Wikipedia:School and university projects/2013 past projects

Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, Maryland (Spring 2013)

We will be improving the college's Wikipedia page as well as related articles on local topics, such as towns on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. More details will be forthcoming as we sort out our assignments and syllabus. Contact phette23 for more information. The project will end at the end of the Spring semester, in the middle of May.

Saint Louis University Biology (Spring 2013)

Students in a graduate level Signal Transduction class will create or expand Wikipedia articles related to the course topic. Biolprof (talk) 04:21, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Queen Mary, University of London Research Methods (Film) (Spring 2013)

As part of a second year undergraduate course in Research Methods, students will be spending 6 weeks in small groups, adopting, evaluating and editing an existing Wikipedia page whose subject is a single film. Please contact DrJennyCee for further details. Would be very grateful for support from experienced facilitators! The project will run from January 2012 to mid-February 2012, and will run again in the Fall semester of 2013. DrJennyCee(talk) 13:27 14 January 2012 (GMT)

University of Toronto Mississauga The Rhetoric of Digital and Interactive Media Environments (Winter 2013)

Description here. Course Page

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City, Mexico City Spring 2013

Two groups of Medical English are working on various projects in Wikipedia including adding photos, translation of articles, contacting other medical people and more. For more information see my user page Thelmadatter (talk) 03:56, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

NCSU - Critical Approaches to Wikipedia, Information, and the Collaborative Construction of Knowledge (Spring 2013)

Cross-listed as ENG 395 and COM 395 in the spring 2013 semester at NC State University.

Course Description: "Students approach Wikipedia, the free and open online encyclopedia, from media studies and rhetorical perspectives. Includes assessment of popular arguments of credibility, authorship, expertise, and the site's role as information source, as well as critical discussion of collaborative knowledge production, the codification of knowledge, the encyclopedia genre, access and the digital divide, Web 2.0 and participatory culture, systematic bias, and free culture. Assignments take place largely on Wikipedia, developing firsthand experiential understanding informed by and informing class concepts."

• Course [instructor] page: User:RM395/Course
  • Note: please direct all correspondence to the instructor's primary Wikipedia account: Rhododendrites

Grafton High School YA Novel Improvement Project (Spring 2013)

As part of the English 9 curriculum taught by Roseclearfield, students improve and (when notable) create pages for young adult novels and other bildungsroman in an effort to reduce teen vandalism of these vulnerable pages, provide students with an authentic writing assignment, and reduce the stigma that Wikipedia should never be used for any purpose in high school. The project will begin on March 5, 2013, and end on May 15, 2013. This project was presented at the AACE-Ed Media Conference in 2009 and at the National Council of Teachers of English Conference in 2012. The project page can be found here.

Readings in Informational Sociology, Hanyang University, Korea, Spring 2013

Details of the course are at Wikipedia:School and university projects/User:Piotrus/Spring 2013. The course is run by User:Piotrus (acting both as the instructor and Wikipedia ambassador).

Rishi Valley School, India (June to September) 2013

Students will improve (or create) articles of relevance as part of a project that involves research, evaluation of sources, critical reading, learning writing and editing. Hands-on training session and online support by User:Shyamal and course coordinated by Dr. Kaustubh Rau.

University of the Philippines Open University Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Studies Program (July 2013)

Students under the MMS 130 course (Information and Communications Technology for Development) are tasked to create a Wikipedia page on distance eLearning, focusing on how it works, how it started, its different learning approaches, its strengths and weaknesses and the current issues and solutions related to it.

University of South Florida

Students in the Fall 2013 Public History course at the University of South Florida are creating a Wikipedia page for the American Civil War Sesquicentennial.

Students in the Fall 2013 LIS 5937 Wikipedia and Knowledge Management course at the University of South Florida are editing and creating Wikipedia pages on a variety of Library Science and Florida topics as part of the coursework.