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- Course name
- 3,000 Years of Jewish History
- Institution
- Chapman University
- Instructor
- Shira Klein
- Wikipedia Expert
- Shalor (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Jewish History
- Course dates
- 2017-01-31 00:00:00 UTC – 2017-05-22 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 20
Who are the Jews? When did their history begin? Through this course you will learn about Jewish history from antiquity to the present day. Every week we will look at a select period or event in Jewish history. We’ll roam the globe, from the Mediterranean to Eastern Europe, from Iran to France.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 31 January 2017 | Thursday, 2 February 2017
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 7 February 2017 | Thursday, 9 February 2017
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 14 February 2017 | Thursday, 16 February 2017
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 21 February 2017 | Thursday, 23 February 2017
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 28 February 2017 | Thursday, 2 March 2017
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 7 March 2017 | Thursday, 9 March 2017
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 14 March 2017 | Thursday, 16 March 2017
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 21 March 2017 | Thursday, 23 March 2017
- Assignment - Wiki 1
- Learning how to edit Wikipedia
- Create a user account: If you followed the link on Blackboard, you already created a user account.
- Enroll in our course: If you followed the link on Blackboard, you are already enrolled. You can confirm this by scrolling up this page and choosing the Students tab and making sure you are on it. If not, click the blue Enrollment button and use the passcode dyzolvhx
- While you are still logged in with your username, complete the training modules for this assignment (Wikipedia Essentials and Editing Basics), links below.
- When you are still logged in, leave a message on the Talk page of a classmate. How? Click on a username from enrolled students list; on upper left corner of their user page, just under the title "User Contributions," select Talk tab. On upper right, select Edit tab. Add your sentence at the bottom of editable box. Keep it anonymous and neutral (e.g. “Hi, I’m a new Wikipedia user”). At the end of your sentence, add 4 tildes Chapmansh (talk) 20:00, 5 June 2017 (UTC). That ties the contribution to your username, like a signature.
- When you are still logged in, go to “Sandbox” in upper right corner. Experiment in your Sandbox, with the help of the Editing training module you just completed. In your Sandbox, write:
- One regular sentence (anything you want, but nothing personal or offensive)
- One heading
- One sub-heading
- A link to another Wikipedia page (any page)
- Words in bold and italics
- A list of references in which you have at least one footnote containing a reference (you can use a book we’re reading in class)
NOTE: this should be a Wikipedia-generated footnote & reference list, following the instructions in the Editing training module.
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 28 March 2017 | Thursday, 30 March 2017
- Assignment - Wiki 2 - Reading Summary
"Wiki 2" Wikipedia Assignment – Reading Summary
From the reading-list handout, select a theme that interests you and do the reading listed beneath it. Submit a summary of 200-300 words of the reading you chose. You will eventually (not this week!) hunt around for a Wikipedia article on a topic related to one of these themes, and improve it using the reading you chose.
E.g. if you’re interested in the return of Jews to Judaea after the exile to Babylon, you would read Schiffman’s chapter, listed in the handout. Then you would later hunt around for a Wikipedia article – perhaps “Second Temple” or "History of the Jews in Iran" – and use Schiffman’s chapter to improve that article.
For this week, all you need to do is the summary.
Note: If you’re interested in reading on a topic not covered in our syllabus and therefore not listed in the handout, please meet with instructor to receive more guidance.
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 4 April 2017 | Thursday, 6 April 2017
- Assignment - "Wiki 3" Planning your edits -- Oral Assignment
- Complete the training module for this assignment (Evaluating Articles and Sources), link below.
- Hunt around Wikipedia for a topic related to our course material which you, with the help of the secondary source you read last week, can improve. This could be an article that is lacking key information, an article that is wrong, or an article that lacks references.
Note: you may use readings from the syllabus too, but you must also use one of the extra readings from the handout.
Note: if the article you choose is very long (e.g. "Holocaust" or "Bible"), you should only commit to working on a section of it, and clarify what that section is. Don’t commit to working on an entire article if it is long, because you will be overwhelmed by the task. - Sign up for that article by visiting the 'Students' tab of this website while logged in, and finding your name in the list of students.
- Come to class prepared to give a very short presentation – 1 minute long – on:
- Why that article is problematic.
- How you will use the secondary source from the handout to solve some of the problems. What you will do to make the article better. Will you correct content? Add content? Both?
Aim for an addition / correction of between 100 and 300 words, not including references.
