Completing assignments on your wiki:-
Your wiki is truly a collaborative tool, and that's how we will use it in the coming weeks! Your wiki is make up of web pages that introduce new topics and readings daily. You can place your daily assignments on each corresponding web page in the space provided under your name/initials as indicated. You can comment on these pages using a comment box that's rather like Facebook's Wall. There are 19 pages in total and they can be viewed by clicking on the side bar to the left of any wiki page.
Are you new to using a wiki?
Using your wiki is as easy as making a peanut butter sandwich. Here's how to get started and get additional ideas and tools for making your contributions interesting. Click here: http://www.cit.cornell.edu/services/confluence/howto/index.cfm
How do I complete assignemnts?
Log in to a new wiki page each day to see your daily readings and activities. You will find there are a number of ideas and issues raised that relate directly to your reading or other material provided on the page. You will be expected to respond directly on the wiki page in dialog boxes provided for you. You will also be expected to add comments at the bottom of the page summarizing what you thought of the page or discussing any issues that your classmates, the readings and the assignments raised for you. Throughout the 3-week course, you will each be expected to engage actively in daily discussions with each other and the instructor, bringing questions, comments, critiques and observations to the topic at hand. You may be asked to evaluate your own and your classmates' participation in daily commenting and discussion, so please plan to participate robustly. In week 3 you will complete a final presentation, again using your own dedicated wiki page that you design yourself, bringing in links, images, articles, videos and other materials.
How do I add my comments?
Based on your readings and our daily features you will place your comments directly on the page or in the comments box provided according to the instructions on that page. To work directly on a page, click on the edit button at the top of a page and scroll down to the forum you want to join. If you want to reserve a spot in a forum just insert your name/initials so others will know not to write there. Respond to issues, highlight issues, stress points of interest, ask questions and respond to answers. Think of these forums as being just like conversations in class. Express your opinions clearly and succinctly. If you wish, you can even use images, page links and other media to make your points more comprehensive. If you cut and paste material from a website it may have codes that conflict with pbwiki's, this can erase your work. Confluence encourages original work but if you must cut and paste from the web or your own word documents, then use SIMPLE TEXT only.
How much are you expected to write?
There's no limit, do whatever is necessary to create an interesting and dynamic discussion and give substantive answers to at least three forums unless otherwise stated. Each week, I will evaluate you, based on the quality of your presentation and participation. Help to build content on a page by adding links or use images from Google to support your research and online projects. Remember to work with thumbnail size images only, thus protecting artists' copyrights. Additionally, include the copyright sign, artists' name, title and date of work, medium and collection (where known) when including art work in your projects.
Can I work at my own pace?
Yes, but I encourage everyone meet their deadline for daily assignments, due by 10 am the following day. Our first two weeks comprise mainly forums with research topics moving in a historical progression (with the exception of the first week's focus on the Venice Biennale, which opens this week). With each successive week, you will be encouraged to do more independent research and more things on our wiki project site. This will help to build your confidence so that by the the final week you will be fully prepared to create your final presentations. Feel free to work ahead especially with your readings and your final presentations (deadline: 20 January 2012).
Your online work is evaluated weekly. If you want to get ahead, you can work at weekends or at your own pace. Feel free to log in whenever you have time to work, normally it is expected that you will spend about 1- 2 hours preparing daily assighments. In addition to your reading, this represents the contact time we might have spent in a regular class.
How can I talk to you or others?
If you want to communicate with each me or each other, instead of using email, leave questions in the comments box on the page assigned for that day's work; I visit these comment boxes daily. You can track my responses or other people's comments by looking under Recent Activity in the side bar. I will also keep regular office hours, so that we can meet individually, if necessary. Look out for the sign up sheets during the coming weeks, so that you can know when we are in our 'virtual office'.
How am I graded and how will I know if I am progressing?
Your grades are provided weekly and will be available on our Art Market blackboard site:
The course is graded as follows;
About Us Assignment: Not graded
Participation Week 1 :10%
Participation Week 2: 20%
Participation Week 3: 20%
Participation Week 4: 10%
Final Page Presentations: 40 %
Final Presentations: Outline due Monday, 9th January 10% - Final Page 30% due Friday, 20th January 2012, Total 40%