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The goals of this course are to help students learn about how wetland ecosystems are structured and function, to train students in techniques professionals use to assess wetlands, and to get students excited about these fascinating systems. We will use the Wikipedia assignment to expand on understudied and underrepresented topics in wetland ecology. Students will learn how to search for good literature, discern between good and poor quality sources, cite sources, and to participate in the Wikipedia Community as reviewers, writers, and editors. The overall objective is to bring more knowledge about wetland ecosystems to the Wikipedia platform.
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline for Wetland Ecology, BIOL 363. This page will guide you through the steps you'll need to complete your Wikipedia assignment.
The majority of your work for this assigment will be done right here in this Dashboard. I will use our Moodle course page to remind you to complete the steps of this assignment.
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.
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Begin a blog, on Moodle, about your experiences. Reflect on the research and writing process. Create one, brief, blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. This week, you'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Below are two articles on Wikipedia that are well written and developed. Use them to help you visualize what a good article can look like on Wikipedia:
[[../../../training/students/evaluate-wikipedia-exercise|Evaluate an article]]
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself and work hard to find a good set of sources for the article.
In this class we are going to focus on expanding short articles on wetland ecology. The topics I have chosen are also within the Limnology and Oceanography Project group on Wikipedia and I have already made the project members aware that our class will be contributing to their project. Please visit their
project page to familiarize yourself with their goals and objectives.
Before you finalize your selection, I strongly recommend that you do a literature search on your preferred selection. Can you find:
Follow the "Choose your topic/Find your sources" exercise below. At the end of the exercise, complete these steps:
[[../../../training/students/choose-topic-from-list-exercise|Choose your topic / Find your sources]]
The goal of this exercise is to familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding or modifying a sentence or two of content and adding a citation.
This week you will begin drafting you Wikipedia article in your sandbox. Before proceeding:
After you have finished the training:
DO ALL OF YOUR EDITTING IN YOUR SANDBOX, DO NOT EDIT IT IN THE MAIN WIKIPEDIA AT THIS POINT.
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
You have been working hard on your article. During this week you will get review comments from me on your User Talk Page. The goal is to respond to these in as much depth as you can so that you have a well formed draft ready for peer review next week. Continue editing your article.
[[../../../training/students/peer-review|Guiding framework on reviewing]]
This week you will review two (2) draft articles that your fellow classmates are working on. I will assign the reviewers to the articles randomly. Before proceeding, complete the "Guiding framewrok on reviewing" training (linked above).
The more advice you provide to your peers, the better your grade in this part of the assignment will be. As you go about this exercise, please keep the following in mind:
To Do:
Consider the suggestions from myself and your classmates, decide whether they make your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes. Continue editing and sprucing up your article.
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions, especially if you are not sure about an image you want to use.
This week it it time to move your article to the Wikipedia "mainspace."
After you make your article LIVE, you may start to get some comments from other Wikipedians. Your entire contribution may even get deleted. You should already have your article added to your Watchlist so you can be notified on any comments on the article's Talk page. You should also check your own user Talk page regularly.
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and links. 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!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Prepare a final in-class presentation of your experience with this exercise. You will have 5-6 minutes to present, followed by 1-2 minutes for discussion.
We will then have 1-2 minutes for discussion and class feedback. Your active participation in this part will be part of the grade.
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contact |
![]() | 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. |
The goals of this course are to help students learn about how wetland ecosystems are structured and function, to train students in techniques professionals use to assess wetlands, and to get students excited about these fascinating systems. We will use the Wikipedia assignment to expand on understudied and underrepresented topics in wetland ecology. Students will learn how to search for good literature, discern between good and poor quality sources, cite sources, and to participate in the Wikipedia Community as reviewers, writers, and editors. The overall objective is to bring more knowledge about wetland ecosystems to the Wikipedia platform.
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline for Wetland Ecology, BIOL 363. This page will guide you through the steps you'll need to complete your Wikipedia assignment.
The majority of your work for this assigment will be done right here in this Dashboard. I will use our Moodle course page to remind you to complete the steps of this assignment.
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.
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Begin a blog, on Moodle, about your experiences. Reflect on the research and writing process. Create one, brief, blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. This week, you'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Below are two articles on Wikipedia that are well written and developed. Use them to help you visualize what a good article can look like on Wikipedia:
[[../../../training/students/evaluate-wikipedia-exercise|Evaluate an article]]
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself and work hard to find a good set of sources for the article.
In this class we are going to focus on expanding short articles on wetland ecology. The topics I have chosen are also within the Limnology and Oceanography Project group on Wikipedia and I have already made the project members aware that our class will be contributing to their project. Please visit their
project page to familiarize yourself with their goals and objectives.
Before you finalize your selection, I strongly recommend that you do a literature search on your preferred selection. Can you find:
Follow the "Choose your topic/Find your sources" exercise below. At the end of the exercise, complete these steps:
[[../../../training/students/choose-topic-from-list-exercise|Choose your topic / Find your sources]]
The goal of this exercise is to familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding or modifying a sentence or two of content and adding a citation.
This week you will begin drafting you Wikipedia article in your sandbox. Before proceeding:
After you have finished the training:
DO ALL OF YOUR EDITTING IN YOUR SANDBOX, DO NOT EDIT IT IN THE MAIN WIKIPEDIA AT THIS POINT.
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
You have been working hard on your article. During this week you will get review comments from me on your User Talk Page. The goal is to respond to these in as much depth as you can so that you have a well formed draft ready for peer review next week. Continue editing your article.
[[../../../training/students/peer-review|Guiding framework on reviewing]]
This week you will review two (2) draft articles that your fellow classmates are working on. I will assign the reviewers to the articles randomly. Before proceeding, complete the "Guiding framewrok on reviewing" training (linked above).
The more advice you provide to your peers, the better your grade in this part of the assignment will be. As you go about this exercise, please keep the following in mind:
To Do:
Consider the suggestions from myself and your classmates, decide whether they make your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes. Continue editing and sprucing up your article.
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions, especially if you are not sure about an image you want to use.
This week it it time to move your article to the Wikipedia "mainspace."
After you make your article LIVE, you may start to get some comments from other Wikipedians. Your entire contribution may even get deleted. You should already have your article added to your Watchlist so you can be notified on any comments on the article's Talk page. You should also check your own user Talk page regularly.
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and links. 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!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Prepare a final in-class presentation of your experience with this exercise. You will have 5-6 minutes to present, followed by 1-2 minutes for discussion.
We will then have 1-2 minutes for discussion and class feedback. Your active participation in this part will be part of the grade.