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Neurobiology (BIOL3501) is a 3-credit lecture course at Marquette University designed to provide an introduction to the study of the nervous system. The course will consider the structure and function of the nervous system from the molecular and cellular levels to the systems level. The course will cover basic signaling mechanisms, sensory systems, and motor systems. The overall goal of the course is to provide students with an appreciation of the current state of knowledge in neurobiology and an adequate background for further study in the field. As part of the course students will participate in a Wikipedia assignment to improve and expand a neuroscience stub.
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. Our course is part of the
Wikipedia Education Program consisting of professors using Wikipedia in their classrooms.
The Society for Neuroscience has set a priority to expand and enhance
neuroscience content on Wikipedia. The organization has identified a list of
neuroscience stubs that are in need of improvement and expansion. For this assignment, groups of 3-4 students will work together on a single neuroscience stub with the goal to bring it up to the quality of a "
Wikipedia Good Article". Appropriate topics can also be found in the
biophysics stubs,
cell biology stubs,
nervous system disease stubs, and
neurology stubs.
The learning objectives of this assignment are:
Create a username prior to beginning the assignment in order to receive any credit for the work that you do. The username does not need to be your real name if you prefer not to have it public but I will ask you to provide it to me for class. When creating an
account], be sure to include an email address. This will not be visible to other users. It will be used in case you need to retrieve your password. It will also be possible for others to email you without knowing your email address and is necessary to receive notifications from Wikipedia. When working on any portion of the class, you must log into your account to receive credit. If you do any page editing or contributions to talk pages without logging in, I will not be to see it. You should also sign any contributions to talk pages.
Please use your sandbox or a private user
subpage to work on edits before making them live.
****Do not create another mainspace Wikipedia page separate from your user account to practice editing or to claim a topic.****
Article selection
There is an entire listing of neuroscience stubs, biophysics stubs, and disease stubs that you can look through. Your topic should be classified as
stub, start or C-class on Wikipedia. If you are using a C class article, your task will consist of extensive editing rather than necessarily starting from scratch.
Once you have identified a topic, do a literature search to ensure that you can find sufficient secondary sources for the topic. The topic must be submitted to the professor for approval.
Reviews
As part of the assignment each student must act as a primary reviewer on one article and a secondary reviewer on two articles. The specific instructions for the reviews can be found at
user:MMBiology/Review instructions.
Grades
The assignment will be graded on a 100 point scale according to the provided
rubric.
Important points to remember
Please remember that this is a “public” assignment where you are representing Marquette University. It is imperative that you follow the
Wikipedia policies and guidelines.
Discussion
Go through the training module on Wikipedia essentials.
Discussion
Assignment (due January 27)
By midnight on January 27, all students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
Discussion
By midnight on February 3rd, all students will have a personal user page with a short paragraph of text including links and at least one image.
Discussion
By February 10, all students will be in groups.
Discussion
By 5PM on Monday, February 13, your group should submit 3 potential topics for articles.
All students have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia.
By Friday February 17, topics should be finalized so you can get your proposal together for Monday.
Your group should have a meeting with the professor to discuss your topic and workplan.
Continue to work on article with your team expanding your article into a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
Continue to work on article with your team expanding your article into a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
Final Wikipedia meeting with the Professor before loading into sandbox or userpage for review by Wikipedia medical editor.
By Monday March 27 at 5PM, make sure your article in someone's sandbox or a userpage subpage so that it can be seen by the professor and Wikipedia editor.
All reviews are due by Wednesday, April 12 by midnight.
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. |
Neurobiology (BIOL3501) is a 3-credit lecture course at Marquette University designed to provide an introduction to the study of the nervous system. The course will consider the structure and function of the nervous system from the molecular and cellular levels to the systems level. The course will cover basic signaling mechanisms, sensory systems, and motor systems. The overall goal of the course is to provide students with an appreciation of the current state of knowledge in neurobiology and an adequate background for further study in the field. As part of the course students will participate in a Wikipedia assignment to improve and expand a neuroscience stub.
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. Our course is part of the
Wikipedia Education Program consisting of professors using Wikipedia in their classrooms.
The Society for Neuroscience has set a priority to expand and enhance
neuroscience content on Wikipedia. The organization has identified a list of
neuroscience stubs that are in need of improvement and expansion. For this assignment, groups of 3-4 students will work together on a single neuroscience stub with the goal to bring it up to the quality of a "
Wikipedia Good Article". Appropriate topics can also be found in the
biophysics stubs,
cell biology stubs,
nervous system disease stubs, and
neurology stubs.
The learning objectives of this assignment are:
Create a username prior to beginning the assignment in order to receive any credit for the work that you do. The username does not need to be your real name if you prefer not to have it public but I will ask you to provide it to me for class. When creating an
account], be sure to include an email address. This will not be visible to other users. It will be used in case you need to retrieve your password. It will also be possible for others to email you without knowing your email address and is necessary to receive notifications from Wikipedia. When working on any portion of the class, you must log into your account to receive credit. If you do any page editing or contributions to talk pages without logging in, I will not be to see it. You should also sign any contributions to talk pages.
Please use your sandbox or a private user
subpage to work on edits before making them live.
****Do not create another mainspace Wikipedia page separate from your user account to practice editing or to claim a topic.****
Article selection
There is an entire listing of neuroscience stubs, biophysics stubs, and disease stubs that you can look through. Your topic should be classified as
stub, start or C-class on Wikipedia. If you are using a C class article, your task will consist of extensive editing rather than necessarily starting from scratch.
Once you have identified a topic, do a literature search to ensure that you can find sufficient secondary sources for the topic. The topic must be submitted to the professor for approval.
Reviews
As part of the assignment each student must act as a primary reviewer on one article and a secondary reviewer on two articles. The specific instructions for the reviews can be found at
user:MMBiology/Review instructions.
Grades
The assignment will be graded on a 100 point scale according to the provided
rubric.
Important points to remember
Please remember that this is a “public” assignment where you are representing Marquette University. It is imperative that you follow the
Wikipedia policies and guidelines.
Discussion
Go through the training module on Wikipedia essentials.
Discussion
Assignment (due January 27)
By midnight on January 27, all students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
Discussion
By midnight on February 3rd, all students will have a personal user page with a short paragraph of text including links and at least one image.
Discussion
By February 10, all students will be in groups.
Discussion
By 5PM on Monday, February 13, your group should submit 3 potential topics for articles.
All students have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia.
By Friday February 17, topics should be finalized so you can get your proposal together for Monday.
Your group should have a meeting with the professor to discuss your topic and workplan.
Continue to work on article with your team expanding your article into a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
Continue to work on article with your team expanding your article into a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
Final Wikipedia meeting with the Professor before loading into sandbox or userpage for review by Wikipedia medical editor.
By Monday March 27 at 5PM, make sure your article in someone's sandbox or a userpage subpage so that it can be seen by the professor and Wikipedia editor.
All reviews are due by Wednesday, April 12 by midnight.