Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Texas State University/Public personnel administration (Fall 2015)
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- Course name
- Public personnel administration
- Institution
- Texas State University
- Instructor
- Emilykayhanks
- Subject
- Public Administration
- Course dates
- 2015-09-04 – 2015-12-04
- Approximate number of student editors
- 30
A study of public personnel systems in the United States with major concentrations on the national civil service system. Special emphasis is given to current research in the areas of leadership, informal organization, motivation, and small group theory.
Timeline
Week 1: Phase I: Wikipedia Fundamentals
- Assignment - Create Wikipedia account
- Create your Wikipedia account before coming to class.
- In class - Wikipedia essentials
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community
Handouts: Editing Wikipedia, Theories: Wikipedia and the production of knowledge
- Assignment - User & Course pages
- Create individual User page
- Enroll on our Wikipedia Course page
Week 2: Phase I: Wikipedia Fundamentals (con't)
- In class - Editing basics
- Basics of editing
- Collaborating and engaging with the Wiki editing community
Handouts: Using Talk Pages, Editing Wikipedia
- Assignment - Practicing the basics
- Post to student Talk page
- To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to another student on their user talk page.
- Assignment - Practicing the basics
- online training
- Complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Resources: Online Training for Students
- Milestones
All students have Wikipedia user accounts, completed the online training, and are listed on the course page.
Week 3: Phase I: Wikipedia Fundamentals (con't)
- In class - Article quality
- Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
Handout: Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Evaluate existing Wikipedia article
Week 4: Phase II: Exploring the topic & starting research
- In class - Using sources
- Explaining close paraphrasing, plagiarism, and copyright violations on Wikipedia
Handouts: Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
- Assignment - Choosing your article
- Your instructor has created a list of potential topics for your main project. Choose the one you will work on.
- Assignment - Add to an article
- Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.
Week 5: Phase II: Exploring the topic & starting research
- In class - Discuss the article topics
- Discuss the topics students will be working on, and determine strategies for researching and writing about them.
- Talk about Wikipedia culture and etiquette, and revisit the concept of sandboxes and how to use them.
- Q&A session with instructor about interacting on Wikipedia and getting started with writing.
- Assignment - Team charter
Week 6: Phase II: Exploring the topic & starting research
- Assignment - Annotated bibliography
- Compile a bibliography of relevant, reliable sources and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources. Make sure to check in on the talk page (or watchlist) to see if anyone has advice on your bibliography.
- Milestones
All students have started editing articles or drafts in group Sandbox.
Week 7: Phase III: Building the article
- In class - Moving articles to mainspace
- We'll discuss moving your article out of your sandboxes and into Wikipedia's main space.
- A general reminder: Don't panic if your contribution disappears, and don't try to force it back in.
- Check to see if there is an explanation of the edit on the article's talk page. If not, (politely) ask why it was removed.
- Contact your instructor or Wikipedia Content Expert and let them know.
Handout: Moving out of your Sandbox
- Assignment - Moving articles to mainspace
- Move your sandbox articles into main space.
- If you are expanding an existing article, copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article.
- Begin expanding your article into a comprehensive treatment of the topic.
Week 8: Phase III: Building the article (con't)
- In class - Building articles
- Demo uploading images and adding images to articles.
- Share experiences and discuss problems.
Resources: Illustrating Wikipedia and Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Choose articles to peer review
- Select a classmates’ article that you will peer review and copyedit. On the table at the bottom of this course page, add your username next to the article you will peer review. (You don’t need to start reviewing yet.)
Week 9: Phase III: Building the article (con't)
- Assignment - Complete first draft
- Expand your article into a complete first draft.
Week 10
- In class - Group suggestions
- As a group, offer suggestions for improving one or two other students' articles, based on your ideas of what makes a solid encyclopedia article.
- Assignment - Peer review and copyedit
- Peer review two of your classmates’ articles. Leave suggestions on the article talk pages.
- Copy-edit the two reviewed articles.
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Week 11: Phase IV: The finishing touches
- In class - Media literacy discussion
- Open discussion of the concepts of neutrality, media literacy, and the impact and limits of Wikipedia.
- Assignment - Address peer review suggestions
- Make edits to your article based on peers’ feedback. If you disagree with a suggestion, use talk pages to politely discuss and come to a consensus on your edit.
Week 12: Phase IV: The finishing touches (con't)
- In class - Discuss further article improvements
- Continue discussing how the articles can be further improved. Come up with improvement goals for each article for next week.
- Assignment - Continue improving articles
- Return to your classmates' articles you previously reviewed, and provide more suggestions for further improvement. If there is a disagreement, suggest a compromise.
- Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on your classmates' suggestions and any additional areas for improvement you can identify.
Week 13: Phase IV: The finishing touches (con't)
- Assignment - Prepare for in-class presentation & reflection essay
- Prepare for an in-class presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Week 14: Phase IV: The finishing touches (con't)
- Assignment - Group presentations
- Students give in-class presentations about their experiences editing Wikipedia.
- Assignment - Wikipedia reflection
- Milestones
Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.