Class:Section 68, ENG112/Debrief IX
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Debrief X
Thanks for a great session yesterday. It was a mellow wiki day, eh? {Be warned: there will be no more of that!} Anyone who is comfortable letting Mike clean up the rest of your pages, please post him a message. Let the magicsofa know what you want him to take care of - the orphan pages and/or any 'fixes' to your own User page.
Don't forget I changed the due date for extra credit from this Thursday to next Tuesday (Oct whatever-that-is), and also, note that we will have a special observer in class this Thursday. (Great opportunity to act up and embarrass me, but coming prepared is still - ahem - advisable.)
Time management rules between now and Thursday's class, eh? Please figure out how to get all three assignments done. I'll do a better job of anticipating in the future so we don't get slammed with so much in a short time again. k? steph (COM) 06:57, 25 October 2006 (EDT)
If you are giving feedback to a Peer who posted in the wiki, remember to print out the page with your inserted feedback and bring it to class in John Adams! We will need them!
Previous debriefings are linked and logged:
Debrief Day 12
Debrief Day 11
Debrief Day 10 and copy of Homepage
Debrief Day 9
Debrief Days 8 and copy of Homepage at that time.
Debriefing Days 6 and 7
Debriefing Day 5
Debriefing Day 4 and before
Privacy Rules and Informed Consent
The new rules: (created by students during in-class discussion without Steph present)
- Think about your audience; parents, police, and administrators can and probably are reading.
- This is not Facebook; do not discuss student events when it can be avoided.
- Students shall strive for constructive criticism whenever possible.
- A "paper copy" only is permissable. - students must still agree to edit.
- All students may leave identifiable information out of wiki versions of their work.
- (edit - Jchalek 10:53, 12 October 2006 (EDT))
- No student may be compelled to sign up for the wiki with his or her real name.
Kate 15:37, 10 October 2006 (EDT) MarieKate 15:37, 10 October 2006 (EDT) Magicsofa 15:38, 10 October 2006 (EDT) SharonC 15:38, 10 October 2006 (EDT) --Evarney22 15:38, 10 October 2006 (EDT) MegFon 15:39, 10 October 2006 (EDT) --BennyBoomBoom 15:39, 10 October 2006 (EDT) --Dave 15:38, 10 October 2006 (EDT) Eirving 15:39, 10 October 2006 (EDT) Kathleenw 15:40, 10 October 2006 (EDT) Jemma-Joy Coster 15:40, 10 October 2006 (EDT) Sanowak 15:41, 10 October 2006 (EDT) --Starwars 15:41, 10 October 2006 (EDT) Lqi 15:37, 16 October 2006 (EDT)
Julia Naddeo --Aletr2elise 15:43, 10 October 2006 (EDT) Jchalek 21:21, 11 October 2006 (EDT)
- Hi everyone. It's going to take a week or two for all the ramifications of these rules to get figured out in practice. Some of them might require re-building (not a problem, just some time and learning how). I want to keep a history of our process in one location. For now, there is just the link to the section "Steph continues to write about YOU", but I hope to find time to backtrack to the other time/places where I made related announcements. Meanwhile, do post me a message or send me email if you've decided to pull anything off now that the reality of the site's public nature is established by experience. :-) A couple of you have already posted that you'd prefer to start with paper - awesome! I realized after class that I probably don't have to know this right away, since it will be a week before more writing is due. steph (COM) 21:51, 10 October 2006 (EDT)
ps - extra credit to whoever copyedits the list of rules! steph (COM) 21:53, 10 October 2006 (EDT)
Response from The Management™
Hey folks, GMorehou here. I think it's excellent that you are taking an active interest in your online privacy. Believe me, not enough people do. I do want to point out a few things however:
- Notable events are welcome on the current events and recurring events pages.
- It's likely possible for me to change usernames. I haven't installed the extension that allows me to do it, but one does exist. If you need a username changed (note that this may break signatures..) then contact me on my talk page.
- You can take up issues regarding deletion of content with me, though I'd prefer you figure out what to do about it with your teacher first.
