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Course name
Women in STEM
Institution
Colorado College
Instructor
Rebecca Barnes
Wikipedia Expert
Elysia (Wiki Ed)
Subject
women in STEM
Course dates
2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-12-14 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
50


This course is being set up as a guided training for students participating in the WiSTEM (women in STEM) group at Colorado College.

Students will write and edit biographies of women in STEM over the course of the Fall semester

Student Assigned Reviewing
MalloryMaynes
Emmantall
ZoeKrauss
Abigailezell

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Monday, 15 October 2018
In class - 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:


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.)

Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Milestones

Exercise

Evaluate an article

During this evaluation exercise, please look over the very complete and thorough biography of Rachel Carson and then read two of the following biographies of women scientists. Each has their strengths and weaknesses. Compare and constrast what is included (as well as what isn't included). Of the two you chose, which biography do you think is stronger and why? 

Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig

Dr. Ruth DeFries 

Dr. Monica Turner 

Week 2

Course meetings
Monday, 22 October 2018
Assignment - Choose possible topics

Exercise

Choose a topic

Please review the list of scientists on the shared Google Doc - this list was crowd sourced on Twitter and Facebook discussion boards. I have done fairly preliminary searches on all the names and I feel fairly confident they meet the Wikipedia Notability Guidelines for academics. 

Please also review these guidelines this week as they provide an excellent checklist of things to look for when gathering information about the subject of your biography.

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6


Assignment - What is a content gap?

What's a content gap?

Assignment - Finalize your topic, start finding sources

Finalize your topic / Find your sources

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


Week 3

Course meetings
Monday, 29 October 2018
In class - Discussion

Thinking about Wikipedia

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 4

Course meetings
Monday, 5 November 2018
Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia

Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 5

Course meetings
Monday, 12 November 2018
In class - First draft due

Your first draft is due on Friday. Have it ready in your Sandbox for peer review.  

Review the Guiding Framework here to help you complete your peer review by Wednesday. 

Peer Review Guiding framework


Assignment - Peer review complete

You probably have some feedback from other students. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes. You should implement your peer review notes by Monday. 

Resources:

  • Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
  • Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 19 November 2018

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 26 November 2018

Week 8

Course meetings
Monday, 3 December 2018
In class - Reflection

Guiding questions

Assignment - Final article

Exercise

Add links to your article

It's the final week to develop your article. 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. Once you're done, 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!

Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

To get points here, you'll need to have completed all the trainings, exercises, and modules throughout the assignment.