Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Colby College/Critical Race Feminisms and Tap Dance (Spring)
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- Course name
- Critical Race Feminisms and Tap Dance
- Institution
- Colby College
- Instructor
- Sonja Thomas
- Wikipedia Expert
- Shalor (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Women's Studies
- Course dates
- 2020-02-06 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-05-23 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 25
An introduction to critical race feminism and tap dance. Students will learn about the history of tap dance in the United States and abroad, black feminist thought, the concept of intersectionality, and the hypervisibility of raced bodies. Students will learn to perform and name basic tap skills and the "shim sham shimmy," a dance historically performed by African-American female tap dancers in Harlem; to perform a visual cultural analysis; to understand and think critically about concepts from critical race theory, black feminist thought, and feminist performance theory; and to know the history of tap dance and its significance to racial politics in the United States.
On wikipedia, students will be creating/editing tap dancer biographies--with a special emphasis on Black performers, and female performers.
Timeline
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 13 February 2020
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
- Assignment - Introduction to the 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.
Resources:
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 18 February 2020 | Thursday, 20 February 2020
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
- Assignment - Exercise
- Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 25 February 2020 | Thursday, 27 February 2020
- Assignment - Keeping Track of your work on Dashboard
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.
- Assignment - How to Edit
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 3 March 2020 | Thursday, 5 March 2020
- Assignment - Add to an article
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 10 March 2020 | Thursday, 12 March 2020
- Assignment - Bibliography Assignment
Discuss your research so far and draw from course materials to analyze your sources. You must draw from at least 2 course texts.
o Your paper can address:
1) how far you’ve come on researching your tap dancer
a. primary sources? Images? Bibliography?
2) Any difficulties you are running into
3) Your thoughts on the contribution of your Wikipedia page
4) “reading” images of bodies in motion
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 17 March 2020 | Thursday, 19 March 2020
- Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 31 March 2020 | Thursday, 2 April 2020
- Assignment - Writing your article, add to your bibliography, find images
continue writing your article
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 7 April 2020 | Thursday, 9 April 2020
- In class - Meet with me
Meet with me in office hours to discuss your page
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 14 April 2020 | Thursday, 16 April 2020
- Assignment - Polish your work
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 21 April 2020 | Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Assignment - Draft due
Draft due
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 28 April 2020 | Thursday, 30 April 2020
- Assignment -
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 5 May 2020 | Thursday, 7 May 2020
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
- Assignment - Final article
It's the final week to develop your article.
- Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
- Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!
- Assignment - Reflective essay
Short essay discussing the wikipedia assignment. You must relate to at least 2 course texts.