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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 2018 pages in total and they can be viewed by clicking on the side bar to the right left of any wiki page.
Are you new to using a wiki?
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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. Initially, you 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. During weeks 2 and 3 Throughout the 3-week course, you will each be expected to design your own page and host discussions related to the topic you have chosen. In week 4 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 a your own dedicated wiki page that you design yourself, bringing in links, images, articles, videos and other materials.
How do I add my comments?
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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 our BAM Gallery or 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 during week's two and three when pages are designed by other students, you may have to wait for others to complete their pages before you comment on them. We encourage everone I encourage everyone meet their deadline for pagesdaily assignments, due by 10 am the following day. Our first week comprises two weeks comprise mainly forums with research topics , the second week we will ask you 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 with your 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: 30 24 June 2011).
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.
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If you want to communicate with each us me or each other, instead of using email, leave questions in the comments box on the page assigned for that day's work, we ; I visit these comment boxes daily. You can track our my responses or other people's comments by looking under Recent Activity in the side bar. We 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'.
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Your grades are provided weekly and will be available on our BAMs Art Market Blackboard site. The course is graded as follows;
About Us Assignment: Not graded
Participation Week 1 :10%20%
Participation Week 2: 5%20%
Participation Week 3: 5%%20%
Final Page Presentations: 40 %
Final Presentations: Outline due Friday 17 Monday 13 June 10% - Final Page 30% due Thursday 30 Friday 24 June 2011, Total 40%