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    Apologies if I missed a thread on this. We're reassessing our 1 credit library online research and information literacy course and I'm looking to walk the talk and incorporate open pedagogy practices. The final assignment is an annotated bibliography that we encourage students to use as groundwork for other research focused courses.
    Besides that, does anyone have non-disposable assignments for info literacy? We're thinking having students edit Wikipages as step in the right direction. Since it's an on-line class, we're not necessarily building that week's assignment as a wiki edit-a-thon.  
    Any suggestions are much appreciated.

    Perhaps students (individually or in groups) could each pick a library database and create either a written guide about the features, resources, and idiosyncrasies of that particular database, or they could create a video tour of the database using screen capture tools like Screencast-O-Matic or other campus-provided screen capture software. The best of the guides/videos could be posted on your library's website, and then subsequent classes could add to them or improve them.

    For Wikipedia assignment ideas and additional assistance, you can reach out to the Wiki Education Foundation. They are very responsive and helpful: https://wikiedu.org/contact-us/   
    Here are some links to assignment ideas, tutorials, links to course pages with assignment ideas, etc: - https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Resources  
    - https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training
    At LaGuardia Community College, we have worked with a number of English writing classes using Wikipedia assignments. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions about this (Contact: Ann Matsuuchi, ann.matsuuchi@gmail.com ). 

    I wanted to send along a few links to the resources we have here at Wiki Education. As a reminder, these resources are for instructors who would like to assign their students to edit Wikipedia as part of a classroom assignment. Please feel free to pass these along to any friends or colleagues at your university or others in the United States and Canada who you think may be looking for new ways to engage their students. 
    1. Resources for instructors: specifically, take a look at the "Case Studies" handbook and any relevant subject-specific resources in case you didn't get copies, the PDFs of which are available online here. 
    2. Our online Dashboard: as I mentioned, the Dashboard is a tool we built to help you track your students' work on Wikipedia, provide access to our online trainings and assignment timeline, and more. To take a look, visit dashboard.wikiedu.org. If you log in and create a Wikipedia username for yourself, you'll be able to review our newly-updated online orientation for new instructors. 
    3. Sample project timelines: If you think you'd like to try and draft an assignment for a future course, you'll need to first do the orientation, and then use our online assignment design wizard to create your course page. To do so, just click the purple "Create course" button once you complete the online training. 
    You can view a sample 9-week project timeline from fall 2017 here. This template can be adjusted and customized anywhere from 6-weeks to a semester long project. 
    While there, don't forget to look at the "Timeline" tab for a weekly look at how the project is progressing, the "Students" tab for a look at all the students enrolled and what articles they are working on during the assignment, and the "Articles" tab for a list of all the articles the students touched "live" already this term. If you drop down a row in the "Students" tab you can also see edit summaries of each student edit on Wikipedia, and if use the assessment tools on the "Articles" tab you can look at the cumulative changes students have made to the article throughout the course of the assignment.  
    4. Next steps: As you browse our resources, let me know what questions you have. I'm here to help and can answer questions via phone, Skype, or email at any time. 
    If you do plan to run a Wikipedia project with your students this spring or potentially in the coming terms, please email me back with the following information:

    Course name;
    Term you want to try the assignment in;
    Enrollment cap;
    Course level (freshman, senior, graduate, etc);

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