Remember: Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a place for primary-source analysis or primary research. On the rationale behind this rule, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 11 April 2017 | Thursday, 13 April 2017
- Assignment - "Wiki 4" Planning your edits -- Written Assignment
After sharing your idea in class, you may have chosen to do the assignment with a classmate (up to 2 students per assignment). You may have changed your plan following my feedback or after hearing other students. You may have met with me to get help with planning your edits. All of these are fine, as long as you update your article choice in the 'Students' tab of this website.
In this assignment, write a short essay (1-2 pages) answering the same questions as above: * Which article you chose. * Why that article is problematic. * Which secondary source from our course you will use to solve some of the problems. What you will do to make the article better. Will you correct content? Add content? Both?
In this assignment, specify the page numbers from the secondary sources you plan to use.
Aim for an addition / correction of between 100 and 300 words, not including references.
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 18 April 2017 | Thursday, 20 April 2017
- Assignment - "Wiki 5" Inform the Wikipedia Community
- Complete the training module for this assignment (Sources and Citations), link below.
- By now you have received substantive feedback from me and have a clear idea of what you will edit. The next stage is to inform the Wikipedia community of your plans.
- In the article’s Talk Page, write several sentences on what you intend to do.
- Be detailed regarding what needs adding, what needs correcting, and what sources you'll add. State your exact references (not "The Stillman-Cohen debate" or a Blackboard URL, because nobody outside of our class will know what you mean).
- Be courteous (not "this article is rambling" but "this article could use some clarification").
- Be neutral (not “this is biased and I’m going to fix it,” which suggests you have the opposite bias – but rather “there is wrong or missing information here and I’m going to correct or add it”).
- End your plan with an invitation to other Wiki editors to weigh in on your changes, e.g. “If anyone wants to comment on these changes, please let me know on this Talk Page or on my Talk Page.” Make sure you do this while you’re logged in, and sign after your post (Chapmansh (talk) 20:00, 5 June 2017 (UTC)).
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 25 April 2017 | Thursday, 27 April 2017
Week 14
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 May 2017 | Thursday, 4 May 2017
- Assignment - "Wiki 6" Improve the article or article section
- Complete the training module for this assignment (Sandboxes and Mainspace), link below.
- Improve the Wikipedia article you chose. It’s recommended to use your Sandbox first, preview what you’ve done, and then copy and paste from Sandbox into the article.
- If you are expanding an existing article, copy your edit into the article. If you are making many small edits, save after each edit before you make the next one. Do NOT paste over the entire existing article, or large sections of the existing article.
- If you are creating a new article, write the article in your Sandbox, and follow these instructions on how to move it out of your Sandbox: Moving out of Your Sandbox
Grading Rubric:
Improvement (20 points)
____ I have incorporated all of the instructor’s comments on my previous Wiki assignments
Use of Evidence (20 points)
____ I have used a secondary source from the readings handout and provided a full reference to it
____ When drawing on secondary source, I have paraphrased, i.e. I’ve used my own words
____ I have footnoted everything I paraphrased (no need to footnote each sentence, 1 per parag is fine)
Substantive Contribution (20 points)
____ I made a real difference by correcting misinformation and/or adding crucial information
____ My contribution ranges between 100 and 300 words
Relevant Argumentation (20 points)
____ All the information I pull out of my secondary sources is directly relevant to the Wikipedia article
____ I stick to what I can prove and avoid generalizing (“All Jews did XYZ…”) or judging ("Unfortunately...")
Style (20 points)
____ I avoid quotes or minimize them to very short extracts. Quotes never stand alone.
____ In the section I chose to edit, I corrected all sloppy writing, typos, grammar mistakes, run-on sentences, slang, and tense confusions, even those that had been made by previous Wikipedians.
- Assignment - "Wiki 7" Reflection paper on your Wiki experience
Write a 1-3 page reflection paper. Some questions to think about: * What did you learn from this project? * What surprised you about this project? * Did your Wikipedia submission differ from your initial plans? Why? * Did other Wikipedia users edit your submission? Did you agree with those edits? Were you happy or upset at those edits? * If you had to give advice to someone about to take this class, what tips would you give them about the Wikipedia assignment?
In your reflection paper, include the number of average views your article gets per month or per day. How do you feel about writing something that gets viewed that number of times? [Find out those stats by going to the article you edited, clicking "Page Information" from the menu on the left, scrolling down, and clicking "Page View Statistics"]