Wikipedia:The NTUST AFL Wikipedia Education Program

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Education Program with the Department of Applied Foreign Languages, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

  • Course Title: Multiliteracies: Problem-based English Reading and Writing (I)&(II)
  • Time: Fall 2022 (9/7-12/28/2022), Spring 2023(2/20-6/21/2023), Fall 2023 (9/4-12/20/2023), Spring 2024 (2/21-6/5/24)
  • Place: Department of Applied Foreign Languages, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
  • Co-organizer: Wikimedia Taiwan
  • Instructor: Yen-Ting Megan Lin
  • Teaching assistant: Cindy Lin (Fall 2022), Wen-Ren Bill Lin (Spring 2023, 2024), Pei-Chen Jessie Chen (Fall 2023), U Tong Cindy Shi (Spring 2024)

Course Objectives[edit]

This PBL course is designed to equip ESL/EFL learners with crucial media and information literacy skills that are essential for 21st-century education. Given that Wikipedia functions as a free and accessible platform, it offers an excellent opportunity to foster these abilities on a global scale. This course, developed in collaboration with Wikimedia Taiwan, stands as the inaugural co-designed module. It aims to train upcoming Wikipedia editors, covering subjects like the platform's fundamental principles and editing guidelines, the assessment and evaluation of information, and the process of knowledge creation. Through lectures, discussions, workshops, collaborative documentation, and mini edit-a-thons, students will be guided in their transition from being mere readers to becoming writers and editors. This process will involve the identification of challenges and the exploration of potential solutions. Experienced editors will provide valuable feedback and commentary on student documentation projects. This guidance will assist students in shaping their multiliteracies experiences and skills within an authentic context.

This problem-based learning course intends to cultivate ESL/EFL learners' media and information literacies using Wikipedia in a documentation initiative for female artists. Students will learn to:

  • Address the gender disparities in both Wikipedia's content and its pool of editors
  • Get familiar with Wikipedia's culture and editing guidelines
  • Initiate multiliteracies projects as English as a Second/Foreign Language learners
  • Access and evaluate credible sources in the production process of the Wikipedia articles
  • Compose and present information through collaborative efforts
  • Enhance their problem-solving and decision-making skills

Outcomes[edit]

This part subsumes the outcomes of the students' semester projects.

Outcomes

Fall 2022[edit]

Spring 2023[edit]

Fall 2023[edit]

Spring 2024[edit]




Course Schedule[edit]

The following schedule is tentative and the instructor will adjust the syllabus every semester.

Course Schedule
Week 1
  • Time:9/7
  • Topic:
  1. Course Introduction and Policy
    • English Reading and Writing on Wikipedia
    • Project introduction: Wiki, We Keep!
  2. Concepts of Multiliteracies
  3. How to build experience in a Multiliteracies project
Week 2
  • Time:9/14
  • Topic:
    • Guest speaker Reke Wang from Wikimedia Taiwan
Week 3
  • Time:9/21
  • Topic:
  1. How to conceptualize old/new knowledge in a Multiliteracies project
  2. How to build a page/an event on Wikipedia
  3. Structure of a biographical writing on Wikipedia
  4. Term project: Wiki, We Keep!
Week 4
  • Time:9/28
  • Topic:
  1. Topic Reading I
  2. Key Edit Concepts
  3. Issues on Wikipedia
Week 5
  • Time:10/5
  • Topic:
  1. Topic Reading II
  2. Elements of objective writing
  3. Multimedia on Wikipedia
Week 6
  • Time:10/12
  • Topic:
  1. How to Perform Analysis in the Multiliteracies Project
  2. Topic Reading III
  3. Outlines for your group project
Week 7
  • Time:10/19
  • Topic:
    • Concepts and illustrations
    • Multimedia Copyright
Week 8
  • Time:10/26
  • Topic:
    • Show and tell your"“Wiki, We Keep"” proposal
Week 9
  • Time:11/2
  • Topic:
    • Group conferencing on project proposal
Week 10
  • Time:11/9
  • Topic:
  1. General comments and suggestions on group articles
  2. Collaborative writing process
Week 11
  • Time:11/16
  • Topic:
  1. How to apply the old and new knowledge in a Multiliteracies project
  2. Page Introduction
Week 12
  • Time:11/23
  • Topic:
  1. Peer review on Introduction
  2. Group conferencing on Introduction
Week 13
  • Time:11/30
  • Topic:
    • Edit-a-thon with international editors from Wikipedia Foundation
Week 14
  • Time:12/7
  • Topic:
  1. Revisions based on comments and suggestions
  2. Final presentation: formats and outlines
Week 15
  • Time:12/14
  • Topic:
  1. How to finalize your Project package
  2. How to maintain your page
Week 16
  • Time:12/21
  • Topic:
    • Wikipedia Page Launch Party
Week 17
  • Time:12/28
  • Topic:
    • Supplemental Materials
Week 18
  • Time:1/4
  • Topic:
    • Supplemental Materials

Awards and Honors[edit]

  • Spring 2023 Innovative Teaching Strategies and Materials Development (PBL Teaching), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Publications[edit]

  • Lin, Y. -T. (2024). Collaborative Reading and Writing on English Wikipedia as New Fashion for Gen Z: A Case Study in Taiwan. Wiki Workshop 2024. Online.
  • Lin, Y. -T. (2024). Advancing ESL/EFL Multiliteracies through Wikipedia: An Innovative University-Community Education Program in Taiwan. Paper accepted at the 21st AILA World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:The_NTUST_AFL_Wikipedia_Education_Program&oldid=1226402157"