Midterm assignment
The midterm assignment is to update your team's wiki pages and for each individual to write a paragraph documenting your contribution to the AguaClara project. Before you begin check out the latest suggestions at the wiki style guide.
Midterm Wiki
Wiki Organization
Individual Team Page
Each team wiki page needs to be thoroughly organized and updated using the following guidelines.
Each Individual team page should start with an h1 heading of the team name. This should be followed by an h2 heading of "Overview". The overview should be a brief paragraph explaining what the purpose of the team along with other relevant information.
Below this paragraph each team should have the sentence "Team name" goals and meeting minutes. The "goals" and "meeting minutes" should be links to that teams respective goals andmeeting minutes page.
Goals Page
Note: Ignore this page in Fall 2009. We have switched to google docs.
Wiki Organization
Each team needs to follow a standard procedure for placing information on their individual team wiki pages. For this assignment each team should have the following sentence on their teams home page:
Ex.
"Team Name" goals and meeting minutes.
The word goals should be a link to the subteam goal page. This page should be titled with heading one "Team Name" Goals. Following that title should be links to each individual semesters goals. For this semester the link should say "Fall 2008" and link to a page of the individual team's fall 2008 proposal/task list.
Ex.
h1. "Team Name" Goals
"At the beginning of each academic term, the "Team Name" team discusses previous work and future goals. Below, links are given to show current goals and how the goals have progressed from semester to semester."
The semester goal page should be titled with heading 1 "Team Name" Goals, followed by the heading 2 "Semester" Team Members. Following that heading should be a list of that semester's team members, given as links to each member's individual page(the title of each member's individual page should be their netID). The next heading, in heading 2, should be "Semester" Goals. Below that the semester goals should be given.
Ex.
h1. "Team Name" Goals
h2. "Semester" Team Members (ex. Fall 2008 Team Members)
h2. "Semester" Goals (ex. Fall 2008 Goals)
Semester goals
If the individual team has previous semester goals on pages in a manner different than described above you will need to convert those pages to this format for the Midterm Wiki report.
Meeting Minutes Page
Note: Ignore this page in Fall 2009. We have switched to google docs.
Wiki Organization
Each team needs to follow a standard procedure for placing information on their individual team wiki pages. A template is available to automatically set it up for you. Please make sure that you give a descriptive name for each new wiki page you create-- "Design Minutes 2/2/02" is better than "Meeting Minutes 2/2/02" because no other team would be confused by the first page name. You cannot have multiple pages with the same name on the wiki, so keep an acronym for your team name in front of every page you add to your space.
Adding New Pages for a Semester or Week
From your team's main page there should be a link to meeting minutes. The link should lead to a child page where the user can connect to previous and current meeting minutes as shown in this example:
h1."Team A" Meeting Minutes
Each link for specific semesters should lead to another child page that is structured like in the following example, where the page contains a list of links to each week's minutes. The link names should contain the date for the meeting minutes.
h1. "Team Name" Meeting Minutes
h2. "Semester" (ex - Fall 2008)
Each page that is created for a week's minutes must be created with the meeting minutes template, which you select when first creating the new page.
Research Teams
Add sections for all new experiments that have been run so far and any results the team has. Also make sure to update the introduction, goals, and conclusions as needed. If your team is designing new apparatus, then document your design process including
- design assumptions (basis of design)
- drawings that clearly show how the apparatus will be constructed
- equations that are used to solve for the parameters
If you developed new analytical tools describe the basis of the tools and illustrate how those tools are used to extract meaning from the data.
Design Teams
Create detailed documentation of your design process. For each element of the project (for example the dimensions of the sedimentation tank or the diameter of the effluent launder) include
- all of the design assumptions (basis of design)
- the equations that are used to solve for the parameters
- a brief description of the solution process
- drawings of the plant where those drawings would help clarify the design process.
Individual contribution documentation
Add a paragraph to your personal page describing your contribution to the AguaClara project this semester. Your personal page can be accessed by typing your NetID in the search field or by following the link from your NetID in the table of Team Members Fall 2008.
Currently, each personal page lists all pages created by that individual. At the top of you personal page add a paragraph explaining what you have worked on for the first half of the semester. If you have created new wiki pages, or updated old wiki pages to explain experiments performed, to document design work, etc, place links to those within the paragraph explanation.