Wikipedia:Writing Wikipedia Articles course/Round 1

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	Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond
	a free six week course

This page contains information for students on the Communicate OER project's P2PU School of Open course.
This six-week course (which ran initially in March and April 2013, and will start up again May 7) will guide students in becoming productive Wikipedians. Sign up available soon!

Note on class times: Because we have students in many time zones, and countries with different dates for Daylight Savings Time(DST)/Summer Time, times may vary. Generally speaking, class time on Tuesdays will be consistent in the US and Canada throughout the class, but will shift by an hour if your country adopts DST. (March 31 in Europe, April 7 in Mexico, etc.) Please click the "UTC" link below, and enter your city, to confirm local time!

Webinar date & time	Class title	Homework assignments
19 March 2013 15:30 UTC	Wikipedia under the hood webinar archive lab archive	Week 1: Student survey; my first edits; introductory reading
26 March 2013 15:30 UTC	Who am I to edit Wikipedia? Is there anybody out there?	Week 2: Digging a little deeper: complexity for editors
2 April 2013 15:30 UTC	What is quality? webinar archive lab archive	Week 3: Upload media; final project details (due 23 April)
9 April 2013 15:30 UTC	Build it bigger - roundtable 1	Week 4: Interview a Wikipedian! Check out Wikiprojects; engage with the community
16 April 2013 15:30 UTC	The deep dive - roundtable 2	Week 5: Brag a little; engage more deeply with the community
23 April 2013 15:30 UTC	The takeway and student showcase (final project due)	Week 6: Provide course feedback; tweak outstanding projects

Friday lab sessions

Homework may be taken on in your own time, but many students will want to work together. We suggest Fridays as the best time to do so. These sessions will be informal, but course instructors Pete and Sara will be online (at minimum) for an hour at 15:30 UTC (same time as the Tuesday classes). We will use a variety of platforms to stay in touch; use whichever ones make the most sense to you!

• Wikipedia, especially our project talk page: WT:Communicate OER
• Our online conference room (used for class sessions): j.mp/wikiSOOconf
• Our ether pad for note-taking and URLS: http://www.unserpad.de/p/wikisoo-course
  • Some trouble with this pad on PCs - moving to http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WIKISOO!
• Twitter, using the hashtag #wikiSOO
• Freenode IRC, in the #oer channel
• And/or other tools of your choosing, e.g. Skype, Google Hangout, Jitsi, carrier pigeon, etc.

Course roster

This is a list of everyone in the current course. You will edit this page as part of your first homework assignment, and you can return here to find your classmates or instructors:

• WP:Communicate OER SOO Course/Roster

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