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This course is built around a framing of “planning as leadership”. It explores what professional practice means, and develops the competencies and skills of leadership in students. The Wikipedia assignment requires that students create a new Wikipedia article (or significantly built on an existing article) in groups of 5-6. The assignment builds the skills of writing from a neutral point of view. Students will also be evaluated on their learning about team work and leadership while working on this assignment.
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 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:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
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.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Please review the topics the Instructor has identified as possible articles for this class. You and your group will want to identify one that you consider to be an important content gap and where you can contribute your knowledge and research skills. Your group needs to land on a topic by next week to stay on track with this assignment.
See below!
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
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
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!
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.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
Your group will have 15 minutes to tell us about the highlights (or lowlights) of this project.
The main questions I'd like you to answer are:
- What was it like to work on this project? What were some of the dynamics?
- Reflecting on the way your group worked together to accomplish this task, how do you feel about it now?
- How would you have done things differently if you were to do it again?
- What did you learn about leadership as a result of this assignment? What aspects of the experience felt familiar to you based on the readings and/or class activities?
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 is built around a framing of “planning as leadership”. It explores what professional practice means, and develops the competencies and skills of leadership in students. The Wikipedia assignment requires that students create a new Wikipedia article (or significantly built on an existing article) in groups of 5-6. The assignment builds the skills of writing from a neutral point of view. Students will also be evaluated on their learning about team work and leadership while working on this assignment.
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 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:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
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.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Please review the topics the Instructor has identified as possible articles for this class. You and your group will want to identify one that you consider to be an important content gap and where you can contribute your knowledge and research skills. Your group needs to land on a topic by next week to stay on track with this assignment.
See below!
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
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
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!
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.
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
Your group will have 15 minutes to tell us about the highlights (or lowlights) of this project.
The main questions I'd like you to answer are:
- What was it like to work on this project? What were some of the dynamics?
- Reflecting on the way your group worked together to accomplish this task, how do you feel about it now?
- How would you have done things differently if you were to do it again?
- What did you learn about leadership as a result of this assignment? What aspects of the experience felt familiar to you based on the readings and/or class activities?