Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/College Unbound/Digital Citizenship (Spring 2023)
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- Course name
- Digital Citizenship
- Institution
- College Unbound
- Instructor
- Autumm Caines
- Wikipedia Expert
- Brianda (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Digital Citizenship
- Course dates
- 2023-01-09 00:00:00 UTC – 2023-03-05 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 5
In this course students explore questions of digital identity and online community. We will study internet history and diverse perspectives around online social networks while building digital literacies that enable self-expression and organizing on the web. Students critically examine issues around accessibility, privacy, identity, health, and organizing as they relate to connected digital environments while working in the public on the internet as an undergraduate digital scholar. Students gain familiarity and experience in internet based tools and leverage communicating digitally and publicly to create greater confidence with these formats and techniques in professional settings.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 12 January 2023
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
- Assignment - Wikipedia Declaration of Work on Moodle
Fill out our Wikipedia Declaration of Work on Moodle
After you have finished the work here on the WikiEdu Dashboard return to Moodle and complete the Declaration of Work statement to get points for your work.
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 19 January 2023
- Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
- In class - Some Questions for Class
- Assignment - Wikipedia Declaration of Work on Moodle
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 26 January 2023
- Assignment - Choose possible topics / Learn about plagerism
- note that I am not asking you to write a new article but rather to edit an existing one. You can skip anything that is related to writing a new article.
- Assignment - Wikipedia Declaration of Work on Moodle
- In class - Discussion
- Guide(s) for editing articles in your topic area - (only for those areas)
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 2 February 2023
- Assignment - Finalize your topic and start drafting in your sandbox
Go back to the work you did last week coming up with 3-5 potential articles for editing and choose one to focus on. To find sources be sure to look at the CU Library page and the databases I've listed in Moodle. Start drafting the edits to your proposed article in your Sandbox.
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- In class - Wikipedia Declaration of Work on Moodle
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 9 February 2023
- Assignment - Continue to research and write in your sandbox and/or catch up
Continue your research into your article and drafting the additions/changes that you would make on the article in your sandbox. Use the WikiEdu Dashboard tool to track this or communicate with your professor about what article you are working on.
If you are behind use this time to go back and complete the trainings and modules you missed.
Resources:
- Read Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- In class - Week 5 Wikipedia Declaration of Work on Moodle
- Assignment - Communicate about your edits
You might have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. If you don't have any feedback yet reach out to your professor and ask for feedback. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Though we are skipping the formal peer review read through the Peer Review Guiding Framework to learn how to be a good peer reviewer in case one of your classmates asks you for help. Disregard the technical parts about assigning yourself an article to peer review but pay attention the parts about giving good feedback.
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 16 February 2023
- Assignment - Continue improving your proposed edits in your sandbox
Complete the training above to learn more about adding images to your article. You are not required to add images but complete the training so that you now have another way to improve articles if you so choose.
If you are up to date, continue to revisit your text and refine your work in your sandbox. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media. You also may be reaching out to your instructor, classmates, or communicating on the Talk Page of your chosen article with other Wikipedia editors for feedback.
Also Read -
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6 on adding images
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13 just the section on Improving an Existing Article (because we are not working on developing a whole article)
- Assignment - Wikipedia Declaration of Work in Moodle
- Milestones
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia - If you are ready
Complete the moving work out of your sandbox training above so that you understand how to move content from your sandbox to Wikipedia. BUT ONLY ACTUALLY MAKE THE MOVE IF YOU ARE READY because you've improved your draft based on reflection and on others' feedback. The training also covers how to move whole articles but since we did not draft a whole article you can just review that information or bookmark it for later if you are ever interested in drafting a whole article.
If you are not ready then continue to research and revise or go back to earlier trainings and review. You never need to make actual edits on Wikipedia in order to get points.
- Assignment - Wikipedia Declaration of Work in Moodle
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 2 March 2023
- Assignment - Finalize your work
It's the final week to work on your article. Continue to work in your sandbox and go back to past weeks trainings if need be. Your article is likely still not perfect even if you moved your edit to Wikipedia. Think about what work you or other editors may still need to do in the future to improve this article.
- Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a check-list about editing an article and think about what still needs to happen to make your artlcle better.
- Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!
- Assignment - Wikipedia Declaration of Work in Moodle
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.