Hicksapedia

About the Website

Welcome to Hicksapedia, created by Mr. Hicks’ Classes of 2023 and 2024. This website is a big necessity for the current class, since they will need it to look for research on the RMS Titanic in order to complete the Titanic term paper. The students will be using this website to look at different factors that could have affected the Titanic’s sinking. For more information about the essay, please look at the About The Paper page.

For the making of this year’s Hicksapedia, the students took a different approach to create it. Instead of restarting and making a new Hicksapedia, this year we are, “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants” by improving, adding on, and modifying the work of the students the year prior, making the Wiki more user friendly. In other words, we tried to focus more on "user experience".

This year we are also emphasizing more on the effect of “collective intelligence”. We are doing this by making it so that every group has great communication leading to the Wiki to be at its best potential. A few of the methods that groups are using are making group chats, creating reminders to get on a Google Doc at the same time, and more.

It is hoped that the next class (and any other future classes) will enjoy this website and eventually "Stand on the Shoulders of the People standing on the Shoulders of Giants".