Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Johns Hopkins University/Johns Hopkins Medicine (Spring)
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- Course name
- Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Institution
- Johns Hopkins University
- Instructor
- Marlis Hinckley
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- History
- Course dates
- 2020-01-27 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-05-14 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 38
Learn how Hopkins influenced medical education, public health, and hospital care by working to write and improve Wikipedia articles about relevant topics.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 29 January 2020
- 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:
- 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.)
- Milestones
This week, everyone should make a Wikipedia account.
- Assignment - Browse Wikipedia
Identify three articles pertinent to the history of Hopkins medicine and be ready to discuss them in class next week. Be creative!
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 5 February 2020
- In class - Discussion
What categories can we divide the articles into? Are there any we might have missed?
- Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 12 February 2020
- Assignment - Review the rules for health topics
- Assignment - Choose possible topics
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6
- In class - Discussion
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 19 February 2020
- Assignment - Add to an article
- In class - Discussion
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Assignment - Exercise
- Assignment - Identify a relevant subject guide or page
Find an appropriate subject guide or page and post it to your Sandbox along with a 1-paragraph summary of its most important points.
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 4 March 2020
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- In class - Discussion
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 11 March 2020
- Assignment - Continue working on article drafts
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 25 March 2020
- Follow my Wikipedia User page for updates to assignments
Go to my user page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:M.hin.ck and add it to your 'Watchlist' by clicking the star next to the 'View history' tab at the top of the page - this is where I'll post a summary of the week's assignments and any updates. If anything is unclear, please post your question to my Talk page. (You can always still email, but consider posting first so everyone can benefit from the clarification).
- Assignment - Peer review one article
- Assignment - Film - The Deadly Deception
Watch the film The Deadly Deception (available through eReserves) and post a 250-word reflection to the following page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:M.hin.ck/Deadly_Deception) on how this film affects your understanding of this week's readings.
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 1 April 2020
- Assignment - Edit your article according to your peer review and my comments
You have peer reviews from your classmates (these can be found by going to Students -> Article assignments -> [your name] -> clicking the 'Review' links in the block with your article), as well as my comments on the Talk page attached to your Sandbox draft. Consider these suggestions and edit your draft to make the appropriate changes.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- The rubric that will be used for your final article is on Blackboard; it's the first item in the Course Content folder.
- Assignment - Assess the sources of the film Dr. Money
Watch the film "Dr. Money and the Boy with No Penis" on eReserves and post a 250-word discussion of the film's sources here.
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 8 April 2020
- Moving articles across
Gradually transfer your articles to the mainspace according to the instructions given in the assignment above. I'll check all of the Wikipedia pages and your Sandboxes on Saturday and provide a last set of revisions and suggestions for you to incorporate in your final articles. These will be due at the end of reading period (May 8).
Even though you'll be working with the real Wikipedia pages starting this week, make sure you continue to make any edits in your Sandbox first. In other words, your Sandbox should continue to be the full article as you envision it: copy the changes one by one into the main article, but keep the Sandbox draft as the master version. This will ensure that even if if your edits are removed from the Wikipedia mainspace by other users, your version of the article will be preserved. Your Sandbox draft as of May 8 is what I'll be grading as your final project - this will ensure that you're evaluated on everything you did, not just the parts of it that were eventually accepted by the wider Wikipedia community.
- 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 11
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 15 April 2020
- Assignment - Prepare your final presentation
Your final presentation should be a 6-minute recorded video where you reflect on the research process and what you've learned about research, copyright, and composition along the way.
You and your partner should speak for approximately equal time, and have some sort of a visual aid as part of your presentation. This can be a Powerpoint or other presentation, or you can simply walk us through your article or search strategy on the screen.
You can do this however you like, but a very simple way of creating a video with multiple people and a Powerpoint is to have a Zoom meeting and record it. I've provided a sample in the Blackboard 'Course Content' folder, and there's a link on my Wikipedia page.
As you reflect on the research process and the strategies you developed to deal with various issues you encountered, consider the following:
1. Why did you choose the article you did?
2. What were the issues with the article?
3. How did you initially plan to fix these issues?
4. What challenges did you encounter, and how did your plans change?
5. What strategies did you use for finding new, reliable information? Which would you recommend?
6. Did you have any interactions with othe Wikipedians?
7. How did the constraints and rules of Wikipedia change how you pursued your research? What Wikipedia resources (style guides, ability to see statistics, etc.) did you use? What would you have done differently if you were writing a research paper of your own?
You needn't address all of these topics - they're meant to give you something to think about in your discussion.
As always, let me know your questions! Looking forward to seeing all your work in its final form. And as a reminder, your final articles aren't due until the end of reading period (May 8) - I'll provide a second review with some more individual guidance soon.
- Assignment - Continue improving 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.
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 22 April 2020
- 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 - Final Presentation
Remember to submit your final presentation - see the instructions from last week (above, in the Week 12 block) for more guidance.