Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/California State University East Bay/Introduction to Information Literacy (Spring 2016)
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- Course name
- Introduction to Information Literacy
- Institution
- California State University East Bay
- Instructor
- Tom Bickley
- Wikipedia Expert
- Adam (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Information Literacy
- Course dates
- 2016-04-07 – 2016-06-02
- Approximate number of student editors
- 31
Basic information literacy concepts. Research strategies and appropriate techniques for effectively identifying, acquiring, evaluating, using, and communicating information in various formats. This section is linked to courses in our first year cluster, “Spirituality, Creativity and the Human Experience." My students will be taking survey courses in World Religions, World Music, and World Theater and Dance.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 21 April 2016
- Assignment - Wikipedia essentials
- Overview of the course
- Introduction to how Wikipedia will be used in the course
- Understanding Wikipedia as a community, we'll discuss its expectations and etiquette.
Handout: Editing Wikipedia
- Assignment - Create your account and learn the basics
- Create an account and then complete the online training for students. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 28 April 2016
- Assignment - Critique an article
- Review pages 4-7 of the Evaluating Wikipedia brochure. This will give you a good, brief overview of what to look for in other articles, and what other people will look for in your own.
- Evaluate an existing Wikipedia article related to the class, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's talk page.
- A few questions to consider (don't feel limited to these):
- Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?
- Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
- Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
- Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
- Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
- Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article?
- Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
Resources: Evaluating Wikipedia, Using Talk Pages