Hi Robert!
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Robert Patrick Connolly (rcnnolly) 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.
This sounds like a very cool course!
I don't know of any courses that specifically focus on Wikipedia as a research tool, but there have been a number of courses that focus on Wikipedia in various ways. There were two terms of "Wikipedia and Public Policy" at Syracuse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli...
If you're looking for general resources for putting together your course, these are some good places to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_educators http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Assignment_Design
Cheers, Sage (User:Ragesoss)