Hi all,

There's a program next week at SF Public Library, featuring David Silver talking about his classroom Wikipedia assignment (see below).

A bit of background: I guest-lectured for two of Dr. Silver's classes last fall; he's done a Wikipedia class with three of his classes so far, two last fall and one this spring. Each class AFAIK has had the same assignment: work on [[University of San Francisco]]. As you can see from the talk page, it's been a bit rocky. (Dr. Silver is not himself a Wikipedia editor, and as far as I know has not participated in editing before or since).

I did my best to teach the students about policy etc, and created a wikiproject page for the classes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_University_of_San_Francis..., but I don't think it was used for the class he is speaking about in this lecture.

Anyway, could be interesting. -- Phoebe

------ Forwarded Message From: Jerry Dear jdear@sfpl.org Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:23:23 -0700

Date:  Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Time:  6 - 7:30 p.m.

Place:  San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch

100 Larkin Street

Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room B

San Francisco, CA 94102

Program:  When Wikipedia Meets the Library:  A Case Study from the University of San Francisco

Description:  Professor David Silver at the University of San Francisco explains his Digital Media Production Class¹s efforts in learning how Wikipedia works and their efforts to share their research with the rest of the world.

More Info.:  415.557.4277 or jdear@sfpl.orgmailto:jdear@sfpl.org

Thank you,

Jerry Dear, Librarian San Francisco Public Library jdear@sfpl.orgmailto:jdear@sfpl.org (415) 437-4844

http://sfplmagsandnews.blogspot.com

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