About+This+Wiki

This wiki was originally created as a group project for the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis School of Library and Information Science class: S603 High Tech Learning in 2008.

 After making two other suggestions and bouncing other ideas around with my teammates (Team #4), I proposed that we focus our wiki on the little-known Hoosier artist, Charles Joseph Fiscus (1861-1884). I chose Fiscus because I knew there was not a lot of information about him on the Internet, and I have been interested in him and his art since discovering some of his work in the frame of a print my grandmother gave to me several years ago. Since the rest of my teammates agreed with my suggestion, I established our wiki site and proceeded to create the Home Page, the About page, the Logo, the Fiscus Art page, the Fiscus Facts page, and the Who Was Charles Fiscus page and add photographs and text to them.

 Also included are pages on the Indianapolis environment during Fiscus's life, a page about his gravesite, and a page featuring a crayon rubbing of his tombstone with additional inforamtion on how to perform your own rubbing.

 Since there is very little about Charles Joseph Fiscus on the Internet, I believe our wiki makes a large, unique, and much needed contribution to the Web.  - Michael