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Welcome to the English 516 Wiki!

An scheduling update:  I think there's been a little confusion about the schedule for this week.  So just some reminders:

• Click here to see the whole schedule for these two weeks on our pbwiki field trip. Scroll down to the bottom of this page and you'll see the things for this week.
• This is the schedule of stuff we're doing for through Wednesday (or so) of this week. Note that this is where there is description about the very simple browse through/monkey around with different free wiki options assignment is explained (the groups, etc.)
• This is the schedule for the stuff we're doing through Saturday (or so) of this week.  Don't forget about all the cool stuff going on Thursday with Sanger/Poe speaking and the Friday Wiki Symposium!

Think of this site as a sort of "field trip" away from the safe confines of the emuonline class interface... a wiki to talk about wikis....

This is the site that Krause's section of "English 516:  Computers and Writing, Theory and Practice" will be using this space to host the class discussion about Wikipedia and wikis in education for a couple of weeks, from January 28 to February 9.

Here is a link to the schedule for these two weeks.  You can also see the schedule on the emuonline page and in the sidebar of this wiki site.

How exactly will we be using this space? Well, it is a bit of an experiment, so I guess we'll see.  But at a minimum, I'm hoping we use this wiki space to do the following:

• Discuss Marshall Poe's Atlantic Monthly article The Hive among ourselves and with the author.  Marshall Poe is this year's McAndless Scholar, and he will be visiting EMU in person for a lecture series on Wikipedia and he will be visiting our class at this site to join in the conversation, answer questions, make observations, etc.
• Discuss the other readings assigned over the next couple weeks-- see the schedule for that.
• Discuss other readings that might come up.

Now, by "discuss," I mean posting comments in the commenting feature on this wiki, but I also mean adding links and new pages.  How is that going to work?  Well, I don't know yet.  But my hope is that everyone will give this experiment a chance and try to make it work.

How do I use this thing?

Like so many other things in this class (and with technology in general, IMO), the best way to figure out how to use this wiki is to play around with it.  To get you started:

• Here's a link to the Help Documents for PBWiki
• Here's a link to a page that you can mess with without worrying that you will mess up the whole class.

So, before you get too far, take a look at this "playpen" page and try to do stuff-- comment, make new pages, play with the fonts, edit others, whatever.  Don't worry if you mess this page up because no one will care, I promise.

Readings/links/other stuff about Wikis

Have you come across some good stuff on wikis you want to share with others here?  Well heck, why not post it here?

And don't forget the web site!

The other thing we're doing over the next couple weeks is working on the simple web site assignment.  The information and discussion on that assignment is on emuonline; the "how to" instructions are available via "Krause's How To HTML" web site.

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