Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/North Carolina State University/Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Living (Fall 2021)
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- Course name
- Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Living
- Institution
- North Carolina State University
- Instructor
- Nora Haenn
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Cultural Anthropology
- Course dates
- 2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC – 2021-12-17 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 20
This course examines the myriad ways that culture serves to mediate the human-environmental equation, giving focus to different belief systems, subsistence strategies, technological achievements, and policy formulations. Topics covered include cultural ecology, gender and the environment, land tenure, development, ethnoscience and cognitive ecology, subsistence and social organization, historical and political ecology, environmentalism, and environmental policy issues.
Students will be reading a series of brief assignments, prioritizing the kinds of information they think needs publicizing, and reporting on these through wikipedia. On my end, I will be working with students on public communication of science.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 17 August 2021 | Thursday, 19 August 2021
- This page will guide us through our Wikipedia assignment
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 24 August 2021 | Thursday, 26 August 2021
- See syllabus to write annotations that will contribute to Wikipedia.
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 31 August 2021 | Thursday, 2 September 2021
- See syllabus to write annotations that will contribute to Wikipedia.
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 7 September 2021 | Thursday, 9 September 2021
- Assignment - Sep 7
- read this "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 - Sep 7
- Read this "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.)
- Assignment - Sep 7
- Read "Evaluating articles" and "How to Edit" before class.
- Assignment - Sep 9
- Complete this section on "Choose possible topics" before class
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6
- Helpful Hint
- Bookmark pages through "Assign myself an article"
- In class - Sep 9
- We'll Discuss
- In class - Sep 9
- We'll compare "Guides for writing articles in your topic area"
- In class - Sep 9
- We'll "add to an article" during class
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 14 September 2021 | Thursday, 16 September 2021
- In class - Keep working on annotations until our next Wikipedia Week
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 21 September 2021 | Thursday, 23 September 2021
- In class - Keep working on annotations until our next Wikipedia Week
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 28 September 2021 | Thursday, 30 September 2021
- In class - Keep working on annotations until our next Wikipedia Week
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 7 October 2021
- In class - Keep working on annotations until our next Wikipedia Week
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 12 October 2021 | Thursday, 14 October 2021
- Oct 12
- Complete this plagiarism tutorial before class
- Assignment - Oct 12
- Draft entries totaling half your contracted word count into ONE box
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
- Assignment - Oct 12
- Before class, take this peer review training.
- Assignment - Oct 12
- In class, write a peer review & respond to your partner's 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 - Oct 14
- 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
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 19 October 2021 | Thursday, 21 October 2021
- Keep working on annotations until our next Wikipedia Week
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 26 October 2021 | Thursday, 28 October 2021
- In class - Keep working on annotations until our next Wikipedia Week
Week 12
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- Tuesday, 2 November 2021 | Thursday, 4 November 2021
- In class - Nov 2
- Re-draft, Polish and Keep Posting!
- Assignment - Final article
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!