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Course name
Physiological Bases of Behavior
Institution
UMBC
Instructor
Tagide deCarvalho
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Neuroethology
Course dates
2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-12-11 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
14


Studies of important adaptive behavioral patterns and their physiological bases. The course begins with some basic principles of the study of animal behavior followed by special topics such as sexual behavior, feeding, communication, prey capture, and predator evasion.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Robertrhea96 Insect cognition
Lintaylor Rheotaxis
Irine Thomas Torus semicircularis
Benramp1 Thigmotaxis
SeanChas12 Fictive behavior
Afourman Cichlid aggressive behavior
Marshal MacCartney Free-running period
Hmcgow2080 Primate sociality
Kbaxi1 Actogram
Ike365 Phobotaxis
Hootie and the Cuttlefish Bird song learning
Ldorn15 Leech swimming behavior
Psomani1 Sign stimulus

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Tuesday, 25 September 2018   |   Thursday, 27 September 2018
Milestones

Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)


Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise: Evaluate an article

Evaluate an article

Week 2

Course meetings
Tuesday, 2 October 2018   |   Thursday, 4 October 2018

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 9 October 2018   |   Thursday, 11 October 2018

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 16 October 2018   |   Thursday, 18 October 2018

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 23 October 2018   |   Thursday, 25 October 2018
Assignment - Peer review two articles (in class)

Guiding framework

Assignment - First draft due (before class)

Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 30 October 2018   |   Thursday, 1 November 2018

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 6 November 2018   |   Thursday, 8 November 2018
Assignment - Second draft due

Consider peer review suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes. Your instructor will give you feedback on this version.

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 13 November 2018   |   Thursday, 15 November 2018

Week 9

Course meetings
Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Week 10

Course meetings
Tuesday, 27 November 2018   |   Thursday, 29 November 2018
Milestones

Now that you've improved your draft based on your peers and instructor's feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 11

Course meetings
Tuesday, 4 December 2018   |   Thursday, 6 December 2018

Week 12

Course meetings
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Assignment - Final article

It's the final week to develop your article.

  • Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
  • Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!