Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination

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Welcome to WikiProject Classroom coordination!

Goals

Provide guidance to educators who incorporate Wikipedia writing assignments into their classrooms.
Encourage useful improvements to Wikipedia articles.
Foster positive educational experiences.
Familiarize instructors and students with site policies, guidelines, and customary standards.
Avoid negative experiences through proactive involvement.

Scope

The project covers all formal educational assignments to edit Wikipedia articles including primary, secondary, and university level classes.

Instructors

Please read the linked pages below. This project's volunteers offer guidance at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classroom coordination.
Please list projects at Wikipedia:School and university projects.

1 Members
2 Open tasks
3 Templates
4 Recognition and awards
5 Related projects
6 See also

[edit] Members

Durova (talk · contribs) Can help with history and writing. Durova^Charge! 18:37, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Sanchom (talk · contribs) Sancho 19:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Piotrus (talk · contribs) _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 19:58, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Nmajdan (talk · contribs) ↔NMajdan•talk 20:04, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
JoeSmack (talk · contribs) - love to help!
dave souza, talk 20:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC) dips toe in the water cautiously..
Ragesoss (talk · contribs) - see User:Ragesoss/Assignments and User:Ragesoss/HIST_236; I'm willing to help coordinate assignments or help find good potential projects within the humanities for individual students
Theo (Talk)
Mr.Z-man (talk · contribs) 04:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Alex Bakharev (talk · contribs) lets see if I could be useable Alex Bakharev 05:02, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Carom (talk · contribs) - I can assist with topics in history (especially modern history), gender and philosophy.
yandman (talk · contribs) - 08:17, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
1013-josh (talk · contribs) - I'm leading students in a research project in a freshman comp course. See my talk page to follow along & offer suggestions. 20:42, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Pharos (talk · contribs)
Sabine's Sunbird (talk · contribs) I notice that an upcoming project involves bird conservation, a field I also work in and can help with.
Titoxd (talk · contribs) - Interesting, from a student's perspective :)
Fbv65edel (talk · contribs) – Happy to help, especially as a student.
A.Ou (talk · contribs) - As a student happy to help, this idea is very interesting. Sometimes, Wikipedia is much more than an encyclopedia in the traditional sense.
WAvegetarian (talk · contribs) - As a student in a course utilizing Wikipedia and proponent of Wikipedia's use in the educational setting I would love to help out.
Geniac (talk · contribs) - I enjoy giving students guidance
Redlock (talk · contribs) - I'll help with pretty much anything, but I prefer to give students guidance.
Zesty Prospect 15:42, 24 April 2007 (UTC) - This will be a fun thing to do! Can't wait.
Freechild 18:49, 26 April 2007 (UTC) - Great move, and I look forward to actively participating.
Aude (talk · contribs) - I have numerous schools on my watchlist, from around my local area. School IPs often vandalize their own school articles, so that's how I often find them. I'm willing to try to work with specific schools and try different approaches than the usual 6-month block that gets issued. See User:Aude/schools for information and block history for these schools.
General Eisenhower (talk ·
Laleena (talk • contribs • count)Anything. Laleena^{talk to me contributions to Wikipedia} 21:27, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
contribs) 19:20, 27 July 2007 (UTC) sure.... why not?
Cbrown1023 talk
Thelmadatter Working with Wikipedia this semester (Fall 2007) with college-level advanced English as a foreign language students in Mexico. Also interested in Wikipedia clubs and academies... esp if this semester goes as well as I hope! Interested in contacting other teachers who have used Wikipedia and see how thier experiences were.
The Great Pumpkin King of Halloween: Planning on possibly organizing a project for my students this Fall 2007 quarter.
DGG (talk) 00:27, 12 September 2007 (UTC) I can help with library-related coordination and advice.
GumbyProf: "I'm about ideas, but I'm not always about good ideas." 00:35, 24 October 2007 (UTC) Can help with most anything, but I'm particularly interested in how to use Wikipedia to teach thinking.
Newyorkcityjay (talk · contribs) - aka TeacherJay
RedJ_17 (talk · contribs) Four instructors in my department are developing wiki classroom projects.
Mu301 (talk · contribs) Can help with astronomy and history of science. Also, coordination with Wikiversity --mikeu (talk) 15:28, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Here we go, Mercury 04:10, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Dr. Tom Mueller teaches a course entitled Soil Use and Management. This semester, the students are working on a Project where they are required to make submissions to Wikipedia.
--Michael White^T·C 04:12, 24 February 2008 (UTC) As a student interested in bringing web technologies into education, I'd love to help out.
phoebe (talk · contribs) is an academic librarian (specializing in science and engineering) with experience teaching Wikipedia at the college level. -- phoebe / (talk) 00:30, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
WTGDMan1986 (talk · contribs) is a college kid at heart and found this group easily after hearing game show contestants talking about attending college (mostly their senior year). Willing to help out as well. --DFW 20:58, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
IGuNny (talk · contribs) is a high school stundent interested in brining Wikipedia into the classroom and dispelling the rumor that Wikipedia has false information. Interested in history as well.
Ned Scott (talk · contribs) Not sure how much help I might be, but I'd be glad to do anything I can. -- Ned Scott 07:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Open tasks

Update Wikipedia:School and university projects.
Welcome professional academics. A list of planned assignments is available at Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects#Planned_projects.
1. Develop a welcome template for teachers and students.
Develop relevant templates and awards.
Those of us who thought or took part in wiki assignments can write about their experiences. This could be at some point a guide in wikipedia name space, or an article for a signpost (or even a wikibook...). See draft.
The introductory sections to SUP need a cleanup. Give them a shake
Suggested exercises. Are they feasible? Can we think of any others?
We should look at instruction pages of past projects and create a category for them as well. In case they are on user page we may want to create a page in project space where they'd be copied. This would allow easy browsing of exercises, and a read through them should be interesting in terms of compiling 'what is really being done' section or addition to suggested excercises.
Think about how to cooperate with Wikiversity.
There are quite a few educational projects that we don't list, because their creators didn't know about WP:SUP. They are possibly mentioned on user pages, talk pages or article pages. We should search for them and categorize appropriately.
Consider syntax for User:AlexNewArtBot that would detect new user pages and user talk pages with words like student, instructor, university, assignment...
Clean up current projects. University of Leiden, The Netherlands has no date. And what is 'Commonwealth of Learning's Wikieducator' doing there?
Clean up planned projects. What is their status?
Contact all identified instructors, ask them about their experiences, whether they will do it again, what help would they like. Make sure to ask them if we can quote them on site if using email.