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**Welcome to the Park Center Senior High ALP 10 wiki**

Our focus throughout the year is on American history, especially the period from World War II to the present. Here you will find the results of our studies: student-authored and student-edited entries on topics of interest from the 1940's to today. This is obviously a work in progress. When completed, it should provide a wide range of articles on topics both social and political, pop cultural and traditional.

**Notes to contributors (that means you, ALP 10 students):**

This is an academic site, representing our class and our school. So far, the use of the site has not been an issue, but constantly remind yourself to use proper netiquette, even (or especially) in thread postings: discussion is more useful than debate, strike out anything that might conceivably be seen as offensive or misinterpreted, disagree (when necessary) with ideas, not people, and keep the language appropriate. The front page is currently locked, not because of any particular problems, but just to be sure that the main site address reflects only the academic mission of the site. While all comments, threads, and additions should be related to class in some way, an "Off-topic chatter" page has been set up to allow for discussion of issues not directly related to this project. We'll see how that goes. We are in the market for improvements/enhancements of the site, but these must be approved by Mr. Sherwood or Ms. Greenspan before "going public" with them. This includes videos and photos //that are not related to the actual project// ...

**__Get the page set up (Tuesday -Wednesday)__**
 * Create the page (use the New Page link in the upper left)
 * Give it the most basic, obvious name possible for your topic; do NOT use "The" at the start
 * Article first (follow the model page format)
 * Analysis second (clearly marked “Analysis”)
 * Works Cited last

**__Include any multimedia elements (Tuesday - Wednesday)__**
 * Images (use the File button on the edit bar)
 * Embedded video (use the File button)
 * Links to //external// material (Type text identifying the link, eg. the site name, NOT the URL; highlight this text, and then use the Link button)

**__Revision (Tuesday - Thursday)__**
 * Start with large-scale stuff (organization, info, etc.)
 * Check analysis especially with teachers if you have questions
 * Proofread carefully – get a grammar/punctuation-minded friend to do a second read

__**Formatting last**__ -- otherwise you will end up reformatting endlessly (Thursday - Friday)
 * Use heading styles for the subheads (Heading 1 for title, Heading 2 for first level of subheads, Heading 3 if you have sub-sub heads, etc.) -- this will allow the Table of Contents widget to work properly
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Insert the Table of Contents widget right after the overview -- placement is an issue, as the site provides little control over where this goes (it defaults to the right side).
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Be sure all text is in the "Normal" style. Select text and click on the T button at the top to alter size, font, color, etc. The font used here is Verdana -- it would be best if everyone ended up with this font unless there are compelling reasons to do otherwise.


 * __<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Submit final revision of article and analysis to Turnitin.com __**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Friday)

__**Finish all wiki page work**__ (final version of article with Table of Contents using the TOC widget, final version of analysis, final Works Cited) including images, videos, __external__ links, etc.) ASAP, but __**no later than class time on Monday, 6/6**__.

<span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Feedback:__** (Monday - Tuesday) <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Links__** to other pages on our wiki: (Monday)
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Look at other people’s pages – comment on these (positively)


 * Use tags to help you find related pages on our wiki
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Search through pages and manually link to pages or references on those pages (highlight a chunk of text that relates to another page then click on the Link button)
 * <span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Try for at least 5


 * __ Extra Jobs: __**

All of these must be approved //__before__// you “go live” with them on the page. See Mr. Sherwood if interested.
 * Logo design
 * Site/graphic design (front-page slideshow, for example)
 * Others as needed (CSS work to unify page? Widget adjustment?)