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Timeline January - March 2014

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January 16

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Syllabus
  • The syllabus is available on Canvas,
  • Read the syllabus. It replaces one hour twenty minutes in a class meeting.
  • Follow the links provided in syllabus.
  • Click the link on the last page of the syllabus to complete the form to receive assignment score.
Create A Wikipedia account and enroll
  • Read and execute Create a Wikipedia account and enroll. The assignment is in Canvas. You will create an account and enroll in the course.
  • Click the link in the Required: Let me know your username section to complete the form to receive assignment score.
  • Join the course.

January 17

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Wikipedia Training for Student
  • Complete the online student orientation. You will see that you have already created an account. You will learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
  • Read and execute the assignment in Canvas: Wikipedia Training for Students. You will edit in my sandbox, use the watch tab, write in your sandbox, use the watch tab, and add your classmate pages to your watch list.

January 21

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Wikipedia - plagiarism and more.

The assignment is in Canvas: Wikipedia - plagiarism and more. You will read the following Wikipedia project pages (Canvas provides a permanent link for each):

You will use the tabs to learn about each. You will write in your sandbox.

January 24

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Explore topics to edit or create.

The assignment is in Canvas. You will

  • learn about tools you can use while reading Wikipedia articles.
  • read some required articles.
  • have the opportunity to read optional articles.
  • use your sandbox to complete the assignment using some Wikipedia markup.

January 28

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Using Sources

The assignment is in Canvas.

January 31

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Writing ideas and outlines about articles to edit or create.

The assignment is in Canvas.

Consider ideas from Portal:Library and information science
  • Edit tools
    • Example How do I indent?
  • Assignment
  1. Course notice
  2. New section
  3. Six ideas
  4. Most favored today
  5. Next most favored today

February 4

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Approve/Assign articles to edit or create.

The assignment is in Canvas.

  • Review the training
  • Writing suggestions
  • Choices
    • You have chosen an article
    • You want me to assign an article

February 7

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Draft edit or article.

The assignment is in Canvas.

  • Review
    • Content guidelines
    • Other student sandboxes
  • Instructions
    • Create a sandbox sub-page
      • Notice about course
      • Create a section
    • If a new article
    • If editing an article
      • A. Copy from edit page
      • B. Notice to readers
      • C. Navigate to article you will use
      • D. Paste in your new sandbox sub page
      • E. Use edit summary
      • F. Preview
      • G. Save
    • Complete your planned article or edits

February 11

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Move from sandbox to main spaces

The assignment is in Canvas.

  • Get my OK first
  • Depends on what you did
    • If you created a new article
      • Review
      • Follow Wikipedia instructions
    • If you edited an existing article
  • What is a user talk page?

February 14

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More edits and building articles.

The assignment is in Canvas.

  • Review your classmates' edits to their live articles.
    • After your review, edit the live article in the area that your classmate did the edit.
    • Consider spelling, grammar, citations, sources and additional information that would make the article better.
  • If you are unable to make substantial contributions to your classmates' articles, then please improve the article and New Mexico counties affected by Colonia (United States)
    • Details are in the Canvas assignment.

February 18

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Giving feedback to other students.

The assignment is in Canvas.

User talk pages

  • Review your classmates' edits to live articles.
    • Stay focused on the area that each student edited.
    • Include the original article selected by the student as well as edits done during the February 14 assignment.
  • For three students:
    • Properly use the student's user talk page, not an article talk page, to provide useful feedback.
    • Include at least three specific and substantial comments about what you liked about the edits.
    • Include one specific and substantial comment about an improvement.
    • If you can not read Spanish for articles in the Spanish language Wikipedia, use Google Chrome and click the Translate button (Click here for an example. Otherwise copy and paste into Google translate.

Details and examples are in the Canvas assignment.

February 21

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Responding to feedback received.

The assignment is in Canvas.

February 25

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Feedback to other Wikipedia editors.

The assignment is in Canvas.

February 28

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Finishing touches to edits and articles.

The assignment is in Canvas.

March 4

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Writing reflections about the course.

The assignment is in Canvas.

March 7

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Writing recommendations to improve the course.

The assignment is in Canvas.

March 10

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Course Ends

--Joe (talk) 20:07, 25 December 2013 (UTC)Reply


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