This subproject of Wikiproject Women's History is designed for collaboration among educators who want to assign Wikipedia writing and editing projects to their students, especially in the context of secondary-school or university courses focused on women, gender, and sexuality. It's meant to serve a similar purpose to WikiProject Classroom Coordination but with more focused subject matter.
As of Spring 2011, most of what we do is probably going to be on the talk page--- as a forum for people to get questions answered or to seek review of assignments they're planning. Conversation here will probably be seasonal, as faculty work on revising their courses for upcoming terms.
Getting to know Wikipedia edit
- First, start participating as an active editor so that you know how Wikipedia works. Your first stop should be the new contributors' help page.
- Read Wikipedia's page on school and university projects.
- Consult the Wikipedia Outreach page/brochure on using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in higher education.
- See what other school and university projects exist on Wikipedia.
- Consult User:Jbmurray's advice on using Wikipedia in college/university courses.
- Consider joining WikiProject Classroom Coordination.
Assignments and handouts edit
General edit
- User:Voceditenore has written 2 Wikipedia guides for students: one for a course on the Future of Classical Music and another, Tips for students.
- The Southern Association of Women Historians (US) has a Teaching wiki with materials and syllabi for women's history and the history of the US South.
Women's/Gender Studies edit
- Final project for WGS111 (Women, Culture, and History), Suffolk University, Spring 2011
Women's/Gender History edit
- Individual Project: Building a Wikipedia Entry, for "Kentucky Women in the Civil Rights Era" (University of Kentucky, Fall 2010, by Randolph.hollingsworth)
Women's Literary History/ Women Authors edit
- (TO DO: add yours here)
General history courses edit
- (TO DO: add links to good assignment models we might want to build on)
Tools for assessing student contributions edit
- Per-page contributions – finds all the edits by a user to a single page
See also the master list of Wikipedia tools, some of which may be useful for you or for your students.
How you can help edit
- Expand the list of existing assignment pages above
- Invite other educators you know to participate
- Organize the writing of some model assignments for use in standard kinds of university history courses, such as:
- Women in US history, (pre-1865, post-1865, both)
- Women in European history
Interested Editors edit
If you're interested, please sign below and add this page and its talk page to your watchlist.
- Cliotropic, Ph.D. Candidate, American History, Brandeis University
- PhDeviate, Ph.D. English, Tufts University