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Course name
TCORE 104-Listening Outside the Box-Concert Music in the 21st Century
With only ten weeks to explore the world of ‘classical music’, we will immerse ourselves in a multitude of listening experiences, to include concert attendance and live in-class performances. Building on this foundation, we will explore the impact of today's global society on this musical tradition: to what extent have new technologies, increased communication and the ensuing democratization of music impacted the ways in which we relate to ‘concert music’? Does this music still have relevance in our lives?
This Wikipedia group project will result in your own contribution to Wikipedia in the form of a biographical entry about a classical composer. Along the way, we will build skills in conducting research, citing sources, writing to Wikipedia article standards, and assessing the quality and appropriateness of different types of research tools for various academic tasks.
Create an account and then complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Create a User page.
To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself on the user talk page of one of your classmates, who should also be enrolled in the table at the bottom of the page.
Explore topics related to your topic area to get a feel for how Wikipedia is organized. What areas seem to be missing? As you explore, make a mental note of articles that seem like good candidates for improvement.
Week 2
Course meetings
Monday, 3 October 2016 | Wednesday, 5 October 2016 | Friday, 7 October 2016
Milestones
With your group, choose the article that you will work on. Submit your proposed article and group contract on Canvas.
In class - Group work on locating sources, building bibliography
Students work in groups to locate appropriate sources to utilize for their articles.
Students begin building bibliographies in sandboxes.
Week 5
Course meetings
Monday, 24 October 2016 | Wednesday, 26 October 2016 | Friday, 28 October 2016
Assignment - Bibliography and Outline
Bibliography and article outline due (create in sandboxes).
Week 6
Course meetings
Monday, 31 October 2016 | Wednesday, 2 November 2016 | Friday, 4 November 2016
In class - Group suggestions
As a group, offer suggestions for improving one or two other students' article outlines, based on your ideas of what makes a solid encyclopedia article.
In class - Media literacy discussion
Open discussion of the concepts of neutrality, media literacy, and the impact and limits of Wikipedia.
Week 7
Course meetings
Monday, 7 November 2016 | Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Milestones
Moving from sandboxes to live site, expand your article into an initial draft of a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
Week 8
Course meetings
Monday, 14 November 2016 | Wednesday, 16 November 2016 | Friday, 18 November 2016
In class - Group work and reporting out
In-class sharing of article drafts on live site, feedback between groups.
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.
Course name
TCORE 104-Listening Outside the Box-Concert Music in the 21st Century
With only ten weeks to explore the world of ‘classical music’, we will immerse ourselves in a multitude of listening experiences, to include concert attendance and live in-class performances. Building on this foundation, we will explore the impact of today's global society on this musical tradition: to what extent have new technologies, increased communication and the ensuing democratization of music impacted the ways in which we relate to ‘concert music’? Does this music still have relevance in our lives?
This Wikipedia group project will result in your own contribution to Wikipedia in the form of a biographical entry about a classical composer. Along the way, we will build skills in conducting research, citing sources, writing to Wikipedia article standards, and assessing the quality and appropriateness of different types of research tools for various academic tasks.
Create an account and then complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Create a User page.
To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself on the user talk page of one of your classmates, who should also be enrolled in the table at the bottom of the page.
Explore topics related to your topic area to get a feel for how Wikipedia is organized. What areas seem to be missing? As you explore, make a mental note of articles that seem like good candidates for improvement.
Week 2
Course meetings
Monday, 3 October 2016 | Wednesday, 5 October 2016 | Friday, 7 October 2016
Milestones
With your group, choose the article that you will work on. Submit your proposed article and group contract on Canvas.
In class - Group work on locating sources, building bibliography
Students work in groups to locate appropriate sources to utilize for their articles.
Students begin building bibliographies in sandboxes.
Week 5
Course meetings
Monday, 24 October 2016 | Wednesday, 26 October 2016 | Friday, 28 October 2016
Assignment - Bibliography and Outline
Bibliography and article outline due (create in sandboxes).
Week 6
Course meetings
Monday, 31 October 2016 | Wednesday, 2 November 2016 | Friday, 4 November 2016
In class - Group suggestions
As a group, offer suggestions for improving one or two other students' article outlines, based on your ideas of what makes a solid encyclopedia article.
In class - Media literacy discussion
Open discussion of the concepts of neutrality, media literacy, and the impact and limits of Wikipedia.
Week 7
Course meetings
Monday, 7 November 2016 | Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Milestones
Moving from sandboxes to live site, expand your article into an initial draft of a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
Week 8
Course meetings
Monday, 14 November 2016 | Wednesday, 16 November 2016 | Friday, 18 November 2016
In class - Group work and reporting out
In-class sharing of article drafts on live site, feedback between groups.