Preservapedia:WikiProject Preservation Education/Assignments

Preservapedia can be implemented into graduate or undergraduate level coursework with this sample lesson plan for new article creation.

Module 1: Overview of Wiki role

 * Review the purpose of Preservapedia
 * What Preservapedia is Not and the Principles of Preservapedia are great places to start
 * Review copyright issues to avoid articles being deleted
 * Have students create Preservapedia accounts and go through the Getting Started Tutorial
 * Review WikiProject Preservation Education goals

Module 2: Article selection

 * Refer to the Open Tasks, or the Articles Wanted section on the Preservapedia homepage for inspiration, or pick a topic related to preservation issues covered in the coursework.
 * Have students review examples of existing articles and determine strengths and weaknesses
 * Students can also add images of written content to existing articles, rather than creating a new article, as a potential assignment or warm-up for creating a new article.

Module 3: Outline article

 * Just as with a standard research paper assignment, students should outline the content of their article(s), including citations

Module 4: Post information to Preservapedia

 * Once the article is live, Preservapedia administrators and community members, including other students in the class, will have the opportunity to review content and give feedback to students.

Module 5: In-class presentation of work

 * Presenters can use this as an opportunity to outline the issue for other students and gain feedback for the final article.
 * Using the "history" feature of Preservapedia articles, students will be able to discuss how the feedback from the Preservapedia community affected their article.