GNED 1515 – Assignment 3 – Wikiography
***DRAFT***
This assignment may be completed by an individual or as a group of 2-4 students
– your choice.
Assignment 3 is due to DC Connect
Dropbox by 11 pm on Sunday, March 30.
Step
1: Join the Wiki
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You will be sent a link to your preferred email
address inviting you to join a new Wiki created for this course. If you didn’t receive the email invite,
request it by emailing your teacher.
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In the email invite click accept to join the
wiki: watch this video on How To Join a Wiki in
Wikispaces (2:01) and follow the instructions.
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This collaborative
wiki will be publicly available.
Step 2: Select and Reserve a Topic
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Topic reservations are on a first-come,
first-serve basis.
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Go to the wiki to view available topics (there’s
over 60 topics so far). You will see
that each topic has two spaces for reservations – once both reservations are
filled, that topic is no longer available for others.
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If you have an idea for a topic that is not on
the list, email your teacher to make a request.
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Watch this video How to Reserve a Topic in Wikispaces
(2:15) and follow the instructions to reserve your topic.
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Your topic reservation is due by 11 pm on Sunday, March 16.
Pictured: Partial List of Available Topics
Step 3: Research and Add Wiki Contribution Content
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Once you’ve reserved your topic, your teacher
will create a wiki page for you to submit content. Your wiki page will have specific sections
with headings and questions.
Pictured: Sample Student Wiki Page showing section
headings and questions
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If there are two reservations for your topic,
there will be two separate wiki pages (one for you, and one for another student). Make sure that your wiki page has different
content than the other student submission for your topic (this is also
first-come, first-serve).
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Add content to complete your wiki page:
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All research should be easy-to-read, clearly
organized, and detailed.
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Each content item should be introduced with an
explanatory sentence describing the content.
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Include references to course content and
terminology.
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Use complete sentences – spelling and grammar
will be marked.
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Include 3 videos.
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Include 3 websites.
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Include 3 images (make sure you cite your
sources for these images).
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Under the Critical
Thinking and Skepticism section of your wiki page, include your own unique
insights about how your topic research relates to critical thinking and
skepticism. For example, if your topic
is Astrology, you could upload a video that debunks Astrology and then state specifically
how critical thinking and skepticism are apparent in the video. Here’s another example: for the topic Dangers of Pseudoscience, you
could upload a website with an example of a danger, and then state specifically
how critical thinking and skepticism are absent.
o
Under the Future
Possibilities section of your wiki page, include your own unique insights
about possibilities for the future within your topic area. For example, you could include insights about
things like research ideas to prove or disprove a pseudoscience, projects that
could advance our knowledge, or how we could advance education on pseudoscience
or critical thinking. These insights
should be related to your topic.
o
Under the Research
Reflections section of your wiki page, answer these questions:
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What did you learn about the topic that most
surprised you?
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Provide a real-life example of how this topic is
relevant or interesting for you.
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Which research did you find most
interesting? Why?
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What are you most likely to remember from this
research?
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Include your sources in full (include URL links
wherever possible, and cite other types of resources).
You will be marked for completing the required
instructions above. Your grade will also include marks for:
- The overall organization –
make sure it’s easy to read, follows a logical order, and flows well.
- The overall design – make
sure it’s appealing for the reader (looks good), spend some time resizing
content and adding to the visual appearance.
- Include sources in full. The
mechanics of your writing will be assessed (spelling, grammar, writing
errors).
- The
quality of your content, comments, descriptions, and responses will be
assessed:
o For every item you add create your own summary comments to
introduce the item and describe how it’s relevant and significant.
o Include multiple references to
course content/terminology.
o Clearly state your own unique
insights about how you applied critical thinking and skepticism.
o Include
insights about any limitations/flaws and suggest possible improvements/future
research.
Watch this video on How to Add Content to a Page
in Wikispaces (8:53) to learn how to add different types of content (video
links, website links, images, text).
Also watch this video on How to Backup my Wiki Work to
Microsoft Word (2:06), and be sure to make regular backups so you don’t
lose any of your work.
Step 4 –
Create your Wikiography and Submit
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Create a duplicate copy of your wiki page in
Microsoft Word by following the instructions in this video How to Backup my Wiki Work to
Microsoft Word (2:06). This backup
will be your Wikiography file.
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Submit your Wikiography in DC Connect in Dropbox. If you haven’t used Dropbox before, watch
this video on How to Use Dropbox in DC Connect (1:41) and another video on How to Use DC Connect (4:58) - note dropbox is covered
from 2:45-3:57.
Here’s
the “How To” videos again:
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How to Use Dropbox in DC Connect (1:41) and another video on How to Use DC Connect (4:58) - note dropbox is covered
from 2:45-3:57
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