Wikipedia Trails

Wikipedia Trails

The idea is to find some topic that grabbed your attention in class this week: something that makes you CURIOUS to learn more about the subject. This assignment is all about curiosity and where it can lead you!
So, with that item of curiosity in mind, you go to Wikipedia and find an article about that thing, whatever it is. Read through that article at Wikipedia… and then click on a link to go from that article to another Wikipedia article. Then, read that next article, find a link, and make another hop; you are now on your third article. Read that article, find a link, make a hop, and that takes you to your fourth and final article. Where did the “Wikipedia trail” lead you? Here’s an example:
Here is how it works:
STEP 1. Find a topic to start with. It can be anything related to something you read for this class or something you wrote for this class, or maybe something in the class announcements or the class Twitter stream — the class Twitter stream is very much meant to provoke your curiosity about all kinds of things, and you can see it there in the sidebar of the class announcements too and also here in the sidebar of this page. Yes, I am really am trying to make you constantly curious in this class: that’s why the Twitter stream appears in so many places!
STEP 2. Find the relevant article at Wikipedia. You can then look up your starting topic by searching Wikipedia. Read through that article, and then find a link to take you to the next article in your trail, and then the next and one more for a total of four connected articles. Make sure to open each article in a new tab so that when you are done you will have all four articles open in your browser, making it easy to follow your “trail” as you write your blog post.
STEP 3. Find an image (or images) to use. Now, look through all four articles, focusing on the images, and find at least one image you want to use. Click on the image to open the image in a new tab also (every image at Wikipedia has a page of its own). Now you have everything you need to write a blog post: four articles, plus at least one image, each open in a browser tab. You can close the tabs one by one as you write your blog post.
STEP 4. Write your Wikipedia Trail blog post. For each article, include the article title and a link, along with two or three sentences about how your curiosity led you to that article. For the title of the post, include the phrase “Wikipedia Trail” and then the starting article plus the article where you ended up. For the label, use “Wikipedia” plus whatever week it is; for example Wikipedia, Week 1 (make sure to separate them with a comma).
When you have published your blog post, don’t forget to do the Declaration:

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: I have followed my own Wikipedia Trail and published a blog post about it. LINKS: My post has links to each of the four Wikipedia articles that I read. POST TITLE: The phrase “Wikipedia Trail” appears in the post title, plus my “from” starting point and my “to” ending point. POST LABELS: I used — Wikipedia, Week ___ — separated by a comma. IMAGE. I included at least one image with image information.