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This course examines the complex relationships between gender, race, culture, science, and technology in historical and contemporary contexts. This examination highlights the role of ethical, social, cultural, political, and economic factors in determining historical and contemporary meanings of scientific and technical practice, as well as knowledge and beliefs about gender, race, class, and sexuality. The course also asks students to engage with reform efforts that seek to create more socially responsible scientific and technical knowledge production and decision-making practices (Fulfills GE F, USCP).
At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, this course functions as: A required course in the Comparative Ethnic Studies major; an elective course in the Ethnic Studies minor; an elective course in the Women's & Gender Studies minor; a required course in the Gender, Race, Culture, Science and Technology Minor; a required course in the Culture, Society & Technology concentration in the Liberal Arts & Engineering Studies major. This course also fulfills the General Education Area F: Technology requirement as well as the United States Cultural Pluralism (USCP) requirement.
Student | Assigned | Reviewing |
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Jenagalasso | ||
Cakunde | The House of the Scorpion | |
Qmai824 | Dorothy Vaughan |
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
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:
Handouts:
Using Talk Pages, [
http://wikiedu.org/evaluatingwikipedia Evaluating Wikipedia
]
Handouts: Choosing an article
To be completed by all students
To be completed by all students. 1. Select two of your classmates' Comparative Analyses to review. 2. Post your comments directly to the PolyLearn Pre-Class Activity forum. As a class, let's make sure that each student receives two reviews.
Handouts: Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
All students in the Applied ES/WGS Path 2 have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia.
All students have completed the online training.
Creating a Draft Contribution to Wikipedia as an ES/WGS Scholar (due W 11/2)
* Continue to work with at least one of the existing Wikipedia pages you analyzed for the previous assignment. * Choose a different existing Wikipedia page to work with that is related to the course. * Is a topic or person explored in this course missing from Wikipedia? Choose to create a new Wikipedia page to address this gap.
* Write for your selected Wikipedia page’s “Talk” forum 1. If you choose this option, you should create a minimum 250-word contribution to the “Talk” Forum in which you ask questions and make proposals for changes to the page based on your ES/WGS analysis of the page. If the “Talk” Forum is already active for your page, please read these contributions first so that you can add to the dialogue. 2. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, as a Wikipedian committed to editing from a [Neutral Point](/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view) of View, describe why this “Talk” contribution is important AND why you chose to make this contribution. 3. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, from an ES/WGS perspective, describe why this Talk contribution is important AND why you chose to make this contribution. * Revise your selected Wikipedia page 1. If you choose this option, you will be re-writing the Wikipedia page as an ES/WGS Scholar 2. Copy the existing Wikipedia into your word processing software 3. Turn on your “review” function or find some other way to track changes to the existing page’s text and audio/visual components 4. Make at least three important changes from an ES/WGS perspective 5. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, as a Wikipedian committed to editing from a Neutral Point of View, describe why each change is important AND why you chose to make each change. 6. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, from an ES/WGS perspective, describe why each change is important AND why you chose to make each change. 7. You are also encouraged to make these draft changes in your sandbox. * Create your new Wikipedia page 1. If you choose this option, you will be creating a new Wikipedia page as an ES/WGS Scholar 2. In your word processing or other software, create the content (minimum 150 words) of your new Wikipedia page. 3. Include images, links internal and external to Wikipedia, and sources. 4. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, as a Wikipedian committed to editing from a [Neutral Point of View](/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view), describe why this new contribution is important AND why you chose to make this contribution. 5. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, from an ES/WGS perspective, describe why this contribution to Wikipedia is important AND why you chose to make this contribution. 6. You are also encouraged to make these draft additions in your sandbox.
* Find, read, and provide a (non-annotated) citation for an article about either * bias and Wikipedia’s editors (e.g., Wikipedia and women) * bias and Wikipedia’s content (e.g., what is included, what is not included, why, and with what significance)
* In a minimum of 100 additional words, and including at least one quotation from course readings, reflect on why you believe editing and/or analyzing Wikipedia is important or not important from an ES/WGS perspective.
* In a minimum of 100 additional words, reflect on why you believe editing and/or analyzing Wikipedia is important or not important from your perspective. NOTE: There is definitely no right answer for this section.
-- * In addition, on the table at the bottom of this course page, add your username next to the articles you will peer review.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Handout: [
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moving_out_of_your_sandbox.pdf Moving out of your Sandbox
]
* Make sure to make edits to your original draft based on peer/instructor feedback prior to posting.
* Move your sandbox articles into main space.
* If you are expanding an existing article, copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article.
* If you are creating a new article, do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow the instructions in the "Moving out of your sandbox" handout.
Handout: [
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moving_out_of_your_sandbox.pdf Moving out of your Sandbox
]
Handout: Polishing your article
Observations & Final Reflections (due W 12/07)
* In at least 500 words, reflect on your experiences with Wikipedia. Think and write about:
1. your experiences in preparing for and making a Wikipedia Contribution.
2. what happened, if anything, to or in response to your Wikipedia Contribution between its date of posting and now.
3. how making a Wikipedia Contribution has changed or not changed your current/future use and/or engagement with and/or contributions to Wikipedia.
4. your final thoughts on why you believe editing and/or analyzing Wikipedia is important or not important from an ES/WGS perspective.
5. what you have learned from your participation in this Wikipedia project.
*Turn in your assignment on
PolyLearn.
