Directions

Your finished assignment will be a wiki page, developed collaboratively by your team. This means that each member, while having a specific section of the wiki to author, must also edit and make changes to sections written by other members of the team. (Such editing becomes critical when you have to stick to the word limit of 750 total words.) Each team has three members, and each wiki will have three sections. Here's how it goes:

Section 1 - biography and historical context of the author's life. Section 2 - major and minor works of the author, including brief selections chosen to exemplify the humanist's intellectual interests. Section 3 - an explanation of the humanist's significance to Renaissance humanism--what was his contribution? How was he typical or atypical of this intellectual movement?

Clearly there can be overlap from one section to the next, and team members should feel free to include links from one section to the next, where appropriate. Review the tutorial for how to make such links.


 * Cite the sources that you used in your wiki at the bottom of the page in a team bibliography. Use Chicago style and order the worked alphabetically by author. You do not need to use footnotes in your wiki text, but do list the author's name and page number in parentheses where you paraphrase. (This is close to MLA style. It will make the wiki more readable, I think.)**

After you have decided who will write each section, I strongly urge you to set a date in advance of the final deadline for meeting and review. Have all the sections complete and then talk over the changes made. Identify any missing or weak content to be improved. Add any hyperlinks that may prove useful. The pre-deadline meeting is your last and best opportunity to make the wiki a success.

Remember that you will be graded on the quality of your final product as well as the changes that you made, demonstrating your level of collaboration with your team.

Don't forget to review the very short article, "Wiki and the History Classroom," by Kevin Sheets in //Perspectives on History// 47: 5 (2009) to understand how the assignment is designed. You will find it on reserve in the library.