We will be hosting our course collections at PBworks.com (there are separate collections for each section of the course; see below). By now you should have received an email from me to your MIX account inviting you to join our class workspace. When you register for an account choose the path for education users, and sign up for the free basic account using your MIX email address.
You can access these workspaces via the following links:
- For the TT 1-2:15 section: engl303001.pbworks.com
- For the TT 4-5:15 section: engl303002.pbworks.com
You will add your projects to the “Table of Contents” page using the following format:
Title [bolded and linked to your project]
Author(s) name(s) [in italics]
Description of project. [A 3-4 sentence description of the purpose and format of the project with no special formatting (except where called for by the context). This description should be in full sentences.]
Here is an example using one of our course readings (the description is from the hosting site):
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
Brett Gaylor
The feature documentary RiP! A Remix Manifesto explores the complexities of intellectual property in the era of peer-to-peer file sharing. Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor interviews key figures in the debate, including the film’s central protagonist, Gregg Gillis, the Pittsburgh biomedical engineer who moonlights as Girl Talk, a mash-up artist rearranging the pop charts’ DNA with his incongruous, entirely sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Rip shatters the wall between users and producers, and challenges the thresholds of “fair use.”
This information for your multi-modal project should be added to your section’s “Table of Contents” by 8 a.m. on Monday, April 16. We will follow the same process to add information about your multimedia projects next week as you complete them.
A note about the wiki: PBworks only allows one user to edit a page at a time. For this reason, you should only log in to the site to add your information when it is edited and ready to post. If someone else is logged in, you have the option of “stealing the lock”; that is, taking the editing rights away from them. I would like to discourage you from doing this. First, it’s bad form: stealers never win (not “Steelers,” “stealers”), and winners never steal. Second, if you do this, the other person will lose their changes, which is also bad form. And, because it is possible to see who edited the page when, they will know who did it.
For this reason, plan on giving yourself plenty of time to add your description between now and Monday. That way, if you try to log in and edit the page and someone else is editing at that time, you will have time to come back and edit it later.