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Media pervade our society and our lives. Television, music, social media, books, text messages, phone calls, movies and video games dominate our attention. Each of these media has a history, a technology, an industry, and a variety of impacts on individuals and societies. In this class we will learn to see the media world that surrounds us as an object of inquiry, not just a fact of life. Our textbook, “Converging Media” centers around the digital transformation that mass communication is undergoing. Once separate media industries, technologies and even media production and consumption are all blending together. The consequences of these shifts are constantly emerging and changing everything from our personal relationships, to our government, and our world. The goal of this course is to give students the tools they need to understand the contemporary media environment and shift toward more actively engaging with the media world we inhabit. To help achieve this goal the signature assignment of the course involves making your own productive contribution to one of the most popular websites in the world, Wikipedia.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. This page is a supplement to the syllabus for the Wikipedia assignment, please make sure to follow the syllabus carefully in addition to info on this page.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
Complete on time for 5% of the assignment grade (13.75 points).
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account and complete the "practicing the basics" tutorials.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Complete on time for 10% of the assignment grade (27.5 points).
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
You should add a small contribution to an article related to your class (anything about media, broadly conceived), or add a citation to a claim that doesn't have one.
Complete on time for 10% of the assignment grade, 27.5 points.
This is a critical step in the assignment! There must be a content gap you can reasonably address in about 2-3 paragraphs.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing. Start this week so your draft is ready for grading by Oct 7.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources:
Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Complete on time for 20% of the assignment grade, 55 points.
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Complete on time for 10% of the grade for this assignment, 27.5 points.
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Complete on time for 25% of the assignment grade, 68.75 points.
Write a reflective essay 3–5 pages on your Wikipedia contributions (double spaced, 12 point Arial font, Word or PDF format). Turn it in on Blackboard.
Indicate:
Review the evaluation guidelines on p. 8 of the syllabus for information on how this essay will be evaluated.
Complete on time for 20% of your assignment grade, 55 points.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contactwikiedu.org |
This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
Media pervade our society and our lives. Television, music, social media, books, text messages, phone calls, movies and video games dominate our attention. Each of these media has a history, a technology, an industry, and a variety of impacts on individuals and societies. In this class we will learn to see the media world that surrounds us as an object of inquiry, not just a fact of life. Our textbook, “Converging Media” centers around the digital transformation that mass communication is undergoing. Once separate media industries, technologies and even media production and consumption are all blending together. The consequences of these shifts are constantly emerging and changing everything from our personal relationships, to our government, and our world. The goal of this course is to give students the tools they need to understand the contemporary media environment and shift toward more actively engaging with the media world we inhabit. To help achieve this goal the signature assignment of the course involves making your own productive contribution to one of the most popular websites in the world, Wikipedia.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. This page is a supplement to the syllabus for the Wikipedia assignment, please make sure to follow the syllabus carefully in addition to info on this page.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
Complete on time for 5% of the assignment grade (13.75 points).
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account and complete the "practicing the basics" tutorials.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Complete on time for 10% of the assignment grade (27.5 points).
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
You should add a small contribution to an article related to your class (anything about media, broadly conceived), or add a citation to a claim that doesn't have one.
Complete on time for 10% of the assignment grade, 27.5 points.
This is a critical step in the assignment! There must be a content gap you can reasonably address in about 2-3 paragraphs.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing. Start this week so your draft is ready for grading by Oct 7.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources:
Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Complete on time for 20% of the assignment grade, 55 points.
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Complete on time for 10% of the grade for this assignment, 27.5 points.
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Complete on time for 25% of the assignment grade, 68.75 points.
Write a reflective essay 3–5 pages on your Wikipedia contributions (double spaced, 12 point Arial font, Word or PDF format). Turn it in on Blackboard.
Indicate:
Review the evaluation guidelines on p. 8 of the syllabus for information on how this essay will be evaluated.
Complete on time for 20% of your assignment grade, 55 points.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.