Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Davidson College/Psy 276: Cognitive Psychology (2013 Q4)/Timeline

Useful Handouts

Critical background

• Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
• Using talk pages
• Evaluating Wikipedia article quality
• Advice for choosing articles
• How to get help

Serious editing

• Citing sources on Wikipedia
• Wikimarkup cheatsheet
• Uploading images
• Moving out of your sandbox

Timeline

Assignments

due October 25

• Complete the online training for students.
• Create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page.
• To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to any Wikipedians helping your class (such as a Wikipedia Ambassador), and leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page.

due October 28

• Select an article to work on, removing the rest from your user page. Add your article to the class’s course page.
• Critically evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to the class, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article’s talk page (including references)

due December 6

• "Final" Wikipedia edits on article

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