Objectives for wiki

From The Peopling of New York City: Harlem

I distributed a handout called: "WIKI Assignment—Getting the Ball Rolling" I just wanted to cut and paste the steps here so you can keep them in mind as you move forward.

TASKS

STEP 1 Decide on an organizational scheme for this material and create pages on the wiki that represent each relevant topic. You should also divvy the workload/create small groups and assign people to be responsible for the content of specific pages.

We made progress on this. Small groups were created (Joshua/Eugene/Audrey/Davi--please add yourself to a group with fewer members. Keren/Diego please choose one group)

125th St.--Kerin, Sherin, Ruth, Audrey

The Apollo Theater/Minton's--Christie, Rachel, Ruth, Keren

Langston Hughes' site--Grecia, Diego, Andrew

Rocker Park--Sushanta, Diego, Audrey

Service Learning--Group Effort

STEP 2--Add writing to your group page. Cull information from the course blog first. Then consider an initial wish list or research plan for the content of the page, including a list of sources to be consulted or already consulted (secondary reading for the course.)

STEP 3-- Add one multimedia aspect--perhaps a photo or video clip from the Harlem walking tour, something pertinent to the group's research. This could include adding a chart, perhaps with demographic information.

STEP 4- Include links to other sites that are pertinent.

STEP 5- Embed a GoogleMap of Harlem, and start tagging pertinent spots.

STEP 6-- Visit one other group's page, and make a comment on it in the 'Discussion' section

Initial Ideas for Pages

• a food page--reviews. Andrew recommends 113th St and Frederick Douglas Blvd. Zoma, an Ethiopian restaurant, classical style.

Prof. Spencer suggests looking at this recent NY Times article on food. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/nyregion/06soulfood.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

• visual--importance of not having LOTS of text in a block--what do we want people to walk away with?

• simplicity

• charts--pie charts, bar graphs--demographic information--visual information--chart styles?

• a virtual visit of Harlem

• music--mp3's

• video

• personal experiences? cold hard facts? the diary/interviews--photos as a way to include personal--food reviews

Volunteers for Visual and Multimedia Work

Josh--iMovie

Ruth--graphs

Christie, Andrew--photography

Pages/Tabs

Front page as a map--possibilities: our own map which we can click and enter to go to different pages, a GoogleMap we can use to take people to different pages, or a map above different tabs taking people to different places. Prof. Spencer has found this map. What do you think? Might we consider something similar? map of Harlem

Front page to have short introductory text.

Places to present as pages, and to use to introduce the main themes and types of information.

• Service Learning/Union Settlement House--everyone will participate and help shape this page
• 125th St.--Kerin, Sherin, Ruth, Audrey
• the Apollo Theater/Minton's--Christie, Rachel, Ruth, Keren
• Langston Hughes' site--Grecia, Diego, Andrew
• Rocker Park--Sushanta, Diego, Audrey

Themes to include:

• Harlem of yesterday, today and the future
• Cultural institutions
• Sport
• Community
• History
• Information from the walking tour could be incorporated into any page

Other Ideas

• Where in Harlem is Diego?