WIKI+Editing+EXAMPLE

Take a minute to look at the entries on the //**8-1 Amazing Facts Wik**//i. Notice How I have copied them and then edited them below-using cut paste etc just as you do in Word. When you click the EDIT button at the top right, you will get a bar similar to that for Word. Then at the bottom I have drafted a statement about the Amazing Facts activity. Feel free to practice by editing --or just go to your exhibit's room.

THE ADVANTAGE OF WIKI--y**ou are collaboratively editing your documen**t. In Manage Wiki you can ask to have any changes emailed to you so you don't have to keep checking.

KS 1. The elongated coins that people normally collect at Disney World or the zoo actually first appeared at this fair. www.1893columbianexpo.com LC – F. W. Rueckheim introduced a confection of popcorn, peanuts and molasses at the fair; it was given the name Cracker Jack in 1896 (Wikipedia)
 * Amazing Fact Clusters # 1--several of us found Famous FIRSTS**

MB - 2: The Columbian Exposition was the venue for the debut of consumer products such as Cream of Wheat, Shredded Wheat, Pabst Beer, Aunt Jemima syrup, and Juicy Fruit gum.

LC- At the fair, popular “Street in Cairo” dancer known as Little Egypt introduced America to the suggestive version of the belly dance known as the "hootchy-cootchy " (Wikipedia) LC – Scott Joplin’s performance at the exposition introduced ragtime music to new audiences, increasing its popularity (Wikipedia)


 * Amazing Fact Cluster 2: The 1893 Exposition showed America's fascination with making things BIG**

//I think cluster 1 and 2 could really be combined? What do others think?//
MH-B2. A one ton cheese!! Hard to believe

JT - In one of the exhibits there was a 1,500 pound chocolate Venus de Milo! Crazy. That and the big block of cheese remind me of the butter sculptures I see at the Ohio State Fair I go to at home every summer! (http://www.chicagohs.org/history/expo/ex1.html)

DS-3 The Farris Wheel was what drew people in, the Columbian Exposition was to be bigger than the Exposition in Paris

MH-B 3:The Devil in White City is a great read--I was fascinated by how it showed Daniel Burnham and the serial killer as different faces of a man obsessed with grandeur and achievements.

JT - 46 different nations participated in the Expo! I wonder if there had been that many nations present in one place any time before this...(http://www.chicagohs.org/history/expo/ex2a.html)


 * Amazing Fact Cluster 3: Some Historical facts**

KS 2. There was a “Columbian Liberty Bell" that was created and it was intended to travel the world though it disappeared after the fair. www.hydepark.org/historicpres/ColumbianExp.htm#mystery MB - 3: Many silver spoons can currently be bought from the world's fair on ebay. JT - 46 different nations participated in the Expo! I wonder if there had been that many nations present in one place any time before this...(http://www.chicagohs.org/history/expo/ex2a.html) KS 3. United States had their first fair in Philadelphia, but the exposition lost money. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html DS-1 The World's Columbian Exposition was celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus

DS-2 It also commemorated the anniversary of the Chicago fire in October of 1871

BV-1 The whiteness of the White City became increasingly offensive to African Americans as plans for the fair unfolded
 * Amazing Fact Cluster 4: For all it's splendor, there were plenty of negatives associated with the 1893 exposition.**

BV-2 Angered by the politics of exclusion and tokenism, some African Americans, led by Ida B. Wells, urged African Americans to boycott the fair. But, Frederick Douglass, who served as Haiti's representative at the exposition, disagreed and urged African Americans to participate as fully as possible. BV-3 Multiple tragedies marked the end of the fair. A smallpox epidemic that originated at the fair in midsummer spread throughout the city by early autumn. Then, just before the gala closing ceremonies were to be held, Mayor Carter Harrison was assassinated. Finally, shortly after the fair's close, a fire swept through the fairgrounds, destroying many of the buildings. JT - As I recall from reading "The Devil in the White City" and "Sin in the Second City" many young ladies were brought to Chicago around the time of the Exposition with the promise of jobs, and were instead forced to work in brothels. .

As I looked at all the facts that have been contributed, it is fascinating to see there is very little duplication although it was quite simple to cluster them. It also looks to me as if anyone of those cluster headings could be turned into a Level 1 Knowledge Comprehension question. For example, for clusters 1 we could ask "//What were some important "firsts" that took place at the 1893 Exposition?// By using other cluster points to compare and contrast, we easily come up with a level 2 question: //Discuss how the Columbian Exposition included both positive and negative aspects of the American experience at the end of the 19th century.// Finally facts from all the clusters could be brought in to support an evaluative, Level 3 discussion. //Given what you have learned about the 1893 Exposition, in what ways do you think Hamlin Garland's description of a visit as "the event of a lifetime" is justified?// There is a wide range of opinions that could be supported, building from the facts on this WIki but extended into further research and conceptual frameworks. In some ways the fascinating book //Devil in White City// could be seen as one complex response to this question.
 * What's Amazing about our facts:** (Please feel free to edit this statement)