Join us for a 90 minute webinar about teaching with Wikipedia. Put together by Laurie Bridges, OSU Librarian; Diana Park, OSU Librarian; Tiah Edmunson-Morton, OSU Archivist; and featuring short presentations by Stacey Smith, OSU Associate Professor in History; and Kristy Kelly, Assistant Director of Writing and OSU Instructor.

Demystifying the process behind Wikipedia assignments, attendees will have the opportunity to find out more about how assignments can be conducted in their own field. Too often Wikipedia is framed as something to be avoided, to be “consumed at your peril”. At Oregon State University we flip this on its head, and see Wikipedia as learning technology, reimagining it away from something passively consumed to something our staff and students can positively contribute to, to improve global understanding on the most public of digital platforms as active engaged digital citizens, and gain a lot from as a teaching and learning experience as a result.

In a recent survey 97% of instructors have said they would teach with Wikipedia again while Wiki Education assignments have also been shown to improve student writing and the learning and teaching within the curriculum.  Importantly, students are motivated to communicate their scholarship in a real-world application of teaching and learning for an audience of not just one, their instructor, but a worldwide audience of millions. Sharing knowledge, building understanding for the common good.

(Thanks to Ewan McAndrew and the University of Edinburgh for giving us permission to reuse this text (CC-BY) - and for inspiring the event!)

Join us for all or part of this two-part webinar. This event is free and registration is required (left toolbar).

3:00 - 3:40 A brief overview of three OSU classes that have been taught using Wikipedia assignments. In each of these classes students were required to create or substantially add to Wikipedia articles.

• Stacey Smith, Associate Professor, History
  • HST 310 - The Historian's Craft. A study of the practice as well as theory of historical work. Combines training in reading, writing, and thinking historically with a survey of the development of history, philosophies of history, types and use of historical evidence, varieties of historical investigation, and factors that influence the writing of history.
• Kristy Kelly, Instructor and Assistant Director of Writing
  • WR 303  - Writing for the Web. Concerns the production of instructive, informative, and rhetorically savvy writing for Web-based locations and applications. Helps people find information, get things done, convey their opinions, build communities, and collaborate on complex projects.
• Laurie Bridges and Diana Park, OSU Librarians
  • H 407 - Wikipedia: Universally shared, edited by whom? How are articles created, edited, and by whom? In this class we consider Wikipedia's place in society as we work to create new content and address knowledge gaps. 

3:45 - 4:30 Hands on workshop

Stay for this part of the webinar to do hands-on work with Wikipedia. We'll create an account (if you don't have one), explore the features of Wikiedu.org, and do some minor editing.