Talk:Federal Writers' Project – Life Histories/2020/Summer II

Approach
The biggest issue I am seeing is students trying to create and post their entire article all at once rather than a step at a time. At a minimum, they need to create the page first, and then add their content. They may also find they need a few edits before they can post any links.

Something to consider (and English isn't my field) is whether you want future students to continue to follow the write-then-publish model, or if you want them to approach it more wiki-like, where they publish as they go and the page we see is a work in progress until its done. Our edit filters are designed for the work-in-progress approach. We could adjust that for this project, but it would open the project up to more vandalism and spamming.

Let's try to coordinate a bit more before the next semester assignment. Thanks for using Wikiversity for this effort! It really is a great example of what David Wiley refers to as assignments that add value to the world. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 16:51, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help! this was a new assignment for my class and it's been a high learning curve for my students, who have had just under 2 weeks to finish it. I'll have students set up wiki accounts early on in the semester and have them work on it a little bit at a time next time. - Trisha

Thanks for all of your help on this. And yes, I'll touch base a few weeks before we do this again. This is our first time teaching this class entirely online and asynchronous, so we're still working out the kinks. In the semester, they certainly compose part of it on the wiki itself, but with the rush of the summer they seemed to all compose first and then cut and paste. For now, I think we've got them all on the right track.--Michael rocki01