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Course name
NURS 495-14
Institution
Rockford University
Instructor
Stephanie Yeager
Wikipedia Expert
Ian (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Senior Seminar
Course dates
2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC – 2018-11-30 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
9


Updating medical articles for educational purposes.

Timeline

Week 1

Course meetings
Thursday, 30 August 2018
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 - Introduction

Hello Everyone, 

Please post a starting introduction. Please include a little bit about yourself, what your dream position is an a new RN would be, the best way to contact you, and anything else you would like to share. This course is presented in an online format which helps you work in groups to enhance an article on a topic of your choice or prepare an article from scratch. The project will be presented to your class at the end of the semester. You are required to keep a log on your time spent on this project. Each student should have a total of 75 hours spent by the end of your project. This is my first time teaching this course so please be patient and if there are any questions along the way please don't hesitate to contact me at SYeager@Rockford.edu 

You will be working in groups. There are 9 of you in this clinical section. Please email me your selected groups and a specialty/topic of your choice. You can choose to work in a group of 2 or 3 students. No individual students please. Please send me the information by September 6th at the latest.


Milestones

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Week 2

Course meetings
Thursday, 6 September 2018
Assignment - Evaluate Wikipedia

Exercise

Evaluate an article


Assignment - Discussion

Thinking about sources and plagiarism

Week 3

Course meetings
Thursday, 13 September 2018
Assignment - Review the rules for health topics
Assignment - Discussion

What's a content gap?

Assignment - Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area

Medicine

Week 4

Course meetings
Thursday, 20 September 2018
Assignment - Add to an article

Exercise

Add a citationMinimum is 2 sentences with a citation.


Important!

For week 4: Adding to an article, this should NOT be your final project article. It can be in the same subject/specialty but has to be a different article.

Week 5

Course meetings
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Assignment - Start drafting your contributions to the final group article project

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Milestones

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 6

Course meetings
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Assignment - Peer review two articles

Guiding framework

Milestones

Every student has finished reviewing their peer's articles, please make sure that every article has been reviewed before submitting.

Week 7

Course meetings
Thursday, 11 October 2018
Milestones

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.

Week 8

Course meetings
Thursday, 25 October 2018
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 9

Course meetings
Thursday, 1 November 2018
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.

Start thinking about presentations. Please have an organized way to introduce your topic to your class. I would suggest you have prepared at least 1 visuale aid for presenations. This can include a PowerPoint, a class hand out, or brochure/pamplet provided to patients. Be creative! This is an excellent way to beef up your portfolio when interviewing as a new RN. Any questions, let me know!

Week 10

Course meetings
Thursday, 8 November 2018
Milestones

Expand and improve your work! Please send email to SYeager@Rockford.edu when your group is completed with any additions or completed article for Wiki. Once I recieve your email, I will review article and provide final suggestions.

Week 11

Course meetings
Thursday, 15 November 2018
Assignment - Final Week to Improve 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!

Week 12

Course meetings
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Assignment - You've finished your Wikipedia assignment!

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