Hi,
my name is Donato Giovannelli and I am an Assistant Professor in Microbiology at the University of Naples Federico II.
As part of my teaching, I use Wikipedia as a writing assignment with a dual purpose: teach to my student to write about scientific subject in the domain of environmental microbiology and help expand Wikipedia on this subject. Currently, WikiEdu is not active in Italy where I teach, so I use the WikiMedia Foundation Outreach Dashboard for the purpose. I have created a program called Microbiology Teaching in Italy for the purpose.
My students are editing subjects in the domain of Microbiology in their sandbox, and typically submit their edits for revision by the end of the class. To inform wikipedians of their activity, they show this banner:
 | This article is/was the subject of an Outreach Programs & Events Dashboard-supported course assignment. |
Read more about the course assignments here and here or by visiting our University webpage here.
If you are interested in our work in Wikipedia, or simply curious about the class or our research, please get in touch!
| This user was an instructor for the course https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/microbiology_teaching_in_italy/programs. |