Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Illinois at Chicago/WISE - Women in Science and Engineering (Spring 2016)

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Course name: WISE - Women in Science and Engineering

Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago

Instructor: Veronica Arreola

Wikipedia Expert: Ian (Wiki Ed)

Subject: Science

Course dates: 2016-02-24 – 2016-06-30

Approximate number of student editors: 20

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
Cammilleg	Brooke Shipley
Aconni2	Brooke Shipley
Catladylib	Brooke Shipley
Nik21104	Brooke Shipley
Zikiz2	Brooke Shipley
VictoriagWiCh	Brooke Shipley
Localskies	Brooke Shipley
Priley4	Brooke Shipley
YE-wise

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings

Monday, 29 February 2016

Assignment - Training

Complete the training modules below to prepare to edit Wikipedia articles about women in science.

Week 2

Course meetings

Monday, 7 March 2016

Assignment - Edit Assigned Article

In your team, make some reasonable progress on your assigned woman in STEM article. This may be:

Identifying off-campus media mentions
Identifying academic awards
Summarizing their work in language that is accessible to a broad audience

Brooke Shipley
Rodica Baranescu
Luisa DiPietro

Week 3

Course meetings

Monday, 14 March 2016

In class - Edit Assigned Article

In your team, make some reasonable progress on your assigned woman in STEM article. This may be:

Identifying off-campus media mentions
Identifying academic awards
Summarizing their work in language that is accessible to a broad audience

Bring your progress to our next gathering or post an update.
Next gathering Wednesday, March 16th at the UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center at 728 W. Roosevelt Road.

Week 4

Course meetings

Monday, 21 March 2016

Milestones

Have fun!

Week 5

Course meetings

Monday, 28 March 2016

In class - Review Edits

At our week 6 meeting, we will gather to review each other's entries. This will be time to bring up your questions to the whole group about plagiarism, notability and any other issues you may have.

Gathering TBD