6328 Plan

6328ers:)

Thanks to everyone for their patience while I’ve been reading through your blog posts, dealing with walking pneumonia, and figuring out how to help ya’ll wrap up this semester. If it ain’t a challenge, it ain’t worth doing, right:)?! Here’s the grade distribution from Dr. Noe’s materials and what we have left to do. Please let me know if any of this seems off the mark or if you need help achieving your goals for the class and your projects:)

Summary/Responses (33 1/3%)

Make sure you have a minimum of summary/responses on articles you chose from Dr. Noe’s blog or on your own by Monday, August 13. The quality and depth of these, across the class, has been good to excellent, so I’m not worried about this affecting anyone’s grade. But you have to have 5 minimum to get an A for this part of the class.

Wiki Page (33 1/3%)

If you’re still working on this sub-area of expertise that you should be developing, please look over the wiki style manual for helpful instructions at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style. This is my guide for how they should look and read. Don’t worry about using the wiki template. Just make sure the content and structure follows their wikipedia guidelines. If you get these to me by Sunday, August 12, I can give you feedback on how to improve them. I will give feedback based on my goal of you earning an A for this part.

Collaborative Website (33 1/3%)

Dr. Noe’s plan was always to have you contribute elements or pages to a group site and submit that site to Kairos for possible publication. To get the website started, revised, tested, and finished would be an impossible task given the days remaining. So here’s what I’ve come up with.

We’re going to act like an editorial board--all of us trying to get a “project” on identity in a digital age designed and proposed. Our main goal: create an online topography of identity in a digital age. A topography is a map of "natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations.” So, what are the major areas that have to be defined on that map, how should we represent them, and what design choices will help make us make the form of this topography reflect the messages about identity we want to get across to an online readership?

How the heck are we gonna do that? 6 easy steps in 6 days. Contribute to  one blog thread a day starting tomorrow and we’ll be done. I’ll compile all the ideas and contributions, and try to create a site that you can continue to work on this fall if you’re interested. Your goal is contribute and respond to contributions consistently for the next 6 days (let me know thru email if you'll be without service between now and Tuesday). I’m going to put all 6 prompts up now, but we’ll focus daily conversation on the post with that day’s date.

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