*Click here for the Wikipearse Project Rubric.

*Click here for the Habitat Modification.

The Wikipearse Project

Introduction

The goal of this project is to not only teach you what a Wiki is, but to train you to become a young Wiki Master.

Within this project you will learn the following skills through a project based program:

1. How to create a username and password.
2. How to create a new wiki page.
3. How to create headings.
4. How to hyperlink internal wiki documents and external web pages.
5. How to revert a document back to a previous state if it has been improperly modified or deleted.
6. How to participate in wiki page discussions. These discussion forums are key to a healthy and accurate wiki.

Procedure

Step 1

Create a username and password account. Username and passwords should be the same as Google docs.

Lets use Joe Bloggs with a student number of 1234 as an example:

jbloggs

123400

*You must also use your real name.

Step 2

Choose any topic you are studying in your regular classroom.

Step 3

Your job is to create a wiki page of no less then 700 words. You are to create your wiki page without the help of Wikipedia (although I will have the page on the big screen so you can check to make sure yours looks right).

You are to use Mr. Pearse's Google ONLY. This safe search engine utilizes some of the highest quality web sites for kids and excludes the rest of the internet in it's searches.

Step 4

Visit the main page.

Search for a title (use capital letters for your words...you'll see later why).

Click on "create this page".

Step 5

Open Internet Explorer and search for you topic using Mr. Pearse's Google. If you have problems locating facts for your topic, please choose a different topic.

Step 6

Create your first heading (I will model this for you).

Step 7

Create your wiki page using the format Wikipedia uses as best you can.

Analyze the rubric to see what will be required to achieve a high score in this project.

Ask questions if you have problems!

Step 8

Revert your wiki page back to a previous state. We do this when modifications were made that we do not either want or when work gets deleted.

Step 9

Hyperlink an internal Wikipearse document and an external web page (I will model this for you in one of our classes).

Step 10

Create text within a wiki pages discussion area. Participate in your neighbors wiki page by adding comments to their wiki pages discussion page. Do not modify their page please, discussion of their facts only. No social discussion. School rules apply.

Resources

Evaluation 

Click here to view the rubric for which this project will be assessed by.

Conclusion

Wiki's are a great tool if people know how to make them work properly. Hopefully, from this project you have learnt how to operate the greatest wiki of all, Wikipedia. You will have learned through your project work that Wikipedia isn't intuitive and easy. It actually uses a lot of "computer code" in creating its pages and therefore expects it's users to know some basic "code language".