2010 Drakeapedia Class Assignments

|| || Date || Topic || Textbook Reading || Assignments - Due day of class || || 8/24 || Introduction - syllabus ; What is your experience with creating content - be it blogs, wiki, facebook, etc; Complete Knowledge Survey & Needs Assessment || || Start working on your autobiography - draft due 8/27 and revision due 9/2. Should include at least 1 photo || || 8/26 || Logging into wiki; setup accounts and look around it - include discussion of inserting photos/files on wiki || || || || 8/31 || Discuss readings related to Wikis & autobiographies/ biographies including difference in 1st & 3rd person writing ; Jessica Lang, First Year Advisor || articles on wiki and auto/biogrpahies || || || 9/2 || Activity - Look up historic items digitally & manually (Ex: TDs and Quax); Start reviewing the library resources including Heritage page; Discuss First Wiki Entry on Buildings: Ex: Cowles & Printers Marks; Howard Hall & Numbered sidewalk - agency files distributed to students || || Autobiography due via your individual wiki || || 9/7 || Library Orientation - scholarly research; Tour || || || || 9/9 || Library Orientation - con't; Checking historic perspective with more popular type print media (Review old journals ex: Life, Look, Time, Newsweek) || || || || 9/14 || Peer Evaluations; Reviewing assignment for the wiki entry due 9/16 || || || || 9/16 || Work day - submitting wiki entries - questions/concerns || || Wiki Entry 1 - Due - Building || || 9/21 || Drake Marketing Dept to discuss logo and potential places to include link on Drake web pages. || || || || 9/23 || How to add audio and video files to wiki; Distribute Biography Files for later assignment ; Discuss 2nd Wiki Entry on Organizations - Ex: TD reumor that Paul McCartney dead || || || || 9/28 || Exploring Oral Historys - dos/don'ts - write questions to ask alums & others associated with Drake || || || || 9/30 || Don Adams oral history || || || || 10/5 || Dean Eastman and Kevin McGarth - Primary Resources || || || || 10/7 || Where to find supporting 'stuff' (photos, maps, artifacts) - Mark Stumme || || Wiki Entry 2 - Due - Organizations || || 10/12 || Information literacy; Google vs. valuable resources; Discussion on APA & Citations || || Due - Initial Bio paper due || || 10/14 || Peer review of biographies ; Working on APA style || || || || 10/19 || NO CLASS – Fall Break || || || || 10/21 || How is the semester going? || || || || 10/26 || Tour of State Archives || || || || 10/28 || Tour of Salisbury House || || Wiki Entry 3 - Due - People (Bio files) || || 11/2 || John Smith & Blake Campbell - Drake Traditions || || || || 11/4 || Bart Schmidt to discuss Drake Times Delphic project & use of different formats for archives || || || || 11/9 || Look for other wikis & report about them include wikeapedia for Drake || || || || 11/11 || Marketing Dept update on Logo || || || || 11/16 || Copyright & Ethical/Legal issues: using trademark and avoiding plagarism || || || || 11/18 || Asking permission and fact checking || || Wiki Entry 4 - Due - Traditions/events || || 11/23 || TBD || || || || 11/25 || NO CLASS - Holiday || || || || 11/30 || Class History Work || || || || 12/2 || Class History Work || || Oral History - Due || || 12/7 || Oral History Presentations || || Event Review Due no later than today || || 12/9 || Oral History Presentations - Con't.; Class History Work || || Wiki Entry 5 - Due - Artifact or choice || || 12/16 || Final 2-3:50 || || Class History Project -Due || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||