Scholarchanter

Hello everyone, I am interested in finding out how other people are using Wikipedia for class projects and other educational uses. Thanks! Scholarchanter (talk) 07:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Educational projects

Hi and welcome to Wikipedia, I suggest you have a chat with Jimmy Butler who has run at least two successful projects. Best wishes, Graham. Graham Colm (talk) 07:20, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree with Graham, that's a good idea. What level of education are you talking about (school, college, university)? Are you testing the student's writing and research abilities or their ability to collaborate on a Wiki? Producing an FA is very hard work that requires considerable dedication. Restricting the article topic to "musculoskeletal injuries" restricts the pool of Wikipedians who might want or feel able to help. It might also be wise to gain some editing experience yourself. How will you be able to judge your students if you don't know what difficulties they may face in producing a great article? Colin°^Talk 09:17, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Hello. My professor is an avid wikipedia user and this is our main project for my Shaping of the Modern World class. She introduced us to the basics of wikipedia and that's how I got started! Hope this helps! Saralo16 (talk) 03:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Musculoskeletal Injuries Project

This project is for an advanced undergraduate course in Movement Anatomy and Kinesiology. The course starts on the week of March 30, 2010, and Ends on June 10, 2010. I appreciate input on managing this project. Depending on your feedback, I will adjust the project as necessary.

Guides for the Group Project on Musculoskeletal/Neurological Injuries

Form a team of 4, and investigate a topic area of your interest. You will produce a peer-reviewed Wikipedia entry, a health-center handout, a written report, and a presentation.

Sample topics: Ankle sprain, ACL rupture, Carpal tunnel syndrome, Worksite injuries, Whiplash. CPP Student Health Center requests information on Back injuries and Knee injuries. Project topics require with instructor approval. Read this entire document before deciding on topics

Due dates and Assignments: 4/6: Project Plan (Suggested length: 2-4 pages). The project plan should be developed after consulting with the instructor on the scope and relevance to the course materials. The plan must include: 1. List team member names, roles: one person needs to take the lead on a particular aspect of the project. One suggestion: divide responsibility into topic areas. Another suggestions: each person takes a lead on the graphics, Wikipedia editing, handout, etc. (note grading policy). Each lead person is mainly responsible for that aspect of the project. Discuss why this division is fair. If unfair situations arise, how will you deal with it? If necessary, roles can be re-distributed later. 2. Introduce the topic and discuss the relevance to course material 3. Provide a tentative outline including planned scope of work 4. Provide project schedule with specific goals of what will be done by when by whom: (such as gathering material, learning Wikipedia conventions, learning guidelines for handouts, library research on public domain, creative commons material, drafts, presentation preparation, when you will meet with each other, apply for peer review, apply for Featured Article status) 5. Bibliography. List the sources you will start from. At minimum, this should include the current and related Wikipedia articles, Wikipedia tutorials, and articles you found from pubmed.gov and cdc.gov, health education handouts related to your topic you have found elsewhere, and appropriate sections from the textbooks (so at least 7). For web resources, don’t forget to list the date accessed, as the content can change at any time.

5/4: Progress Report (Suggested length: 2-4 pages). The progress report should note any changes to the original plan, on the milestones achieved, and their difficulty. The report should also contain initial findings that would be included in the final paper, as well as an updated bibliography. Turn in printed drafts of the Wikipedia article/sections (with any changes/new text annotated) and the handout. By this date, the Wikipedia entry should now be live – available online for public viewing, and should have been submitted for peer review.

6/10: Project Presentation and Final Report

Project presentation: 10-15 minutes per group, plus 5 minutes of questions. Powerpoint recommended. Other presentation styles ok (movie, etc.). Use of visual aids, props, live action, etc. highly encouraged. Present a concise version of the findings of the project, emphasizing the uniqueness, course relevance, importance of the topic, methods, findings, etc. Show the updated Wikipedia page, and provide a copy of the health center handout to fellow students. Educate your fellow students about a particular injury.

Wikipedia article: The Wikipedia article should be a new article or a substantial update of an existing article on the topic, written for other kinesiology professionals. It must contain information on prevalence, risk factors, mechanism of injury, therapy after injury, and prevention. The article should have at least 1500 words (equivalent to ~6 pages) of new or edited material, appropriate audiovisual aids, citations and links to original research, and links to other relevant Wikipedia articles. It should clean up, update, or otherwise edit existing material in the Wikipedia entry. All corrections in response to peer reviews should have been made, and the article has to be nominated for Bronze Star/ Featured article status. Since this work becomes part of public domain, take care to cite sources correctly, and ensure accuracy of the content. All photos, illustrations, etc. should be original, public domain, Creative Commons with appropriate credit, or used with fair use and proper copyright clearance/fee. Take ownership of your work and ensure that it serves the general public. Make sure to save/print the original entry, and annotate what the changes/additions were (highlight, sticky notes, etc.)

-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scholarchanter (talk • contribs) 20:41, 27 March 2010

Hi Scholarchanter. I'm sure JimmyButler will give you good advice on the practialities of running the project, and what is feasible, etc. Setting up a project page is probably a good idea, leaving your own talk page for other things. A few points on the last paragraph. Wikipedia articles should not be "written for other kinesiology professionals", or indeed any professionals or experts. Wikipedia is a general encyclopaedia for the "general reader". The article should be good enough that an expert would enjoy reading it (it doesn't need to be so dumbed down it says nothing interesting or advanced) but lay-friendly enough that the expert would be happy to show it to his friends or patients. See Wikipedia:Make technical articles accessible for advice. Also, the advice to "Take ownership of your work" conflicts with our Wikipedia:Ownership of articles policy. Other editors will edit these articles and the students must collaborate and accept conensus. If the students expect their work to be peer-reviewed or reviewed at FA, they might like to help out by doing some reviews themselves (although they should probably avoid reviewing fellow-students).

Students should probably start with Wikipedia:Five pillars and become familiar with our policies before worrying to much about the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Wrt medical articles, Wikipedia has two guidelines. WP:MEDMOS and WP:MEDRS. These should be on your students' reading lists too. Colin°^Talk 21:19, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

More comments

The following existing Wikipedia articles may be of interest to you: Sprained ankle, Anterior cruciate ligament injury, Whiplash (medicine), and Carpal tunnel syndrome. I was not able to find one about Workplace injury. If such an article is written it should be linked from Workplace safety. (I am very much in favour of student projects like this one.) --Ettrig (talk) 15:49, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks everyone for the comments. The target audience and the ownership issues have been amended in the project. Scholarchanter (talk) 19:23, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

running a similar project now

Hi, my class is engaged in a project now. Wikipedia:School and university projects has information and templates that might be useful. My students are working in Shaping the Modern World SP2010. Good luck! Auntieruth55 (talk) 23:28, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

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