Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/American Federal Government (Nate Vanden Brook)/Timeline
Timeline
[edit]Week 1: Introduction: What is Wikipedia?
[edit]- In class assignment
- Read and discuss the Five Pillars of Wikipedia
- Homework: Wikimedia Foundation (2010). Evaluating Wikipedia Article Quality.
- Homework: Brizee, Allen, & Driscoll, Dana Lynn (2010). Evaluating Sources of Information. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/01/
- Homework: Journal Response To Evaluating Article (to be completed in ANGEL)
Week 3: Evaluation of Articles
[edit]- In class assignment
- Read and and evaluate articles for neutrality
- Homework: Read and evaluate and assigned Wikidpedia entry
- Homework: Journal Response to Article Evaluation (To be Completed in ANGEL)
- Due September 9, by 11:59 PM: Journal Response to Evaluating a Wikipedia Article
Week 4: What is Research?
[edit]Friday, September 16: Meet with Dana Tuley- Williams in the Library
Week 5 and 6: Annotated Bibliography
[edit]- In class
- What is an annotated bibliography
- Assigned: Annotated Bibliography (rough draft due week 8; final draft due week 11)
- Assigned: Wikipedia topics to be edited
- Homework: User:Awadewit, et al. (2009).Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/PlagiarismHandout.pdf
- Homework: Avoiding Plagiarism Quiz (available on ANGEL) (10)
Resource: Bisignani, Dana, & Brizee, Allen (2006). Annotated Biblographies. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
- Due September 30, by 11:59 PM : Journal Response to Article Evaluation
Week 8: Using Wikipedia
[edit]- In class assignment
- How to set up a Wikipedia user account
- In class
- Meet On Campus and Online Ambassadors
- Due October 14, at the start of class: Annotated Bibliography Rough Draft (20)
- Homework:Leave a message on your group members talk pages
Week 10: Using Wikipedia
[edit]- Due October 28, by 11:59 PM: Leave a message on your group members talk pages
Week 11: Using Wikipedia
[edit]- In class
- Using your sandbox
- In class
- Editing a wikipedia page the basics
- Due November 4 at the start of class: Annotated Bibliography Final Draft (35)
- Homework: Make at least two edits to your assigned Wikiepdia article in your sandbox
- Homework (to be read by week 6): Leuchtenburg, William E. (2006).New Faces of 1946. Smithsonian Magazine, November 2006. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/newfaces.html?c=y&page=1
- Resource: Logan, Darren W, et al. (2010). Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. PLoS Comput Biol 6(9). http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Ten_Simple_Rules_for_Editing_Wikipedia.pdf
- Resource: Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki Markup Quick Reference.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Welcome2WP_English_Flap_081810.pdf
Week 12: Using Wikipedia
[edit]- Due November 11, by 11:59 PM: Make at least two edits to your assigned Wikiepdia article in your sandbox
Week 15: Using Wikipedia
[edit]- In class
- Discuss article: New Faces of 1946.
- In class assignment
- Evaluate Wikipedia entry: United States House of Representatives elections, 1946.
- Due December 2, by 11:59 PM : Assigned Wikipedia Articles edited and ready to go live from the sandbox (50)