk (*) are available on in our Bb course site.
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 3 May 2022
- Blog entry 14
Now that you have seen the Google Slides presentations of your classmates's work, choose one other student's presentation, and comment in your Blog 14 entry on their Google Slides presentation.
- Identify whose work you are commenting on
- Use the prompts found here to guide your comments: Present about your Wikipedia editing experience
- Add a farewell comment to all of us in this course in your own Blog entry 14.
[CLO 2,3,4 F a,c,e]
Week 15
- Assignment - Self-Evaluation
Please go to Blackboard Finals Week folder to begin your self-evaluation (this is your final).
[CLO 1,2,3,4,5 F a,b,c,d,e,f]