BJ Week 3 Follow-up
For your assignment this week please be sure to watch the Comedy Central video on Wikilobbying in addition to reading the two articles about Wikipedia linked on the Class Schedule.
This week’s assignments:
Blog & Wiki assignment 1: (NOTE: BECAUSE OF CHINESE NEW YEAR BJ STUDENTS HAVE UNTIL FRIDAY THE 23RD TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT. HOWEVER PLEASE NOTE WIKIPEDIA MAY BE DIFFICULT TO ACCESS FROM CHINA SO I RECOMMEND DOING THIS ASSIGNMENT BEFORE DEPARTING FOR THE MAINLAND IF YOU ARE GOING HOME.) Find a wikipedia page that relates to the subject that you are considering for your final project. Contribute to that page by adding or correcting information. Write a blog post describing what you did and linking to the specific edits you made. Or if there is no Wikipedia entry on the subject you are most interested in, try creating one and see what happens. Then describe what happened on your blog and link to the history pages that show the process. Answer the question: in what way was this journalism? Or was it something else and if so what?
Blog assignment 2: (DUE BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEK 4 CLASS.) These instructions are long but the assignment should not take long.) In class you started to use the “Hong Kong Stories” page on the class wiki to organize a list of your project topics, grouping yourselves together on similar topics. Go back to the wiki where you listed your name under a topic and link your name to your blog’s appropriate category page. If you are the only person working on a topic, create a Wiki page for that topic with any resources you would like to list on the subject. If you share a topic with several people, one of you can create a wiki page for the topic and and the others should add a sentence or two to the page with offering suggestions about how you might divide up and focus on different angles of that topic, or any other ideas about how you might work as a team. Write a brief blog post reporting that you have done these things, linking to the “Hong Kong Stories” page as well as the new topic-specific wiki page that you or your teammates have created. MJ and BJ students will be working together on the same wiki and will be sharing teams where appropriate.
