Thanks to the COM352 students for contributing a bunch of new pages! I'll be moving these pages into the main area of the wiki soon.

From UMassWiki

Begin!

There are a few projects already looming (says Steph^(talk) 10:25, 8 October 2007 (EDT)):

1. Christine and I began discussing Creative Commons' licensing last week (maybe you could copy and paste our conversation in here for everyone to read?)
2. I'm not sure how to approach editing for basic spelling errors and general sloppiness. For instance, the Reflection Letter excerpts are rife with silly mistakes - folks typing in a hurry. We need to not make it too easy for the rest of the class not to care, and, we don't want to let things slide. This will require some coordination.
3. Consider your individual strengths and wishes/visions for the design. Some of you have more experience than others; you need to approach this as a team effort. The goal is learning for everyone, not a delegation of separate tasks that you each take care of on your own.
4. Feel free to re-arrange things on the Homepage (or experiment with alternatives on any Page's associated Discussion Page, then - after testing (input/feedback/tweaking) you can move to the Homepage (and other pages). Please create a copy of the Homepage as it is before replacing it: note how I've done it in the Archives. This is probably a good practice for any collective pages so that we can more easily retrieve past versions if we need to track something down or want to revert to an older version for some reason.
5. You may also design your own WikiTeam page to make it useful for you all - and me! It would be great to have your links here, and you can make draft pages from here as well...ideally, the work will be centralized so that any of us can find it if/when necessary.

Huh?

Techno Pimps?

Is this what we call ourselves?

Pasta sauce 16:49, 11 October 2007 (EDT)

FIRST PLANNING MEETING

Tuesday, October 23 after class.

Notes

One reason I make so many table of contents entries and pages is so I can easily link to specific content in the future. Hmmmm. That's the reason for the impulse behind creating Serious Wiki Planning. Steph^(talk) 19:53, 23 October 2007 (EDT)

An example....?

If you get a chance, check this out: The Daily Brewin. Click through to see the wikicourseproduct created at UCLA. Steph^(talk) 15:19, 23 October 2007 (EDT)

License

As to the pictures, we need (as a class) to have a conversation about the risk of putting images onto the Internet, especially without copyright protection. One of the things the wiki editorial team could investigate is what type of Creative Commons license to put on the site. You can definitely post any of you, but we will need individual authorization for images of anyone else before we can post them, ok?

Here's the post on my discussion page about the licensing.

thoughts from July, 2006

The Digital Communication Lapse

ElR6 11:11, 29 October 2007 (EDT)

El Arsix's thoughs from 30 October 2007

Framework Elements

ElR6 15:47, 30 October 2007 (EDT)

WikiTemplate page

This is a new page with all the Wiki templates that I designed. Enjoy (or don't).

Marco 16:24, 30 October 2007 (EDT)

I really Like

I really like the new set up. Useful pages as the most recent and demanding parts of wiki that the classes need and also having a SEPARATE section for the old material we have covered. I would like to clean up the homework page a little bit but I'm not sure how. When is the next meeting? --Jwanamak 16:27, 4 November 2007 (EST)

SECOND Planning Meeting

Was held at the Blue Wall (October 30), mostly we talked theory (ElR6's links above) and made a plan to move ahead with something concrete, ideally a template to paste onto all user pages with important links. The THIRD Planning Meeting will occur when Steph returns from the Middle East, in the meantime, work must be done among yourselves! Steph^(talk) 19:25, 5 November 2007 (EST)

UserPage Template

Userpage

Elarsix contributes...

User Page Template

I created a template for user pages. It is located here:
Template:COM375_Userpage

The guide for using a template is here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates#Using_a_template

I can walk the class through the process of setting theirs up on thursday, or we can just do it for them.

ElR6 15:42, 6 November 2007 (EST)

Wetpaint Wiki

I came accross a really interesting wiki. It's closer to my ideal WACS, but still lacks in many areas (mainly organization and presentation). But the main thing is how the wiki pages and the forum discussions are directly linked. idealy this allows first time visitors (or shallow visitors) to read everything important before diving into the more "in progress" discussion forums. A Forum entry can also be morphed into a wiki page. Very interesting, eh?

Wetpaint

Wetpaint: Learning the Wiki Way

ElR6 17:51, 7 November 2007 (EST)

COM375 Alert Box Template

You can edit the Alert box that appears on the class page, and the userpage template here:
Template:COM375_Alert

ElR6 12:59, 8 November 2007 (EST)

another wiki resource from previous students

a short introduction to the world of wiki

Time to GET SERIOUS

First Wiki-Ezine adapted from the Class Magazine: Wiki World, Fall 2006. Second Wiki-Ezine adapted from the Class Magazine: Piecing It Together, Spring 2007.

ENG112 Team

1. Please fix this page: Class:ENG112_-_Section_36_-_Fall_2007/Reflection_Letters so that all first excerpts are embedded under the first section "FIRST Reflections" and establish a second section for "SECOND Reflections." Start thinking about how you will redesign these excerpts into a single document reflecting/introducing the cumulative learning of you and your peers during this semester.
2. Confirm everyone is included in the roster AND is hotlinked.
3. Create a separate page with links to everyone's anonymous weblogs. Do Not Give Identities Away!
4. Confirm everyone has an introduction sentence that leads to their introduction. Consider if this is the way to "permanently" (meaning, as our final product) introduce students as writers. Should these be integrated with the roster?
5. Confirm that everyone posted an updated rewrite of their introduction (check history to find the latest date). Please compile a list of who has/hasn't.
6. imagine how to integrate the final magazine product with the other main themes of our class: the interacting with Art Objects essays, and the blogs - especially those about Hawai'i and Palestine, for me :-). What other elements (themes, threads, dynamics, etc) of our class need to be highlighted or considered in terms of deliberate integration into the final Wiki product?
7. Notice that last spring's CourseWiki is featured on the UMassWiki Homepage.

More from Steph^(talk) 15:35, 29 November 2007 (EST)

1. Creative Commons - which type, how? Who. Do it. (Unless we need to talk with the class first? About what?)
2. Photos? How, who, why? Places? Artwork? WHAT ELSE as a resource (your future) and contribution (legacy)?
3. Intros (by format and feedback from Ari's students) ~ WikiTeam, how to integrate? (One sample, we have several threads to interweave, somehow....what, how (prioritization, e.g., visibility, embeddedness, etc).

COM375 Team

1. Teach me and the ENG112 Team about the Alert Box and Making Templates. Make a tutorial, please, for future reference.
2. I still want a template with internal links to my usertalk page, the homework page, the course main page (for both COM and ENG wikis).
3. List of minor assignments.
4. List of blog topics worth tracking.
5. Development of the Flogging essays?
6. Start to imagine your own final product along similar lines as the questions posed to the ENG112 Team above.

• Create a separate page with links to everyone's anonymous weblogs. Do Not Give Identities Away!
• What is foregrounded? I'm thinking the final "big" research papers is the main thing.
• What other elements (themes, threads, dynamics, etc) of our class need to be highlighted or considered in terms of deliberate integration into the final Wiki product?