Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Louisiana State University/HNRS 1035 Natural disturbance and society (Spring 2016)
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- Course name
- HNRS 1035 Natural disturbance and society
- Institution
- Louisiana State University
- Instructor
- Becky Carmichael
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Science
- Course dates
- 2016-01-14 – 2016-05-05
- Approximate number of student editors
- 20
Natural disturbances shape our world, causing disruption to our lives, while simultaneously benefiting ecosystem composition and structure. This course will introduce disturbance ecology and explore the effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on ecosystems using past and recent disasters. We will discuss the influence these events have on ecological and societal aspects and how past practices have shaped current responses. The course will also emphasize science literacy across disciplines and is communication-intensive, focusing on written and spoken communication.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 26 January 2016 | Thursday, 28 January 2016
- In class - Wikipedia essentials
- Overview of the course
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
Handout: Editing Wikipedia
- Assignment - Create your account and learn the basics
- Create an account and then complete the online training for students. A detailed description of the homework is posted on Moodle in the Wikipedia folder. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Resources: Online Training for Students
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 February 2016 | Thursday, 4 February 2016
- Assignment - Wikipedia Contributions (4 total)
- Select 4 different disturbance/disaster articles related to lectures presented and make the following improvements:
- Identify the articles you will improve on our Wikipedia course page
- Search for plagiarism in existing content
- Select an unreferenced sentence and search for it verbatim in Google
- Re-phrase the sentence if it is plagiarized and provide a reference
- Add 2-3 sentences of new information, supported by appropriate scientific references (at least 1 article)
- Add 1-2 links to other Wikipedia articles and/or external webpages
- Indicate in your User sandbox what contributions you made
- Indicate in the article Talk Page why you made these contributions (Not that it was part of an assignment)
- Be sure to consider audience when updating the science. This can include elaborating where appropriate on the societal aspect of the article.
Due dates are as follows:
- First contribution February 2
- Second contribution March 1
- Third contribution March 31
- Fourth contribution April 26