User:Cliotropic/WPWH for Educators

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

• 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

General

• 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

• Final project for WGS111 (Women, Culture, and History), Suffolk University, Spring 2011

Women's/Gender History

• 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

• (TO DO: add yours here)

General history courses

• Assigning Wikipedia in a US History Survey

• (TO DO: add links to good assignment models we might want to build on)

Tools for assessing student contributions

• 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

• 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

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