Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of San Francisco/TYS 295 NewMedia YouMedia (Spring 2023)
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- Course name
- TYS 295 NewMedia_YouMedia
- Institution
- University of San Francisco
- Instructor
- Cathy Gabor
- Wikipedia Expert
- Brianda (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Course dates
- 2023-01-24 00:00:00 UTC – 2023-05-11 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 18
In this course, students analyze and explore aspects of digital authorship. As part of their studies, they sharpen their research skills and experience digital authorship by significantly editing Wikipedia entires.
Timeline
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 7 March 2023 | Thursday, 9 March 2023
- In class - Evaluate Wikipedia
- Assignment - 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
- In class - 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.)
- In class - Choose your topic
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 21 March 2023 | Thursday, 23 March 2023
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
- In class - Post List of Sources to Group Sandbox
After the librarian presentation, sit with your group and type a list of potential sources into your group sandbox page. Then put a group member's name by each source, indicating who is responsible for reading and writing about each source.
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 28 March 2023 | Thursday, 30 March 2023
- In class - Thinking about sources and plagiarism
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- Assignment - Tips and Tricks
- How to Edit in Wikipedia
- Assignment - Write about your assigned source
After reading the source(s) assigned to you during the library day, write a minimum of two sentences based on (and attributed to) that source and post into the group sandbox
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 4 April 2023 | Thursday, 6 April 2023
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
- In class - Peer review an article
- In class - Thinking about Wikipedia
- questions for reflective essay
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 11 April 2023 | Thursday, 13 April 2023
- Assignment - Respond to your peer review
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 18 April 2023 | Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
- Assignment - Continue improving your article
Exercise
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. 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.
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 25 April 2023 | Thursday, 27 April 2023
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 May 2023 | Thursday, 4 May 2023
- Assignment - Final article due
It's the final week to develop your article.
- Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
- Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!
- In class - In-class presentation
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.