Class:Section 68, ENG112/archive01
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Kate busts Steph. Comments follow. (Is teasing permissable?)
Class in John Adams on Thursday. Dave is still building his biceps lugging that ancient (circa 2000, lawlz!) taperecorder around. (We'll take a vote after listening as to whether it was worth his effort or not, k?) Bring your texts! steph (COM) 22:05, 10 October 2006 (EDT)
Kate busts Steph. Comments follow. (Is teasing permissable?)
Class in John Adams Thursday. Dave is still building his biceps lugging that ancient (circa 2000, lawlz!) taperecorder around. (We'll take a vote after listening as to whether it was worth his effort or not, k?) Bring your texts! steph (COM) 22:05, 10 October 2006 (EDT)
Debrief VII
See the message from UMassWiki Administrator GMorehou: our class has helped the tech folk who write the software for MediaWiki (our platform) to make an important improvement. :-) Way to go, folks! steph (COM) 19:54, 10 October 2006 (EDT)
Any of you who have concerns about your work after your great brainstorming session today, please let me know if you want anything removed. You've got two choices: delete it from the current page (it will go into the history and be basically unsearchable except by a person with much determination) or we can ask GMorehou to "nuke" it (which will remove it permanently).
Personally, I am quite excited about our progress as a class and very proud of all of you. Figuring out the public/private distinction, what "belongs" in each space, and when/if you want your work to be public are crucial skills for achieving your ambitions in the information age. Meanwhile, I can hardly wait to read your final Narratives. :-) steph (COM) 19:54, 10 October 2006 (EDT)
The first round of scheduling Appointments with Steph will CLOSE at the beginning of class this Thursday. Those of you who have not yet met with me (for whatever reason) should hurry up and join Andrew. Also, don't forget the Library Research opportunities, and other notable upcoming events.
Previous debriefings are linked and logged:
Debrief Day 11 and copy of Homepage
Debrief Day 10
Debrief Days 8 and 9 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)
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)
Response to the Response :-)
- Double word! steph (COM) 11:30, 12 October 2006 (EDT) And... 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)
Appointments with Steph
We'll be moving into Round Two sign-ups after class on Thursday. Those of you yet to meet with me, please come prepared: bring a copy of any work that you want to discuss with me and have some specific questions ready to ask.
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)
Getting ready for research
LIBRARY TRAINING SESSIONS (This info courtesy of the English Department "Blast" - the weekly newsletter to everyone teaching English 111 and 112.)
Navigating the library can be difficult. Navigating the library electronically can be overwhelming. In order to help you, help your students learn their way through databases and the other services the library offers, we have scheduled several training sessions. These hands-on-sessions will be taught by one of the university librarians and will be focused on how to introduce your students to research. Sessions are scheduled for the following times:
Thursday, October 12 – 11:15-12:30 Tuesday, October 17 – 11:15-12:30 Thursday, October 19 – 11:15-12:30 Monday, October 23 – 4:00-5:00pm
All sessions will be held in the Calipari Room in the library. (The Calipari Room is in the Learning Commons.)
Note from Steph: Feel free (!) to use references (as in actually cite them and include a bibliography) beginning now. :-)
The Quiz
I moved all the information related to quiz question #1 to that page. Brace yourself for quiz question #2 coming up next week. :-) steph (COM) 10:06, 30 September 2006 (EDT)
Wiki Day Schedule
These are the dates class meets in Goodell 613.
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
At any time that you want extra eyes on your writing and another mind to consider improvements, please feel free to visit the Writing Center.
The Future
A MAJORS FAIR is upcoming on OCTOBER 25, 2006. Thank you, English Department Blast. steph (COM) 12:13, 7 October 2006 (EDT)
As a class, we have some projects to complete collectively. This wiki is one of them. We will also produce a class magazine at some point: a print collection of class writings. Another goal some of you may wish to keep in mind is the end-of-semester gala known as the Hoopla. (posted approximately September 21)
How to run a good wiki class
To Do List
- Jemma, I rearranged your answer to me on your User talk page...that's how I want you to do it, ok?
- Andrew - please go in to your Intro of Erin and sign it with YOUR sig, not hers. I know you were working together on this, but otherwise it looks like Erin wrote about herself from another personality or something.
- Erin, you might want to change the section headings around so it's clear which is you writing and which is someone else.......and how about getting rid of the / in front of every link? Do you remember what you have to do? Use |
- Sharon, can you and Linsey clean up your User talk (discussion) page? Delete her intro of you, and move her response to you about your Intro of her to your User page. Please place it second (right after the Intro).
- Brian, you posted to Mike's User talk page instead of his User page. Please make the move!
- Andrew, you and Erin both need to write back to each other now about the introductions. Andrew, write to Erin about your response to what she wrote about you (post it on her User page). Erin, vice-versa.
- Adam, Mike, Jemma, Jake and Emily - your response letters concerning your Introductions are missing. These were supposed to be done during class. This is not good. Please post here when you get this done. steph (COM) 22:34, 20 September 2006 (EDT)
- Several of you added links for your papers for extra credit; Emily added another layer, "First Semester Papers", to the process. Here's the question, do we want all of this to be done uniformly, and if not, how soon do we allow individual variation/creativity? Remember that others (who do not know what is going on here) will have to be able to find their way around the site...
