Hi Holly, I recently learned about the WikiMedia education project. Their goal is to encourage educators to use wikipedia in education to create, edit or critique existing articles as part of a course. They have list of courses that used wikipedia for one day copy editing or article critiquing exercises to a semester length research and write project. The list of courses is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli... More useful is the page on ideas on types of assignments: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Assignment_Design http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_as_a_Teaching_Tool:_Learning_Ob... This can be used to introduce wikis, collaborative writing and copyright issues, politics of creating knowlege - for example, Wikipedia's idea of neutral point of view and what it means for the kind of knowledge that is built this way, what is considered reliable resources etc. Just a thought. Not sure if there is a way to do this in an intersession course. Devayani On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Holly Kruse <holly.kruse@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm teaching a two-week long intersession short course called "Using Social Media" during spring intersession, and I'd love some ideas for assignments and topics to cover. It's not an online course. I've taught much more theoretical, historical, etc. semester-long courses on digital media/CMC, but this class is meant to be quite applied. I'm having the students read Nancy Baym's Personal Connections in the Internet Age and Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody, and the students will write a paper, but I need to fill three hours a day for two weeks, so any suggestions are most welcome!
Thanks,
Holly
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