Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Northeastern Illinois University/Feminist Ideas (Fall 2017)

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Course name
Feminist Ideas
Institution
Northeastern Illinois University
Instructor
Laurie Fuller
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Women's and Gender Studies
Course dates
2017-08-29 00:00:00 UTC – 2017-12-19 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
20


Writing Intensive Program Feminist Ideas is intended to insure that Women’s and Gender Studies students understand what feminist perspectives are and their relationship to Women’s and Gender Studies, social issues, and social change. With a focus on Organizing, Family, Health/Reproductive Justice, Violence and Work, students will learn to recognize historical and contemporary feminist leaders, understand the implications and applications of feminist ideas, apply lessons learned from past struggle to contemporary social issues, and evaluate women’s changing status, by race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation and other inequalities.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Binaugle
EricaFacepoop
Velocirachael
Justineishere
Bwylie11
Lptoled2 Cherrie Moraga
Aherna66
Mlanderson Audre Lorde, A List of Feminist: Women of Color
Vdolson
Ericaf119 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Ddromer5
Separed2

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Tuesday, 29 August 2017   |   Thursday, 31 August 2017
In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia project

Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.

Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.

To get started, please review the following handouts:

Week 2

Course meetings
Tuesday, 5 September 2017   |   Thursday, 7 September 2017
Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
  • Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (To avoid hitting Wikipedia's account creation limits, this is best done outside of class. Only 6 new accounts may be created per day from the same IP address.)
  • It's time to dive into Wikipedia. Below, you'll find the first set of online trainings you'll need to take. New modules will appear on this timeline as you get to new milestones. Be sure to check back and complete them! Incomplete trainings will be reflected in your grade.
  • When you finish the trainings, practice by introducing yourself to a classmate on that classmate’s Talk page.

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 12 September 2017   |   Thursday, 14 September 2017
Assignment - Copyedit an article about an author from our course

 Choose an article about one of the authors from This Bridge Called My Back or any theorist we are reading this semester. Read through the article on her, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article. 

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 19 September 2017   |   Thursday, 21 September 2017
Assignment - Add a paragraph to the article about your This Bridge Called My Back author

Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a paragraph and a citation to the article about your This Bridge Called My Back author. There are two ways you can do this:

  • Add a paragraph to the article about your This Bridge Called My Back author, and cite it to a reliable source, as you learned in the online training.
  •  The Citation Hunt tool shows unreferenced statements from articles. First, evaluate whether the statement in question is true! An uncited statement could just be lacking a reference or it could be inaccurate or misleading. Reliable sources on the subject will help you choose whether to add it or correct the statement. Make sure to add a paragraph to the unreferenced statements to cite them and make them true.