Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Wiki Pages

In order to be the most effective, the Wiki pages need to be simple and presented in a straight forward manner. Separating by countries is a must, and I think individual headers about each aspect of the country followed by a short, concise paragraph should be included. Last but not least, pictures and graphs are very helpful. With appropriate captions or explanatory paragraphs they will say much more in a direct fashion than a novel's worth of words will.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Wiki Pages

I think the best way to set up these wiki pages would be to do them simply. By that, I mean there should be separate sections for specific parts of a country's political system (structures, interest articulation, etc.). Although videos and other forms of media may be helpful, I feel the pages should writing based. It will be much easier to actually learn the concepts this way. Videos should not be completely excluded though.

Friday, November 30, 2012

Wiki Page

I think the best way to organize the Wiki page would be by country. Then under each country there could be photos, videos, and information. I think that would make the wiki page really helpful and easy to use. It would also help us once we begin comparing the different countries.

Wiki pages

I think that on the Wiki page there should be a page for each country we learn about. Additionally, there could be tabs on the major importances in that government that led to additional information about the basic ideas. The tabs could have information on the system, structure and functions of the individual government, but also it could have links to things such as videos or articles that also help to explain the concepts in another way other than just defining what it is.

Wiki Pages

I think the wiki pages will be very useful for helping us compare the systems of different countries. The best way to organize it would be to give every country its own wiki page so that none of the pages get mixed up. I think it would be best if we then divided each wiki page into sections, like having videos on one part, pictures on another, and information on another. I'm very excited to get this going.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Wiki Page Blog

I believe the best way to divide the pages is by using a system, structure, and function approach. It would start out as what systems there are, allowing easy access to jump to the country you need for a specific example of a system without knowing much about it at first. An example would be if a student needed to find an authoritarian ruled country to provide examples, instead of going through every country, the student will be able to primarily categorize it by the system. By doing this, the class will have to memorize the systems for each country. From there you can click on the country, which will state the basic facts (system, function, structure, pop., economy, G.D.P, G.N.P) and from there different categories pertaining to specific ideas such as chapters.

Wiki Page

I like the idea of having the Wiki page divided up by country so that it will be easy to review key aspects of each government as well as be able to compare them. Similarly, I think it might be helpful to have a section that just highlights the most important topics we've learned so far, and which can be edited to add new information whenever we learn it. It would sort of be like the chapter outlines we did but more concise.