CZ:Special Topics 2010

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The course coordinates

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Instructor: Pat Palmer and Dr. Dave Matuszek

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Email: pgpalmer (at) seas.upenn.edu

Office Hours: tbd

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The course mechanics

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Project Description

This Eduzendium project is the first of four components of a multi-genre research and writing project (described in full here). In addition to writing encyclopedia articles about individual interest groups, POL 214 students will write opinion essays that use their peers' encyclopedia articles as a research springboard, letters to the editor that respond to their peers' opinion essays, and compositions that reflect on their research and writing process. Grant funding to develop this project was provided by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology at Illinois State University.

practice for a lifetime of quickly researching new technologies, plus exploring the ramifications of being out on the web (i.e., not anonymous).

Students will collaborate in small groups to write an article on an "emerging technology" topic (to be pre-approved by the instructors). The article will reside permanently in Citizendium, an expert-led wiki similar to Wikipedia, but where authors and editors use their real names. Groups will present their results to the class at the end of the course. Training will be provided on using the Penn library, which includes "deep web" references such as academic journals, patent searches, and business surveys

What We'll Be Working On

The following is a list of articles that the members of POL 214 will be working on during the Summer II 2010 semester (July and early August). These articles will be closed to editing by other citizens until after the conclusion of the course, though we'd appreciate hearing any comments or suggestions you might have on their respective talk pages.

For each of the articles you plan to have your students work on, please add a line of the form {{r_EZ|Title of your course's article 1}}, which will display as





etc.


Once the articles have been created, they will be listed here in the following formatting:

Hi all: I am the instructor for this course, and a portion of the course grade will be obtained by participating as an author in the CZ:Computers_Workgroup. This Eduzendium project will be described in the coming days in the course syllabus being developed at http://harbormist.com/cis700_08/.Pat Palmer 16:48, 27 June 2008 (CDT)

These are the groups:


Group 1 - article: Mashup

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