Assignment Due September 10
- Update your profile on Blogs@Baruch
- login, then rollover the “Welcome, your name” link on the top right
- click “Edit”
- Fill in as much as you can, including a profile picture
- Using the Wikipedia Doc in our course group on Blogs@Baruch, make an index of our class edits to Wikipedia. Each student must make at least one edit to an entry on a topic somehow related to the 2012 Presidential election. You can contribute to an article about Obama’s speech Thursday evening, other speeches given this week at the DNC, update an article that references last week’s RNC, or anything else you’d like within this realm. You then must list and link to your edits in our group document. Please let us know if you have any questions.
- Read Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Digital History, “Owning the Past?”
The 2012 Presidential Elections wiki on Wikipedia is locked for edits.
If you need to add information into other pages, the candidates pages from both democratic party and republican party are also locked.
I found that the 2012 Republican National Convention page is open for edits. Being a Democrat myself I believe that I could do some good by editing that page, and so I did.
Candidates pages from other parties are also open for edits.
The “Obama Reveal” is going to be broadcast on CNN at 9:30pm Sunday night. It might be a good opportunity for any one who wanted to see it earlier in the week.