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Course name
Intro to Information Technology
Institution
University of Rio Grande
Instructor
Alan Cook
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Information Technology
Course dates
2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC – 2021-08-06 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
3


This course is a general introduction to computers and how they operate. Operating systems will be discussed as well as hardware and software.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Doulaye22
Factsworthusing Athletics

Timeline

Week 2

Course meetings
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment

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 - Wikipedia assignment blog

Begin a blog. If you have never created a blog, some suggested sites would be tumblr.com, blogger.com, wordpress.com or you can do a web search for "how to create a free blog" (or look at this page: 2526.us/free-blog ).  Create your blog this week and post your impression about the wikiedu project based on your initial training.  If you are not provided with more guidance/direction on Blackboard in the weekly assignment, you will be adding at least one post to your blog each week to reflect on the wikiedu project itself (the training, what you decide to select as your topic, etc.).  For week 2, there will be an assignment to post the URL or address to your blog.

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
In class - Discussion

Thinking about sources and plagiarismThis is your weekly discussion topic in Blackboard.  Submit your response there as this week's "content post".

Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Science Communication

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 29 June 2021
In class - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citation

Week 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

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

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 7

Course meetings
Tuesday, 13 July 2021
Assignment - Peer review two articles

Guiding framework

In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 8

Course meetings
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Assignment - Respond to your peer review

You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:

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

Week 9

Course meetings
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

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

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 10

Course meetings
Tuesday, 3 August 2021
Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to your article

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 other media.