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[edit] WIKIDELIC
Welcome to this Composition wiki, now joining in a networked wiki project known as Wikidelic, a multi-university digital literacy project meant to explore the possibilities for writing and learning. You're here: they're there: how many degrees of separation are there? We can all write with, and learn from, one another.
For a quick overview of wikis, check out "Wikis in Plain English," by Lee Lefever, on YouTube. The Wikidelic main page, linked above, has a range of excellent free and open source tools for use with wikis.
[edit] ENG 107G2 SPRING 2010
[edit] WGS 350 FALL 2008
[edit] Mental Illness, Gender, and Psychiatry FALL 2008
[edit] UM English 107
Here's your launching pad for:
[edit] Gina's Writing about Science and Technology Spring 2008
[edit] Blythe's Writing about Science and Technology Spring 2008
[edit] Our New Science & Technology Pages
[edit] Blog Quick Links
"It is amazing what one can accomplish if one does not care who gets the credit."
- Harry S. Truman (courtesy of Alex B.)
[edit] AMS 301 U SPRING 2008
Enter here for AMS 301 U Spring 2008
[edit] ENG 214 T SPRING 2008
Enter here for ENG 214 T Spring 2008
[edit] ENGLISH 105 HONORS FALL 2007
[edit] ENGLISH 107 HONORS SPRING 2007
Gina Maranto
[edit] IBS 620 HX SCIENTIFIC WRITING SPRING 2007
Gina Maranto
[edit] ENG 210 T SPRING 2007 - Literature of 9/11
Giovanna Pompele
How Art Spiegelman came up with this famous New Yorker cover: click.
[edit] ENGLISH 201 U SPRING 2007 - World Literature
Giovanna Pompele
Jodie, Eddie and Dean have made it to the official wikipedia.org site check their page out at: Encounter Point
Sail away on the hollow ships of the wiki way
[edit] ENGLISH 105 HONORS FALL 2006
Holly Clayton (woken up at 4 a.m. by residence hall fire alarms too often this term) sums it up poetically for us all:
The sky tells us daytime and floods us with light but the world tells the darkness of deep, heavy night. The sky finds it odd that there’s no way to show what goings-on happen in the dark world below, But there’s hope for us yet, for breaking that night is the dim yellow glow of a single street light. It is man, trying to see, in the darkness below, We know sky is there, it has just yet to show itself, in its glory, and all of its light, So we labor on, trying to break our dark night.
Thanks, Holly, and thanks to you ALL!
Click here to enter the class wiki
[edit] Wiki 105 morphs into Wiki 107
Click here to enter a whole new wikiworld for Writing About Science and Technology
[edit] Designing Solutions
This is where the group project materials are... Designing Solutions ...with all the ideas we generated in class Friday, now grouped according to topic.
WIKI EXPERIMENT: Check out this CNet story about Esquire magazine's wiki article, written by...wiki.
K.E. Landry, inspired by M.C. Escher illustrates the principiple of infinite regression. Same same=nesting Russian dolls or nesting boxes. Which is to say: People have been noting that they don't like the "clutter" of their pages. But: recall: you can add subpages to your pages, simply by adding internal links (the Ab button on the toolbar) and then, you know, you can fill those pages up.
Watch out for Nostradamus! Notoriously non-reliable. Sort of nesting boxes run forward.
[edit] Checkin' out the wikis
Kowabunga! Surf's up!
The shot above is a rendering of a photo by Stacy Peralta, skateboarder extraordinaire and maker of the documentary film, "Dogtown and Z-Boyz." I've put an interview with him up on Blackboard (under Additional Readings, in the folder on readings for interview). Like Horning's piece on audio engineers (but possibly more interesting to you), the interview explores the "hidden" history of a subculture.
[edit] Artifact Revisions
Check out the artifact papers here. You'll find that people opted for several different strategies on this piece, ranging from personal reminiscence to field observations.
[edit] Individual pages
Also, me. Graham Purdy
I'm in. Ian Gillis
Don't leave me out! Pablo Garcia
GO CANES! Christopher Kitterman
Peek-a-boo Ajay Jadeja
Hey Guys!!! Ishraaj Jolly
Cory Jarrell lana schissel Omar Howeedy
Yeh I Do Shiv Jain
Youth
[edit] Rules of the Road
- Good plan to add a signature to your comments--if you're not sure how to do that, speak up in class and we'll go over it.
- Though we can use IM-speak or emailese in limited form here, let's try for a slightly more formal usage ("are you there" vs. "R U there"). If we want to use other forms, let's discuss it on this non-standard English page: do these kinds of English serve a purpose?
- Also let's please make a habit of limiting our remarks to ideas not personalities. In other words, comment upon the quality or value of an idea or piece of writing, not what the idea or writing may represent about the wikier. In rhetoric, engaging in personal commentary vs. commentary on content, is termed ad hominem, and is generally frowned upon in polite circles, including ones like our little academic wiki here.
Remember, for instructions on how to do just about anything with wiki, you can go to the main wikipedia help page
What we seemed to have discovered today is that it is probably best/easiest to upload text as .doc files. Then readers can download your file, use track changes to make comments, save the file under a new name, and upload it to your page. (If we need to go over that in class, let me know.)
For info on how to upload .doc files check out: this page Basically, .doc, .pdf, and .txt files get loaded using the same function as images do.
Remember, for an easy way to check out what's hot, new, and hip on our wiki (Q: Is it possible to describe that which is cutting edge using an anachronistic term of slang?) you can check out Recent changes.
