On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Robert Patrick Connolly (rcnnolly)
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rcnnolly@memphis.edu> wrote:
> Dear GLAM folks,
>
> At the University of Memphis, faculty are encouraged to come up with
> proposals for teaching one credit hour courses to incoming Honors Freshman.
> Usually about 20 faculty take this up. Last year I developed a course
> around Jane McGonigal's Reality is Broken book. For this coming Fall, I am
> going to create an offering that will be something like Wikipedia as a Tool
> for Scholarly Research. I suspect the class will fill very quickly and will
> provide an opportunity to raise the visibility of this discussion across the
> campus – hopefully flushing out the naysayers in the process. The course
> will meet officially for 15 one hour sessions. I envision that the course
> will include a thorough exploration of Wikipedia, review of networks such as
> GLAM, create some pages, Wikispaces, conduct edit-a-thons and so forth.
> Questions – Do you all have any thoughts on this? Know of other folks who
> have created similar classes/studies? Suggestions for topical foci for the
> course? Or anything else?
>
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.
>