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Best Practices of Organizing a Wikipedia in Teaching and Learning Workshop

Include a few notes here about the process, recommendations.

• Consider your audience, how much do you know about them?
  • Develop outcomes for the audience, what do they get out of the workshop?
  • Consider good approaches for those outcomes, what is going to be most effective for your audience?
• Be creative, come up with new approaches and remix past approaches.
• Establish a pacing, with adequate break time and

WikiSym 2011 Education Workshop

Overview

Two 1.5 hour sections

• First half: presentation, demos, all together
• Second half: interactive, engaging, activity based, split up

Agenda (Total time 3 hours):

First half

1. Introductions - TOTAL: 18 min
   1. Ourselves briefly (1 min)
   2. Audience feedback, introductions, icebreaker? (7 min) -Matt
   3. Student Motivations through Student Interview Videos (5 - 10 min) -LiAnna
2. The Program Today - TOTAL: 18 min
   1. Genesis: USPP → GEP & USEP (1-2 min) -Matt
   2. Student/Program Impact incl. Stats / Facts / Community Feedback (7 min) -LiAnna
      1. including student contr. impact.
      2. Q/A section (source from Amy’s) (5 min)
   3. Goals / The Future (1-2 min) -Matt
3. Editing activity - TOTAL: 25 min -Matt (both help people)
   1. Group, share a tool or feature (2-3 people) activity (5 min)
      1. Present feature to class briefly (8 - 10 min)
         1. e.g. http://manypedia.com
   2. Pick a tool, audience, subject, and Design a lesson! (same group) (10 min)
4. Generalized Concepts / Examples (WP for teaching & learning) - TOTAL: 50 min
   1. Learning Outcomes (5 min) -LiAnna
   2. Lesson development/designs (5 min) -Matt
      1. work through a couple examples, briefly mention the others
         1. Literature review of longer analytical paper
            1. e.g. Brian Carver, Jbmurray, Arab Political Science class
         2. Wetlands at LSU with images/graphics
   3. Course development, syllabuses (5 min) -LiAnna
      1. Assessment (3-4 min)
      2. Walk through sample?
   4. NEW: Collaboration / In-person Editing / New Forms / Culture (5 min) -Matt
      1. Editing parties
      2. Student Groups
      3. Multiple-person assignments
      4. Group activities/lessons
   5. Institutionalization (5 min) -LiAnna
      1. LSU Department
      2. GLAM
      3. NJIT / UCSF potential

Second Half (Re-assess scope based on initial group feedback):

1. Group Activity (or Individual), EDIT an article! - TOTAL: 50 min
   1. examples of what to edit in 50 min:
      1. Add images (flickr uploader)
      2. Start an article (stub), with at least one reference
      3. Add a reference
      4. Add to a section
      5. Re-write a poorly written section (e.g. a lead)
      6. Wiki-markup an article or section
      7. Categories :D !!!
      8. Source from current student articles (give feedback/assessments)
   2. Share with group (10 min)
2. Group Activity, come up with an assignment or curriculum w/ WP - TOTAL: 15 - 20 min
   1. Share with group (15 min)

Amy’s FAQ from Previous Presentations

1. How are these contributions different from normal?
2. Educational aspects, learning out comes etc? (CHECK)
3. First time WMF has pursued expert contributions with WP. Hmm? vs. Academies
4. Impact?

Other Notes

IMPORTANT: Make to-do list of discussion items / ideas & concepts / questions

Our goals for attendees:

• Understand program
• Know how to implement curriculum and assignments
• Sample syllabus
• Welcome brochure
• Image handout
• References handout

Note to self: Bring stickers