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=CIVIL WAR WIKIS= UPDATE **Tuesday May 11, 2010: Make sure you collaborate on at least TWO other wikis. The collaboration must follow the guidelines below (in bullets). As of Tuesday afternoon only a handful of you have done this and mostly only for one other wiki. Please make sure you ALL meet this deadline because the final deadline for the whole project is this FRIDAY.**

__Days Six and Seven: May 6 & 7, 2010__ We are now going to complete the rest of the project at home. Reminder: Ms. Brooks has a lot of books on the Civil War pulled out onto a special cart for you. Try to take a few minutes during a study hall to get there and see what works for you.

For Monday (by the beginning of school): Finish in draft form 5 of your 6 sections. Also, ensure that pictures and integrated into the text on the right or left, you have a table of contents and a bibliography at the bottom that is in the correct MLS format - use easybib.com if you need to.

For Wednesday: Add content to at least two other pages: Look in the discussion sections of each page for ideas but in general ideas include:
 * Add a 7th section, of your own making, similar in length to the other six sections
 * Add a paragraph of your own research to an existing section of a wiki
 * Add a table, pie chart, or some other self created visual

For Friday (May 14, 2010): Final draft due by class (can work on it in study hall that day). Your final draft should have all six or your original sub topics complete. Spelling and grammar should be checked. Bibliography present and in MLS format. Double check the rubric to see you have everything. Presentations will begin on that Friday by volunteers first.

__Day Five: May 5, 2010__ This is our final scheduled day as a class in the tech lab. Many of you are still in the midst of organizing your page while completing new notes and research. For a reminder on page organization, see the assignment details in Day Four, May 3, 2010.

Tasks to complete today during class and for homework by Thursday:
 * Comment in the discussion section of two other wikis - take a few minutes to look through and see what they can work on
 * Ensure that you have met all the requirements from the previous assignments
 * Continue to use tech lab time to build your wiki - open ended
 * For homework, add several notes or a paragraph in your own discussion section on what others in class can do to add content to your page. Soon, you will all be asked to add SOME CONTENT to at least two other wikis of your choosing. This will be part of your grade. How much content you will add is up to you - emphasis on the word //some.//
 * Ideas could include adding to a existing subtopic or creating a new (7th) subtopic.

__Day Four: May 3, 2010__ Progress Report: Many of you need to reorganize your page. Put a topic main heading at the top. Below that have all six (or more) or your sub-topics. To the right place your pictures, make them small and put captions on them. At the very bottom, after all content, place your bibliography. After the bibliography, have your attached notes. You want these to be highly organized final products. Some of you still have not met the requirements from days one through three.

Tasks to complete today and for homework for Wednesday.
 * Add in "other media component." Examples include a self-created video or audio file, a video or audio file from the web (that works and is highly relevant, a hyperlink to an external website or someone's wikispace project.
 * Insert a table of contents (use the widget button in the edit mode).
 * Complete a rough draft to at least 3 of your sub-topics by Wednesday.

__Day Three: April 30, 2010__ Progress Report: Many of you have not met the minimum requirements detailed below. For both of these assignments below, you have received a homework grade out of 5 points. Only a few of you earned full credit last night. DO NOT FALL BEHIND ON THIS PROJECT. Because I monitor nightly progress, you do not have the ability to procrastinate on this assignment. Tasks to complete today and for homework over the weekend:
 * Add a discussion post to at least two different students first thing today. Remind them what they are missing and give them constructive criticism to work with. Also, suggest ideas that might work either in content or in layout/design.
 * Make sure you have met ALL of the requirements listed in Days One and Two (most of you haven't)
 * By Monday complete one of the additional media requirements for the project:
 * To have at least one **graphic visual** other than a picture. This visual **must** be self created. Examples include a basic timeline, diagram, drawing, or chart of statistics, pie chart, hand drawn or computer generated map, etc. These can be created using wikispaces (table), excel, word, iphoto, etc.. The goal is to create rather then just use something someone else created.

__Day Two: April 29, 2010__ Tasks to complete today and for homework:
 * Create a bibliography section (similar to a wikipedia page). Cite three (3) reliable, vetted sources of information. These should come from the four (or more) sources we review today in class. Also, go the extra mile and include at least one primary source in your bibliography.
 * http://www.archives.gov/research/civil-war/index.html
 * http://www.loc.gov/topics/content.php?subcat=8
 * Upload at least one file of notes (word doc file). It might be helpful, if you are keeping notes on separate files, to give them specific names and dates to keep them better organized for yourself.
 * Complete detailed writing on at least one section of your project.
 * Find at least 3 images to add to your wiki. These need to be re-sized to small, placed on the side and captioned.

__Day One: April 28, 2010__ Your first task is accept the invitation from wikispaces and take note of our class wikispaces url address: billingshistory2010.wikispaces.com. Next, establish a "new page" and call it your first name+topic. It should appear in the menu bar to the left.

Then, you need to conduct just research today. Get familiar with the basics of your topic. Produce notes on your topic - typed and bulleted. Mrs. Brooks has put together a link to Civil War research on the MS Library website.

Also, you need to think of at least six sub-categories (will be homework for tomorrow) about your topic. This will look similar to the layout of a traditional wikipedia page.

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