Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/SUNY Plattsburgh/Cell Biology with Lab, Bio 401 (Fall 2017)

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Course name
Cell Biology with Lab, Bio 401
Institution
SUNY Plattsburgh
Instructor
Joel Parker
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Cell Biology
Course dates
2017-08-28 00:00:00 UTC – 2017-12-08 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
24


Cell Biology with Lab, Bio 401, Fall 2017, SUNY Plattsburgh

Student Assigned Reviewing
Lukef Lamella (cell biology) Lamella (cell biology)
Cell bio Chromatosome Chromatosome
Cmcla004 Cell Nucleus Clastosome
Majorkeyalert
Tml2013 GC box GC box
Jpasa002 LAMP3 LAMP3
Yyau001 Tumor-associated macrophage Tumor-associated macrophage
JKenny97 Precursor cells Precursor cells
Cashmeresilk ATG7 ATG7
Cpowe004 Bottom-up proteomics Bottom-up proteomics
NoOnw Karyolysis Karyolysis
Rburg002 Electron Transport Chain Electron Transport Chain
Goliath11 Local hormone Local hormone
Jenn545 Kinesin Kinesin
TheSilentAchiever Cytoplasmic inclusion Proteasome (prosome, macropain) subunit, alpha 1
Mmark94 CapZ CapZ
Majorkeyalert95

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Friday, 15 September 2017
Assignment - Sign up and Wikipedia introduction

Orientation to what Wikipedia is and the basics of how it is used.

You need to sign up on Wikipedia, (decide on whether you want to be anonymous or not) and to have finished the first three training modules.

1 point for setting up your account, 3 points for each training module finished.

Milestones

Set up your Wikipedia account.

Week 2

Course meetings
Monday, 18 September 2017   |   Wednesday, 20 September 2017   |   Friday, 22 September 2017
Assignment - Critique an article

Evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to cell biology in your sandbox and include a section that you think would be helpful to put on the article's talk page. This could be the article that you chose to edit in the final assignment.


  • A few questions to consider (don't feel limited to these): 
    • Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
    • Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
    • Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
    • Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
    • Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
    • Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
    • Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?




Milestones

Find and critique an article.

Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 25 September 2017   |   Wednesday, 27 September 2017   |   Friday, 29 September 2017
Work on critique

Work on your critique IN YOUR SANDBOX and tell me when it is done so that I can take a look. I will email you my comments and suggestions.

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 2 October 2017   |   Wednesday, 4 October 2017   |   Friday, 6 October 2017
Critique due in your sandbox on Oct. 6th for grading.

Is it useful enough to go onto the article's Talk page? If yes, AND you have incorporated feedback from your fact checker and proof reader then be bold and post your critique on your articles talk page!

The next step is to start on your article edit.


  • Add at least one paragraph of new information to a Wikipedia article related to the class (try "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cell_biology_stubs" for ideas). They must be backed up with 3 citations minimum to the best appropriate scientific sources.
  • You will work with a team of three. The other two must fact check and proofread for you and you must fact check or proof read for the others as needed.
  • Each of you must do your own article for your own separate grade.
  • You must fulfill your group role or points will be deducted (your group will be surveyed).
  • Post your first contribution on the article page by Oct. 20th (after fact checker and proof reader input).
  • Do the training modules below if you are thinking about a medical topic and/or about adding an image. Medical topics are frowned upon, but images are smiled on!
Milestones

Critique due

Milestones

Find article and begin editing

Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 9 October 2017   |   Wednesday, 11 October 2017   |   Friday, 13 October 2017
Assignment - First contribution to an article
  • Add at least one paragraph of new information to a Wikipedia article related to the class (try "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cell_biology_stubs" for ideas). They must be backed up with 3 citations minimum to the best  appropraite scientific sources.
  • You will work with a team of three. The other two must fact check and proofread for you and you must fact check or proof read for the others as needed.
  • Each of you must do your own article for your own separate grade.
  • You must fulfill your group role or points will be deducted (your group will be surveyed).
  • Post your first contribution on the article page by Nov. 4th.

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 16 October 2017   |   Wednesday, 18 October 2017   |   Friday, 20 October 2017
Working on article edit

Work on your article. Do not be afraid to seek help from any and all sources!

Milestones

Post your initial edit to the article

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 23 October 2017   |   Wednesday, 25 October 2017   |   Friday, 27 October 2017
Assignment - Peer review
  • Respond to comments and edits by other editors and bots.
  • Rewrite/expand and improve your contribution
  • Comment on your classmates' contributions (you will be assigned two).
  • You will graded on how well you interact with the community.
    • politeness and civility
    • using reason and sources to back your position 
    • standing up for making it right, not caving in and giving up
    • avoiding edit wars
    • handling trolls/abuse

Week 8

Course meetings
Monday, 30 October 2017   |   Wednesday, 1 November 2017   |   Friday, 3 November 2017
Peer review and improving your edit

Week 9

Course meetings
Monday, 6 November 2017   |   Wednesday, 8 November 2017   |   Friday, 10 November 2017
Peer review and improving our edit

Week 10

Course meetings
Monday, 13 November 2017   |   Wednesday, 15 November 2017   |   Friday, 17 November 2017
Peer review and improving your edit

Week 11

Course meetings
Monday, 20 November 2017
Assignment - Final Contribution Grade

Final points awarded for: 

  • Quality of the final contribution (40 points) 
    • grammar/writing style and quality (10)
    • factually correct/proper citations (10)
    • significance of contribution, how much did you improve the article? (20)
  • Feedback on your team contribution, your role as fact checker and/or proof reader  (10 points)
Milestones

Final posted version to be graded