Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Southwestern College/SOCS 230 Honors Applied Social Sciences on Death (Spring 2019)
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- Course name
- SOCS 230 Honors Applied Social Sciences on Death
- Institution
- Southwestern College
- Instructor
- Brae Wood
- Wikipedia Expert
- Shalor (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Social Science
- Course dates
- 2019-01-16 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-05-08 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 12
This course gives students an opportunity to explore ideas from a multitude of academic areas: history, political science, leadership, philosophy, religion, and psychology. Death will be the central issue and the focal point for the entire course. Examination and analysis of the issue will be developed from the material presented in each academic area. The book "Forged in Crisis" by Nancy Koehn streamlines the topic via in-depth portrait of five extraordinary figures—Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, American President Abraham Lincoln, escaped slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and environmental activist Rachel Carson—that illuminates how great leaders are made in times of adversity (death). Wikipedia will help students critically think and stream line their thoughts via adding to content related to the various leaders examined above in this context.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 16 January 2019
- Assignment - Practice Exercises
These exercises will get you thinking more critically about Wikipedia as well as help you to become comfortable with making edits.
- In class - Introduction to Forged in Crisis and 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
You will need to create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you.
We will be using the Wikipedia biographies of the following individuals as a jumping off point for this assignment. We will not be making edits to these articles directly, but rather finding related topics that need improvement.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 25 January 2019
- Assignment - Leadership Profile
- Ernest Shackleton Sandbox assignment
- Read through Ernest Shackleton's Wikipedia entry.
- As you read, pay attention to related subjects linked from the article.
- Peruse some of these links and choose one to research and write about.
- In your sandbox, create a section heading entitled "Shackleton Exercise," and indicate the related topic to which you'll be contributing, sources you'll be using, and the text you'd like to contribute.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Friday, 8 February 2019
- Assignment - Leadership Profile Abraham Lincoln- Sandbox entry
- Read through Abraham Lincoln's Wikipedia entry.
- As you read, pay attention to related subjects linked from the article.
- Peruse some of these links and choose one to research and write about.
- In your sandbox, create a section heading entitled "Lincoln Exercise," and indicate the related topic to which you'll be contributing, sources you'll be using, and the text you'd like to contribute.
- In class -
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 20 February 2019 | Friday, 22 February 2019
- Assignment - Wikipedia Sandbox day and Leadership Profiles Douglass, Bonhoeffer, Carson
- Feb 20- Leadership Wikipedia Sandbox day-Peer review for previous 2 leadership profile entries
- In your sandbox, repeat the above exercises for Douglass, Carson, and Bonhoeffer
- We will eventually choose three of these to move into the Wikipedia article main space.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 8 April 2019
- Assignment - Leadership Profiles Continued work- Douglass, Bonhoeffer, and Carson
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.
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Monday, 29 April 2019
- In class - Leadership Profile -Wikipedia Final Edits
You should have 3 entries uploaded from sandbox into live Wikipedia