- Julian used an external link to respond to one of my questions! steph (COM) 00:51, 21 September 2006 (EDT)
- How to get Neil and Kathleen on board and up-to-speed (not exactly make-up work, but current equivalence)
- post links to the four pieces used in class for the small group activity on identity/position (Dave on Jemma's, Kate on Dave's, Jemma's, Dave's)
- post links to the three types of personal/identity essays
- sign up for 15-20 minute conferences with Steph in Bartlett 68
- link to Adam's free write
- I didn't know if I should reply in the middle of the list or here...anyway I just got really confused about the Introduction letter and then realized I already posted it. A bit late but um...I did it! Magicsofa 09:41, 25 September 2006 (EDT)
Syllabus and Grading Policy
The general requirements and syllabus for all sections of English 112, including this one (#68) are available from the English Department's webpage. The required course texts are listed, along with an introduction, goals, and philosophy of this course.
The specific grading schema for Section 68 is two tiered. Half the credit revolves around points you lose for not doing the basic assignments and other commonly accepted elements of being a committed learner. The other half of credit involves the actual quality of your writing, with a particular emphasis on improvement.
Identity/Position
More on this, upcoming. Did anyone copy the notes I wrote on the board? Or keep notes for your group? If someone could post a summary of the identity/position stances for your group I'll give extra credit points. (Stock up now! Don't forget punctuation deductions coming soon to a final draft near you! You could create a new page from right here and post by group number...come on, make my day!)
FREE WRITE RULES
Class:Section 68, ENG112/Free Write
Getting ready for research
LIBRARY TRAINING SESSIONS (This info courtesy of the English Department "Blast" - the weekly newsletter to everyone teaching English 111 and 112.)
Navigating the library can be difficult. Navigating the library electronically can be overwhelming. In order to help you, help your students learn their way through databases and the other services the library offers, we have scheduled several training sessions. These hands-on-sessions will be taught by one of the university librarians and will be focused on how to introduce your students to research. Sessions are scheduled for the following times:
Thursday, October 12 – 11:15-12:30 Tuesday, October 17 – 11:15-12:30 Thursday, October 19 – 11:15-12:30 Monday, October 23 – 4:00-5:00pm
All sessions will be held in the Calipari Room in the library. (The Calipari Room is in the Learning Commons.)
Note from Steph: Feel free (!) to use references (as in actually cite them and include a bibliography) beginning now. :-)
The Quiz
I moved all the information related to quiz question #1 to that page. Brace yourself for quiz question #2 coming up next week. :-) steph (COM) 10:06, 30 September 2006 (EDT)
Wiki Day Schedule
These are the dates class meets in Goodell 613.
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
At any time that you want extra eyes on your writing and another mind to consider improvements, please feel free to visit the Writing Center.
The Future
A MAJORS FAIR is upcoming on OCTOBER 25, 2006. Thank you, English Department Blast. steph (COM) 12:13, 7 October 2006 (EDT)
As a class, we have some projects to complete collectively. This wiki is one of them. We will also produce a class magazine at some point: a print collection of class writings. Another goal some of you may wish to keep in mind is the end-of-semester gala known as the Hoopla. (posted approximately September 21)
How to run a good wiki class
To Do List
- Jemma, I rearranged your answer to me on your User talk page...that's how I want you to do it, ok?
- Andrew - please go in to your Intro of Erin and sign it with YOUR sig, not hers. I know you were working together on this, but otherwise it looks like Erin wrote about herself from another personality or something.
- Erin, you might want to change the section headings around so it's clear which is you writing and which is someone else.......and how about getting rid of the / in front of every link? Do you remember what you have to do? Use |
- Sharon, can you and Linsey clean up your User talk (discussion) page? Delete her intro of you, and move her response to you about your Intro of her to your User page. Please place it second (right after the Intro).
- Brian, you posted to Mike's User talk page instead of his User page. Please make the move!
- Andrew, you and Erin both need to write back to each other now about the introductions. Andrew, write to Erin about your response to what she wrote about you (post it on her User page). Erin, vice-versa.
- Adam, Mike, Jemma, Jake and Emily - your response letters concerning your Introductions are missing. These were supposed to be done during class. This is not good. Please post here when you get this done. steph (COM) 22:34, 20 September 2006 (EDT)
- Several of you added links for your papers for extra credit; Emily added another layer, "First Semester Papers", to the process. Here's the question, do we want all of this to be done uniformly, and if not, how soon do we allow individual variation/creativity? Remember that others (who do not know what is going on here) will have to be able to find their way around the site...
- Julian used an external link to respond to one of my questions! steph (COM) 00:51, 21 September 2006 (EDT)
- How to get Neil and Kathleen on board and up-to-speed (not exactly make-up work, but current equivalence)
- post links to the four pieces used in class for the small group activity on identity/position (Dave on Jemma's, Kate on Dave's, Jemma's, Dave's)
- post links to the three types of personal/identity essays
- sign up for 15-20 minute conferences with Steph in Bartlett 68
- link to Adam's free write
- I didn't know if I should reply in the middle of the list or here...anyway I just got really confused about the Introduction letter and then realized I already posted it. A bit late but um...I did it! Magicsofa 09:41, 25 September 2006 (EDT)
Syllabus and Grading Policy
The general requirements and syllabus for all sections of English 112, including this one (#68) are available from the English Department's webpage. The required course texts are listed, along with an introduction, goals, and philosophy of this course.
The specific grading schema for Section 68 is two tiered. Half the credit revolves around points you lose for not doing the basic assignments and other commonly accepted elements of being a committed learner. The other half of credit involves the actual quality of your writing, with a particular emphasis on improvement.
Identity/Position
More on this, upcoming. Did anyone copy the notes I wrote on the board? Or keep notes for your group? If someone could post a summary of the identity/position stances for your group I'll give extra credit points. (Stock up now! Don't forget punctuation deductions coming soon to a final draft near you! You could create a new page from right here and post by group number...come on, make my day!)
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