Wikipedia assignment

Hi All,

For the next part of the course we are going to concentrate on Wikis, beginning with editing a Wikipedia entries. Being able to edit a Wikipedia entry helps you on your way from being consumers of information to producers of it!

This week we have an authentic assignment--to edit Finlandia University's Wikipedia entry.

To do that first read and get familiar with "how to edit a page," linked below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

Then, try out your editing skills in the Wikipedia sandbox:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox

After you are comfortable with that, we will move onto editing the Finlandia University Wikipedia entry. Before that, Karen Johson, the Executive Director of Communications, will visit our class and give us suggestions on how she wants us to revamp the Finlandia University page.

This will be a group activity and graded as a group. I'll give you more details in class!

Google calendar or linked in assignment

Information on the Google calendar assignment can be found from here:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dghc3vn9_146ct3m54gn

I will tell you about the LinkedIn assignment in class.

Justus

Google websites

I was browsing this evening and found Google Sites--a new way to create a website via Google.

You can use this resource to create your website if you like it better than the techniques that we have discussed in class. I've tested it a little bit and am not sure what I think of it yet. What do you think? Check it out at:

http://sites.google.com/

Google docs assignment

The next assignment can be found from the link below:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dghc3vn9_1258w37p3df

Enjoy!

Justus

Google docs

Here is a video about Google docs.



Enjoy

Test/Blog Contest on Monday!!!

Hi,

We will be having a test/blog contest on Monday. You can find out the details of what the test/blog contest will be like from http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dghc3vn9_113dz8qh87f

We'll talk more about this in class.

New Information in Blog and Feedreader Assignments

FYI, I added information on how to add a blogroll and clips of your feedreader onto your blog in the Feedreader Assignment page.

I also added information on how to add a set of links and how to embed video in your blogs on the Blog Assignment page.

We will go over these things in class, but I also included written information in case you want to refer to it later.