week 4 – Wednesday (13 July 2011)

Networks (social & technological)

• Lecture/Discussion
• Discussion Leaders
• Lab: Resource Blog Posts

Housekeeping

• Still need email addresses used with WP blog (week 2 request – have 17) – TypeWith.me
• Summary of assignments coming!
• Note: if you do not hear back from me promptly at my UW address, remember to use kegill at gmail . You also always have the option of texting me (you have my cell number in every email I send).

Lecture/Discussion

PPT

Discussion Leaders

• Colleen, Deborah, Emily
• Post-discussion: provide a comment on one of the blog posts. “Record” it on the assignment form as “in-class assignment”
• DLs – remember reflection post to your blog by Friday

Lab

• Resource Posts are short (two-four paragraphs) reviews of external resources related to the class; one post per week may be made from weeks four-nine; must be related to weekly theme, must include annotation as well as resource title as hyperlink
  • Each weekly resource post must be categorized “resources”.
  • These posts are due Monday at 9 am. No late posts accepted.

Points assigned per the following list:

• Meets requirements – 25 points
• Over-under word count, grammatical errors, improper hyperlink – 10 points
• Resource blog post requirements:
  • Catchy and informative title
  • Properly formatted hyperlink (appropriate text is the hyperlink, not the URL)
  • Sufficient narrative to let us know why the resources are important
  • Properly categorized
  • Related to weekly theme
  • Due Monday 9am for prior week’s topic; week four topic due Monday of week 5

Next Week

• Group 2 Will Be Discussion Leaders on Mon
  • Adam, Danny, Holly, Khongor, Tammy
• DLs – see Emily’s post for a model

How to embed slideshare into your WP blog. You have to go the primary page for the Slideshare show.

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