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When and Where | |
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Time | 9am to 5pm |
Address | CCCC 2016, GRB, Room 351F, Level Three |
City, State | Houston, Texas |
Date | April 6, 2016 |
Contribute to Wikipedia, design assignments that enhance learning.
This all-day workshop invites participants to investigate how writing for Wikipedia not only supports key writing goals, but also opens opportunities to explore archives and special collections, to question what makes a topic or a source “notable,” and to challenge Wikipedia’s gaps in representation. We'll address these and related questions by directly working in Wikipedia, providing participants with hands-on experience editing and collaborating in Wikipedia and designing Wikipedia assignments.
Through its interdisciplinary cohort of presenters, the workshop will also illustrate the potential for collaboration among writing instructors, librarians, and archivists. Participants will explore how writing for Wikipedia can help students identify as authors and knowledge creators, gain comfort with collaboration and revision, better understand principles of source use, and understand how writing can be activism. The workshop will proceed in four sections. The morning begins with an introduction to working in Wikipedia (or “Bootcamp”), followed by a 90-minute round-robin of collaborative, scaffolded activities on individual topics. After lunch, the afternoon will commence with an editing refresher followed by an Editing Salon. The workshop will conclude with a guided assignment design session. This workshop invites participants — and through them, their students — to join in active, deliberate knowledge creation and preservation in Wikipedia, and the kinds of interdisciplinary work that can aid learning and reinforce writing outcomes.
At the end of this workshop, participants will leave with their own Wikipedia account and user page and be able to:
You can use the links in this "Outcomes" section to navigate the event page; or scroll down for more useful links to help you launch your Wikipedia classroom projects.
What should I have?
Wikipedia is a work in progress: perfection is not required
Here is a copy of our workshop "Parking Lot," where we noted questions from participants as they arose, and scratched them off once they were addressed.
We never got to a thorough discussion of how to work with images, so here is a link to the Wiki Ed Foundation's brochure, "Illustrating Wikipedia"
Once you create your user account, go to our Participant List and sign your post with four ~ in a row. That markup will tag the list with your username.
This contains a run-down of the day, but it also includes useful notes and links to help you launch your own classroom projects
9:00 am: Introductions, goals, agenda (15 min.)
Basic guidelines, communication customs, editing customs (60 min.) The focus here is on developing your "Wikipedia hat," so you can read and evaluate Wikipedia articles based on Wikipedia's standards, not those from your own areas of expertise. Read over the following Wikipedia policy/guideline pages, and then use what you've learned to evaluate one of the articles listed.
Articles to evaluate: pick one, and use your new "Wikipedia hat" to evaluate them. How might they be improved?
10:15: Break (15 min.)
Your task: Read talk pages with an eye toward rhetorical/discourse analysis and create guidelines for students.
We suggest spending no more than 10 minutes looking at the talk pages, so that you have at least 5 minutes to sketch your tip-sheet. Post a picture of your Tip Sheet HERE!
12:00: LUNCH (90 min.)
1:30: Regroup discussion and editing refresher (15 min.)
See Training to Edit Wikipedia Possible topics for editing, and Resources we can draw from (90 min.)
3:15: Break (15 min.)
4:30: Wrap-up, reflection, next steps and where to continue the conversation, both online and in your area (30 min.)
Please add your Wikipedia username below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).
Include #4C16 in your edit summary so we can track our edits on Wikipedia Social Search
Sample Assignment Ideas from MIT
Chanitra Bishop: 5 ways Wikipedia can help teach research and critical thinking skills
Your home institution libraries can be an excellent resource. You can also synchronize Google Scholar with your library.
Participants, post a link to what you edited!
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When and Where | |
---|---|
Time | 9am to 5pm |
Address | CCCC 2016, GRB, Room 351F, Level Three |
City, State | Houston, Texas |
Date | April 6, 2016 |
Contribute to Wikipedia, design assignments that enhance learning.
This all-day workshop invites participants to investigate how writing for Wikipedia not only supports key writing goals, but also opens opportunities to explore archives and special collections, to question what makes a topic or a source “notable,” and to challenge Wikipedia’s gaps in representation. We'll address these and related questions by directly working in Wikipedia, providing participants with hands-on experience editing and collaborating in Wikipedia and designing Wikipedia assignments.
Through its interdisciplinary cohort of presenters, the workshop will also illustrate the potential for collaboration among writing instructors, librarians, and archivists. Participants will explore how writing for Wikipedia can help students identify as authors and knowledge creators, gain comfort with collaboration and revision, better understand principles of source use, and understand how writing can be activism. The workshop will proceed in four sections. The morning begins with an introduction to working in Wikipedia (or “Bootcamp”), followed by a 90-minute round-robin of collaborative, scaffolded activities on individual topics. After lunch, the afternoon will commence with an editing refresher followed by an Editing Salon. The workshop will conclude with a guided assignment design session. This workshop invites participants — and through them, their students — to join in active, deliberate knowledge creation and preservation in Wikipedia, and the kinds of interdisciplinary work that can aid learning and reinforce writing outcomes.
At the end of this workshop, participants will leave with their own Wikipedia account and user page and be able to:
You can use the links in this "Outcomes" section to navigate the event page; or scroll down for more useful links to help you launch your Wikipedia classroom projects.
What should I have?
Wikipedia is a work in progress: perfection is not required
Here is a copy of our workshop "Parking Lot," where we noted questions from participants as they arose, and scratched them off once they were addressed.
We never got to a thorough discussion of how to work with images, so here is a link to the Wiki Ed Foundation's brochure, "Illustrating Wikipedia"
Once you create your user account, go to our Participant List and sign your post with four ~ in a row. That markup will tag the list with your username.
This contains a run-down of the day, but it also includes useful notes and links to help you launch your own classroom projects
9:00 am: Introductions, goals, agenda (15 min.)
Basic guidelines, communication customs, editing customs (60 min.) The focus here is on developing your "Wikipedia hat," so you can read and evaluate Wikipedia articles based on Wikipedia's standards, not those from your own areas of expertise. Read over the following Wikipedia policy/guideline pages, and then use what you've learned to evaluate one of the articles listed.
Articles to evaluate: pick one, and use your new "Wikipedia hat" to evaluate them. How might they be improved?
10:15: Break (15 min.)
Your task: Read talk pages with an eye toward rhetorical/discourse analysis and create guidelines for students.
We suggest spending no more than 10 minutes looking at the talk pages, so that you have at least 5 minutes to sketch your tip-sheet. Post a picture of your Tip Sheet HERE!
12:00: LUNCH (90 min.)
1:30: Regroup discussion and editing refresher (15 min.)
See Training to Edit Wikipedia Possible topics for editing, and Resources we can draw from (90 min.)
3:15: Break (15 min.)
4:30: Wrap-up, reflection, next steps and where to continue the conversation, both online and in your area (30 min.)
Please add your Wikipedia username below (signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).
Include #4C16 in your edit summary so we can track our edits on Wikipedia Social Search
Sample Assignment Ideas from MIT
Chanitra Bishop: 5 ways Wikipedia can help teach research and critical thinking skills
Your home institution libraries can be an excellent resource. You can also synchronize Google Scholar with your library.
Participants, post a link to what you edited!