H-Net - Learn How Faculty are Improving Knowledge Equity and Access by Running a Wikipedia Assignment - 2021-10-06

H-Announce Learn How Faculty are Improving Knowledge Equity and Access by Running a Wikipedia Assignment Announcement published by Helaine Blumenthal on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 Type: Event Date: November 2, 2021 Location: United States • Title: First Hand Perspectives on Running a Wikipedia Assignment • When: November 2, 2021 at 2:00 PM Pacific • Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIud-qhpjMqH9D-djeeCzZXtX76XGa • Description: In this panel, you'll hear from three different instructors who have incorporated Wikipedia assignments into their courses The Wikipedia assignment is a simple, but powerful concept Students contribute to Wikipedia as an assignment in their course and get to work that really matters They gain critical digital literacy skills all while improving Wikipedia's coverage in a range of fields Heidi Schutz is Associate Professor of Biology at Pacific Lutheran University Katie Holt is Associate Professor of History; Latin American Studies; Global and International Studies Department Chair; Liaison to Digital and Visual Storytelling Pathway at the College of Wooster, and Tobias Fischer is Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico Join us as these three faculty discuss their different experiences running Wikipedia assignments in their courses The program will be moderated by Helaine Blumenthal, Senior Program Manager at Wiki Education To learn more about running a Wikipedia assignment, sign up at teach.wikiedu.org Contact Info: Helaine Blumenthal Contact Email: helaine@wikiedu.org URL: http://teach.wikiedu.org Citation: Helaine Blumenthal Learn How Faculty are Improving Knowledge Equity and Access by Running a Wikipedia Assignment HAnnounce 10-06-2021 https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8506467/learn-how-faculty-are-improving-knowledge-equity-and-access Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License