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Here are my notes related to the Wikipedia Education program and the Ambassador Training Modules.

Turnitin

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See my notes, Wikimedia tools - Plagiarism detection.

Courses I've helped with

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JHU Molecular Biology, Spring, 2014

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  • Calendar: 1/22 - 5/6, except spring break 3/17 - 3/23 (set end date to 5/7)

Course pages:

Templates:


JHU Molecular Biology, Fall, 2013

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Course pages:

JHU Molecular Biology, Spring, 2013

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Course pages:

These both transclude this common page

Dates: 1/19/2013 - 5/7/2013

The most excellent Keilana helped as an OA.

We did evaluations and other things on Google docs. Here is a spreadsheet that I used to assign review articles to students: spreadsheet.

JHU Molecular Biology, Fall, 2012

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The education program's official course list for this semester is here.

The course pages for our Molecular Biology course (two sections) are here: section 81 and section 83.

Designing courses and writing the course page

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Resources to help set up course pages

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Here are some sample (and real) course pages, you can steal information and ideas from:

Other links:

Resources to use in course pages (tutorials for students)

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Other

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need to sort the following



Tips, notes

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One very nice set of resources is the amazing Template:Course_page, by Sage Ross. Here is an example of the results of going through the wizard interface. Note that one drawback is that a lot of the content is transcluded from sub-pages (see the template documentation for a list) so it would not be straightforward if, for example, a student wanted to edit something there. I think it's a big drawback, because we really don't want student's to be intimidated when they click the "edit" button on any given page.

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Education program

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The organization of all of these pages is still (Jan., 2013) a bit of a mess. Some are on outreach, some are on enwp. I *think* the ones on outreach are old.

Any of the following Education extension special pages has links to all the others:

I think these are out-of-date:

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  • Institutions - the main entry point (?), lists all of the institutions registered with the extension.
  • Course pages - explains what a course page is
  • SpecialPages - Education - lists all of the "Special:" pages associated with the Education extension.

Training modules

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The old versions of these:

For motivation

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People and other help resources

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Ambassador program

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Out-of-date links:

Other

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Wikipedia course pages

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See also the education program's official course list for this semester.

Each section of the course has its own course page on Wikipedia itself: section 81, section 83.

Welcoming students

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When students have created their accounts, add this to their talk pages (don't forget to change the section number to match. See the documentation):


Hi, name, welcome to Wikipedia!

Here are some other pages that you might find useful:

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please don't forget to sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Helpme}} before the question.

We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished!

Find articles to work on

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We need to identify an adequate number of articles (~ 20) that need work, and then let the students choose among those.

Places to find them:

Suggestions:

When articles have been assigned, we should mark each one, on the talk page, with one of these templates (described here):



Goals

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We should express these goals to the students at the start of the course, somewhere, either on the syllabus, or on the course page. At the end of the course, the feedback form should give them a chance to say whether or not these goals were met.

  • Introduce students to online collaboration in the most successful crowdsourcing enterprise ever conceived.
  • Expose them to the concept of a literature review, and how this fits into the spectrum of scholarly publishing
  • Help them learn to identify reliable sources, and to properly cite sources for the content they write,
  • Introduce them to the concepts of liberal licenses and open content, and help them to appreciate their value
  • To take the work that the students would do for this class anyway, and apply it to an enduring resource that others can benefit from
  • To introduce the students to editing Wikipedia, which, by itself, is a worthy goal.
  • More suggestions at the Ambassador training slides.
  • TBD

Text for the syllabus

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Overall modification to the existing syllabus: this Wikipedia project will take the place of the three "group assignments" from last year. The "individual assignments" will remain the same.

Draft for the text to be included in the syllabus:

TBD

Blackboard discussion forum

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Within Blackboard, add one discussion forum for this project.

Title: Wikipedia project discussion

Description: Use this forum to ask questions about the course Wikipedia project.

Make sure students are encouraged to help each other out, rather than just relying on the ambassadors. They should know that the ambassadors are volunteering their time.

Student feedback form

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Provide a form for students to fill out so they can provide feedback on how well this project met its objectives, and how useful it was.

... TBD

Resources

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Resources to use in course pages (tutorials for students)

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For Next Time

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