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User:Cliotropic/WPWH for Educators

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This subproject of Wikiproject Women's History is designed for collaboration among educators who want to assign Wikipedia writing and editing projects to their students, especially in the context of secondary-school or university courses focused on women, gender, and sexuality. It's meant to serve a similar purpose to WikiProject Classroom Coordination but with more focused subject matter.

As of Spring 2011, most of what we do is probably going to be on the talk page--- as a forum for people to get questions answered or to seek review of assignments they're planning. Conversation here will probably be seasonal, as faculty work on revising their courses for upcoming terms.

Getting to know Wikipedia

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  • First, start participating as an active editor so that you know how Wikipedia works. Your first stop should be the new contributors' help page.

Assignments and handouts

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General

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Women's/Gender Studies

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Women's/Gender History

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Women's Literary History/ Women Authors

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  • (TO DO: add yours here)

General history courses

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  • (TO DO: add links to good assignment models we might want to build on)

Tools for assessing student contributions

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See also the master list of Wikipedia tools, some of which may be useful for you or for your students.

How you can help

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  • Expand the list of existing assignment pages above
  • Invite other educators you know to participate
  • Organize the writing of some model assignments for use in standard kinds of university history courses, such as:
  • Women in US history, (pre-1865, post-1865, both)
  • Women in European history

Interested Editors

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If you're interested, please sign below and add this page and its talk page to your watchlist.

  • Cliotropic, Ph.D. Candidate, American History, Brandeis University
  • PhDeviate, Ph.D. English, Tufts University