Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/UMBC/Physiological Bases of Behavior (Fall 2018)
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- Course name
- Physiological Bases of Behavior
- Institution
- UMBC
- Instructor
- Tagide deCarvalho
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Neuroethology
- Course dates
- 2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-12-11 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 14
Studies of important adaptive behavioral patterns and their physiological bases. The course begins with some basic principles of the study of animal behavior followed by special topics such as sexual behavior, feeding, communication, prey capture, and predator evasion.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 25 September 2018 | Thursday, 27 September 2018
- Milestones
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:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- 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.)
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 October 2018 | Thursday, 4 October 2018
- Milestones
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 9 October 2018 | Thursday, 11 October 2018
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 16 October 2018 | Thursday, 18 October 2018
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 October 2018 | Thursday, 25 October 2018
- Assignment - Peer review two articles (in class)
- Assignment - First draft due (before class)
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 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 30 October 2018 | Thursday, 1 November 2018
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 6 November 2018 | Thursday, 8 November 2018
- Assignment - Second draft due
Consider peer review suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes. Your instructor will give you feedback on this version.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 13 November 2018 | Thursday, 15 November 2018
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 27 November 2018 | Thursday, 29 November 2018
- Milestones
Now that you've improved your draft based on your peers and instructor's feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 4 December 2018 | Thursday, 6 December 2018
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 11 December 2018
- 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!