Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Temple University/The World of Sign Languages and the Sign Languages of the World (Fall 2022)
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- Course name
- The World of Sign Languages and the Sign Languages of the World
- Institution
- Temple University
- Instructor
- Matt Hall
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Cultural Anthropology
- Course dates
- 2022-08-22 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-12-05 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 21
Students learn about the experiences of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in various countries around the world, with a particular focus on the contrast between the medical model through which most people view deafness vs. the social/diversity models with which most deaf people understand themselves. Most students will be creating new articles; some will be adding new sections to existing articles.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2022 | Thursday, 25 August 2022
- 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 have a Wikipedia account.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 30 August 2022 | Thursday, 1 September 2022
- Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia
- Assignment - Add to an article
- In class - Discussion
- Assignment - Choose possible topics
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 6 September 2022 | Thursday, 8 September 2022
- Assignment - Finalize your topic and find sources
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 13 September 2022 | Thursday, 15 September 2022
- Assignment - Draft 1st section
- Language Emergence
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2022 | Thursday, 22 September 2022
- Assignment - Draft 2nd section
- Deaf-led organizations
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, 27 September 2022 | Thursday, 29 September 2022
- Assignment - Draft 3rd section
- Human/Civil Rights & the CRPD
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 4 October 2022 | Thursday, 6 October 2022
- Assignment - Draft 4th Section
- Early Hearing Detection & Intervention
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 11 October 2022 | Thursday, 13 October 2022
- Assignment - Draft 5th section
- Language deprivation
- 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
- Assignment - Peer review two articles
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 18 October 2022 | Thursday, 20 October 2022
- Assignment - Respond to your peer review
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Assignment - Draft 6th section
- Primary & Secondary Education
- 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 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 25 October 2022 | Thursday, 27 October 2022
- Assignment - Draft 7th section
- Higher Education
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 1 November 2022 | Thursday, 3 November 2022
- Assignment - Draft 8th section
- Employment
- 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 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 8 November 2022 | Thursday, 10 November 2022
- Assignment - Draft 9th section
- Healthcare
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 15 November 2022 | Thursday, 17 November 2022
- Assignment - Draft 10th section
- Language endangerment & revitalization
- Assignment - Move all sections to the mainspace!
If you haven't been moving each new section from the sandbox to the mainspace as you've been going along, now is the time to move all sections that you'd like to be considered for grading. Recall that you are not required to have an entry for all 10 topics, but you must have at least 3 from the 1st five topics and 3 from the 2nd five topics. You may also petition to include a topic that is not listed, either in place of or in addition to any of the assigned sections. (The tutorial module is included again here for your convenience; if you've completed it already, there's no need to do it again unless you want a refresher.)
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 29 November 2022 | Thursday, 1 December 2022
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
- Assignment - Creating Positive Change assignment (see Canvas)