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From WRIT-2510 Spring 2007 Wiki

Greetings and salutations students of WRIT 2510, sections 3 and 4 Spring 2007:

Welcome to our class wiki. Go ahead, do it, pretend you're Fozzy Bear. Say "Wokka, Wokka, wiki." Ok, now that that's out of your system let's get down to business. This will be our class wiki and as wikis go, it will be an inherently collaborative space. Although we discussed wikis briefly in class yesterday, if you're not sure what a wiki is, or you want a reminder, you may want to read a little more about them here or here.

We'll be using the class wiki to do a lot of different tasks. You'll turn your wiki posts and responses in here. You will use the space to work in groups. You will create some collective knowledge over teh course of the semester. You should be respectful of one another's hard work and not deliberately delete material without good rhetorical purpose. If you do end up playing the saboteur you will find your posting privileges suspended which will make it awfully hard to turn in your work (hint, hint). Y'all seem like a good group, however, so I don't expect we'll have much of that silliness going on.

As I mentioned in class, we will be doing a lot of collaborative learning this semester. As an instructor what I enjoy most about teaching is what I learn from my students, and I'm excited about this wiki space providing a medium in which you can be a co-contributor to the class. Now, since this is such a new medium for many of us (your instructor included), I'm requesting your patience and good will as we discover together how this works and how it will work best for our class purposes. Remember that this space enables collaboration among WWWW students in both sections I'm teaching, so you may be responding to the work of someone you have not yet had the opportunity to interact with in class. When doing so, please be extra cautious to frame your discourse in a constructive manner. Couretousness and politeness go along way in "greasing" the wheels of social interaction whether online or in face to face situations.

Please note that one of the key features of a wiki is that anyone can edit anything. The one thing you can't do is "take it back." You may post something silly and then erase it immediately, but the wiki is like an elephant and it never forgets. So, whatever silly thing you posted still lives on the history--consider yourself warned.

For now, I've set up a few help pages that should walk you through basic things like creating an internal link, an external link (to another website say), including an image, and establishing some hierarchy for postings.

The organizational process for now (meaning this is subject to change if we decide as a group that a different organizational structure will work better) will be as follows:

Teaching the Raven Using Technology

In Class Activities

Sample Final Learning Records

Topic Proposal Essay 1.1 Due 1/26/07

Document Exchange

Discussion of Bolter Ch 1-2

Discussion of Bolter Ch 3-4

Discussion of Bolter Ch 5-6

Discussion of Dove Video and Visual Rhetoric

Discussion of Lessig

Discussion of Teacher Prison Sentence

Discussion Of Wikipedia Postings