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Wikinews Education
Education
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This orientation for educators using Wikinews editing as a class assignment consists of four main modules:
- Welcome, a short introduction;
- The Core, an overview of Wikinews's core principles;
- News writing, a tutorial on the basic mechanics of news writing and communicating with reviewers; and
- Classroom, a walkthrough of best practices and examples for using Wikinews assignments in the classroom. In total, the four modules should take about one to one-and-a-half hours to read.
- Course pages, instructions for requesting user rights, setting up course pages, and using them.
Welcome
The Core
Article writing
- 1: Editing Wikinews
- 2: Getting started
- 3: Basic tasks
- 4: Creating accounts
- 5: Starting an article
- 6: Article started
- 7: Text editing: ''Italics'' and {{w|links}}
- 8: Citing your sources
- 9: Formatting articles
- 10: Wikinews writing and the inverted pyramid
- 11: How do I use talk pages?
- 12: My watchlist and how to use it
- 13: My watchlist 2
- 14: The Wikinews Community
- 15: The Review Process
- 16: Tips for effective discussion
Classroom
- 1: Using Wikinews in your classroom
- 2: About the classroom module
- 3: Classroom topics
- 4: Companion materials and resources
- 5: Goals to consider when designing your assignment
- 6: Writing skills development
- 7: Writing skills development 2
- 8: Media and information fluency
- 9: Media and information fluency 2
- 10: Critical thinking and research skills
- 11: Critical thinking and research skills 2
- 12: Collaboration and community of practice
- 13: Collaboration and community of practice 2
- 14: Technical and communication skills
- 15: Technical and communication skills 2
- 16: Tips for grading students' Wikinews contributions
Course pages