User:AmyRuffusDoerr/Cognitive Psychology

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Course name: Cognitive Psychology

Institution: Fontbonne University

Instructor: Amy Ruffus-Doerr

Subject: psychology

Course dates: 2015-02-04 – 2015-06-30

Approximate number of student editors: 20

Topics covered include: attention, memory, knowledge, problem solving, situated cognition, knowledge builders, perception, the brain, expert vs novice, epistemology, short and long term memory, memory errors, reasoning, language, and visual imagary.

Timeline

Wikipedia essentials

Create a User page, and then click the "enroll" button on the top left of this course page

Course meetings

Tuesday, 27 January 2015 | Wednesday, 4 February 2015

{Week of 2015-01-26

Homework

Overview of the course
Create an account and then complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.

Week of 2015-02-02

Wikipedia is a community: a brief overview of its rules, expectations, and etiquette
Handout: Editing Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wiki Education Foundation)
Basics of editing
Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
Collaborating and engaging with the Wiki editing community
Handouts: Using Talk Pages handout and Evaluating Wikipedia brochure
Read through this brochure on evaluating Wikipedia articles, especially pages 4-7. This will give you a good, brief overview of what to look for in other articles, and what other people will look for in your own.
Handouts: Citing sources on Wikipedia and Avoiding plagiarism on Wikipedia.
Research and list 3 articles on your Wikipedia user page that you will consider working on as your main project. Look at the talk page for existing topics for a sense of who else is working on it and what they're doing. Describe your choices to your instructor for feedback.
Instructor evaluates student's article selections, by next week.
Select an article to work on, removing the rest from your user page. Add your article to the class’s course page.
Mark your article's talk page with a banner to let other editors know you're working on it. Add this code in the top section of the talk page:

{{course assignment | course = User:AmyRuffusDoerr/Cognitive Psychology | term = Spring 2015 }}

Compile a bibliography of relevant, reliable sources and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources. Make sure to check in on the talk page (or watchlist) to see if anyone has advice on your bibliography.
Handout: Moving out of your sandbox
Move sandbox articles into main space.
- If you are expanding an existing article, copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article.
Handouts: "Uploading images" and "Evaluating Wikipedia article quality" (handed out originally earlier in the course)

Week 8 (2015-03-04): Creating first draft

Course meetings

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

In class

Peer review your classmate's article. Leave suggestions on the article talk page.
Copy-edit the reviewed article.
Expand your article into an initial draft of a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
As a group, have the students offer suggestions for improving one or two of the students' articles, setting the example for what is expected from a solid encyclopedia article.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
* Make edits to your article based on peers’ feedback. If you disagree with a suggestion, use talk pages to politely discuss and come to a consensus on your edit.

Week 11 - 15 (2015-03-18): Finishing touches

Course meetings

Monday, 16 March 2015 | Wednesday, 18 March 2015

due

Add final touches to your Wikipedia article. You can find a handy reference guide here.
Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.

Course meetings

Monday, 11 May 2015

All revisions after professor feedback due by 11:59pm Please be sure to email the professor when revisions are complete