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Click here to see the presentation that will be used for the 1st in-class presentation. This presentation will have to be updated if required.
These are the brochures that will distributed to the students. These will have to printed and counted to make sure that we have enough brochures to hand out to the students.
We'll have to make sure that there is a projector in the class.
The students will have to be informed about the first Wikipedia class in advance.
This class should be for at least an hour and a half.
The 1st in-class session will provide a brief overview of what is Wikipedia and how it works. Students will be taught about:
Introduction to Wikipedia - How does it work? who edits Wikipedia? Other Wiki projects, 5 pillars
Introduction to India Education Program - How does it work? What's in it for them?
Understanding anatomy of a Wikipedia article - Lead, TOC, Info box, Sections, References, External Links etc.
Understanding Wikipedia user interface - various tabs like - View History, Edit, Languages, Print, Search box etc.
Understanding talk pages and discussion pages
Understanding user contributions
Understanding how to create a Wikipedia user account and user page
Towards the end of the in-class session students will be asked to do the following before the next in-class session:
Create a Wikipedia user account
Create a Wikipedia user page
Add IEP template on their userpage
Provide their roll number, name, user id details on the course page
Provide their roll number, name, user id details in this Google document
Select an article they'd want to edit as a part of their assignment
Click here to see the presentation that will be used for 2nd in-class session. The presentation will have to be updated if required.
We'll have to count and check that all students have updated their information on the class page.
We'll have to count and check that all students have updated their information in the Google doc.
Only if all the students have completed their task from the first session that the second session will be conducted.
Assign students to CAs
Assign students to OAs
In the 2nd in-class session students will be taught about
Understanding & Creating Sandbox
Basic Editing
Wiki formatting
Adding references & citation
How to make the font bold & italics
How to insert numbered list
How to insert bulleted list
How to add headings
How to insert tables
How to add internal/external links
3. Support system provided to them:
Campus Ambassadors(CA)
Which Campus Ambassadors(CA) are allocated to them?
Online Ambassadors(OA)
Which Online Ambassadors(OA) are allocated to them?
How to get in touch with CAs i.e. sharing their usernames, mail ids, phone numbers, gtalk, skype ids etc.
How to get in touch with OAs i.e sharing their usernames, introducing IRC, introducing IRC office hours, protocol of chatting on IRC.
4. Protocol of writing on talk pages and discussion pages
Towards the end of the in-class session students will be asked to do the following before the next in-class session:
Create Sandbox
Try basic editing in Sandbox
Add Sandbox & article selection details on the course page
Get article approved by the professor
Leave a note on the talk page of their respective CAs & OAs
Log in to IRC
Click here for the presentation that will be used for 3rd in-class session. The presentation will have to be updated if required.
In this session students will be taught about:
Plagiarism
NPOV
Citation
Towards the end of the in-class session students will be asked to do the following before the next in-class session:
Start writing their article in the Sandbox (use wiki formatting, add reference, internal/external links)
Leave a note on their OA & CA talk page and request them to approve their Sandbox
No presentation will be used for the 4th in-class session.
Get an overview of how students are performing in their Sandbox.
Revise what was taught in the previous in-class sessions.
Prompt students to ask questions/ get their doubts clarified.
Towards the end of the in-class session:
Students who got approval from OAs/CAs will be asked to move their articles to main space
For those who are facing a lot of issues and continue editing in their Sandbox.
Students need same things to be revised multiple times before they understand the topic completely. Refresher sessions will give us the opportunity to revise all that has been taught in the previous classes and take any particular doubts students might have.