Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Boston College/Environmental Disruptors of Development (Spring 2016)
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- Course name
- Environmental Disruptors of Development
- Institution
- Boston College
- Instructor
- Laura E. Hake
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Chemicals that mimic hormones and disrupt animal development
- Course dates
- 2016-01-19 – 2016-05-05
- Approximate number of student editors
- 27
Embryonic, fetal or neonatal exposure to low "safe" levels of numerous pollutants can change developmental programs regulated by steroid hormones leading to an increase in reproductive, immune, metabolic or cognitive disorders. Some also increase the risk of adult-onset disorders. Through this course we will examine the biological basis of the adverse effects of these chemicals on human health and animal development and consider how this work is important in the development of regulatory policy. This is an advanced, upper division elective.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 19 January 2016 | Thursday, 21 January 2016
- In class - 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
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 26 January 2016 | Thursday, 28 January 2016
- In class - Editing basics
- Basics of editing
- Anatomy of Wikipedia articles, what makes a good article, how to distinguish between good and bad articles
- Collaborating and engaging with the Wiki editing community
- Tips on finding the best articles to work on for class assignments
Handouts: Using Talk Pages, Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Practicing the basics
- Create an account and join this course page.
- Complete the introductory training modules. During this training, you will make edits in a sandbox and learn the basic rules of Wikipedia.
- Create a User page.
- To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to another student on their user talk page.
- Explore topics related to your topic area to get a feel for how Wikipedia is organized. What areas seem to be missing? As you explore, make a mental note of articles that seem like good candidates for improvement.
- Milestones
All students have Wikipedia user accounts and are listed on the course page.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 February 2016 | Thursday, 4 February 2016
- In class - Exploring the topic area
- Be prepared to discuss some of your observations about Wikipedia articles in your topic area that are missing or could use improvement.
Handouts: Choosing an article
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 9 February 2016 | Thursday, 11 February 2016
- In class - Using sources
- Be prepared to explain close paraphrasing, plagiarism, and copyright violations on Wikipedia.
Handouts: Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
Supplementary training: [[../../../training/students/sources|Sources and Citations]]
- Assignment -
Review Wikipedia's rules for topics related to medicine, human health, and psychology.
- Assignment - Choosing your article
ADD new content!
- You will choose an article developed by previous EDD courses.
- Find 2 or more current references for adding at least 3 sentences of new content to the page. Compile a bibliography of the 2 or more relevant, reliable sources and post it to the talk page of the article you are working on. Begin reading the sources. Make sure to check in on the talk page (or watchlist) to see if anyone has advice on your bibliography.
- Compose your new content sentences and work on them in your sandbox. This also gives you a space to make sure the formatting is correct before moving to main space.
Copy Edit page
- Find at least 10 distinct areas to fix. Grammatical errors, spelling or improving sentence clarity are all possible areas to fix.
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 16 February 2016 | Thursday, 18 February 2016
- In class - Discuss the article topics
- Discuss the topics students will be working on, and determine strategies for researching and writing about them.
Supplementary training: [[../../../training/students/sandboxes|Sandboxes and Mainspace]]
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2016 | Thursday, 25 February 2016
- In class - Wikipedia culture and etiquette
- Talk about Wikipedia culture and etiquette, and (optionally) revisit the concept of sandboxes and how to use them.
- Q&A session with instructor about interacting on Wikipedia and getting started with writing.
- Milestones
All students have started editing articles or drafts on Wikipedia.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 1 March 2016 | Thursday, 3 March 2016
- In class - Building articles
- Demo uploading images and adding images to articles.
- Share experiences and discuss problems.
Resources: Illustrating Wikipedia and Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Choose articles to peer review
- Select two classmates’ articles that you will peer review and copyedit. On the table at the bottom of this course page, add your username next to the articles you will peer review. (You don’t need to start reviewing yet.)
- Assignment - Add to an article
- Add 1–2 sentences of new information, backed up with a citation to an appropriate source, to a Wikipedia article related to the class.
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 15 March 2016 | Thursday, 17 March 2016
- Assignment - Complete first draft
- Expand your article into a complete first draft.
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 22 March 2016
- In class - Group suggestions
- As a group, offer suggestions for improving one or two other students' articles, based on your ideas of what makes a solid encyclopedia article.
Supplementary training: [[../../../training/students/peer-review|Peer Review]]
- Assignment - Peer review and copyedit
- Peer review two of your classmates’ articles. Leave suggestions on the article talk pages.
- Copy-edit the two reviewed articles.
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 29 March 2016 | Thursday, 31 March 2016
- In class - Media literacy discussion
- Open discussion of the concepts of neutrality, media literacy, and the impact and limits of Wikipedia.
- Assignment - Address peer review suggestions
- Make edits to your article based on peers’ feedback. If you disagree with a suggestion, use talk pages to politely discuss and come to a consensus on your edit.
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 5 April 2016 | Thursday, 7 April 2016
- In class - Discuss further article improvements
- Continue discussing how the articles can be further improved. Come up with improvement goals for each article for next week.
- Assignment - Continue improving articles
- Return to your classmates' articles you previously reviewed, and provide more suggestions for further improvement. If there is a disagreement, suggest a compromise.
- Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on your classmates' suggestions and any additional areas for improvement you can identify.
- Assignment - Prepare for in-class presentation
- Prepare for an in-class presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 12 April 2016 | Thursday, 14 April 2016
- In class - In-class presentation
- Prepare for an in-class presentation about your Wikipedia editing experience.
- Assignment - Final article
- Add final touches to your Wikipedia article.
Handout: Polishing your article
- Assignment - Reflective essay
- Write a reflective essay (2–5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 19 April 2016 | Thursday, 21 April 2016
- Milestones
Students have finished all their work on Wikipedia that will be considered for grading.