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What is the role of America’s museums in fostering cultural diversity and inclusiveness? How can museums provide a more complete narrative of American history and culture? Taking three area museums as case studies, this course will explore how the National Museum of the American Indian, the Freer-Sackler Galleries, and the new National Museum of African American History and Culture shape our understanding of American cultural life. We will investigate how museums define ‘art’ in a non-western context, how they collect and display non-western material, and how they use material culture to create a more inclusive historical narrative. In the course of our discussion, students will also learn about three of the core museum areas: collections management, education, and curating, and will discuss issues of diversity in museum audiences and staffing. This course will require two site visits to museums during class time, as well one site visit on a Friday.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online training 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:
By 1/19, everyone should have read the handouts Editing Wikipedia, 1-5 and Evaluating Wikipedia, taken the above training modules: Wikipedia Essentials and Editing Basics, created a Wikipedia account, and selected an article to edit.
Choose one of the articles below to work on for class. I will pass around a sheet for you to sign up for your article on 1/19. Only one article per student, so be sure to have a second choice:
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Complete your Wikipedia Editing Worksheet by 1/31 and
submit electronically to
georgetown.edu ls1080georgetown.edu AND
georgetown.edu megan.browndorfgeorgetown.edu
Then bring a print out, together with your computer, to class on Thursday.
CLASS WILL MEET in library class room (Dubin-157) in Lauinger Library on 2/2
This week we have our visit to NMAI, but you have two Wikipedia assignments: Illustrate your article (due 2/9), and begin your Literature Review Checklist (not due until 2/21). These are described below.
You'll want to find or create an appropriate photo, illustration, or piece of video/audio to add to the article you have selected.
It's time to review the literature for your article topic. You may find there are one or two more sources available that directly discuss your topic, as well as other books or textbooks that generally contextualize it. You might also find useful primary sources (although they can't be cited on Wikipedia, they can be used to source exhibition dates or other lifedates and they can be used in your final catalogue entry).
Work on your Literature Review Checklist (available on Blackboard) submit electronically to
georgetown.edu ls1080georgetown.edu by 2/21
Please list your sources on your worksheet in bibliographic form following Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers, ch. 17, "Notes-Bibliography Style." Excerpts of Ch. 17 providing formatting can be found on Blackboard.
YOU SHOULD FIND A TOTAL OF AT LEAST TEN SOURCES FOR YOUR LITERATURE REVIEW. IF YOU CANNOT FIND TEN, PLEASE CONTACT ME.
Your worksheet will ask you to write a few sentences about what you plan to contribute to the selected article.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start editing.
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, and begin to write the body of the article.
Resources:
Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Read texts that you have identified as important for your topic. Begin writing and making further improvements to your article based on suggestions and your own critique as outlined in the Literature Review.
Note, if you would like to cite the same source, but different page number, here are instructions:
http://ask.wikiedu.org/question/525/how-do-i-cite-the-same-source-with-different-page-numbers/
Editing an existing article?
Note, the deadline is extended by 3 days.
Peer Review
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!
Final revisions now due 3/26.
It's the final week to develop your article.
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. |
What is the role of America’s museums in fostering cultural diversity and inclusiveness? How can museums provide a more complete narrative of American history and culture? Taking three area museums as case studies, this course will explore how the National Museum of the American Indian, the Freer-Sackler Galleries, and the new National Museum of African American History and Culture shape our understanding of American cultural life. We will investigate how museums define ‘art’ in a non-western context, how they collect and display non-western material, and how they use material culture to create a more inclusive historical narrative. In the course of our discussion, students will also learn about three of the core museum areas: collections management, education, and curating, and will discuss issues of diversity in museum audiences and staffing. This course will require two site visits to museums during class time, as well one site visit on a Friday.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online training 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:
By 1/19, everyone should have read the handouts Editing Wikipedia, 1-5 and Evaluating Wikipedia, taken the above training modules: Wikipedia Essentials and Editing Basics, created a Wikipedia account, and selected an article to edit.
Choose one of the articles below to work on for class. I will pass around a sheet for you to sign up for your article on 1/19. Only one article per student, so be sure to have a second choice:
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Complete your Wikipedia Editing Worksheet by 1/31 and
submit electronically to
georgetown.edu ls1080georgetown.edu AND
georgetown.edu megan.browndorfgeorgetown.edu
Then bring a print out, together with your computer, to class on Thursday.
CLASS WILL MEET in library class room (Dubin-157) in Lauinger Library on 2/2
This week we have our visit to NMAI, but you have two Wikipedia assignments: Illustrate your article (due 2/9), and begin your Literature Review Checklist (not due until 2/21). These are described below.
You'll want to find or create an appropriate photo, illustration, or piece of video/audio to add to the article you have selected.
It's time to review the literature for your article topic. You may find there are one or two more sources available that directly discuss your topic, as well as other books or textbooks that generally contextualize it. You might also find useful primary sources (although they can't be cited on Wikipedia, they can be used to source exhibition dates or other lifedates and they can be used in your final catalogue entry).
Work on your Literature Review Checklist (available on Blackboard) submit electronically to
georgetown.edu ls1080georgetown.edu by 2/21
Please list your sources on your worksheet in bibliographic form following Kate Turabian, A Manual for Writers, ch. 17, "Notes-Bibliography Style." Excerpts of Ch. 17 providing formatting can be found on Blackboard.
YOU SHOULD FIND A TOTAL OF AT LEAST TEN SOURCES FOR YOUR LITERATURE REVIEW. IF YOU CANNOT FIND TEN, PLEASE CONTACT ME.
Your worksheet will ask you to write a few sentences about what you plan to contribute to the selected article.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start editing.
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, and begin to write the body of the article.
Resources:
Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Read texts that you have identified as important for your topic. Begin writing and making further improvements to your article based on suggestions and your own critique as outlined in the Literature Review.
Note, if you would like to cite the same source, but different page number, here are instructions:
http://ask.wikiedu.org/question/525/how-do-i-cite-the-same-source-with-different-page-numbers/
Editing an existing article?
Note, the deadline is extended by 3 days.
Peer Review
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!
Final revisions now due 3/26.
It's the final week to develop your article.