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. |
This course examines the complex relationships between gender, race, culture, science, and technology in historical and contemporary contexts. This examination highlights the role of ethical, social, cultural, political, and economic factors in determining historical and contemporary meanings of scientific and technical practice, as well as knowledge and beliefs about gender, race, class, and sexuality. The course also asks students to engage with reform efforts that seek to create more socially responsible scientific and technical knowledge production and decision-making practices (Fulfills GE F, USCP).
At Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, this course functions as: A required course in the Comparative Ethnic Studies major; an elective course in the Ethnic Studies minor; an elective course in the Women's & Gender Studies minor; a required course in the Gender, Race, Culture, Science and Technology Minor; a required course in the Culture, Society & Technology concentration in the Liberal Arts & Engineering Studies major. This course also fulfills the General Education Area F: Technology requirement as well as the United States Cultural Pluralism (USCP) requirement.
Student | Assigned | Reviewing |
---|---|---|
Jenagalasso | ||
Cakunde | The House of the Scorpion | |
Qmai824 | Dorothy Vaughan |
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
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:
Handouts:
Using Talk Pages, [
http://wikiedu.org/evaluatingwikipedia Evaluating Wikipedia
]
Handouts: Choosing an article
To be completed by all students
To be completed by all students. 1. Select two of your classmates' Comparative Analyses to review. 2. Post your comments directly to the PolyLearn Pre-Class Activity forum. As a class, let's make sure that each student receives two reviews.
Handouts: Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
All students in the Applied ES/WGS Path 2 have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia.
All students have completed the online training.
Creating a Draft Contribution to Wikipedia as an ES/WGS Scholar (due W 11/2)
* Continue to work with at least one of the existing Wikipedia pages you analyzed for the previous assignment. * Choose a different existing Wikipedia page to work with that is related to the course. * Is a topic or person explored in this course missing from Wikipedia? Choose to create a new Wikipedia page to address this gap.
* Write for your selected Wikipedia page’s “Talk” forum 1. If you choose this option, you should create a minimum 250-word contribution to the “Talk” Forum in which you ask questions and make proposals for changes to the page based on your ES/WGS analysis of the page. If the “Talk” Forum is already active for your page, please read these contributions first so that you can add to the dialogue. 2. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, as a Wikipedian committed to editing from a [Neutral Point](/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view) of View, describe why this “Talk” contribution is important AND why you chose to make this contribution. 3. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, from an ES/WGS perspective, describe why this Talk contribution is important AND why you chose to make this contribution. * Revise your selected Wikipedia page 1. If you choose this option, you will be re-writing the Wikipedia page as an ES/WGS Scholar 2. Copy the existing Wikipedia into your word processing software 3. Turn on your “review” function or find some other way to track changes to the existing page’s text and audio/visual components 4. Make at least three important changes from an ES/WGS perspective 5. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, as a Wikipedian committed to editing from a Neutral Point of View, describe why each change is important AND why you chose to make each change. 6. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, from an ES/WGS perspective, describe why each change is important AND why you chose to make each change. 7. You are also encouraged to make these draft changes in your sandbox. * Create your new Wikipedia page 1. If you choose this option, you will be creating a new Wikipedia page as an ES/WGS Scholar 2. In your word processing or other software, create the content (minimum 150 words) of your new Wikipedia page. 3. Include images, links internal and external to Wikipedia, and sources. 4. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, as a Wikipedian committed to editing from a [Neutral Point of View](/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view), describe why this new contribution is important AND why you chose to make this contribution. 5. In a minimum of an additional 50 words, from an ES/WGS perspective, describe why this contribution to Wikipedia is important AND why you chose to make this contribution. 6. You are also encouraged to make these draft additions in your sandbox.
* Find, read, and provide a (non-annotated) citation for an article about either * bias and Wikipedia’s editors (e.g., Wikipedia and women) * bias and Wikipedia’s content (e.g., what is included, what is not included, why, and with what significance)
* In a minimum of 100 additional words, and including at least one quotation from course readings, reflect on why you believe editing and/or analyzing Wikipedia is important or not important from an ES/WGS perspective.
* In a minimum of 100 additional words, reflect on why you believe editing and/or analyzing Wikipedia is important or not important from your perspective. NOTE: There is definitely no right answer for this section.
-- * In addition, on the table at the bottom of this course page, add your username next to the articles you will peer review.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Handout: [
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moving_out_of_your_sandbox.pdf Moving out of your Sandbox
]
* Make sure to make edits to your original draft based on peer/instructor feedback prior to posting.
* Move your sandbox articles into main space.
* If you are expanding an existing article, copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article.
* If you are creating a new article, do NOT copy and paste your text, or there will be no record of your work history. Follow the instructions in the "Moving out of your sandbox" handout.
Handout: [
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moving_out_of_your_sandbox.pdf Moving out of your Sandbox
]
Handout: Polishing your article
Observations & Final Reflections (due W 12/07)
* In at least 500 words, reflect on your experiences with Wikipedia. Think and write about:
1. your experiences in preparing for and making a Wikipedia Contribution.
2. what happened, if anything, to or in response to your Wikipedia Contribution between its date of posting and now.
3. how making a Wikipedia Contribution has changed or not changed your current/future use and/or engagement with and/or contributions to Wikipedia.
4. your final thoughts on why you believe editing and/or analyzing Wikipedia is important or not important from an ES/WGS perspective.
5. what you have learned from your participation in this Wikipedia project.
*Turn in your assignment on
PolyLearn.