In The Classroom What is Wikipedia? How does it fit into a lesson plan? Getting comfortable with code Grading Wikipedia articles Finding help

1. Wikipedia Education
Program
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2. In The Classroom
1. What is Wikipedia?
2. How does it fit into a lesson plan?
3. Getting comfortable with code
4. Grading Wikipedia articles
5. Finding help

3. What is Wikipedia?

4. What is Wikipedia?
● A tertiary source
● A great place to start your research
● A valuable list of reference materials
● A scholarly community
● A lively forum - see Obama Care

5. How does it fit into a lesson plan?
● Wikipedia is a great replacement for
writing assignments
● This is not a typical research paper
● This is not persuasive writing
● You must cite your sources, and they
need to be good

6. Getting comfortable with code
● Help is available
● Look at other articles for examples
● Try it, you can’t break it

7. Grading Wikipedia articles
● Don’t rely on published articles
● Focus on student sandboxes
● Extra points for participation with the
Wikipedia community
● Great articles should seek ‘Did You
Know?’ status

8. Finding help
● Campus Ambassadors (any volunteers?)
● Online Ambassadors
● Regional Ambassadors (that’s me)
○ me@FrankCJones.com - User:Frankcjones
● Program Manager
○ Jami Mathewson
○ jami@wikiedfoundation.org - User:Jami_
(Wiki_Ed)