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We will be exploring how perceptions and views of health are affected by individual experience, community experience, and the legal and political environment. We will be doing this by making Wikipedia better and by completing a class project. The class schedule and assignments are listed here on this site. The syllabus and links to turn in most assignments are on Blackboard.
We will be working with Wikipedia Extensively during class. This class page will be where you will find all of your weekly assignments for class.
Read Chapter 1 of Cassell, E. (2004). The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
This link will take you to the digital copy of this book at Cal State East Bay. You must log in with your student credentials to access.
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 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:
Do the following:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Submit the name of the community that you are going to focus on for your class project! This community should be a community that you are a member of. (7)
Information about the project is on the syllabus.
Turn this assignment in on Blackboard.
Watch the film Ikiru on your own.
This film is available streaming through the library.
Link to film.
Turn in your reflection on Ikiru. (6)
Assignment requirements on Blackboard.
Class does not meet on 1/17/17.
We will be watching Safe by Todd Haynes in class.
Pick an artist from the list. You will be researching this artist in class and will use his/her work for the inspiration for your own project. You will also be copyediting their article on Wikipedia.
Assign yourself to the artist you have chosen. (8)
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Read through your artist's article thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes.
You don’t need to contribute new information to the article. (13)
Complete the reflection on your community. This will be turned into Blackboard. (14)
Harden, V. A. (2012). AIDS at 30: a history (1st ed). Washington, D.C: Potomac Books. Chapters 1 - 4.
In addition to lecture, we will be watching the film We Were Here in class.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to the article on your artist.
Add 1-2 sentences to a course-related article, and cite that statement to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training. (15)
How AIDS Changed American Art in Katz, J. D., Hushka, R., Arning, B., & Stebich, S. A. (2015). Art AIDS America. Seattle ; London: Tacoma Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press.
Finkelstein, A., & ProQuest. (2018). After silence: A history of AIDS through its images. Chapter 2. (
Available for free online at Cal State East Bay library)
We will be looking at the following artists:
David Wojnarowicz
Keith Haring
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
Complete this reflection assignment on Blackboard. (19)
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
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
We have a field trip to the SFMOMA Collections Center today. Information about this trip is on Blackboard.
Write a reflective essay (2–5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
Complete your reflection on your project.
This assignment is on Blackboard.
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 Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
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?
Turn in your project statement
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
It's the final week to develop your article.
You will present your class project in class.
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. |
We will be exploring how perceptions and views of health are affected by individual experience, community experience, and the legal and political environment. We will be doing this by making Wikipedia better and by completing a class project. The class schedule and assignments are listed here on this site. The syllabus and links to turn in most assignments are on Blackboard.
We will be working with Wikipedia Extensively during class. This class page will be where you will find all of your weekly assignments for class.
Read Chapter 1 of Cassell, E. (2004). The nature of suffering and the goals of medicine (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.
This link will take you to the digital copy of this book at Cal State East Bay. You must log in with your student credentials to access.
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 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:
Do the following:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Submit the name of the community that you are going to focus on for your class project! This community should be a community that you are a member of. (7)
Information about the project is on the syllabus.
Turn this assignment in on Blackboard.
Watch the film Ikiru on your own.
This film is available streaming through the library.
Link to film.
Turn in your reflection on Ikiru. (6)
Assignment requirements on Blackboard.
Class does not meet on 1/17/17.
We will be watching Safe by Todd Haynes in class.
Pick an artist from the list. You will be researching this artist in class and will use his/her work for the inspiration for your own project. You will also be copyediting their article on Wikipedia.
Assign yourself to the artist you have chosen. (8)
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Read through your artist's article thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes.
You don’t need to contribute new information to the article. (13)
Complete the reflection on your community. This will be turned into Blackboard. (14)
Harden, V. A. (2012). AIDS at 30: a history (1st ed). Washington, D.C: Potomac Books. Chapters 1 - 4.
In addition to lecture, we will be watching the film We Were Here in class.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to the article on your artist.
Add 1-2 sentences to a course-related article, and cite that statement to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training. (15)
How AIDS Changed American Art in Katz, J. D., Hushka, R., Arning, B., & Stebich, S. A. (2015). Art AIDS America. Seattle ; London: Tacoma Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press.
Finkelstein, A., & ProQuest. (2018). After silence: A history of AIDS through its images. Chapter 2. (
Available for free online at Cal State East Bay library)
We will be looking at the following artists:
David Wojnarowicz
Keith Haring
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
Complete this reflection assignment on Blackboard. (19)
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
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
We have a field trip to the SFMOMA Collections Center today. Information about this trip is on Blackboard.
Write a reflective essay (2–5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
Complete your reflection on your project.
This assignment is on Blackboard.
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 Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
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?
Turn in your project statement
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
It's the final week to develop your article.
You will present your class project in class.