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    Exercise 1: Collaborative History Writing

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    This document outlines an exercise for students to collaboratively rewrite and improve existing Wikipedia articles. Students are instructed to: 1. Work in pairs to identify an article relevant to the course topic that needs updating or additional perspectives added. 2. Familiarize themselves with the article's development history and work to improve it over a period of time by adding references and sources. 3. Document the editing process by taking screenshots and writing a description. 4. Submit a PDF or HTML document by the deadline summarizing their contributions and the collaborative history writing process.

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    This document outlines an exercise for students to collaboratively rewrite and improve existing Wikipedia articles. Students are instructed to: 1. Work in pairs to identify an article relevant to the course topic that needs updating or additional perspectives added. 2. Familiarize themselves with the article's development history and work to improve it over a period of time by adding references and sources. 3. Document the editing process by taking screenshots and writing a description. 4. Submit a PDF or HTML document by the deadline summarizing their contributions and the collaborative history writing process.

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    This document outlines an exercise for students to collaboratively rewrite and improve existing Wikipedia articles. Students are instructed to: 1. Work in pairs to identify an article relevant to the course topic that needs updating or additional perspectives added. 2. Familiarize themselves with the article's development history and work to improve it over a period of time by adding references and sources. 3. Document the editing process by taking screenshots and writing a description. 4. Submit a PDF or HTML document by the deadline summarizing their contributions and the collaborative history writing process.

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    This document outlines an exercise for students to collaboratively rewrite and improve existing Wikipedia articles. Students are instructed to: 1. Work in pairs to identify an article relevant to the course topic that needs updating or additional perspectives added. 2. Familiarize themselves with the article's development history and work to improve it over a period of time by adding references and sources. 3. Document the editing process by taking screenshots and writing a description. 4. Submit a PDF or HTML document by the deadline summarizing their contributions and the collaborative history writing process.

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    Exercise 1

    Collaborative History Writing


    brief
    • Find a pair for yourself.
    • Identify one Wikipedia article that is in need
    of an intervention: rewriting, expanding or adding
    multiple points-of-view.
    • We suggest to concentrate on a topic relevant
    to this course and to avoid ‘people’ and
    artefacts and other undisputable items
    – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush
    – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3
    – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipod
    more suitable examples
    Themes, concepts

    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_computing
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_cinema

    Try to find something which You are interested, already


    know something, or just want to find out about.
    Approach
    • Familiarize yourself with the development of the article, from
    “Recent changes” and “Discussion”. Try to identify and document
    the possible point(s)-of-view of the previous writers of the text,
    and figure out, how the text can be improved.
    • Write contributions to the article over the given period of time.
    (ie. not in one day). Complement the article with references and
    sources.
    • Document with screen shots, the evolution of the article. Follow
    the process.
    • IMPORTANT:
    If the article is very bad quality or passive, and during the time of
    the intervention, no-one else contributes or discusses the text with
    you, please, try to activate the article by inviting other people to
    contribute, people from Media Lab, previous contributors to
    article, friends, colleagues, etc.
    Deliverable
    • Make a PDF or HTML document which
    contains screenshots and written description of
    the process and activities.
    • To find a way to present your contributions to
    others, explore the tools MediaWiki offers
    (Recent changes, discussion, etc.) to document
    the process and result.
    • Length max. five A4 papers.
    Timetable
    • 12.10.2006: Brief given
    • 31.10.2006: Participants announce their article
    – Post your topic to the Media Lab intranet forum as a reply to
    the thread on the forum, url of the article + team names.
    – A list of the selected articles will also turn up as a blog post in
    the course blog.
    • 7.11.2006: Deliver the article
    – send the PDF or link to HTML document as in an e-mail to
    [email protected] before 16:00
    • 9.11.2006: Ending the 1st exercise
    – debriefing
    – looking through the articles, general discussion about exercise,
    wiki, history writing, etc.

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