Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Univeristy of Puerto Rico at Cayey/INGL 3103 Intermediate English (Fall Semester 2020)
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- Course name
- INGL 3103 Intermediate English
- Institution
- Univeristy of Puerto Rico at Cayey
- Instructor
- Sally J. Delgado
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Linguistics
- Course dates
- 2020-08-14 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-12-04 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 60
This course is designed to fulfill the requirements for first-year English for students who have an intermediate proficiency. Emphasis is placed on improving reading and writing skills so that students can perform better in the academic setting.
Timeline
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 9 September 2020 | Friday, 11 September 2020
- In class - 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
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
- Assignment - 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.)
- Assignment - Wikipedia reflection 1
Begin posting bi-weekly reflections about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create and post a reflection each two weeks during the Wikipedia assignment. See full instructions in the link called "Wikipedia Reflection 1" in Moodle.
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 14 September 2020 | Wednesday, 16 September 2020 | Friday, 18 September 2020
- Assignment - Training modules
- Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia Article
- In class - Discussion
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 21 September 2020 | Friday, 25 September 2020
- Review the rules for health topics (optional)
- Assignment - Choose possible topics
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6
- Assignment - Wikipedia Reflection 2
Write and post your second bi-weekly reflection (see "Wikipedia Reflection 2" in Moodle). You can use this discussion question or the previous week's discussion about plagiarism and/or your refelctions on the "Evaluate Wikipedia" exercise as the basis of your post. Remember that you will create and post a reflection each two weeks during the Wikipedia assignment.
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 28 September 2020 | Wednesday, 30 September 2020 | Friday, 2 October 2020
- Assignment - Add to an article
- Assignment - Exercise
- Assignment - Exercise
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 5 October 2020 | Wednesday, 7 October 2020 | Friday, 9 October 2020
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area
- Assignment - Wikipedia Reflection 3
Now that everyone has begun writing their article drafts, write and post your third bi-weekly reflection (see "Wikipedia Reflection 3" in Moodle). You can use any ideas we talk about in class to decide on content of your post, or reflect on the research and writing process. Remember that you will create and post a reflection each two weeks during the Wikipedia assignment.
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 14 October 2020 | Friday, 16 October 2020
- Continue reading and drafting contributions
Continue reading and drafting new content sections in sandbox pages of stub/start/c-class articles (and working on improvements in Sandbox pages with other articles assigned to yourself, if applicable).
Editing Wikipedia, pages 7-11
- In class - Discussion
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 19 October 2020 | Wednesday, 21 October 2020 | Friday, 23 October 2020
- Assignment - Peer review two articles
- Assignment - Wikipedia Reflection 4
Write and post your fourth bi-weekly reflection (see "Wikipedia Reflection 4" in Moodle). You can use any ideas we talk about in class to decide on content of your post, or reflect on the peer-review and writing process. Remember that you will create and post a reflection each two weeks during the Wikipedia assignment.
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 26 October 2020 | Wednesday, 28 October 2020 | Friday, 30 October 2020
- Milestones
You probably have some feedback from other students and comments from other Wikipedia editors (in the Talk page of the live article). 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 8-12
- Reach out to your professor and/or Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Week 9's Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area.
- Milestones
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.
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 4 November 2020 | Friday, 6 November 2020
- Assignment - Wikipedia Reflection 5
Write and post your fifth bi-weekly reflection (see "Wikipedia Reflection 5" in Moodle). See the full instructions in Moodle to review the focus of this week's reflection. Remember that you will create and post a reflection each two weeks during the Wikipedia assignment.
- Assignment - Develop your work
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. This is the last week to make substantive changes to the article. Next week we are polishing and finalizing work on the Sandbox Draft.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 8-12
- Reach out to your professor and/or Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Week 9's Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area.
- Wikipedia Project Grading Rubric (see Moodle "supplementary resources")
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 9 November 2020 | Friday, 13 November 2020
- Assignment - Final Wikipedia 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!
- In class - Prepare in-class presentation
- Assignment - Prepare Final essay
Week 15
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 16 November 2020 | Wednesday, 18 November 2020 | Friday, 20 November 2020
- Assignment - Wikipedia Reflection 6 (in-class presentations)
Write and post your last bi-weekly reflection (see "Wikipedia Reflection 6" in Moodle). You should reflect on the close of the project and your in-class presentation and/or the work of other students in the class that you learned about in thier presentations.
- Assignment - Review and edit Final Essay
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia; you should feel a lot of satisfaction for the work that you have contributed to this global platform.