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The main story of the semester is this story of conquest, adaptation, and change. As many of us have heard it, Christopher Columbus discovered or destroyed, conquered or civilized America in 1492. This course begins with the story of Columbus in order to critique all of the conventional knowledge of this encounter. The story of Columbus becomes a complex story about relationships between European nations, individual prejudices, Spanish social and ethnic hierarchies, African slavery, and finally about relationships between Europeans and those they called "Indians." In essence this story is highly politicized, as we can tell from the versions of events we will find in two films about the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto and Salvador Carrasco’s La Otra Conquista/The Other Conquest. Gibson tells us that the Spaniards save the indigenous hero, one who resisted human sacrifice throughout the film. Carrasco tells us that Christianity crushes the indigenous hero, one who resisted acculturation throughout the film. As we progress through the semester, we will find that the societies involved developed strategies for conquest and colonization. Further, we will find that Africans and those of African descent performed roles in excess of slavery, and the term “Indian” was a misnomer used to describe many different groups of people. This semester, by examining colonial Latin America, we will challenge what you know about this history.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this:
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
Present about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
It's the final week to develop your article.
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contactwikiedu.org |
This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
The main story of the semester is this story of conquest, adaptation, and change. As many of us have heard it, Christopher Columbus discovered or destroyed, conquered or civilized America in 1492. This course begins with the story of Columbus in order to critique all of the conventional knowledge of this encounter. The story of Columbus becomes a complex story about relationships between European nations, individual prejudices, Spanish social and ethnic hierarchies, African slavery, and finally about relationships between Europeans and those they called "Indians." In essence this story is highly politicized, as we can tell from the versions of events we will find in two films about the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto and Salvador Carrasco’s La Otra Conquista/The Other Conquest. Gibson tells us that the Spaniards save the indigenous hero, one who resisted human sacrifice throughout the film. Carrasco tells us that Christianity crushes the indigenous hero, one who resisted acculturation throughout the film. As we progress through the semester, we will find that the societies involved developed strategies for conquest and colonization. Further, we will find that Africans and those of African descent performed roles in excess of slavery, and the term “Indian” was a misnomer used to describe many different groups of people. This semester, by examining colonial Latin America, we will challenge what you know about this history.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this:
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Content Expert at any time if you need further help!
Present about your Wikipedia editing experience.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
It's the final week to develop your article.