Updated plan during reading days

Oct 05
2010
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I just wanted to post a few reminders and an updated schedule for winding up unit one.

Turning in Posters and Copyright papers

According to my list, most of you are turning in either the poster or the copyright paper on Thursday. If you are turning an assignment in Thursday and have not let me know yet, please do so by the end of class today. You will turn your assignment in Thursday by 5:00 pm to the metal bin to the right of my office door (Eddy 330). At 5:00 pm I will collect all the papers and posters. If I am expecting an assignment from you and it is not there because it got lost somehow, I will email you immediately to let you know, and you must be able to successfully email me your assignment by 8:00 pm in order for it to be considered on time. This means that you must maintain an electronic copy of your poster and copyright paper! Even if you successfully submit a hard copy of your assignment, you will still need the electronic copy so that you can include it in your personal website, the unit two project.

Blogs grade reports and due dates

Everyone should have received a blog grade report and comments from me this morning via email. If you did not, please let me know ASAP so I can resend it. If you were waiting for your report before posting your fourth post (due Oct. 1), I will give you full credit for it as long as it is posted by the end of the day tomorrow, Wednesday, October 6. Remember that you have your fifth blog post due this Friday. Additionally, in some of the blog comments I indicated that I would regrade a post or about page if you revised. Those revisions are due Friday at noon along with your fifth post. Please email me to let me know if you make any of suggested revisions so I know to reread.

Web 2.0 research project

I am still grading annotations, and I apologize for taking so long with this. This is the first semester I have structured the annotation portion of this assignment this way, and it is taking much longer than I thought to get through them all. Now that all the presentations are done, I will tally up each student’s grade on the whole project and send it out in an individual email. You will still have a chance to revise annotations four and five and make any changes I suggested for the overall blog in the group comments you received last week. My plan is to get your scores to you by Friday so that you have the weekend to make any revisions. Exact revision due dates will accompany the grade sheets.

Web tutorials

Over reading days, your primary job is to work through the W3Schools HTML and CSS tutorials and write your summary of what you learned. We will spend time in class learning both of these coding languages, so don’t worry if you don’t understand everything. You also have one article to read for Tuesday, October 12, so see the daily schedule for the link.

Group evaluation forms

Please submit your group evaluation form for the presentation portion of the Web 2.0 project. You can email it to me by the end of the week. Your incentive for doing so is up to 5 bonus points on the project.

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To do list through reading days

Sep 30
2010
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OK folks. Here’s the plan for now through Tuesday, October 12, which is our first class meeting after our reading days break.

  1. Remember that you have your fourth individual blog post due tomorrow. I am working on getting each of you comments on your blogs, so I’ll extend the deadline for the fourth post from noon to the end of the day tomorrow.
  2. Today I am passing out the second round of comments on the overall quality of the group research blogs so that you can discuss them briefly with your group members during the last 10 minutes of class and decide what revisions you would like to make. I will email individual comments on the annotations, and you may revise annotations 3 and 4 to raise your score if you would like. So that you have time to work on the individual blog post and the research blog revisions, the due date for any changes to the group blog will be the end of the day Sunday. I will assign final grades for the research blogs on Monday morning. If you make changes to your annotations, email me so I know to reread them.
  3. You may choose to turn in either (not both!) your poster or your copyright paper next Thursday, October 7 instead of Tuesday, October 5. Please let me know today by the end of class if you plan to turn in one of these assignments on the 7th. If you are turning something in on the 7th, submit it to the metal bin to the right of my office door (Eddy 330) by 5:00 pm. I will pick up the assignments at that time.
  4. Over the reading days break, you will work on the W3Schools tutorials and write your second tutorial summary Tuesday, October 12. See the tutorial homework page for details. There is also one article to read, which will introduce us to the topic of visual rhetoric on the web (see the Unit 2 daily schedule for the article).
  5. The Unit 2 daily schedule is up for your review. Please let me know if you have any questions.
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reminders, announcements, & clarifications

Sep 22
2010
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I’ve had a few questions about assignments, etc. and I have a few announcements about logistical items, so I thought I would compile everything into one post that you can refer to. Here it goes:

Announcements

  • I have changed my office hours to Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:15-4:15 pm. I will be holding these office hours in our classroom, Eddy 4, instead of in my office. My reason for this is because as we begin our more technical projects, most of your questions for me will involve the computer programs we will be using, and our classroom is the best place for us to work on those issues. This also allows you to stay after class and work on your projects for an additional hour, with me there to troubleshoot. If you need to speak with me in a more private setting, just let me know and we can set up a time to meet in my office.
  • We are nearing the end of the research phase of the Web 2.0 Research Project, and I will be asking you all to fill out a form rating your performance on the project thus far as well as your group members’ performance. The purpose of this form is to let me know if there are any problems developing in the groups—I want to make sure everyone is doing their fair share of the work. I’ll say more about this in class tomorrow.

Clarifications

  • I few folks have asked about the length of the poster design plans that are due tomorrow. I neglected to put that information on the assignment page (although I have corrected it now). The length should be approximately 500 words or two double-spaced pages in standard 12-point type.
  • The instructions for the Lynda.com Photoshop tutorials are on the tutorial homework page. The suggested beginner course is roughly eight hours worth of video instruction. You may choose to watch all of it over the next week or you may decided to watch only certain lessons given your experience with Photoshop. If you have a lot of experience with Photoshop, you may choose to complete a more advanced course instead. However, everyone should plan to spend about 3 hours with the tutorials in order to learn what you need to know to complete the poster assignment. We will also work on some of the lessons in class tomorrow so you can get started.
  • Groups will sign up for a presentation day during class tomorrow, so take a look at your calendars to decide which date will be best for you—Thursday, September 30 or Tuesday, October 5.

Reminders

  • Poster design plans are due tomorrow
  • Bring headphones to class if you want to work independently on the Photoshop tutorials.
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