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==The course coordinates==
During July and August (2010), small groups of students will work on article(s) in Citizendium on "emerging technology" topics (still being chosen).  The articles are not locked; we'd appreciate hearing any comments on the respective talk pages.
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'''Instructor''': [[User:Pat_Palmer|Pat Palmer]] and [[User:David_Lee_Matuszek|Dr. Dave Matuszek]]


'''Institution''': [http://www.upenn.edu/ University of Pennsylvania]
*'''Instructor''': [[User:Pat_Palmer|Pat Palmer]] and [[User:David_Lee_Matuszek|Dr. Dave Matuszek]]
*'''Emails''': pgpalmer A / T seas.upenn.edu, and matuszek A / T cis.upenn.edu


'''Emails''': pgpalmer (at) seas.upenn.edu and matuszek (at) cis.upenn.edu
Students may wish to add a link to this course on your user page using this code:


'''Office Hours''': tbd
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    [[CZ:Special_Topics_2010|Emerging Technologies 2010]]
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See the %newwin% '''[http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~cis700/cis700_10.html yllabus]''' (html)
==Articles under development==
There are the top-level articles under development for this course (more to be added):
{{r_EZ|Collaborative filtering}} (Group 2)
{{r_EZ|Distributed version control}} (Group 5)
{{r_EZ|HTML5}} (Group 4)
{{r_EZ|Java concurrency package}} (Group 1)
{{r_EZ|Multi-touch_interface}} (Group 6)
{{r_EZ|NoSQL}} (Group 8)
{{r_EZ|Recommendation system}} (Group 2)
{{r_EZ|Semantic web}} (Group 9)
{{r_EZ|Virtual server}} (Group 3)


==The course mechanics==
==Further information==
[[CZ:Eduzendium|Eduzendium]] courses need a number of help pages in order to function properly within the ''Citizendium''.
See [[CZ:CIS_700_Special_Topics_2008|Special_Topics_2008]], a previous Eduzendium course similar to this one. Here is the notice that will appear on articles: [[CZ:Special_Topics_2010/EZnotice]]
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==Project Description==


This [[CZ:Eduzendium|Eduzendium]] project is the first of four components of a multi-genre research and writing project (described in full [http://www.ilstu.edu/~sgelbma/igrp.pdf here]). In addition to writing encyclopedia articles about individual interest groups, POL 214 students will write opinion essays that use their peers' encyclopedia articles as a research springboard, letters to the editor that respond to their peers' opinion essays, and compositions that reflect on their research and writing process. Grant funding to develop this project was provided by the [http://www.ctlt.ilstu.edu/ Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology] at Illinois State University.


practice for a lifetime of quickly researching new technologies, plus exploring the ramifications of being out on the web (i.e., not anonymous).


Students will collaborate in small groups to write an article on an "emerging technology" topic (to be pre-approved by the instructors). The article will reside permanently in Citizendium, an expert-led wiki similar to Wikipedia, but where authors and editors use their real names. Groups will present their results to the class at the end of the course. Training will be provided on using the Penn library, which includes "deep web" references such as academic journals, patent searches, and business surveys
[[Category:Eduzendium|Special]]
 
[[Category:Eduzendium:University of Pennsylvania|Special]]
==What We'll Be Working On==
The following is a list of articles that the members of POL 214 will be working on during the Summer II 2010 semester (July and early August). These articles will be closed to editing by other citizens until after the conclusion of the course, though we'd appreciate hearing any comments or suggestions you might have on their respective talk pages.
 
For each of the articles you plan to have your students work on, please add a line of the form <nowiki>{{r_EZ|Title of your course's article 1}}</nowiki>, which will display as
{{r_EZ|Title of your course's article 1}}
{{r_EZ|Title of your course's article 2}}
{{r_EZ|Title of your course's article 3}}
{{r_EZ|Title of your course's article 4}}
etc.
 
 
Once the articles have been created, they will be listed here in the following formatting:
{{r_EZ|Education}}
 
A portion of the course grade will be obtained by participating as an author in the [[CZ:Computers_Workgroup]].  This [[Eduzendium]] project will be described in the coming days in the course wiki (under development).[[User:Pat Palmer|Pat Palmer]] 14:39, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 
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Groups will be cataloged here in this way (this is an example from a previous year):
 
Group 1 - article: '''[[Mashup]]'''
* [[User:Anita_Banser]] - [[Special:Contributions/Anita_Banser]]
* [[User:Oluwabusola_Oladapo]] - [[Special:Contributions/Oluwabusola_Oladapo]]
 
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[[Category:Eduzendium]]

Latest revision as of 20:33, 7 December 2011

During July and August (2010), small groups of students will work on article(s) in Citizendium on "emerging technology" topics (still being chosen). The articles are not locked; we'd appreciate hearing any comments on the respective talk pages.

Students may wish to add a link to this course on your user page using this code:

[[CZ:Special_Topics_2010|Emerging Technologies 2010]]

Articles under development

There are the top-level articles under development for this course (more to be added):

  • Stub Collaborative filtering [r]: The use of software algorithms for narrowing down a large set of choices by using collaboration among multiple agents, viewpoints, and data sources. [e]
    (Group 2)
  • Stub Distributed version control [r]: Newer revision control systems for some of the most important open source projects (e.g., the Linux kernel, Qt, Ruby on Rails). [e]
    (Group 5)
  • Stub HTML5 [r]: HTML5 is the next generation hypertext markup language standard published by the World Wide Web Consortium to provide new ways of presenting content on the World Wide Web that include transition effects, animation, video, and more. [e]
    (Group 4)
  • Developing Article Java concurrency package [r]: A library supporting threading and parallel programming in the Java programming language. [e]
    (Group 1)
  • Developing Article Multi-touch_interface [r]: Set of interaction techniques which allow computer or mobile users to control graphical user interface with more than one finger at either application or system level. [e]
    (Group 6)
  • Developing Article NoSQL [r]: A number of non-relational distributed database architectures, usually that store data as key-value pairs. [e]
    (Group 8)
  • Developing Article Recommendation system [r]: A software program which attempts to narrow down selections for users based on their expressed preferences, past behavior, or other data which can be mined about the user. [e]
    (Group 2)
  • Developing Article Semantic web [r]: Tim Berners-Lee's concept of a "web of knowledge", whereby web-based document contents would be annotated and classified so that computers can parse the classifications and provide search results based on the semantic information (what the content means), rather than simply on matching of text strings. [e]
    (Group 9)
  • Stub Virtual server [r]: Instances of server software hosted simultaneously on a single computer along with other instances of the same, or different, server operating systems. [e]
    (Group 3)

Further information

See Special_Topics_2008, a previous Eduzendium course similar to this one. Here is the notice that will appear on articles: CZ:Special_Topics_2010/EZnotice

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