(Originally published 11/7/12)
This week my Media History and Institutions class completed a collaborative research project that worked out pretty well. Each student was asked to research one of the largest individual donors to this election cycle's four largest Super PACs, and to report their findings on a collaborative class wiki. Students gathered information about that donor from ProPublica's PAC Track tool, Bloomberg Businessweek's company look-up tool, reputable citations at the bottom of their donor's Wikipedia article, and the power and influence mapping website, Muckety.com. The information they were asked to gather included: the donor's giving levels to Super PACs, their economic/political/ideological motivations, and their connections to other wealthy people and powerful groups. They completed the project in conjunction with a reading on the history of "dark money" in politics and political advertising.
Here are the directions for the project and the collaborative class wiki where students reported their findings. Feel free to borrow what you'd like.
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