Your presence is making UMassWiki a better place as I accommodate you all. It's also making MediaWiki (the software the wiki runs on) better. A bug that some of you ran across has been fixed because you found it and I reported it, and that fix is now live on Wikipedia which gets hundreds of thousands of users a day. --GMorehou(talk) 22:52, 10 October 2006 (EDT)
Word!--Dave 16:28, 11 October 2006 (EDT) Double word! steph (COM) 11:30, 12 October 2006 (EDT)
Response to the Response :-)
- Steph (continues) ... let's talk among ourselves first about changing usernames. Perhaps we can develop some consistency of coding so we can still recognize each other. Or maybe the class can generate alternate/identity-hiding nicknames for everyone who wants one. Or...something. But let's work it together, ok?
- So far, no messages about anyone wanting to "nuke" your work, removing it even from the history pages. let's compile a list together and send it to GMorehou so he can deal with them all at once rather than piecemeal, ok?
- One thought I had, after hearing from a couple of you about taking things down, is that it might be worth printing a hard copy first. If we need to refer back to it again for some reason then at least you'll still have it and we can make photocopies if necessary. steph (COM) 11:30, 12 October 2006 (EDT)
Class Introductions
Andrew Reynolds by Erin Varney
Ben Goldberg by --Aletr2elise 14:34, 19 September 2006 (EDT)
Brian Donnelly by --Michael Martel
David Kinzler by MegFon 14:38 19 September 2006 (EDT)
Elise Lehostky by --BennyBoomBoom 14:43, 19 September 2006 (EDT)
Emily Irving by Kate 15:28, 14 September 2006 (EDT)
Erin Varney by Andrew Reynolds
Julian by Jnaddeo 14:40, 19 September 2006 (EDT)
Kathleen Werner by Jemma-Joy Coster
Lincey Qi by SharonC 14:39, 19 September 2006 (EDT)
Marie by Kathleenw 14:50, 19 September 2006 (EDT)
Megan Fontecchio by Dave Kinzler --Dave
Nikki by Ahol19 14:37, 19 September 2006 (EDT)
Sharon Cannistra by Lqi 15:32, 14 September 2006 (EDT)
Kath by Neil --Kfitz1042 17:42, 29 September 2006 (EDT)
Spike Nowak by Jake Whitt Starwars 18:26, 5 October 2006 (EDT)
Writing Center
As I recommended in class yesterday, there is much "distraction" in many of your final drafts of the Personal/Identity Narrative. No matter what the reasons are for this situation (whether you were poorly taught, let slide, didn't try, and/or have consistently given it your best effort), the only way you're going to improve is to be persistent with seeking the explanations and noticing examples. Please, with all the fervor you know I can show (!), go to the Writing Center!
The Quiz
Quiz question #2 will build on quiz question #1. It will focus on analyzing the arguments made evident by statements for/against the primacy of written (text-based) over spoken (face-to-face) communication. The kind of analysis I'm looking for was explained in the clarification I posted concerning the development of a conversation about similarities and differences. steph (COM) 14:03, 13 October 2006 (EDT)
Appointments II with Steph
Round Two sign-ups start now. Fifteen minute sessions. (I've scheduled 20 minutes sessions so I can breathe in between appointments. Please humor me!) Please come prepared with specific questions.
- Student concerns to date: commas, tense, run-on sentences, strategies and/or focus for the Unit 1 personal/identity narrative, wiki lessons, the 80-page writing practice notebook, overall course criteria, grammar (in general), getting to the argument/point, not wanting to "start over" (but you're not! You're developing anew building on what you've already produced/learned!) steph (COM) 11:24, 7 October 2006 (EDT) Additions: freewriting (when, how), those 50 base points, providing constructive peer review feedback, .... steph (COM) 12:10, 19 October 2006 (EDT)
The Future
Monday, October 30, 2006 is the last day a student may withdraw from a course and receive a W on his/her transcript. If you believe you are in danger of receiving a "D" or an "F" from this course, see me. (No one is - at least not to date - but, if you're worried...let's talk.)
A MAJORS FAIR is upcoming on OCTOBER 25, 2006. Thank you, English Department Blast. steph (COM) 12:13, 7 October 2006 (EDT)
Journey in Words: 25 Years of the Writing Program is the theme for this year's Celebration of Writing Festival. There will be a Best Essay Contest. As a class, I'm thinking that we might consider the production of a class magazine as preparation and screening for this contest.
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