Userboxes: great idea!! I'll give that a try straight away: two of my
pupils just created their own accounts, they didn't want to make a
user page (weren't confident what to write). Userboxes are a fun start!
Mina
On Feb 15, 2013, at 2:35 AM, Juliana Bastos Marques wrote:
I am currently offering a course on Wikipedia for
undergraduate
History students. The course uses both Wikipedia and Moodle, and
it's focused on discussions about documents, authorship, etc, and
its implications on writing History and/for Wikipedia.
Since the Moodle platform is closed, I created a backup so that you
can see what we're doing (currently on week 9 now). It's in
Portuguese, but I do hope you can get some of the gist with Google
translator. Sorry for the lack of CSS.
http://domusaurea.org/curso_moodle_2012.html
The course starts with discussions and case studies on each of the
five pillars, and the first thing the students edit is their
userpage (they get very excited with the userboxes). Then they
learn how to write on talk pages and create sandboxes, etc. For
this course, the students choose articles based on their own
research topics (for their final course monograph).
Please feel free to use and adapt this model if you think it can
help. Comments are always very welcome.
Juliana.
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Awesome idea, Sage; and about time. I'm all for it! SJ
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Sage Ross
<ragesoss+wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey folks! I just put up an Individual Engagement
Grant proposal for
an idea I've been kicking around for a while now: getting a course
about Wikipedia onto one of the big 'massive open online course'
systems that have been so successful lately (Coursera, Udacity,
edX).
Coursera classes typically have tens of thousands
of students, so
there's huge potential for recruiting new Wikipedians and bringing
together a lot of the knowledge we've developed about teaching
*about*
Wikipedia.
If you're interested, have a look at the proposal:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/ Wikipedia_Massive_Open_Online_Courses
And if you have an interest in *leading* a MOOC, let's talk.
Cheers,
Sage Ross (in a volunteer capacity)
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