Josephine’s Online Technology Journal

This is how we will edit the Tsagaan Sar Wikipedia Page: 

The White Moon holiday is celebrated two months after the first new moon following the winter solstice. In 2008, White Moon falls on Feb. 8th. After Naadam, Tsagaan Sar is the second-most important Mongolian holiday.

Around the New Year people greet each other by saying “Amar mend uu”, a very formal greeting which one says to one’s elders. Mongolians also visit friends and family on this day and exchange gifts. A typical Mongolian family will meet in the home dwelling of the eldest male in the family. _______ When greeting their elders during the White Moon festival, Mongolians grasp them by their elbows to show support for them. The eldest male receives greetings from each member of the family except for his wife. During the greeting ceremony, family members hold long pieces of colored cloth called khadag. After the ceremony, the family eats buuz and drinks airag (fermented mare’s milk) and exchanges gifts.

The day before Tsagaan Sar is called “Bituun”. On this day, families gather together_______–immediate family usually, in contrast to the large feast gatherings of White Moon day–and see out the old year. Traditionally, Mongolians settle all issues and repay all debts from the old year by this day. Mongolians eat their fill at the Bituun meal, as tradition says that if you are hungry after Bituun you will be hungry for the whole coming year.

These are sources that we have found so that we can change the tsagaan sar page, and not be removed by wikipedia editors:

“Tsagan Sar: The Mongolian Lunar New Year”. Mongoluls. 2007. March 13^th, 2008.       
     <http://mongoluls.net/tsagaansar.shtml>

“Festivals”. Asia-planet. 2002. March 11^th, 2008.
     <http://www.asia-planet.net/mongolia/festivals.htm>

 List of things that I should have done in order to know at the end of the project:
-Did we include a correct format of MLA bibliography?
-Did we follow what criterion B asks for?
-Did we use our time during class effectively?
-Did we get our assignments done on time?
-Did we do a thorough, wide range of research (meaning that we used more than one site on the Internet)?
-Did all of the members in our group do our work together?

What should I include?
I should include an accurate bibliography from the Internet. This means that I should site the sites/ sources that I have visited by an MLA format. I think these are basically it for all the things that I need to include for the Wikipedia. I should also make sure that I used a good site- probably a government based organization.

How will I know if I did a good job?
I will be able to know that I have done a good job by the comments that the grade that Ms. Wilson will give me. Or, if nobody changes that information that our group had edited; then it would probably mean that they didn’t even bother touching it because it was way too good! Basically, the grades tells us everything about how well we have done. Lastly, I can go back to read all the rubrics in the assignment sheet to make sure I have done what each criterion has asked me to.