Monday, May 18, 2009

Evaluation
For investigation:
At the beginning of the project we sat with our class and Ms. Wilson and discussed about wikiality (modern internet) and internet many years ago. I answered all of the questions including what is a wiki, information about who creates and edits them and why do people use it. I explained what are our task and the importance of learning this Wikipedia project for us as a student and as an individual in developing society. Then, after answering all of these questions we had to post this on our blogs. Then the next following questions we had to answer in groups but I didn’t have a chance to do that. I investigated how Wikipedia gets its information, the role of people that are in the charge of all the information on wiki. Also, I explained how or what would be the process of solving the problem, if the will be a debate about including information in an article. As a student I wrote what I think about Wikipedia and how the information in it is reliable. After answering the questions I listed all the methods of finding inaccuracies on Wikipedia and how to know whether an article contains inaccurate information.
I think Wikipedia.com is the biggest source of information and knowledge from people all around the world. In my opinion it is useful to use Wikipedia.com to get information because it gives our society more opportunity to see things from many points of views of different people. Wikis are the modern version of many history books or encyclopaedias, because these books were written by the many historians, exports, writers, philosophers and etc. Our work that we included and our corrections are very affective. May be we helped some people to know and read not the wrong information, but what is real and true.
Next time I will try to include more information and show a work with an evidence of using many resources to investigate this topic. I have learnt so many things that I didn’t know before doing this project. I didn’t know every single question on Criterion A. But I researched about it and answered them which means that there were so many things that I have learnt.
Test:
· Choose a topic that you really know well
· Choose a short article (because it will easier to find a mistake or add some more
Information comparing with the other sites)
· Read it very careful and see if there is a mistake
· Find sites that have a same article and compare to Wikipedia to see if there is any mistakes.
This is my test and it helped me to actually find a mistake on Wikipedia. I followed every step of it and it worked well.

Design specifications:
Here are my design specifications:
1. Choose a topic or article on Wikipedia.com that I know well.
2. Include at least 2 sources that have corrected and right information in it.
3. Follow Ms. Wilson’s instructions to show and correct a mistake.
I think I followed my design specifications very careful. I choose a topic or an article on Wikipedia that I know very well, which is my favorite singer George Nozuka. I included two sources that have corrected information in it. I followed Ms. Wilson’s Instructions to show and correct a mistake.
Next time I would include more detailed design specifications for my work.
For design:
I found and copied the Wikipedia section that I was planning to change or correct. I showed my corrections on my blog using the method that Ms. Wilson showed us. After that to make sure that my article contains some mistake, I researched and find accurate sources for the information that I would liked to correct. I found two sites and cited them in MLA format. I made a list of three design specifications for my final Wikipedia correction, which you can see above.
Next time if I had a chance to do the design again I would include more sources that has accurate information, which would be a prove of Wikipedia’s mistake.
For create:
First of all I read and sign the responsibility agreement which reminded the students the responsibility of the teacher and school. I logged in using the isutechnlogy username and “password” password. I clicked the part which is saying edit and found my section where I am going to edit or correct. First of all it was kind of hard to figure out on the page which is the actual part of article and which part was the URL source. I found a part that I was looking and corrected it and included the citation. After that, I explained what have I changed in this page to Wikipedia. I wrote there that I changed the information of a singer’s first album release. The last step is to save the page and see how the new corrected version looks. I think I did a very simple and right job.
Next time I would choose a hard topic and try to find a big inaccuracy spending more time on my work.

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