Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/California Maritime Academy/Information Fluency in the Digital World (Spring 2014)/Timeline

Timeline

Week 9: Wikipedia essentials, Exploring the topic area

In class

• Behind the scenes at Wikipedia
• Handout: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
• Tips on finding the best article to work on
• WikiProjects, Categories, Article Ratings

Assignment

• Complete the online student orientation, Core Principles. During this training, you will create an account and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.

Milestone

• All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
• Research and list 3 articles on your Wikipedia sandbox that you will consider working on as your main project. Ask your instructor for comment.

Week 10: Selecting your article

In class

• Discuss the range of topics students will be working on
• Handouts: Using talk pages, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality, and How to get help

Assignments

• Select an article to work on. Add your article to the class’s course page.

Milestone

• All students have started researching and drafting their article.

Week 11: Building articles

• Share experiences and discuss problems.
• Continue research in preparation for expanding your article.

Assignments

• Expand your article into an initial draft based on your research so far.

Week 12: Wikicoding

Wikimarkup cheatsheet

Week 13: Give and receive feedback

In class

• As a group, students offer suggestions for improving one or two of the students' articles, setting the example for what is expected from a solid encyclopedia article.

Assignments

• Peer review two of your classmates' articles. Leave suggestions on the article talk pages.
• Copy-edit the two reviewed articles.

Milestone

• All articles have been reviewed by others. All students have reviewed articles by their classmates.

Week 14: Revision and citations

Assignments

• Make edits to your article based on peers’ feedback.

Week 15: Reflection

Assignments

• Create graphical research narrative on your Wikipedia contributions.

Week 16: Due date

You made it!

Milestone

• Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading, and have submitted a graphical research narrative.

(Click to return to your main course page and continue.)

(Click to return to your main course page and continue.)