assignment :
To explore interactive communities, your assignment for the next three weeks is to use the three types we'll be discussing.
- forums/bulletin boards
- WIKIs
- blogs
Your work is to be completed by week 06.
In addition, read the WIKI handout from "The Wiki Way"
Each students creates one or more discusussion topics/polls every week in the MDP discussion board:
Success is gauged by the quality and amount of discussion your topics/polls generate
- select interesting topics or polls (to your peers) and post them
- promote the topics by any means--email, posters, word of mouth. The class as a whole may want to create a general promotion of the discussion site
- moderate the topics you create:
- delete inappropriate posts
- lock or unlock posts
- add new posts to keep the discussion moving along, or to promote interesting directions
Participate in a collaborative exploration of design and design excellence. Students must contribute new content and pages several times a week, building a wide ranging description and questioning of all aspects of design and design excellence. Other members of the MDP community will also be encouaged to participate.
The WIKI starts here mdpx.artcenter.edu/wiki/
Success is gauged by the quality and number of postings you make
Remember that a WIKI is wide open, and the direction of the WIKI is a direct consequence of the contributions. If it isn't going the way you think is right or interesting, ADD TO IT AND/OR CHANGE IT (in a respectful way). Add new pages, new points, new images.
- start with some of the questions on the topic home page. Are they right? What can be added?
- add new pages regarding those questions
- add more new pages as topics and sub-topics come up
- attach images and incorporate them into the topic content
- when you make changes or additions, include a link to your wiki page so I can see your level of participation
(we)blogs :
Create a blog on your MDP web site and post to it. Students must post to the blog at least 3 times per week.
Use www.blogger.com to create the blog. You can host your blog on blogger.com's servers or use the blogger system to post your page to your mdp space. Either way, put a link from your home page to the blog.
Blog notes:
- post anything you want on the blog (that you want others to read...remember this is a public setting). E.g. your thinking about the work you are making, classes you are taking, current events, the election, music and movies you like/hate, etc.
- some of the posts must relate to the work you are doing in this class on interactive communities. For example, your thoughts about communities, what seems to work and not work, how it's going, why people are or are not posting to the discussion boards, etc.
- in the days before the week 05 class, post your conclusions and reactions regarding the three kinds of interactive communities we've studied--this is your "paper" for this section of the course.