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Course name
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Institution
Cottey College
Instructor
Sarah Quick
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Anthropology and Gender Studies
Course dates
2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-05-21 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
7


The Wikipedia portion of this course requires that students apply what they have learned from our course material to Wikipedia content critically as readers and editors. The larger classroom course spans the Spring semester, but their Wikipedia assignment for this course is in the last three weeks of the course.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Cornhuskerfan22
Katiedeclue
Valmbond
Brendaaldape
OGOCC
Picklepeeler
Tritney

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Thursday, 4 April 2019
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.

Week 2

Course meetings
Tuesday, 9 April 2019   |   Thursday, 11 April 2019
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article

Week 3

Course meetings
Tuesday, 16 April 2019   |   Thursday, 18 April 2019
Assignment - Choosing possible topics

Exercise

Choose a topic

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6


Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Biographies

Cultural Anthropology

History

LGBT+ Studies

Sociology

Women's Studies

Week 4

Course meetings
Tuesday, 23 April 2019   |   Thursday, 25 April 2019
Assignment - Post ideas for your project, 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 posted their ideas for their projects in eLearning (April 23) and given feedback to others (April 25).  Everyone has ideally begun writing their article drafts.

Week 5

Course meetings
Tuesday, 30 April 2019   |   Thursday, 2 May 2019
Assignment - Evaluating and Refining

EVALUTING EXISTING ENTRIES and ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Assignment due by Thursday midnight in eLearning.


Assignment - Continue improving your ideas for editing

Exercise

Add links to your article

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 - 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 6

Course meetings
Tuesday, 7 May 2019   |   Thursday, 9 May 2019
Assignment - Final edits added

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

Guiding questions

Milestones

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