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Course name
The Global Middle Ages
Institution
Colby College
Instructor
Megan Cook
Wikipedia Expert
Shalor (Wiki Ed)
Subject
English
Course dates
2019-09-04 00:00:00 UTC – 2019-12-16 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
20


What did it mean to imagine a global world in the Middle Ages? We will answer this question by reading accounts of travelers from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish traditions; meeting the fictional English knight John Mandeville, who claimed to have ventured as far from home as China and Indonesia, and the very real 10th-century Muslim traveler Ibn Fadlan, who trekked through what is now Russia and Scandinavia. We will study the history of map-making, compare fictional and historical accounts of crusade, and consider how a multi-cultural medieval world is represented in medieval fantasy like Game of Thrones.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Mbnorm20 Siege of Jerusalem (poem)
Mechar20
Piper Logl.
Sdesai22
Alecsandriajeen
Sravyabahudodda The King of Tars
Siyuan Pan Siege of Jerusalem (poem)
Mhalbert9
HannahDarby
Mkievm20
Alpaca Yarn
G.andr.gma
Knblaz
Dalesk21
Wmside20
Shguen21 The King of Tars
Alecwchapman
Nfhope The King of Tars
Csbeel22 The King of Tars

Timeline

Week 7

Course meetings
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
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.

Resources:


Assignment - 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 - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article

Week 8

Course meetings
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions

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

Week 9

Course meetings
Monday, 28 October 2019   |   Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Assignment - 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
Monday, 4 November 2019   |   Wednesday, 6 November 2019
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.


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!
Milestones

Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.