Posted in Assignments, Projects on 2 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This week, Wednesday and Thursday, final project groups will do brief presentations on their project sites. These presentations should be relatively informal. For individual projects, plan to take about 10 minutes to present. For groups, about 15 minutes. Presentations should address the following:
How did you decide on your project idea(s)?
What were your sources of information? [...]
Posted in Assignments, Class Activities, Projects, Weblogs on 27 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We are fast approaching the end of the fifth week of class. This coming weekend is the last before individual weblogs and final project weblogs are due, and also the last before the final exam, which comes on Friday 6 July.
Use the remaining time wisely. Be sure you are up to date with the individual [...]
Posted in Class Activities, Projects, Weblogs on 22 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I said that today we would continue our examination of Wikipedia and open source/collaborative production, but we will do that instead on Monday in order for people to have time to review material linked at yesterday’s entry.
Instead today we will have a work/consultation day. I recommend that you use the class time today to [...]
Posted in Class Activities, Projects on 20 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today in class we will have a play day – time to work on your project sites. Our focus today will be on building your community of readers by promoting your site. The internet is a big place and you will need to put some attention into building your profile in order to make it [...]
Posted in Projects on 18 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We have now been working on the final project weblogs for one week (just a bit more, actually). Though this doesn’t seem like much time, it means that 25% of the time dedicated to your project has passed, and you should have done 25% of the work for the project by now. At this [...]
Posted in Projects on 14 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By now you should have done the following:
Formed your final project group
Decided on the topic(s) for your weblog
Set up the project weblog and given account access to all group members
Posted the web address as a comment on this entry
Begun posting material to your group site (an average of three entries per week starting 11 June)
IF [...]
Posted in Projects, Tips and Guidelines, Weblogs on 12 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To create a group weblog:
One person creates the weblog;
From the dashboard of that weblog, the creator should click on “Users”;
Under “Users”, scroll down to “Add user from the community”;
Put the email your group member used to create a WordPress account in the box, select the user permission level (administrator, editor, or whatever), and click the [...]
Posted in Assignments, Projects, Tips and Guidelines, Weblogs on 12 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The following guidelines for citing sources apply to all material submitted for this course:
Citing sources of information is essential in academic writing and in journalism (as well as in other contexts). The major reasons for citing sources are:
To acknowledge work done by others;
To demonstrate the value of your own writing by showing that you have [...]
Posted in Class Activities, Projects on 11 June 2007 | 12 Comments »
Today is the deadline for creating your groups for final projects and choosing a topic to explore in the project. In class today I will be meeting briefly with each group to discuss your project. During class, each project group should please post a comment to this message in which you provide the names of [...]
Posted in Assignments, Projects on 6 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You will notice on your course outline an item titled “Final Projects.” The project assignment is as follows:
Weblogs are one type of new information technology that provides many users with the opportunity to publish their ideas widely at minimal cost. You have already created your own weblogs to use for course writing. Your final project [...]
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