Lecture 35: Final Day of Classes

Hi everyone!

And here we are, on the very last day of ALES204 - I know you'll miss it! :)

REMINDER: Your E-portfolio is due today by 17:00. Please send the link to your blog to your TA. And, don't forget to include the links to your FIVE comments in your final blog post.


I'd like to thank you all for coming to class and participating both in class and through the class blog, your blogs and twitter. I'd also like to wish you all a lovely festive season. On that note, here is a video from 16 year old Winnipeg student Sean Quigley, who harnessed social media (youtube) and is now famous: a Canadian wintery rendition of The Little Drummer Boy.





On our last day, as mentioned, we will have the exciting Pecha Kucha presentations for the CSL students. They are going to share with us a little bit about what they've been working on this term. Perhaps you'll be so interested, you'll want to enroll in CSL in another term.

After the Pecha Kucha presentations I would like you all to take about 10 minutes to answer a survey I've created. I'm very interested to hear your thoughts on the course, what you learnt and perhaps what you would still like to learn. I'll use this information in my next course design! I appreciate your input and your participation.

You can fill in the form right here (scroll down a bit) or access the google doc (but of course!) here. Note, feel free to work with a partner.

And finally, we'll conclude our class with a special send-off from three of your classmates, Kelsey MacDonald, Julianna Damer and Annalise Young.

Lecture 32: Open Peer Review

Today we'll be doing some group work using the reading that was assigned for homework:

Lecture 32: Open Peer Review

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Lecture 24: Online Class

Photo by Jessica Laccetti.

Today is your opportunity to work on your Wikipedia assignment! Take this time to add to your stub. Remember, you need to write 300-600 words AND, since this assignment is also part of your e-portfolio, you need to follow those guidelines.

As a reminder, the Wikipedia assignment is here and the e-portfolio assignment is here and the rubric is here.

Lecture 23: Wikis & Writing

IMPORTANT: Online class on Wednesday so you can work on your Wikipedia assignment!!

Note: As discussed in class, after choosing your stub article, check the revision history to make sure no one is currently (as of today) working on the stub. Then, add an edit (perhaps a quotation or reference) so that anyone can see that the stub article is now being worked on. Also, if you wish, you can add a comment on today's blog post noting (with a link) which stub article you are working on.

Although Wikipedia does use a WYSIWYG editor, you might want to use Wiki MarkUp. You can find out more about Wiki MarkUp Language (in order to add bulleted lists or bold and italicise your work), look here and here.

Read about our Wikipedia assignment here. But here is a short summary:

In this assignment, each student will update one "stub," or incomplete article in Wikipedia, to a complete encyclopedic article. Ideally, we would like your article to qualify for "Good Article" status. For reference, less than 1% of the articles on Wikipedia achieve this status, so this is no small feat!
Here a few caveats to keep in mind for this assignment:

• You will need to learn some basic wiki code. The code is not difficult, and there is a graphical editor with buttons to insert links and the like.
• Others can (and will) alter your contribution. In most cases, other users will add to and occasionally correct your work. But your work could be vandalized or deleted. You can always change the page back to what it was before, but such "revert wars" are frowned upon.
• The entire Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means you do not own the articles you work on.
• There is no standard length for a Wikipedia article. For the purposes of this assignment, a reasonable article will contain 300-600 words, which correspond to 1.5-3 pages of standard double-space text.

Part 1: Select a stub (needs to be done BEFORE your lab)

• Read the Wikipedia Getting Started page.
• Create an account .
• Find a "stub" that you would like to complete to a full article. Here is a list of stubs. Particular stub categories that may be of interest include Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic disease
•  stubs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Endocrine,_nutritional_and_metabolic_disease_stubs) and the Alberta Research Council stub (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Research_Council) . Here are tips for picking a good stub.

Lecture 23 Wikis & Writing

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Social Media & Student Use

I just want to say how proud I am of all of you and how well you're harnessing social media to further your learning and collaboration.

I thought I would highlight student work when it is brought to my attention. Here is a great example of an ALES204 students (Julianna Damer) using YouTube to broadcast her thoughts and connect with other classmates. Feel free to comment here to start a discussion with Julianna and/or to let me know what you've been up to. Perhaps you've made a video or a google doc that you'd like me to share with the class?

Lecture 20: Flickr, Image Citation and Copyright

In today's lecture we shall look explicitly at image citation (especially now that we all use flickr) and what creative commons means in terms of copyright.

Lecture 20: Creative Commons & Copyright

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