1. Wikipedia Redux: Using Wikipedia in One-Shots and Credit Courses
LILAC June 7, Monica Berger
New York City College of Technology

2. I’m obsessed

3. with how I can teach with Wikipedia

4. Wikipedia and one-shots

5. What I’ve done in the past/ English Comp I and II
No true active learning
Lots of show and discuss
“bridge to the library” transition to OneSearch … implicit and explicit but often implicit

6. Show + discuss
Show and discuss
Google results box
Stubs and “citation needed” pages
“choice of language” for title of page vs. how we searched for it
“take a knee” is covered under “U.S. national anthem protests (2016–present)” in Wikipedia
Introduction and organization of page via table of contents
Attribution  Citations and bibliography
The “talk” tab
Who contributes and why
Open conversations/debates about knowledge creation
Categories
Ratings of the article found under CATEGORIES!!!
(The view history tab) usually not
The editorial process
Popular topics … why Wikipedia
CC BY 2.0 by UWGB Cofrin Library

7. What I’ve done in the past/ English Comp I and II
Tricky to discuss big topics like authority

8. What I’ve done in the past/ credit course
Compare Brooklyn Bridge article to Ken Burns film they just saw (only as discussion)
Digging deeper into ratings in CATEGORIES
Stubs to show weak articles
Click hyperlink for stub  pick architecture for e.g.s
Ask students why the e.g. is a stub
Students explore their own stubs
Reflective journaling

9. What I would do differently
Learning Places (interdisciplinary course)
Compare Brooklyn Bridge Wikipedia article to Ken Burns film they just saw (only as discussion)
 Activity sheet with questions to guide them or simple worksheet to respond and hand in to instructor

10. Learning Places Unit fall 2019
Reflections
Group work on Wikipedia rubric (AL)
Fuller connection to OneSearch/library resources
Encyclopedia of NYC article on neighborhood, one newspaper article from Wikipedia
compare and contrast
T-s-p on Wikipedia vs. library

11. Learning Places Unit fall 2019
New idea
Active learning with worksheet to evaluate and “audit” references
Gives students a sense of what kind of research can be done on a neighborhood
Break into teams
Assign citations by NOTE number in Wikipedia article

12. Type of source? Could involve counting how many of each in team efforts
For Learning Places, helps students get a sense of the kind of data one uses for place-based research
Book
Newspaper article
Magazine article
Website
Blog post
Social media Government information: data
Other source: data
Author of source (who wrote it?)
Academic/professor
Journalist
Non-professional writer
Creative (artist, musician, etc.)
Anonymous (no author given)
Other (explain)
Currency (how up to date) of source
Current
Not current
Not sure (explain)
Authority of source
Original research Cites original research
Uses other evidence
Creative work: evidence not needed

13. Full teaching of Learning Places, Spring 2020
Lighter
Media  Wikipedia
Heavier
High-stakes class project, editing a page

14. 50 minute black box English comp one-shot activity
Modified version of worksheet for Learning Places?
Finding known items (books and newspaper articles) found in Wikipedia in ONESEARCH
Using the rubric in "talk" and looking at different graded articles

15. Your Wikipedia activities in one-shots?

16. thank you Monica Berger mberger@citytech.cuny.edu
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