Course Syllabus Spring 2007:Weblogs and Wikis

Course Syllabus Spring 2007

unfolds as the course progresses

Weds 24 Jan

intros
CourseStatement2007
the course blog: The Daybook.

for Friday, Jan 26: Look around

Try to get back to this page from wherever you typically work. cal.bemidjistate.edu/blogs/
Read the CourseStatement2007. Questions?
Read Yang, chaps 1 - 3 and 5: blog hosts, blog names and taglines, finging blogs... (Blood, chap 3.)
Come with a name for your first blog.
View blogs on the BlogSites page and on the [http://calstaging.bemidjistate.edu/morgan/blogsandwikis/ old Daybook]

Fri 26 Jan - over the weekend

Start a blog at http://www.blogger.com
Email me your blog address on blogspot: Go to your blog, then copy the url into an email message addressed to mmorgan@bemidjistate.edu. I'll add it to the blog roll.
I'll be sending you email invitation to join the collective Daybook blog for this course. Respond to that invitation and you'll be registered on the Daybook. Once you're registered, the Daybook blog will appear on your page when you visit Blogger. It will also appear in a menu on your Blogger Dashboard.
Start the activities on the SettingUpAWeblogPart1 assignment for Monday. Includes some reading in Blood and Yang.
Visit The Daybook regularly.

Mon 29 Jan

debrief: problems, questions, successes
Visit The Daybook and some blogs.
linking
setting up a blogroll
for Weds: continue activities in SettingUpAWeblogPart1: read Blood, chap 1, and Yang, chap 8 and 9. Bring the texts to class.
Visit some of your colleagues blogs and leave comments. Can visit emeritus blogs, too. The blogs are on The Daybook
to make it easier to link to pages, add the Blog This! bookmarklet.

Weds 31 Jan

inclass exercise on Blood, chap 1: kinds, genres, topics, approaches
Visit The Daybook regularly.
To make it easier to link to pages, add the Blog This! bookmarklet.
For Friday, read Blood, chaps 2 and 3, and review chap 1, to get a sense of what bloggers do, and why. Comment on these chapters on your blog.

Fri 2 Feb

groups present and discuss blogs, notebooks, and filters. On The Daybook. Consider blog genres and categories from Yang, chap 12 and see BlogGenres
BloggingBlogsExercise. Due Saturday, 10 Feb, dawn.
Finish SettingUpAWeblogPart1 exercises for Sunday evening, Feb 4. Blog three other bloggers in the class. Link to a particular post and comment on what they are doing.

Mon 5 Feb

BloggingObservationsAndStrategies
Assignment for Weds discussion: Blood, chap 4

Weds 7 Feb

Discussion and exercise on Blood, chap 4
By this time, you should be done with activities in SettingUpAWeblogPart1. Congratulations.
Reminder: BloggingBlogsExercise due on Sat Feb 10, dawn.

Fri 9 Feb

Discussion: Blogs in Society: Power, Carnivals, Buzz, and Lodgers
Blogs will Change Your Business, Business Week
"The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas", Farrell, Chronicle of Higher Ed (in print)
The Lodge
Blog for buzz: http://www.vibrant.com/blog/: what makes an effective post?

Mon 12 Feb

- intro to the wiki: collaboration, social text, hypertext

Orientation video.
GettingStarted
SettingUpAWikiNamePage for Weds
Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not, Brian Lamb

Weds 14 Feb

Note on linking
Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not, Brian Lamb
Social literacies: Some observations about writing and wikis, Ulises Ali Mejias at Ideant
WikiTourPage
WritingInThreadModeExercise, part 1, working in WideOpenSpaces

Fri 16 Feb

No face to face meeting. Work on WritingInThreadModeExercise, part 1

Weds 21 Feb

questions on the ProjectProposalAssignment
moving towards DocumentMode
meet f2f: wiki
does wiki matter? or TrueWikiness
HowTheWikiChangesWriting

Select a content page on the wiki. (Not a WikiName page, and not the syllabus, thanks.) If you can't find one, create one. Work with the page to add / start / refactor the page into DocumentMode. You may leave the threads if you wish, or cut those that you've refactored into the document section. See RefactoringPages.

Be brave. Be thorough. Write to make the DocumentMode better than the original threads.

Fri 23 Feb

reminder: ProjectProposalAssignment due Sat, 7:00 am. Snow coming!
reminder: Refactoring a wiki page due Mon, 26 Feb, classtime.
CreativeCommonsLicensing
http://creativecommons.org/support/videos#wwt
http://creativecommons.org/support/videos#gc
http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/how1
AboutThisWiki

Mon, 26 Feb

Look over projects. Discuss options. free wiki.
Wetpaint, PBWiki, WikiSpaces, WikiDot - check Wikipedia: Wiki farms
Those approved: Hand in as hardcopy.
Final face to face meeting for a while.
Set up wiki admin meeting for wiki users: Wednesday classtime
Projects not granted should be resubmitted by Wednesday
Use the Daybook for announcements and to keep up with what's happening while we're away. Expect a couple of assignments, and check in frequently.
some refactoring of note

Weds 28 Feb

Wiki Admins meet at usual time
blogsandwikis Documentation
User Settings
Actions
Controlling access to a page
Talk to me about uploading files / images to the wiki server
Set up pages for visitors. Below are examples from this wiki to borrow from and adapt.

Fri 2 Mar

Projects have started!

I've added the projects to the Daybook blogroll. If your link doesn't go anywhere, email me the url to your new blog. A couple people need to finish the revision to their project proposals and let me know when they are ready. Then I can link the project in.

Stay on this: I need to get everyone linked in this weekend. Break is coming fast.

I'll be getting back to those who worked on the refactoring this weekend or Monday.

Sun 18 Mar

BSU is officially back in session starting Monday morning, Mar 19. The assignment for the week

Use the time get a burst of work done on your project.
Pay a few informal visits to other projects that interest you. Leave some comments, even a hello. Let each other know you're alive and well.
Keep an eye on those project calendars.

Go to the MidTermDiscussion2007 page
Go into edit mode.
Select all the text on that page.
Copy it.
Cancel out of the editing.
Go to your WikiName page.
Start a new page titled MidTermReflectionYourWikiName.
Paste the text from the MidTermDiscussion2007 page into that page.
Work through the questions. Select, add, delete, rephrase them as appropriate. Use them to guide your consideration.

Due Friday, 30 Mar, classtime.

14 April: Updated calendar

We start meeting again face to face on Monday, 23 April to debrief, do in-class studio tours, and plan presentations.
Presentations run Mon, 30 April - Weds, 9 May.
Watch for an online assignment on Fri, 13 April. cancelled.

Weblogs and Wikis : CourseSyllabusSpring2007