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Course name
Exploring Modern Topics in Plant Biology 2022
Institution
Siena College
Instructor
Kenneth Helm
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Plant Physiology
Course dates
2022-01-24 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-05-06 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
15


In this assignment, you will add material that you have created to existing Wikipedia Articles dealing with various aspects of plant cell biology and physiology. The articles might be "stubs", short articles, or articles that Plant Phys students contributed to in previous years. You will complete the online trainings, and pick your topics in the next 2-3 weeks. For the trainings, you will work individually. You will make you contributions working in pairs. you will make minor changes such as repairing links and making minor editorial/factual corrections to existing work. Later, again working in pairs, you will summarize key experiments in recent journal articles and add you findings to you Wikipedia pages. Prior to "going live" with your work, we'll be doing some in-class peer editing work, which will result in a high(er) quality final product. As part of the your final exam, a take-home question, I'll have you read and summarize one another's completed pages. This will be a fun and engaging way to get cozy with interesting, cutting edge topics in plant biology!

Student Assigned Reviewing
KatPlants01 Ascent of sap
Katietouchette Climacteric (botany)
Ke30nade Climacteric (botany)
Gr13pepe Carrion flower
ACucca
Parneet225 Floral scent
Natv513 Stomatal conductance
Emilymae645
B17feme Floral scent
Amytperry07 Climacteric (botany)
Nataliayous Stomatal conductance
Se22dugg Stomatal conductance
Zoefish22 Carrion flower
Laurpatt Ascent of sap
Zaheer23 Movement protein
Brownboybas Movement protein
Devenneymeg Floral scent

Timeline

Week 6

Course meetings
Monday, 28 February 2022   |   Wednesday, 2 March 2022   |   Friday, 4 March 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. The two PDFs listed here will serve as "manuals" that you can refer to going forward to obtain guidance on a whole range of topics concenring Wikipedia and the improvement of Wikipedia articles.

Resources:

Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia, creating an account, 1 point

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.)

Assignment - Get into pairs, and report the pairngs to Dr Helm

Please report your pairings to Dr Helm, via email, no later than Friday.

Assignment - Training block 1-let's get started! 1 point

Week 7

Course meetings
Monday, 7 March 2022   |   Wednesday, 9 March 2022   |   Friday, 11 March 2022
Assignment - Traing Block 2
Choose an article to work on. 1 point!
Assignment - Finding your Wikipedia article, and deciding how you can improve it.

Exercise

Evaluate an article. 

Week 8

Course meetings
Monday, 14 March 2022   |   Wednesday, 16 March 2022   |   Friday, 18 March 2022
In class - Discussion-submitted to Canvas. What's this all about?

Thinking about Wikipedia

In class - Content Gaps. What's missing?

We'll talk a little bit about how to identify areas of your articles where information is missing. It's a bit tough, but I can show you a couple of examples.

Week 9

Course meetings
Monday, 28 March 2022   |   Wednesday, 30 March 2022   |   Friday, 1 April 2022
Assignment - Training block 3
Wikipedia editing, the basics. 1 point.
Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Chemistry

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

Genes and Proteins

Species

In class - Understand your primary literature

Read text and review articles beforehand. Spend time working on your primary research article.

Assignment - Find source material, two journal articles. 1 point

Go find a couple of articles.  One should be a "primary paper", and the other can be a review article.  If you'd like, both of your sources can be primary papers.  However, one source MUST be a primary paper. 

Week 10

Course meetings
Monday, 4 April 2022   |   Wednesday, 6 April 2022   |   Friday, 8 April 2022
Assignment - draft work is in sandbox, with some work done

Let's figure out how the source material can contribute to your Wikipedia Article! I would like to see your sandbox set up, with some work in the sandbox. 

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

In class - Discussion-sources and plagiarism

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 11

Course meetings
Monday, 11 April 2022
Assignment - Continue improving your article

Exercise

Add links to 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
Monday, 18 April 2022   |   Wednesday, 20 April 2022   |   Friday, 22 April 2022
Assignment - Training block 4
Now we tidy up! Tidy is good. 1 Point

This week, you should be building your contributions in your sandboxes, and getting them ready for peer review. 

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!  The evil eye of Dr Helm will be ever-vigilent.  I'll be looking for a well-developed, polished draft that's ready for peer editing next week. 

Week 13

Course meetings
Monday, 25 April 2022   |   Wednesday, 27 April 2022   |   Friday, 29 April 2022
Assignment - Virtual Peer Editing Session.

Since we can't physically meet, you'll have to do your peer editing with one another online. On Friday, I would like you to submit written peer editing suggestions to your assigned group, and send me a copy of your suggestions.  Remember, suggestions should be constructive, positive, and useful.  Good peer-edits arise from a careful, critical (yet positive and constructive) analysis of one another's work. 

 

 

Week 14

Course meetings
Monday, 2 May 2022   |   Wednesday, 4 May 2022   |   Friday, 6 May 2022
Assignment - Final article review and polish
from the Wiki crew...

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!

Week 15

Assignment - In class presentations of your work!

Let's see what you've got!  The presentations will have two components. 

 1. The first component.  An overview of the topic that you worked on, culminating with your contributions to your wikipedia article.  Remember: your contributions should be approachable to a larger audience of people who, while educated, might not be well versed in biology in general, or plant biology specifically.

2. The second part of your presentation will be a deeper dive into specific, primary research literature that you used in preparing your contributions.  In this part of the presentation, you'll aim at your fellow plant biologists in the class.  You'll cover specific experimental questions, actual data, and discussions of how the data were used to answers the questions posed by the paper's authors. 

Your in-class presentation will be approximately 15-20 minutes long, split more or less evenly between part 1 and part 2.  Since we'll have five groups, we'll do two presentations on Weds and in lab on Thursday.  Basically tell us what you've learned!

Assignment - Final Training modules. 1 Point
Assignment - Take a deep breath. Give 'er one more look, and GO LIVE. Traing 1 pt.

The entire projectd should be done and wrapped up!  You can move the work any time before 5/21.