Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Wake Forest University/LIB100 Accessing Information in the 21st Century (Spring)
| 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. |
- Course name
- LIB100 Accessing Information in the 21st Century
- Institution
- Wake Forest University
- Instructor
- Amanda Foster
- Wikipedia Expert
- Adam (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Library Science
- Course dates
- 2016-04-07 – 2016-04-22
- Approximate number of student editors
- 50
This course teaches academic library research skills, including finding, evaluating, and using information.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
-
- Tuesday, 12 April 2016 | Thursday, 14 April 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 - Learn the basics
- Begin the training modules assigned for your course. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox, learn the basic rules of Wikipedia, and learn about evaluating articles and sources for Wikipedia.
Week 2
- Course meetings
-
- Tuesday, 19 April 2016 | Thursday, 21 April 2016
- Assignment - Add a citation to an article
- Using the Citation Hunt tool, find a claim in a Wikipedia article that has been marked as having a "citation needed"
- Find an appropriate source for the claim, taking into consideration what you learned in the Evaluating Articles and Sources module, and evaluation criteria we've discussed in class:
- Authority (Authorship)
- Ownership (Publisher)
- Objectivity (Bias)
- Currency
- Accuracy
- Purpose
- Add a citation where it is needed; double check to make sure sure your footnote has been added
- Be sure to remove the "citation needed" tag